If God created all living creatures during Creation Week, then the dinos dying out before the appearance of man is both a logical and an historical impossibility.
“Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other elements of this world, about the motion and orbit of the stars and even their size and relative positions, about the predictable eclipses of the sun and moon, the cycles of the years and the seasons, about the kinds of animals, shrubs, stones, and so forth, and this knowledge he hold to as being certain from reason and experience. Now, it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an infidel to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics; and we should take all means to prevent such an embarrassing situation, in which people show up vast ignorance in a Christian and laugh it to scorn. The shame is not so much that an ignorant individual is derided, but that people outside the household of faith think our sacred writers held such opinions, and, to the great loss of those for whose salvation we toil, the writers of our Scripture are criticized and rejected as unlearned men. If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven, when they think their pages are full of falsehoods and on facts which they themselves have learnt from experience and the light of reason? Reckless and incompetent expounders of Holy Scripture bring untold trouble and sorrow on their wiser brethren when they are caught in one of their mischievous false opinions and are taken to task by those who are not bound by the authority of our sacred books. For then, to defend their utterly foolish and obviously untrue statements, they will try to call upon Holy Scripture for proof and even recite from memory many passages which they think support their position, although they understand neither what they say nor the things about which they make assertion.”
-St. Augustine of Hippo, “On the Literal Interpretation of Genesis”, A.D. 408
Furthermore, why aren’t dinosaurs mentioned in the bible. Also, how did Archbishop Usher come up with a precise month, day and year, extrapolating back from generalized figures of numbers of generations, and ages listed by years, not dates of birth and death. And why would anyone with the capacity to think accept such an exact date so approximately calculated.
Regarding the youth of the dinosaurs. These might have been a herd of young, much as you have groupings of maturing young penguins or elephants that roam together. The article mentions signs of cracking in the mud. Perhaps the surface dried out, luring the dinosaurs to walk on it and then get mired. Kind of like the kids that end up getting drowned when thin ice breaks. Heavier adults would have punctured the surface at the edge and backed up immediately even if they were there. Question, was this in a depression bordered by high hills that could have been flooded by a sudden heavy rain and mud flows after they were mired?
Therefore, if the dinos did die out before the appearance of man....
Exactly. So where is any evidence of dinos existing at the same time as modern animals? Where is there a single credible incident of dino fossils existing in the same layer as mammal or modern bird fossils?
So why did God drown all his dinosaurs? Or was it just no room on the ark?