Scientifically speaking: The idea that dinosaurs have somehow been accurately dated to have died out untold millions of years ago is simply untenable. No dinosaurs have been left with grave markers listing the date of their demise. There seems to be a popular misconception that Carbon-14 dating can somehow be used to “date” dinosaur fossils. However, if dinosaurs actually died 65 million years ago, and if their bones could have survived undecayed for that length of time, any remaining measurable amounts of C-14 would have been gone 64.95 million years ago. For that reason alone, C-14 dating methods would be useless. Bones that have become fossilized have essentially turned to rock. They are no longer carbon based, and therefore would not be eligible for C-14 dating anyhow. It is physically impossible for bones that have not been fossilized to remain undecayed for millions of years of time. Yet, dinosaur bones that are unfossilized have been found in many locales. In fact, it has now been reported that blood cells and soft tissue have been found inside an unfossilized T-rex leg bone. This is absolutely impossible for anything older than a few thousand years. These unfossilized bones could be “dated” using C-14, but if such a thing has been done, the results remain unreported in the scientific journals. Human remains and artifacts have been sporadically found in layers of rocks that predate the dinosaurs. Either the dating system is totally erroneous, or the idea of evolution is fiction. Or both. If humans predate dinosaurs then what (or whom) evolved from what? Many plants, animals and insects that were once listed as having been extinct for millions of years, have been rediscovered alive and well, and completely unevolved. The Coelacanth was once said to be a missing link between fish and amphibians that dated from the Cretaceous Period (said to be 146 to 65 million years ago). In 1938, a fisherman caught a live one. It is not only not a missing link, it is not even missing any longer. At your local Wal Mart store, you can buy a box of “Triassic Triops” eggs and grow them in your own home. They are supposedly older than T-rex—the box says: “Unchanged for millions of years”—and yet you can buy them in the store. ) living dinosaurs have been reported in several parts of the world—particularly the remote jungles of the Congo and New Guinea—even though the natives of the area do not know them as “dinosaurs.” A brontosaurus-type dinosaur, as well as pterodactyl, stegosaurus, and possibly even T-rex may very well still exist in remote locations. [see book chapter on “Dating a Dinosaur”] Historically speaking: Some people have questioned why dinosaurs are not more widely mentioned in historical writings if they co-existed with people. The fact is that the word, “dinosaur” was only coined only in 1841. Numerous other words are used in historical works that may very well have represented certain dinosaurs. “Dragons” are mentioned in different parts of the world in writings that seem to be intended as historical in every other respect. In England, St. George slew a dragon. In numerous parts of Europe, dragons are common in otherwise historical literature. Beowulf, King of Denmark, wrestled with and overcame “Grendel,” a large, bipedal monster with small forearms and large teeth. Dragons play a large part in Chinese history and folklore. After the Flood, the fear of man was placed upon the animals and they fled from him. Dinosaur populations never regained their pre-flood status because the world’s environment no longer supported their proliferation. When men encountered such animals they tended to kill them off. [see book chapter on “Dating a Dinosaur”) Biblically speaking: Though the Bible does not use the word, “dinosaur,” it does use the Hebrew word tanim, approximately twenty-five times in the Old Testament. Tanim, though often mistranslated in the King James Version of the Bible as “jackal,” should be rendered “dragon.” Unfortunately, some modern translations have followed the KJV tradition and maintained the mistranslation of some verses. In Job 40:15, God, speaking to Job, says of one of the greatest animals of His creation: “Look at the behemoth which I made along with you . . . .” [NIV] “Behemoth” is certainly not the elephant or hippopotamus as some modern translations editorially suggest. And Job 40:17 says of the behemoth that its tail “sways like a cedar [tree].” (nothing like the small rope-like tail of the elephant, or the stub of a hippo). Its description could very well be that of a brontosaurus-type dinosaur. In Job 41, the Creator describes an even more fearsome creature named “Leviathan,” with hide of impenetrable iron-like scales. A creature that is able to breathe fire and ignite coals with his breath. Indeed, God, the Creator brags in Job 41:33-34, of Leviathan that “nothing on earth is his equal—a creature without fear. He looks down on all that are haughty; he is king over all that are proud.” [NIV] Dragons—mythological no more! Sadly, several modern translations (NIV included) have the audacity to suggest that perhaps this fire-breathing, awesome and fearless animal that is the pinnacle of God’s creation, could be the “alligator” or “crocodile.” There was no “pre-Creation” event in which dinosaurs were created just to exist and die out millions of years before humans. Air-breathing, land animals were created on the sixth day of creation “along with” mankind. All of the created kinds of animals mentioned in Genesis 1:24-25 are also mentioned in Genesis 7:14-15 as having been taken with Noah onto the Ark. Indeed, if there was a worldwide flood as Scripture records, and if living dinosaurs are re-discovered, then it should be obvious that dinosaurs were taken on the ark. Indeed, God told Noah that the very purpose in building the Ark was to preserve all the various kinds of animals upon the earth [Genesis 7:2-3]. The world was created as a perfect environment without death. The animals were neither created as, nor initially intended as carnivores (Genesis 1:28-29). If, as the Bible records, death entered the world only after the sin of Adam and Eve, then why were the dinosaurs suffering from death, disease, and chaos for untold millennia? It was the sin of man that brought about death and disease, not the machinations of dinosaurs. [see book chapter on "the Scriptural Advent of Animal Carnivorousness"] Carnivorous activity began only after the flood—Noah did not have to contend with large, man-eating carnivores on the Ark. [see book chapter on “the Scriptural Advent of Animal Carnivory”] Indeed, it is most likely that juvenile animals of all types were brought onto the ark in order to allow them to live longest and reproduce most generations after the flood. The biblical account neither teaches nor allows for millions of years of time, let alone billions of years, nor an evolutionary process. Animals reproduce “after their own kind.”

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