You will never convince them no matter what you say, so just say' "yeah, whatever dude" and walk away.

I'd walk away.

It is very hard to fossilize sound waves...or so I have heard.

I'd say Jesus mujst have been made up too, because we don't really know what he sounded like either.

I've never met a Xian quite that ignorant yet but I'm sure they're out there. If I did meet one, I'd reply, "We have a mountain of fossil evidence that's been unearthed over the last 350 years that proves the reality of hundreds of dinosaur species. What they sounded like is unimportant.

Show me some proof that your God is real.

you laugh and change the subject

I would tell him/her that a widely accepted belief by Xtians is that dinosaurs did exist. These Xtians believe that dinosaurs were created along with other animals but most of them perished in the flood as they were too big to get on the ark. Others became extinct later.

And you cannot explain or argue with idiots--it is futile.

We may not know exactly what they sounded like, but with the skeletons, we can approximate what they looked like, and how big they were.

Thankfully I haven't because I could possibly give myself a hernia laughing at their idiocy.

I would just look at them and say "using that lack of logic I wish I couldn't hear what you sound like"

I'd ask if he applies the same criterion to Jesus (or whatever gods or goddesses), and then point out that even if such a character existed, there is no evidence that the doings and sayings attributed to them were not made up.

I don't waste my time with people that ignorant. UNLESS they're paying me $75/hour for counseling. And even then, I have a short fuse.

Is that something you actually encountered? I've never heard this argument before.

It may be that the religious person was relating to that philosophical question of "If a tree falls in the forest and there is no one around to hear it, does it make a sound?"

Well, I would respond personally by immediately putting LOTS of distance between myself an such a complete idiot.

I would be quite unable to answer. Since when I laugh really hard, I generally start to choke.

The Christians I knew understood dinosaurs and evolution.People laugh at Catholics but my church was nothing like the idiots I have read about here on Agnostic.com and I can't believe this site made me defend them now.I would not talk to anyone as stupid as this but if I did here is my answer,dinosaurs had beautiful singing voices.

I remember in childhood that the anti evolutionists said that fossils were put on the Earth by Satan to fool humans. Only later did they say dinosaurs and humans lived together. And now. GeeZeus rides a T-Rex with his AR15.

Shit, I grew up with dinosaurs in the back cover of the bible, that's some of the weird Xstian shit you deal with as a child in the JW cult. The pic is from the back of a JW text from the 60's

Hmmm ... that is interesting. There is an immediate impulse to reject that thinking just based on the ridiculousness of it .... but hold on .... they are asking for empirical evidence .... That's NOT a wrong approach ...... I would just also point out we do not know the sounds of:

Supreme Beings
Angels
Devils
Demons
Leprechauns

and at present dinosaurs do not exist .... so ... how consistent is this person going to be?? Just curious ....

The interesting thing I was just doing a cursory search on google and found out that dinos sounded either like crocodiles, or geese.

Their bones sound like evidence.

Ask them if they have heard their god talk to them. They need to give you testable evidence they god is real.

My sister-in-law is a sixth grade teacher. She says dinosaurs are a hoax because "they've never found a whole skeleton. "

I was actually shocked. I had never met anyone who doubted dinosaurs existed. I had heard about them being placed by Satan to cause doubt before.

Insanity pure and simple!!