Jaguarbass:
Yes, I have had some problems with "fossil fuel" as well. I’m no geologist, but I have been looking into this subject for years. What gets me about fossil fuel, is the coal seam. It is pretty much around the world, and in places, is up to 70 ft thick. But when you look at layers above the coal seam and also below it, you don’t see the gradual progression into that mineral deposit. This for me puts a question over gradualism, and causes me to think that the past was much more cataclysmic….
Just another link. Not quite a dinosaur as such, but just to show that man did rub shoulders with beasts that are now long gone:-