These scientists have also come up with two other possibilities but the amount of scientific proof against them removes those ideas completely. The only option left then, is that Dinosaurs were still around thousands of years ago, fitting in with the Biblical Creation Theory. (http://www.icr.org/article/4819/ follow the link for more information on the Dinosaur soft tissue.)
Let's have a look at the Creation theory.
Genesis 1: 1-22
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
So God created all animals on the fifth day. This includes Dinosaurs. Now some people beleive that the days mentionned in Genisis 1 were thousands of years apart. They argue that the Dinosaurs would of been extinct by the time God created humans on the sixth day. If Adam was created on the sixth day and Dinosaurs on the fifth and there wasn't and death before Adam, I cannot see any way in which the Dinosaurs could of been wiped out, no matter how long the days were.
If we did take into account that there was death before Adam, how would the Dinosaurs be wiped out? I'm not exactly sure if they could be hunted to extinction but it seems unlikely. And if you suggest that a meteor wiped them out then why wouldn't it kill other animals aswell? There just isn't anyway for them to be extinct before humans were around.
(Just to point out, in Genisis 1:5 God calls the light day and the darkness night, which means that each day is one rising and setting of the sun and one rising and setting of the moon. Which means the days were only 24 hours long.)
So dinosaurs co-existed human beings on earth. If that is so, why aren't they around today? Some people will say the flood. But they survived the flood. Noah was asked to take 2 of every kind of animal onto the boat. This means every single type of Dinosaur. When the flood ended all those dinosaurs came off the boat. (I'm also going to point out that these animals would of been babies so they could all fit on the boat)
Now, in the book of Job, (which came after the flood) there is a description of a dinosaur. There wasn't a word for dinosaur before 1864 but they used the word tanniyn which means: "dinosaur" or "large reptile" and also "monster." However the word Job uses is behemoth which is a word they used for a type of dinosaur.
These are the attributes the "behemoth" has according to Job 40: 15-24:
- It “eats grass like an ox.”
- It “moves his tail like a cedar.” (In Hebrew, this literally reads, “he lets hang his tail like a cedar.”)
- Its “bones are like beams of bronze,His ribs like bars of iron.”
- “He lies under the lotus trees,In a covert of reeds and marsh.”
However this isn't the only description the bible has, there is another whic is described in Job :41; Psalm 104: 25, 26 and Isaiah 27:1. This time a dinosaur called "Leviathan" is being described. These are its attributes:
- “No one is so fierce that he would dare stir him up.”
- “Who can open the doors of his face, with his terrible teeth all around?”
- “His rows of scales are his pride, shut up tightly as with a seal; one is so near another that no air can come between them; they are joined one to another, they stick together and cannot be parted.”
- “His sneezings flash forth light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning. Out of his mouth go burning lights; sparks of fire shoot out. Smoke goes out of his nostrils, as from a boiling pot and burning rushes. His breath kindles coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.”
- “Though the sword reaches him, it cannot avail; nor does spear, dart, or javelin. He regards iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood. The arrow cannot make him flee; slingstones become like stubble to him. Darts are regarded as straw; he laughs at the threat of javelins.”
- “On earth there is nothing like him, which is made without fear.”
- Leviathan “played” in the “great and wide sea” (a paraphrase of Psalm 104 verses 25 and 26—get the exact sense by reading them yourself).
Leviathan is a “reptile [a] that is in the sea.” (Isaiah 27:1)
[a] Not that the word reptile here is the word tanniyn in hebrew.
Now this is a rather interesting description. Many of descriptions link to the sea. (I haven't listed them all) which suggests this is a sea creature. Many bibles will translate the word as a crocodile or an alligator. But crocodiles and alligators spend a lot of their time on land. Also the phrase which says "who can open the door to his face" implys that it may be a crocodile or an alligator, but which kind of crocodile or alligator spits fire?! Now you might be thinking what on earth I am going on about but there is an animal alive today which "spits" fire. The Bombardier Bettle. This bettle has a nozzle in its backside which acts a fTlamethrower, the "nozzle" can squirt out a jet of gases which ignite and burn potential enemies. (The gases are: hydroquinos, hydrogen peroxide and oxidative enzymes.) This is interesting because scientists have discovered dinosaur skulls with holes in which they couldn't possibly describe. Could these holes be little gas nozzles? I don't see why not. Which over creature can breathe out fire? Oh yes, a dragon. If you can remember the word used for "large reptile" and "monster" before the word dinosaur was invented was "tanniyn" which also meant Dragon. If there were other creatures which could breathe fire like the Leviathan then that would explain Dragon Myths. It will also explain what happened to dinosaurs. It seemed that they survived after Christ rose again and are appearing in Dragon Myths. All those stories about Dragon slaying? Could they be the answer to how the dinosaurs where finally wiped out? Another race hunted to extinction by human beings? Quite possibly. Some dinosaur skeletons have been found with holes in, could these holes represent bullet holes or arrow holes? However, I don't beleive an arrow could put a hole through a bone. Maybe peirce flesh and destroy organs but put holes in bones? Not likely. Some of the first guns where invented in the 13th century by the Chinese and Indian people. So does this mean dinosaurs could of survived this long? It could explain all of the Chinese dragons and great lizards. But when did the Dinosaurs eventually become extinct? No-one knows, they could be alive today. Hiding in forests in remote parts of the world, like Peru or Brazil, where hundreds of tribes have survived unnoticed. Or perhaps underwater there is a Leviathan hiding in the depths of the Atlantic Ocean? Or maybe they are extinct. The largest creatures to walk the earth were finally destroyed by the Human race.
Thank you for reading. Please comment :D
Elliot.
Wow. I never knew all that! I knew the bible mentioned "monsters" but I had no idea of the timescale and stuff :)
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