Where are the dinosaurs?

[JoeyArnold]

I like your style --

Do dinosaurs have style, too?

 

[AV1611VET]

Do dinosaurs have style, too?

Do dinosaurs have style!?

You bet they do!

Check out this avian 'terrible lizard:'

 

[JoeyArnold]

Wouldn't millions of years equal millions of bones?

 

[CaliforniaSun]

Wouldn't millions of years equal millions of bones?

No. But we do have millions of bones.

 

[AV1611VET]

Wouldn't millions of years equal millions of bones?

Yes -- or their byproducts.

You'd think by now we would be living on top of a big calcium mine; but I'm sure evolutionists have a program that gives an explanation for the absence of this fungible commodity.

 

[AV1611VET]

No. But we do have millions of bones.

Yup -- qv please: 1

 

[JoeyArnold]

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Logically & scientifically the evidence of bones has to be there, right?

 

[CaliforniaSun]

Logically & scientifically the evidence of bones has to be there, right?

Yes, and yes, and it is.

This only seems to be a problem for cdesign proponentsists.

 

[AV1611VET]

Why aren't there more dinosaur bones?

Picture dinosaur bones like snowbanks.

Snowbanks will eventually melt away, unless the climate changes and they are preserved by the cold.

Dinosaur bones will eventually 'melt away,' with the exception of a few that are fossilized.

 

[JoeyArnold]

Dinosaur bones will eventually 'melt away,' with the exception of a few that are fossilized.

Shouldn't all the bones dissolve at an even rate?

 

[Split Rock]

Why aren't there more dinosaur bones?

Again?
1. Fossilization is a rare process
2. Fossils have to survive millions of years of tectonic activity
3. Fossils then have to be brought near the surface and exposed (or dug up accidentally).
4. Fossils then have to be found and identified before they are lost to erosion.

 

[Split Rock]

Shouldn't all the bones dissolve at an even rate?

Fossilized bones are mineralized. They can be dissolved if made of the proper minerals and under the right conditions. Many are indeed lost to erosion of some kind. However, they are not made up of the same minerals.

 

[JoeyArnold]

1. Fossilization is a rare process.

How do you know that fossilization is so rare?

 

[JoeyArnold]

Fossilized bones are mineralized.

Has fossilization been observed?

 

[AV1611VET]

Shouldn't all the bones dissolve at an even rate?

I would say it depends on bone density, latitude & longitude, climate, exposure to the elements and other variables; but then, I'm not a paleontologist, either.

 

[JoeyArnold]

I would say it depends on bone density, latitude & longitude, climate, exposure to the elements and other variables; but then, I'm not a paleontologist, either.

What are those giant elephants called?

 

[AV1611VET]

How do you know that fossilization is so rare?

That's a good question.

At any time, a paleontologist could start digging, and a whole geyser of fossils could erupt from the ground.

I think it happened once before and was called the 'Cambrian explosion' or something.

 

[AV1611VET]

What are those giant elephants called?

Mastodons, I think.

 

[TeddyReceptus]

That's a good question.

Not really. Fossilization requires a variety of events occurring to preserve the material from either being scavenged or oxidized away or broken down in any number of ways leaving nothing sufficient to preserve.

At any time, a paleontologist could start digging, and a whole geyser of fossils could erupt from the ground.

I think it happened once before and was called the 'Cambrian explosion' or something.

I assume you must know that isn't what the "Cambrian Explosion" was. Please tell me you do.

 

[AV1611VET]

I assume you must know that isn't what the "Cambrian Explosion" was. Please tell me you do.

I may have been a little melodramatic --