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No, birds and non-Avian dinosaurs coexisted for many millions of years.
The earliest known bird (ie, member of the class Aves) is Archaeopteryx, dating to approximately 150,000,000 years ago. The non-Avian dinosaurs went extinct at the K-T boundary, 65,000,000 years ago (or 85,000,000 years after the oldest known birds).
Archaeopteryx was a dinosaur not a bird, a reptile or dino-bird, the link between dinosaurs and birds.
About Archaeopteryx:
As luck would have it, the first complete fossil of Archaeopteryx was discovered in 1862, only two years after Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species. For believers in the new theory of evolution, this was a major find: With its birdlike beak, pigeon-sized body and feathers, Archaeopteryx was a prime candidate for the "missing link" between dinosaurs and birds. (By the way, the fossil site most famous for its Archaeopteryx remains is Solnhofen in Germany.) See 10 Facts About Archaeopteryx and a gallery of Archaeopteryx pictures
Archaeopteryx was a dinosaur not a bird, a reptile or dino-bird, the link between dinosaurs and birds.
About Archaeopteryx:
As luck would have it, the first complete fossil of Archaeopteryx was discovered in 1862, only two years after Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species. For believers in the new theory of evolution, this was a major find: With its birdlike beak, pigeon-sized body and feathers, Archaeopteryx was a prime candidate for the "missing link" between dinosaurs and birds. (By the way, the fossil site most famous for its Archaeopteryx remains is Solnhofen in Germany.) See 10 Facts About Archaeopteryx and a gallery of Archaeopteryx pictures
Archaopteryx is classified as follows:
Class: Aves
Family: Archaeopterygidae
Genera: Archaeopteryx
Species (type): Archaeopteryx lithographica
Cladistically, Archaeopteryx is a bird. Thus, biologically, Archaeopteryx is a bird.
Archaeopteryx - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Since the late 19th century, it has been generally accepted by palaeontologists, and celebrated in lay reference works, as being the oldest known bird, though some more recent studies have cast doubt on this assessment, finding that it is instead a non-avialan dinosaur closely related to the origin of birds.[1]
I went to Catholic school for 12, count em, 12 years, and I had a teacher in 10th grade who was a priest who told us that the whole creation story is a fable of sorts, that a 'day' could have been millions of years in God's eyes. Adam and Eve were symbols of the evolution of man. I can't for the life of me figure out why people think evolution and creation are two mutually exclusive things. This priest made it pretty clear...evolution is a fact, and everything that evolved was created by God. Simple stuff really.
Isn't the possibility still open that God created the dinosaurs along with the other animals, but that the dinos died off before Adam was created? So when Adam assigned names to all living creatures, the dinosaurs were not among them?
Isn't the possibility still open that God created the dinosaurs along with the other animals, but that the dinos died off before Adam was created? So when Adam assigned names to all living creatures, the dinosaurs were not among them?
God did not create dinosaurs or any other living things, period. Dinosaurs came to exist through hundreds of millions of years of evolution.
It's a process that's as natural as the formation of oceans or continents.
Isn't the possibility still open that God created the dinosaurs along with the other animals, but that the dinos died off before Adam was created? So when Adam assigned names to all living creatures, the dinosaurs were not among them?
I don't think so, but, hey you can make up anything you want...
I don't know, is there someone else besides God that has the power to create life?
You tell me.
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