Archaeologists have also uncovered evidence of 5 major mass extinctions in earths 4.3 billion year history. Does the Bible explain why God wiped out so many of his early creations?
No, that would be paleontologists, geologists, and geophysicists.. Learn the difference between the sciences.
I accept your correction That I used the wrong discipline doesn't discount the question of why the mass extinctions on the planet are ignored by the Bible? Could it be that men wrote the books that comprise the Bible at a time when the simply had no idea about geological time?
The Bible is a book, written by primitive men who were trying to make sense of the world. They had no science, nor did they have even the beginning of a disciplined way of observing the planet. Amazingly enough though, the bible describes the moment of creation almost the same way that cosmologists do. Namely a big bang. According to the bible God created the heavens and the Earth in a single day. According to Cosmologists the entirety of our universe originated from a singularity no larger than a proton all in an instant. First there was nothing, then the entire universe came into being.
After that the bible becomes nothing more than a very good history of early man and his interactions with his neighbors. Archaeological research has confirmed many of the assertions made in the bible. Take the bible for what it is, the ridiculous attacks against it, and the religious people who believe it, is asinine.