Dinosaur
The word dinosaur was coined in 1841 by creationist Richard Owen[1], from the Latin for "terrible lizard". Dinosaurs were a group of large lizards that previously lived in abundance on Earth.
Most scientists believe that dinosaurs lived from 230 million until 65 million years ago and that they are all currently extinct (except for birds, which many scientists consider to be descended from early therapod dinosaurs). They claim the fossil evidence supports their beliefs. However, there are a number of lines of evidence that point to dinosaurs and man coexisting. [2] [3] For example, trained scientists have reported seeing a live dinosaur. [4] A thousand people reported seeing a dinosaur-like monster in two sightings around Sayram Lake in Xinjiang according to the Chinese publication, China Today. [5] An expedition which included, Charles W. Gilmore, Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology with the United States National Museum, examined an ancient pictograph which is claimed to point to dinosaurs and man existing [6][7] The World Book Encyclopedia states that: "The dragons of legend are strangely like actual creatures that have lived in the past. They are much like the great reptiles [dinosaurs] which inhabited the earth long before man is supposed to have appeared on earth. Dragons were generally evil and destructive. Every country had them in its mythology." [8] The Nile Mosaic of Palestrina, a second century piece of art, is said to appear to be a piece of artwork that shows a dinosaur and man coexisting. [9]
Some Christians reject the Theory of Evolution and the current science community consensus of the age of the earth. Of those Christians who reject evolution, the Young Earth Creationists believe, based primarily on Biblical sources, but also drawing on archeological and fossil evidence, that dinosaurs were created on the 6th day of the Creation Week[10], approximately 6,000 years ago; that they lived in the Garden of Eden in harmony with other animals, eating only plants[11]; that pairs of various dinosaur baramins were taken onto Noah's Ark during the Great Flood and were preserved from drowning[12]; that fossilized dinosaur bones originated during the mass killing of the Flood[13]; and that some descendants of those dinosaurs taken aboard the Ark still roam the earth today[14].
Because the term only came into use in the 19th century, the Bible obviously does not use the word "dinosaur." However, they are alleged to be mentioned in numerous places throughout the biblical account. For example, the behemoth in Job and the leviathan in Isaiah are sometimes said to be references to dinosaurs. [15]
References
- ↑ http://www.trueauthority.com/dinosaurs/about.htm
- ↑ http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/dinosaurs.asp
- ↑ http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/3061/
- ↑ http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v15/i4/dinosaurs.asp
- ↑ http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v15/i4/dinosaurs.asp
- ↑ http://www.creationism.org/swift/DohenyExpedition/Doheny01Main.htm
- ↑ http://www.christiancourier.com/articles/read/the_hava_supai_dinosaur_carving
- ↑ http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/FAQ25.html
- ↑ http://www.s8int.com/dinolit2.html
- ↑ Genesis, 1:25
- ↑ Genesis 1:29-30
- ↑ "Were dinosaurs on Noah’s Ark?", Answers in Genesis
- ↑ "Dinosaur bones—just how old are they really?", Creation 21(1):54–55, December 1998
- ↑ "Are dinosaurs alive today?", Creation 15(4):12–15, September 1993
- ↑ "Could Behemoth have been a dinosaur?", TJ 15(2):42–45, August 2001
