Dinosaurs and Noah’s Flood

Dinosaur fossils are perhaps the best-known fossils of all. The magnificent creatures are known from fossils that are found in only part of the rock record found on earth. None of the oldest rocks, the Precambrian and the Paleozoic rocks have dinosaur fossils. They appear in the Mesozoic Era and then no traces of them are found in the Cenozoic Era rocks. How long was this Mesozoic Era? There are two views of that. The consensus view of modern geology is that it lasted 186 million years. The most popular views proposed by Young Earth Creationists interpret these to have been deposited over about 70 to 215 days depending on the model invoked. When we consider how thick the Mesozoic rocks get to be, that means that deposition in areas where they are thickest would have had to average between 7 and 22 feet per hour. That speaks clearly to the type of deposits that would have been formed at such rates. Any time we find evidence of significant breaks in the sedimentation in the rocks, that is a big problem for models that try to account for much of the rock record with Noah’s flood. In this video, I describe the popular Young Earth models and the timing that they demand. I then look at some dinosaur egg clutches, the nests of some of these ancient beasts. We find that they were not laid down by raging flood waters in chaotic fashion. At times there were very well-organized clutches. They were not laid down in a few minutes during a pause in the flood. They had different levels of maturity that developed over weeks or months. This just does not work in any of the flood geology models that try to explain most of the rock record by a global catastrophic flood that took place about 4350 years ago.

As a Christian who believes the Bible, I am certain that God could have flooded the whole world, but the evidence that we have is that He did not chose to act the way Young Earth Creationists claim.

This is Part 1 of a three part set of videos.  Part 2 will look at dinosaur tracks and show some of the problems that these present.  Part 3 will look at claims that the discovery of dinosaur soft tissue does not fit the idea that dinosaurs lived long ago in deep time.