This is a good question.

Obviously large dinosaurs (carnivorous or herbivorous) would have been under some sort of survival pressure due to a shortage of food and the Ice Age(s) could have tipped the balance for them.

Smaller animals (including mammals such as Noah) may have found it easier to survive, not having such high intake required. And Noah (and descendants) had the advantage of a higher order of intelligence to help in their struggle.

We observe that many fossils are found of smaller dinosaurs, down to the size of chickens and smaller. Why did these reptiles become extinct and yet similar size mammals (with similar sized appetites) survived, even thrived?

Graeme

Since Noah lived for 350yrs after the flood, why isnt there a biblical accounting of the ice age? And he certainly wouldn't have been able to plant a vinyard in the freezing temps of an ice age.

And I guess, while we're on it, an Ice Age 11,000 years ago is well outside the age most recent creationists give for the earth of 6-10,000 years.

The ark rested on Ararat which is in modern-day Turkey, well south of where the glaciers were during the Ice Age.



Certainly not if he had been living in northern Europe.

I don't think dinosaurs were reptiles. Dinosaurs have both vesicles and growth lines in their bones. Mammals have vesicles and reptiles have growth lines. No animal that exists today has both. Being a cold-blooded animal, dinosaurs may have been most susceptible to the climate change. Some type of disease could have wiped out the small population that survived the Flood.

Dating the Ice Age back 11,000 years is based on uniformatarian assumptions that creationists do not accept.