Posted on 07/11/2025 7:09:16 PM PDT by lasereye
Paleontologists in Alberta, Canada, have recently unearthed “a mass grave on a monumental scale.”1 The BBC story speaks of
Thousands of dinosaurs [that] were buried here, killed in an instant on a day of utter devastation.Now, a group of palaeontologists have come to Pipestone Creek - appropriately nicknamed the “River of Death” - to help solve a 72-million-year-old enigma: how did they die?1
The question and answer regarding the mass dinosaur death is found in the same sentence above. It was a massive flood (“river”) of death that killed them 4,500 years ago. Unfortunately, paleontologists will not accept this hypothesis and unnecessarily place the event many millions of years ago.2,3
In Michael Benton’s paleontology text in the section on dinosaur extinction, he lists “three current models to explain the KPg [Cretaceous-Paleogene or K-T extinction] event.”4 These are the impact hypothesis (i.e., the giant asteroid impact supposedly 66 million years ago5), the volcanic hypothesis, and the multiple causes hypothesis. In the multiple causes hypothesis he mentions “evidence of numerous killing agencies, including impact, marine regression [sea level drop], volcanic activity, and changes in climate.”4 Alas, the most obvious “agency” is not mentioned: a worldwide deluge.6
Indeed, on the same page of Benton’s text he states,
Over the years, more than a hundred hypotheses have been presented for the extinction of the dinosaurs....From about 1920, dozens of hypotheses were put forward, ranging from the physiological (slipped discs, excessive hormone production, loss of their sex drive) to the ecological (competition with mammals, change in plant food), from the climatic (too hot, too cold, too wet) to the terrestrial catastrophic (vulcanism, magnetic reversal), from the topographic (marine regression, mountain building) to the extraterrestrial (sunspots, cometary impact).4
As one can see, any explanation is valid—no matter how outrageous—except the most obvious: a global flood.7,8
A section of the BBC article has a most telling title: “A Sudden Devastating Event.”1 Morelle and Francis state,
“We believe that this was a herd on a seasonal migration that got tangled up in some catastrophic event that effectively wiped out, if not the entire herd, then a good proportion of it,” Prof [Emily] Bamforth says.All the evidence suggests that this catastrophic event was a flash flood - perhaps a storm over the mountains that sent an unstoppable torrent of water towards the herd, ripping trees from their roots and shifting boulders.
Prof Bamforth says the Pachyrhinosaurus wouldn't have stood a chance. “These animals are not able to move very fast because of their sheer numbers, and they're very top heavy - and really not very good at swimming at all.”
Rocks found at the site show the swirls of sediment from the fast-flowing water churning everything up. It’s as if the destruction is frozen in time as a wave in the stone.1
To be fair, as one can see, they do mention a flood—a local flash flood.
One cannot help but be amazed that when viewing Pipestone Creek and other massive graveyards, the paleontological community is so blind that they are unwilling to consider the obvious Genesis Flood explanation for dinosaur fossils. This is a clear example of what is called confirmation bias—the propensity to interpret information or evidence in ways consistent with existing beliefs while rejecting others. Wearing such blinders has significantly influenced the interpretation of the fossil record for over a century and a half so that the worldwide sedimentary formations are only considered in a uniformitarian context. But as the late Henry Morris, the founder of ICR, stated in 1974, “dinosaur graveyards are found on every continent, all over the world. Again the uniformitarian is challenged to point to any such phenomena occurring anywhere in the world today.”9
Virtually every dinosaur fossil ever found is ensconced in sedimentary or (rarely) volcanic sediments, indicating a sudden and catastrophic deposition.10 This is particularly true with rich Cretaceous dinosaur beds (e.g., the Lance and Ferris Formations in Wyoming and the Hell Creek Formation in Montana).11 So why would paleontologists entertain bizarre extinction explanations such as slipped discs, sunspots, or magnetic reversals? Because if a scientist dismisses the global Flood out of hand, then anything goes when trying to explain the dinosaur demise. Anything.
The paleontologists are calling the Canadian mass grave the “River of Death,” but it should more accurately be called “The Flood of Death.”
1. Morelle, R. and A. Francis. Solving the Mystery of a Dinosaur Mass Grave at the ‘River of Death.’ BBC. Posted on BBC.com 2025.
