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Is it abnormal to feel sorry for extinct animals?

Not just the ones that died out in historical times, but also the ones that died out way before the Humans first appeared, such as the Dinosaurs?

Public Comments

1. Yes, yes it is, but that's cool feel what you need to feel I guess
2. I do. I think it`s a great loss every time a species goes extinct.
3. Well... yes, unless you knew any of them personally, which I doubt.
4. Yes, because many of them did not exist. It is also wrong from the standpoint of the dignity of human life. This is my firm belief as a devout, if somewhat lacking, Christian man. Do not love the animals more than men, for this is what the atheist wants. If he can devalue your belief in man, then he will have already won.
5. Yes it is.
6. If the dinosaurs did not evolve and most died off, you and I would not exist today....
7. No, it is never abnormal to feel empathy about any life.
8. Dinos were cool, so yeah, a bit..
9. yes animals and humans lived at the same time
10. I don't know about abnormal, but it is pointless.
11. Survival of the Fittest
12. Yes I do sometimes. 99.8% of all the species that ever existed on earth became extinct :(
13. No, it's not abnormal. But do keep in mind nature selected them for extinction. What we should all feel really bad about are the species that were obliterated by man out of nothing more than greed or selfishness.
14. Sounds like you are just using a phrase that you heard somewhere and seriously need to explore your feelings. Exactly what does it mean to "feel sorry for" something?
15. i feel most sorry for the Passenger Pigeon...
16. meh I feel nothing for dinos they are dead and research now. besides they would have eaten us anyway LOL
17. no, empathy is a natural human emotion, your fine ;-)
18. It is important to understand that no one has ever scientifically proven the age of dinosaur fossil remains. As a matter of fact, there is actually more scientific evidence suggesting dinosaurs died off fairly recently, sometime within the history and memory of mankind. The reason why the Bible doesn't seem to mention dinosaurs is because the radiometric dating methods scientists are using are inaccurate. According to the Journal of Geophysical Research, new rock in the form of hardened lava flows produced estimated ages as great as 3 billion to 10.5 billion years when they were actually less than 200 years old. According to Science Magazine, shells from living snails were carbon dated at around 27,000 years. Does that sound like an accurate age estimate to you? Well, those are the kind of dating methods scientists are using to date dinosaur bones. The Bible tells the truth as to what really happened to the dinosaurs, and it makes a whole lot more sense than anything evolutionary scientists say. Reptiles never stop growing. Back in the days of Adam and Eve up until the days of Noah people lived 900 years which is about 10 times longer than the average lifespan today. If people lived longer, then more than likely animals would have lived longer as well, including lizards. If lizards lived 10 times longer, and reptiles never stop growing until the day they die, then they'd grow about 10 times bigger. So instead of having a 3 ft. long iguana like we have today, back then they'd have a 30 ft. long iguana. One of the very first dinosaurs ever found was called the iguanadon because of it's resemblance to the iguana. The man who found it said that it's skeleton looked just like the skeleton of the iguana except it was alot bigger. Well guess how big it was? 30 feet! Scientists have found fossilized remains of crocodiles that reached up to 40 to 50 feet in length. They've found remains of sea turtles that reached enormous sizes much bigger than any sea turtle today. Now, fossilization is a very rare and unusual occurrence, not an everyday event. Creation Scientists have found that the conditions that would be most ideal for creating the massive fossil formations found in the sediments would be a violent, global flood catastrophe. Dinosaur remains worldwide are associated with water laid sediment. Well, not only does history record a flood like that, but it just so happens that it occurred in the days when reptiles and lizards would have gotten really big. After that flood occurred, the age of man dropped off very quickly from about 900 years down to about 100 years in just a few generations. The reason why the age of man dropped off so quickly is because of the harsh conditions on the earth after that catastrophic event. Because of those harsh conditions, many reptiles and lizards went extinct. Those reptiles and lizards that did not go extinct (the ones that are still alive today) simply can't grow as big as they used to, thus there are no dinosaurs around today. There are atleast six different methods of radiometric dating available. The assumed age of the sample will dictate which dating method is used because each one will give a different result. For example, when dinosaur bones containing carbon are found they are NOT carbon dated because carbon dating would produce an age estimate of only a few thousand years (about 3 or 4 thousand years). Because this would not match the assumed age based on the geologic column, scientists use another method of dating which will give an age closer to the desired result. All radiometric results that don't match up with the preassigned ages of the geologic column are discarded. The flood in Noah's day occurred 4,400 years ago.