AboutArctica Expertise I can answer a broad range of questions about the history of life on Earth, from the origins of single-celled organisms to the evolutionary history of plants, invertebrates and, particularly, vertebrates. I am also experienced in debating creationists and can provide rebuttals of many common creationist arguments. I cannot, however, answer questions about archaeology, and I generally cannot answer technical questions about rocks, bone structures or fossils - I am a reader, not a digger.
Experience Many years of research into the history of life on Earth. I have no formal qualifications, but what I lack in technical expertise I make up for in range. I have spent many months debating creationists on the BBC''s science forum, and have consequently thoroughly researched a great deal of creationist and anti-creationist material.
Question hi-I have read from various sites that cliam to have evidence that dinosaurs existed with humans both before and after.Is this possible and if not so then why?
now i understand that evidence that supports this always seems to be denied by sceptics ect
But in my opinion both could be wrong and right since i question human origin which is a different subject matter.
The earth is millions of years old but humans existed earlier than fossils records show but this evidence is ignored by scientits who cant except that giants existed at one time along with dinosaurs not modern humans -The evidence is recorded in various books and the bones are real -every species or animal has a giant form one time or another os why not humans? These are my views.
thanks
Answer Hi Jack - thanks for your question. The overwhelming scientific consensus is that dinosaurs (excluding birds) died out 65 million years ago, while humans (meaning animals belonging to the genus Homo) appeared approximately 2 million years ago. Dinosaurs and humans are thus separated in the fossil record by about 63 million years. There was no overlap, and no question in the minds of the vast majority of scientists that humans existed before or during the time of the dinosaurs.
I am sure you have found various websites that claim otherwise ... but you'll find various websites that claim all kinds of extraordinary things not supported by science - such as alien abductions, the existence of Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, etc. You'll find websites claiming to prove that mankind has never been to the Moon, and even websites claiming that the earth is flat. Just because some crackpot notion is touted on a website does not make it true, or credible, or worthy of further investigation. Any such notion needs to be supported by evidence, otherwise there is no reason for rational people to pay any attention to it.
There is NO evidence that humans existed much longer ago than 2 million years. NONE. If anyone claims otherwise, they need to support their case with hard evidence. If you don't believe me, then I'll offer you this challenge: show me some evidence. If you have found a website which claims to have evidence that humans existed before or during the time of the dinosaurs, give me the link, and I will look into it. Just ONE site and one piece of evidence, though - I don't want to spend my time debunking dozens of different claims. Pick one - give it your best shot - and let's see if I can refute it or not. If I do, hopefully you might consider the possibility that the website in question is perhaps not the big threat to conventional evolutionary theory that you thought.
The fossil record is ordered very intuitively. You'll find reptiles in every geological period going back to the Carboniferous ... but nothing before then. Going back to the late Devonian, you'll find tetrapods (amphibians), and as you go further back into the Devonian, you'll find no tetrapods, but some very tetrapod-like fish. Similarly, you'll find no mammals before the mid-Triassic, but you WILL find, in the early Triassic, some extremely mammal-like reptiles. Ditto birds and bird-like dinosaurs. And humans? Before the appearance of genus Homo 2 million years ago, you'll find some very human-like apes. Go back still further, and the apes become less and less humanlike. Still further, and you stop finding apes at all. And you have to go back WAY further than that before you get to the last of the dinosaurs. So my default position on any claim about humans living alongside dinosaurs would be disbelief, simply because it would make NO sense in the light of what we already know.
