Dinosaur Extinction Cause: The List

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...Satan’s?

After the rebellion God took away the beautiful bodies he had given to the angels (now demons) with which to enjoy the paradise of earth and fitted them with bodies that were more suited to their monstrous character . So yes, they were Satan's dinosaurs.
 
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After the rebellion God took away the beautiful bodies he had given to the angels (now demons) with which to enjoy the paradise of earth and fitted them with bodies that were more suited to their monstrous character . So yes, they were Satan's dinosaurs.

I believe there is good evidence from the Bible that.

demons are the disembodies of the half human/half angelic beings brought about by the sons of God and daughters of men sexual union (marriage, they bore children to them).

and are a separate being than an angel
 
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What is curious is that the global cataclysm that killed off the dinosaurs had little effect on the evolution of other creatures.
The timing of the Cenozoic mammal radiation has been controversial for some time. This 2017 paper, by Liu et al in PNAS, seeks to reconcile fossil evidence with molecular clock data. The authors conclude that "the KPg catastrophe evidently played a limited role in placental diversification, which, instead, was likely a delayed response to the slightly earlier radiation of angiosperms."

Here is the full Abstract.
The timing of the diversification of placental mammals relative to the Cretaceous–Paleogene (KPg) boundary mass extinction remains highly controversial. In particular, there have been seemingly irreconcilable differences in the dating of the early placental radiation not only between fossil-based and molecular datasets but also among molecular datasets. To help resolve this discrepancy, we performed genome-scale analyses using 4,388 loci from 90 taxa, including representatives of all extant placental orders and transcriptome data from flying lemurs (Dermoptera) and pangolins (Pholidota). Depending on the gene partitioning scheme, molecular clock model, and genic deviation from molecular clock assumptions, extensive sensitivity analyses recovered widely varying diversification scenarios for placental mammals from a given gene set, ranging from a deep Cretaceous origin and diversification to a scenario spanning the KPg boundary, suggesting that the use of suboptimal molecular clock markers and methodologies is a major cause of controversies regarding placental diversification timing. We demonstrate that reconciliation between molecular and paleontological estimates of placental divergence times can be achieved using the appropriate clock model and gene partitioning scheme while accounting for the degree to which individual genes violate molecular clock assumptions. A birth-death-shift analysis suggests that placental mammals underwent a continuous radiation across the KPg boundary without apparent interruption by the mass extinction, paralleling a genus-level radiation of multituberculates and ecomorphological diversification of both multituberculates and therians. These findings suggest that the KPg catastrophe evidently played a limited role in placental diversification, which, instead, was likely a delayed response to the slightly earlier radiation of angiosperms.

I doubt this settles the matter and would expect the debate to continue for some time. That's how science works: small, careful steps; multiple approaches; careful validation, or refutation by different teams; all based on observation and evidence.
 
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