Humans and dinosaurs together? Part 2
See part 1 for more dinosaur sightings.
India:
Alexander the Great, when he went to India, saw a large reptile which was over 30 metres long, that the Indians kept in a cave.
Bible:
In the Bible there is this description of a Dinosaur-like creature:
"Look at the behemoth, which I made along with you and which feed on grass like an ox. What strength he has in his loins, what power in the muscles of his belly! His tail sways like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are close-knit. His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like rods of iron. He ranks first among the works of God." [10]
This was probably written about 4000 years ago, (after the worldwide flood of Noah′s time). Here God describes a giant, plant eating land animal (possibly the Diplodocus or Apatosaurus). Some people say that this description is of an elephant or a hippopotamus, but they do not have tails like the thick, massive trunks of cedar trees!
Oceans:
There have been numerous stories of sea monsters that have been recorded from the 1500′s to the early 1900′s.
Many ancient sailors have reported seeing sea serpents.
These could be plesiosaurs and mosasaurs which were like huge lizards or crocodiles with flippers or webbed feet. They probably swam in a snake-like motion.
German U-boat:
Georg von Forstner a German submarine Captain in World War I reported this:
"On July 30, 1915, our U28 torpedoed the British steamer Iberian carrying a rich cargo in the North Atlantic. The steamer sank quickly, the bow sticking almost vertically into the air. When it had gone for about twenty-five seconds there was a violent explosion. A little later pieces of wreckage, and among them a gigantic sea animal (writhing and struggling wildly), was shot out of the water to a height of 60 to 100 feet. At that moment I had with me in the conning tower my officers of the watch, the chief engineer, the navigator, and the helmsman. Simultaneously we all drew one anothers attention to this wonder of the seas we were unable to identify it. We did not have time to take a photograph, for the animal sank out of sight after ten or fifteen seconds. It was about 60-feet long, was like a crocodile in shape and had four limbs with powerful webbed feet and a long tail tapering to a point."
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Wales:
In a Welsh book on folk stories (1909) it tells of an old inhabitant of Penllyne, who had died a few years previously, who said that in his boyhood there were winged serpents.
They were the terror of old and young alike.
But they were very beautiful, and
"looked as if they were covered with jewels of all sorts. Some of them had crests sparkling with all the colours of the rainbow."
When angry, they
"flew over people′s heads, with outspread wings, bright, and sometimes with eyes too, like the feathers in a peacocks tail."
He said it was
"no old story invented to frighten children"
but a real fact.
His father and uncle had killed some of them, for they were as bad as foxes for killing poultry.
The old man attributed the extinction of the winged serpents to this fact. [11]
So could dinosaurs have lived with mankind down through the ages?
We can′t say for definite, but the above reports, plus lots of historic art work, drawings, pottery, etc, all point to the exciting possibility that dinosaurs have lived at the same time as mankind.
Many dinosaur species must have died out when the earths climate changed, but not all of them!
For lots more information see the great website: ChristianAnswers http://christiananswers.net/dinosaurs/home.html
Watch the video The Great Dinosaur Mystery (Produced by Eden Communications/Films for Christ)
And get the book The Great Dinosaur Mystery and the Bible by Paul S. Taylor which contains more information (especially biblical) not discussed in the film.
References:
[10] Job 40:15-19 (NIV)
[11] Trevelyan, Marie, 1909, Folk-Lore and Folk Stories of Wales, 1909