Evolution does not require faith. Intelligent design does. For ID to have any possibility of “truth”, it must first be shown that there is, in fact, an intelligence out there capable of doing the designing, then it must be shown that said intelligence is, in fact, responsible for the design. Neither of these propositions have any evidence to support them, therefore it must be taken on faith thast yes, there is an Intelligence, and yes, it is the Creator of All Things.
Evolution does not require an intelligence. It is the product of the operation and interaction of blind forces. We know populations change over time. We know we have fossils which demonstrate life forms which no longer exist. We can perform numerous test on living organisms and determine that certain forms are more similar to others, both at the molecular level and at the level of gross anatomy. We may infer from this that all organisms are therefore related; however, that is not a statement of faith - it is a working theory which has been supported by numerous lines of evidence. All of the evidence to date points to evolution happend, and everything is related via common descent.
Not to hijack this thread unnecessarily, but it should be pointed out that first, “most” dinosaurs did not die out at the end of the Cretaceous. Assuming the inferred relationships of extant birds is correct, then many of those lineages must have arisen during the Cretaceous. If so, then birds were more diverse than were non-avian dinosaurs at that time. Most dinosaurs, then, can be said to have survived the K-T extinction intact, despite having lost many of the more recognizable dinosaurs. Second, there is insufficient evidence available to determine that an asteroid was the cause of the K-T extinction. An asteroid impact certainly occurred at around the correct tmie to be implicated, but there were other forces at work which could have likewise resulted in catastrophic extinctions - seaway regression and massive volcano eruptions, for example. The truth is the fossil record does not provide sufficient resolution to be able to distinguish between possible killers - especially considering the “killing mechanisms” for both extensive volcanic eruptions and asteroid impact would be quite similar. There is a good deal of evidence to support all three methods mentioned as potential killers, but not enough to pin the deed on any one suspect.
I realize that your comment was probably just a throw-away line, but it does seem to be taken as gospel (heh) nowadays that a) dinosaurs all died out at the end of the Cretaceous, and b) an asteroid impact did it; a) is simply false (based on the preponderance of evidence), and b) is unproven (based on lack of evidence).
In an attempt to tie this back into the OP in some vague fashion, it should come as no surprise to anyone who accepts evolution that there were dinosaurian survivors. Just because they had feathers and flew doesn’t make them any less dinosaurs, just as our big brains and relative hairlessness don’t make us any less apes.