2. Thomas, B. Published Reports of Original Soft Tissue Fossils. Posted on ICR.org.
3. Thomas, B. Did Natural Gas Take Millions of Years to Form? Creation Science Update. Posted on ICR.org August 8, 2011.
4. Benton, M. 2015. Vertebrate Paleontology. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 262.
5. Clarey, T. 2017. Do the Data Support a Large Meteorite Impact at Chicxulub? Answers Research Journal. 10: 71–88.
6. Clarey, T. 2017. South America Shows the Flood Progression. Acts & Facts. 46 (3): 9.
7. Morris, J. 2014. Traditions of a Global Flood. Acts & Facts. 43 (11): 15.
9. Clarey, T. Ichthyosaur Graveyard Explained by the Flood. Creation Science Update. Posted on ICR.org May 8, 2025.
0. Morris, H. 1974. Scientific Creationism. Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 99.
10. Clarey, T. 2015. Dinosaur Fossils in Late-Flood Rocks. Acts & Facts. 44 (2): 16.
11. Clarey, T. 2015. The Hell Creek Formation: The Last Gasp of the Pre-Flood Dinosaurs. Creation Research Society Quarterly. 51: 286–298.
* Dr. Sherwin is a science news writer at the Institute for Creation Research. He earned an M.A. in invertebrate zoology from the University of Northern Colorado and received an honorary doctorate of science from Pensacola Christian College.
**..the hybrids born of the fallen angels that came to earth to pollute the blood line to Christ.**
I don’t believe that the fallen angels could do any such thing. Also, who gets scorned and cursed by God in that passage? Mankind. Read Genesis 6, verses 3 and 5.
And Noah’s blood was just the same as every other decendent of Adam: stained by sin. When the apostle Paul wrote in Romans about the law beginning with Moses, yet death reigned over all mankind, beginning with Adam (Rom. 5:12-14).
The ‘sons of God’ are simply the elite of mankind. God started mankind out with one man and one woman. But with the lusts of the flesh note that any man with a physical edge, such as size, and also smarts, manages to get what he wants. Those people weren’t stupid. A big man having as many sex partners as possible was a good way to breed more like himself, even bigger.
I don’t believe the dinosaurs were extinct by the time of the flood. So they must have been on the ark.
Creationist scientists believe the receding flood waters kicked off the ice age which killed off the warm blooded dinosaurs.
So, Noah’s family lived during the last Ice Age?
Just as we were assessing the damage in Texas also.
Just as we were assessing the damage in Texas also.
Look at the size of the boat. The big ones didn't fit. The smaller ones fed the carnivores. And the swimming ones were killed by the change in salinity of the water.
No, I'm not a young earth creationist. So that's the best I can come up with. Alternative theory - smaller ones were around after Noah; see the descriptions in Job.
Is this tied to the mass graves of catholic school kids?! Man, soooo many buried.
Well it’s Canada, maybe their fellow dinosaurs euthanized them?
Try not to falsely infer when you read posts.
Where’s the Far Side cartoon?
Think small reptiles.
Noah likely considered them the same kind as the larger ones.
When you start, before anything else, with the belief that the Bible isn’t true, then you come to false conclusions.
Nearest thing we have to a dinosaur today are alligator/crocodiles and maybe Komodo dragons. I don’t want to meet them in the wild.
Why not? My first face-to-face with a ‘gator was cool. First trip to the Everglades, we stopped at the first trail...nobody there. Started walking the loop, and saw an orange traffic cone by the side of the trail, by a little washed out spot. Started looking, heard a “peep” and a splash, and froze. Looked closely, and there were hatchling ‘gators on a nest. First thought...”Where’s mom?” Take a step back, and start searching the grass. I found her eyes and snout very close, on the other side of the babies.
Excuses, excuses! The Big Guy said two of everything!
Yeah, more religious claptrap tripped up in numbers.
Have there been historical floods? Of course, go look at evidence about the DaggerLands in the North Sea — THAT is probably the source of the biblical flood story.
When YOU need to 'accuse' me of lying, at least point out the lie
I’m kind of wary of animals that could seriously injure or kill. Obviously baby gators would not but the mom...I don’t know.
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