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The standard Creationist explanation about dinosaurs is that they were mainly wiped out by the flood. If there were dinosaurs after the flood then they were not of the same size ( a reptile grows its entire life - so if it lived hundreds of years in a perfect eco system it would grow large)and it seems clear they did not survive in the post flood world as there are none today. Even the accounts of dragons fade out about 1000 years ago.
My question is this. The account of the flood is followed by an account of Nimrod ( a great hunter). After the time of Nimrod the world could be characterised in terms of hunters and of prey. Human beings started eating meat - something they did not need to do in the pre-flood world to meet their nutritional needs. But it seems clear that some of the dinosaurs destroyed by the flood were carnivores before the flood. So my question is why were their carnivore dinosaurs like T-Rex in a perfect eco system.
Explanations I have been toying with are:
1) The fall broke creation more significantly than previously thought and that while humans were not carnivores before the flood many other animals were. But given the vibrancy and longevity of life before the flood these predators sometimes took on epic proportions.
2) That carnivores were the result of some kind of wicked human or angelic genetic experimentation that was one of the reasons for the flood. Had God not wiped us out would we have been annihilated by the monsters of our own creation anyway?
My question is this. The account of the flood is followed by an account of Nimrod ( a great hunter). After the time of Nimrod the world could be characterised in terms of hunters and of prey. Human beings started eating meat - something they did not need to do in the pre-flood world to meet their nutritional needs. But it seems clear that some of the dinosaurs destroyed by the flood were carnivores before the flood. So my question is why were their carnivore dinosaurs like T-Rex in a perfect eco system.
Explanations I have been toying with are:
1) The fall broke creation more significantly than previously thought and that while humans were not carnivores before the flood many other animals were. But given the vibrancy and longevity of life before the flood these predators sometimes took on epic proportions.
2) That carnivores were the result of some kind of wicked human or angelic genetic experimentation that was one of the reasons for the flood. Had God not wiped us out would we have been annihilated by the monsters of our own creation anyway?