MM, we do not know that the dinosaurs did not survive the flood!

I admit that we do not know that they did survive the flood.

Ellen White said something about "confused species," but you added your speculation about dinosaurs making it appear that Ellen said this!

That's the kind of misuse of SOP that Thomas objected to in another thread. (And with this evidence before me, I can better understand why he objected so strenuously. )

Yep, when the use of Ellen leads an SDA to leave the plain meaning of the biblical text, only the x-sda critics smile. Nothing is gained but much is lost.

Certainly not all dinosaurs perished at the flood:

"One group of dinosaurs is known to have survived to the present day: taxonomists believe modern birds are direct descendants of theropod dinosaurs." - Wiki

Let's take a look again at what Ellen White says:

There were a class of very large animals which perished at the flood. God knew that the strength of man would decrease, and these mammoth animals could not be controlled by feeble man. {4aSG 121.2}

The problem with that statement is that implies that man was so strong in Noah's day that he could control the dinosaurs. This is clearly false.

Darius,

When you make such 'carte blanche' statements, it would be nice if you would attach a little bit of meat to it, otherwise, they are only 'cliche' statements without any meat or foundation.

Daryl, to be fair, it is no different when Mike says that humans before the flood had figured out ways to add to Gods creation than Darius noting the absurdity of those same humans being strong enough to control dinosaurs. Both contain equally much "meat"...

I agree that any statements like this should be backed up with a reference by whoever makes these kind of statements.

Why can't we leave it at that? Why add to what Ellen said to attempt to make her say that all the dinosaurs perished in the flood?

We don't know precisely what she was shown and can only speculate. Adding our speculations to make it appear that that's what she meant most often serves to discredit her.

For that matter, there were dinosaurs of various sizes. Not all were at or near the size of Tyrannosaurus Rex.

We may also consider all the large animals that exists today which man are too feeble to control. There is no man alive who can control a grown alive crocodile. There is no man alive who can control a grown alive hippotamous. Yet both of these animals can be seen in the wild aswell as in some zoological gardens by anyone so inclined.

This passage throws additional lignt on "amalgamation":

"Christ never planted the seeds of death in the system. Satan planted these seeds when he tempted Adam to eat of the tree of knowledge which meant disobedience to God. Not one noxious plant was placed in the Lord's great garden, but after Adam and Eve sinned, poisonous herbs sprang up. . . . All tares are sown by the evil one. Every noxious herb is of his sowing, and by his ingenious methods of amalgamation he has corrupted the earth with tares." [Selected Messages, book 2, p. 288]