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Maybe It Wasn't The Meteor, After All
An anonymous reader writes "In one new argument, David Penny of Massey University in New Zealand and Matt Phillips from the University of Oxford contend the fossil record and the evolution of animals through modern times suggest the demise of dinosaurs began several million years before the catastrophic asteroid collision.
'"We agree completely with the geophysicists that an extraterrestrial impact marks the end of the Cretaceous," said Penny, in a statement reported in newspapers and on the Internet this week. "But after 25 years [scientists] have still not provided a single piece of evidence that this was the primary reason for the decline of the dinosaurs and pterosaurs."'"
Sorry my bad, by saying it was a lot younger I didn't mean the planet itself, I was actually refering to the elements, which of course we all know can fluctuate rapidly wtih tremendous cause and effect in a short space of time. With the dinosaurs being alive over "X" amount of million years ago the elements can dramatically change affecting everything in its environment. So millions of years in relation to the age of the planet is the blink of a eye, yes. But more than enough to affect the life cycle of a species - Make sense?
If you want to learn more about the creationist viewpoint on this issue, you're in luck. There is a creationist site that has a a whole section on dinosaurs. Both the meteor and Flood theories are analyzed.