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S2 Ep1072: Dinosaurs, the Bible, and the Age of the Earth: Dr. Jordan Mallon

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The Origins of the Extinct Dinosaurs

The crater where the meteor hit that dates to the exact time of the extinction of the dinosaurs is in the Yucatan Peninsula near Mexico. You can't just see it with the naked eye, but we can use ground penetrating radar and so in our to actually trace the margins of this crater. It's a very impressive site. The paleontologists and geologists are quite certain that that's probably what did the dinosaurs in. A meteor that was tens of kilometers wide hitting the earth faster than the speed of sound would have created tsunamis. What would have survived that? Not much.

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