Biblically, if God did what he said he did, then at creation everything was perfect. God says in Genesis that death entered the world as a result of sin, and so there would have been no death of the nephesh animals before sin. That rules out the theistic evolution of mankind. (If death was before sin, then Jesus died for no reason in order to undo something that God called very good in the beginning).
Did you ever wonder why the Bible cores people with all those genealogies? Well one reason is because if you pay attention to it you have a complete list of people from one generation through to the next all the way from Adam to Noah to Abraham to David to Jesus himself. This proves his lineage as of David, but it also proves the total ages of the people that lived in that time.
So again, if God did what he said he did, then adding up the ages will give you a maximum number of years in which it all took place.
From Adam to Abraham was 1948 Years. From Issac to Jesus was 1948 years.
14 generations from Abraham to David, 14 generations from David to Babylon, 14 generations from Babylon to Jesus. Mathew 1;17
So how old is the earth? Do the math.
1b– Geneology from Adam to Jesus | Richard T. Mathews Sr.
As for dinosaurs, Genesis says that God brought to Noah 2 of every land animal. 7 of some but at least 2 of every land animal.
Were dinosaurs land animals? Most were yes. What does logic dictate here?
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Dinosaurs went on the ark.
But what about the argument that they are too big to go on a boat?
Ask these people how big the ark was - they don't know.
Ask them what the average size of a dinosaur was - they don't know.
So to them, an unknown amount of dinosaur can't fit in an unknown area of boat. LOL
The ark was 3 decks high, and the length of 3 american football fields. The Bible gives the exact dimensions. There's a guy (see google) building a full scale replica right now.
The average size of a dinosaur was that of a german shepherd dog. Some were really big, but many were no larger than a chicken. And even the big ones were once small teenagers.
What killed the dinosaurs? Some say the ice age (singular) caused by the flood. I personally believe that the plantlife, which was not 100% protected from extinction, was so messed up that when the dinosaurs, which were mostly plant eaters, got off the ark they found their menu lacking. And the cold weather wouldn't have helped either.
Some did survive until recent ages. Until the 1800s when Henery Owen created the name "dinosaur" they were all known as something else in the thousands of years before that. Guess what... Dragon. No, not the fire breathing type, but dragons. Myths about things that are no longer observed in this generation are often exagerated and made into fairy tales in the generations to come. Dragon ledgend abound in just about every country in the world. And older carvings and drawings look pretty much the same as you can see in the post above.
Theres a bit to chew on.