barbara writes:
The extinction of the dinosaurs does not make any sense if you insist on believing that it was just random mutations and natural selection. One would expect to see some features of dinosaurs left in all of the species we have today. Am I suppose to believe that a small rodent that lived at the time of the dinosaurs was able to radiate every warm blooded species across the globe based on random mutations and isolation for natural selection to change their appearances in every environment.
it is not possible for one species to do this.
The changeover from the large mammals to the one currently living today does make sense in random mutations and natural selection to occur. However it does not explain how the large mammals emerged in the first place.
I think evolution is weak when trying to explain the whole picture of how species evolved into the next.
Of course the dinosaurs did not go extinct, they are with us still.
Also, mammals are NOT descended from dinosaurs.
Large mammals evolved and also went extinct in exactly the same way that large dinosaurs evolved and went extinct.
Evolution is simply a fact. That much is a given.
Now the Theory of Evolution is certainly open to question, but so far it is the best, and quite frankly the only, explanation we have.
Why would we expect to see any features of a dinosaur in a mammal?
What we see in mammals today is not from one small rodent that lived at the time of the dinos, but rather from all the various mammal species that lived at that time, just as the birds we see today are not from some one dinosaur but rather from descendants of those dinosaur species that did not go extinct.
Still with me?
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