Dinosaur Fossils Confirm Biblical Truth

Dinosaur fossils are clearly not millions of years old.

Fossils Give Us Clues

There are still many mysteries surrounding dinosaurs. We know they are specific types of land animals that were created on day six along with man (Genesis 1:24–25), but they have since gone extinct. So we are left to wonder how they lived, what they looked like, what they ate, and especially what happened to them. How did a group of animals that left fossilized footprints on every continent eventually cease to exist? The fossils contain clues about these mysteries, but we still don’t know the whole story.

Paleontologists who believe in evolution have all sorts of ideas for why dinosaurs are no longer here. Some suggest that an asteroid struck the earth or that many huge volcanoes erupted simultaneously, causing dinosaurs to go extinct. As a consequence, some say the dinosaurs that survived those blasts starved to death, while others say they died of overeating. However, these scientists don’t have the full story because they don’t start with the eyewitness account of creation that God gave to us in His Word, the Bible.

Paleontologists who believe that God created the earth in six days, as recorded in the Bible, offer a different answer to the question about dinosaurs. These scientists conclude that most of the dinosaurs died during the global Flood.

So why did the dinosaurs that survived the Flood on Noah’s Ark eventually go extinct? The dinosaur kinds that Noah took with him exited the Ark into a vastly different environment. They, along with other now-extinct animal kinds, died out due to competition for food, a post-Flood Ice Age, other post-Flood catastrophes, or maybe even because people killed them for food or sport.

Start planning your visit to the Creation Museum to learn more about dinosaurs, the global Flood of Noah’s day, and so much more from a biblical worldview.