A Christian website called Opposing Views received a question, presumably yesterday, about Noah's Ark. The person who answered the question explained that Noah did save the dinosaurs on the ark.
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/religion/feedback-dinosaur-extinction
Okay, here's the problem.
There are over a 100 million species of creatures alive today. That's not counting the ones that have gone extinct, of course. If Noah took 2 animals of each kind - or 7, or whatever...how in heck did they all fit on the Ark. You could say he brought dinosaur eggs...(and that could be why they went extinct, by the way - he didn't care for them properly so they never hatched, wham, goodbye dinosaurs)...
So he's got all these carnivorous animals on board the ark with a lot of non-carnivorous animals. What did they all eat? How did he handle their defecations and their urinations? More importantly - what about drinking water? For 100 million species of animals? What did they eat when they eventually got off the ark?
Then there's the fact that many animals are endemic to only one area. Australia's kangaroo, playpus, etc.. no where else do you find these animals. What did Noah do, carry animals around and deposit them on their own continents - building another boat to do so (since remember THE ark had grounded on Mt. Ararat and would not be moving anymore.)
If you want to believe the Noah's Ark story, that's fine... but it's beyond the bounds of reality that Noah had dinosaurs on the ark as well as mammals.
There are lots of "flood stories" in people's mythologies. That's not because there was one world flood, but because every country has low-lying areas that have a propensity to flood. And since it wasn't until the 1800s that people could easily travel just 10 miles away from home, to ancient folks, what happened in their neck of the woods was happening all over the world.
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