Why 'birds' didn't die out with the dinosaurs: Feathered ancestors pecked on seeds to survive the mass extinction

Flying fish presumably

LOL yes of course they did, sniggers, birds flying continuously for forty days. All those robins and fly catchers eating fish....why not!! If all the land animals could get on one boat and eat....???? em not each other, well anything is possible.

Not many birds fly in a deluge, and the Flood IS called the Great Deluge because it went on for forty days and nights. Even if they did fly during the deluge, those birds would have gotten awfully tired before very long at all.

The animals got on Noah's boat 'according to their kinds' So one pair of wolves would have been enough to re-populate the Earth and produce the various types of canines. The birds on the Ark would return to it if there was no-where to land.

and all the fish would be dead as salt and fresh water combined

I see, creameggy. So one pair of apes would have been enough to re-populate the Earth and produce the various types of hominids. So Noah, as the last antediluvian, was some sort of ancestral "kind" to all the other apes, including modern humans. "Australopithecus noahensis" has quite a ring to it, don't you think?

creameggy, Bournemouth, United Kingdom: When you look at the myriads of animals, birds and bugs in the Americas, you naturally wonder how Noah got them to the Middle East. American bison, for instance, and grizzly bears and rattlesnakes and Bald eagles. Did he send a fleet of ships manned by a few thousand of his family to go collect them, driving them like cattle? Or did they just fly and hop to the Middle East, ignoring the Atlantic Ocean? From all over two continents that cover more than 16 million square miles, they were all moved by men to the Middle East. During the Late Stone Age or the Early Bronze Age. Then they and all the others were loaded on a ship more than twice the size of HMS Victory, in only 7 days. Then they were somehow returned to their natural habitats. As Mr. Spock would say, "That doesn't compute.".

All you have proved is you know nothing about birds LOL.

What happened to the 'fish people' or did noall forget about them?

Hilarious!

Whose god? There are so many of them.

Hmmmmm scientific fact or a story book?

Hahahahahahahah thanks for the giggle, you've made my night!

I remember the day well...it was a Tuesday and it was snowing

There is only one God

Aloha SnackBar

No god, no evidence for god and why would a god make most people so STUPID?

Erm, learn to read and write, then read every book you can find and in 20 years let us all know how you got on.

Just because the Bible is old that does not make it correct. In fact if you take the time to read it you'll find it riddled with errors, misinformation and self-contradiction. It was written by people with no understanding of the universe or the world around them so they simply made things up.

Paul - don't just make generalised statements , please enlighten us with some of the errors and misinformation you describe. Thanks

Genesis is always good for a laugh. How can you have days passing when the sun isn't created till the 4th day? The firmament is a solid roof over the world, stars are set into the firmament, and the moon is a light source....There's a couple to get you started from page 1.

Your name's an oxymron

Yeah and he killed most of humanity, nasty dude

How long did it take the penguins to walk all the way to the middle east?

What about the blue whale - about 120t. Was it dragging the Ark?

Blimey! If that's what a smart Irish man thinks just imagine what opinions the dumb one's have.

Really? I don't recall any mention of T-Rex, Raptors or Brontosaurus being turned away by Noah in the bible. Or did the writers of the bible omit this for propaganda purposes?

Yeah, dumb bells.

The flints tones was not a documentary - mammals were quite a few million years later

I presume you mean hominids, Pete - the first mammals evolved not long after the first dinosaurs.

OOPS - "CroccLc" just came up with a new theory! "Theoretical scientists" can make people sick?

Then, I really hate to tell you this but you are just going to lurv what Microsoft and other organisations are going to do with Synthetic DNA . . .

Here we go - Tuna talking like he was there! LOL

What thick n indoctrinated fails to realise is the "were you there" argument is far more applicable to claims for which there is no evidence whatsoever, such as the miraculous claims of holy books on which the religions based on them hang. Believe in magic fruit, talking snakes, resurrection men and angels? Were you there?

Take your meat out the freezer and see how long it remains edible.

First Llama, there are many creatures whose digestive systems allow them to feast on rotting carcasses. Some scavengers actually seek them out. If a carcass is covered in ash and dehydrated then such meat could last for months, if not years, thus allowing enough creatures to survive and start breeding again. After all, how did our mammalian ancestors survive that period?

roderik77. 2/10, try harder.Rotting meat might last a few weeks at most. Omnivores can survive on food other than meat.

PaulC: Then how do you explain the very many bodies of dead creatures that lasted long enough to become fossilized, as well as their bones? The "meat" must have been dehydrated in an oxygen-free environment to last long enough for fossilization. Many fossilized dino eggs found in places like the Gobi Desert. Meat eaters can also survive by eating the seed eaters.

Sea seeds...

They weren't birds, they were dinosaurs that over millions of years evolved into birds.

No me doesn't think, try it one day you might like it.

You are indeed living proof that evolution can be questioned. May I suggest you read more than one book, they may open your eyes?

They lasted many million years longer than people will I bet.

In the scheme of things, dinosaurs weren't around long - about 190 million years. Life on earth goes back three billion years and even advanced, multi-cellular life goes back to the pre-Cambrian.

Relative to humans, of course, but I was talking about relative to life on earth.

You kinda shot yourself in the foot, Stu. Some times it's best to let people think your fool, rather than opening your mouth and confirming the fact...