Humans & dinosaurs together?

Evolutionists say that about 230 million years ago, a new group of reptiles appeared on the Earth.

Hans-Dieter Sues, vice-president of collections and research at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto said:

Herrarasaurus

“The fact that Herrarasaurus (which was found in Argentina and ‘dated’ to be 227.8 million years old. ) was already a fully developed dinosaur indicates that there must have been dinosaurs before that.”

How many millions / billions of years would it have taken for the dinosaurs ‘ancestors’ to have ’evolved’ to these wonderfully complex creatures?! (Let alone ’evolve’ from single cells.)

Then, according to their theory, dinosaurs became extinct about 65 million years ago.

And man did not evolve until about 4 million years ago.

If this is true, no man could ever have seen a live dinosaur.

However, some new discoveries indicate that man and dinosaurs may have lived together in the not too distant past.

(I hasten to add that this statement is not based on the unreliable stories that dinosaur and man‘s footprints have been found together at the Paluxy Riverbed near Glen Rose Texas. This is not true science and is very questionable.

See http://members.aol.com/paluxy2/nbc.htm for a fuller explanation of this).

Here is some evidence that dinosaurs haven’t

been extinct for 70 million years:

(1) Some Aborigines have reported seeing a dinosaur like creature.

From their description it could be a Struthiomimus.

Struthiomimus

(2) Marco Polo visited Madagascar and saw a huge 3m tall bird.

(3) In 1649 there were reported sightings of “flying dragons” in Europe. [1]

(4) Sioux Indians saw a huge flying creature that got struck down in a storm. When they found the remains several days later, it had large claws on it’s feet and wings, it had a long bony crest pointing backwards on it’s head, and it had a wingspan of over 6 metres, etc. They called it the “thunderbird”.

This could be the flying Pteranodon. [2]

A Pteranodon is a large crested pterosaur

(5) Ancient explorers and historians have told about flying reptiles in Egypt and Arabia. [3]

Rhamphorhynchus

A Greek researcher called Herodotus wrote:

“There is a place in Arabia, situated very near the city of Buto, to which I went, on hearing of some winged serpents; and when I arrived there, I saw bones and

spines of serpents, in such quantities as it would be impossible to describe. The form of the serpent is like that of the water-snake; but he has wings without feathers, and as like as possible to the wings of a bat.” [4]

His description of this creature may match the Rhamphorhynchus.

(6) John Goertzen matched a sketch drawn in Egypt, by the Renaissance scientist Pierre Belon, of a flying reptile with a Dimorphodon (the genus of the pterosaur). [5]

(7) There are a lot of references to dragons throughout history.

These creatures are probably based on real, living dinosaurs that are described correctly, or they have been described with the combined features of

several dinosaurs, or they may be based on a real dinosaur with additional exaggerations.

“The dragons of legend are strangely like actual creatures that have lived in the past. They are much like the great reptiles 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.” [6]

In the 1500’s a European scientific book called ‘Historia Animalium‘, listed several dragons as still living but rare. [7]

In medieval times, the Scandinavians wrote of swimming dragons.

And the Vikings carved dragons as their figure heads on the front of their ships.

The story of Beowulf, and the story of Saint George killing a dragon are likely to have been based on some fact.

In 1572, Ulysses Aldrovandus heard that a peasant had killed a small dragon in northern Italy. So he got the carcass of the dragon, and put it in a museum. [8]

In China there is on record that there were dragons that laid eggs.

(Dinosaurs lay eggs, but it is not known whether all dinosaurs laid eggs.)

The first dinosaur fossils were probably found in China as early as the fourth century - only they were referred to as dragon bones.

(8) In France, near the city of Nerluc, there lived a creature that was armed with tusks that were sharp like pointed swords, it’s body was larger than an ox, and it lay in wait in the river.

This description could be of a Triceratops.

Triceratops

Stegosaurus

(9) In 10th century Ireland a large beast was described as having large iron nails on it’s tail pointing backwards, a head shaped like a horse, and thick hideous legs with iron claws.

This sounds like a Stegosaurus. [9]

Dryptosaurus

(10) In Scandinavia a creature had a dragon body like an ox, with two long back legs, and two short front legs. It’s body was

covered with scales, it had monstrous jaws, and it leapt like a frog. Could this be a Dryptosaurus?

(11) 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.

(12) 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]

Diplodocus

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!

(13) There have been numerous stories of “sea monsters” that have been recorded from the 1500‘s to the early 1900’s.

Plesiosaur

(14) 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.

Mosasaur

(15) 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 another’s 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.”

(16) 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 peacock’s 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 earth’s climate changed, but not all of them!

For lots more information see the great website: 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.

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[1] Thorpe, B. Ed., The Anglo Saxon Chronicle, 1861, p.48

[2] Geis, Darlene, Dinosaurs & Other Prehistoric Animals, 1959, p. 9.

[3] Epstein, Perle S., Monsters: Their Histories, Homes, and Habits, 1973, p.43.

[4] Herodotus, Historiae, tr. Henry Clay, 1850, pp. 75-76.

[5] Goertzen, J.C., “Shadows of Rhamphorhynchoid Pterosaurs in Ancient Egypt and Nubia,” Cryptozoology, Vol 13, 1998.

[6] Knox, Wilson, “Dragon,” The World Book Encyclopedia, vol. 5, 1973, p. 265

[7] Gesner, Konrad, Historiae Animalium, 1551-1587, p.224

[8] Aldrovandus, Ulysses, The Natural History of Serpents and Dragons, 1640, p.402.

[9] Ham, K., The Great Dinosaur Mystery Solved, p.33, 1999.

[10] Job 40:15-19 (NIV)

[11] Trevelyan, Marie, 1909, Folk-Lore and Folk Stories of Wales, 1909.