The majority of people would answer the question to this article with a definite no. They’d likely state the idea of humans coexisting with dinosaurs is crazy; after all, evolution says these creatures died millions of years before humans were on the scene; even many Christians would consider this impossible.
The Bible never once mentions evolution; the insane idea that everything came about by chance over millions of years. Instead it points to intelligent design and creation. We might not see dinosaurs alive today but we do have living fossils, and these are the closest creatures to what lived thousands (not millions) of years ago with the same appearance, relating to earlier geologic times, resembling close relatives that died and became extinct somewhere inside the false claim of millions of years.
The idea of living fossils is just another flaw in evolution, and the claim that certain creatures have not evolved for such long periods of time backfires, it simply points out that these creatures were the same from their beginnings during creation. There are thought to be between 5 and 16 well-known creatures that exist on our planet today which are listed as living fossils. An interesting fish from this list is the coelacanth. It was thought to have become extinct between 65 and 80 millions years ago, but in 1938 one was caught in a fishing net and landed in South Africa. During the 90’s they were seen again at an Indonesian fish market; hardly extinct.
Instead of using common sense to acknowledge the coelancanth find proved that these creatures are the same now as when they were created, around 6000 years ago, scientists instead said that somehow they had not moved on in evolutionary terms; but the Bible says something different: Genesis 1 20-21 And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.” 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
As with the coelacanth fish, a similar thing happened when an extinct type of lizard was discovered in fossilised Burmese amber in Myanmar. When using a CT scan to look into the amber, the lizard was largely intact and was an excellent example to compare against current extant lizards we find today. As with the fish discovery in 1938, scientists rushed to the conclusion that this creature had similar features to lizards compared from today (thought to be millions of years old); they are similar because evolution did not happen and therefore they look now as they did when created.
If the last two examples are not enough to wake anyone up regarding the fraud of evolution, then how about the fossil of what looks like a butterfly, existing 40 million years before butterflies ‘evolved’. This has to be one of the craziest examples I have found in my research to debunk evolution. The reason the 40 million years old ‘butterfly’ (‘before butterflies appeared’) looks just like a butterfly we see today, this is because it always looked this way, exactly the same since these winged insects were created. No matter how obvious the evidence points towards creation, there are always pathetic and absolutely ridiculous excuses to avoid admitting creation is the obvious, and intelligent, answer.
Even more madness appeared throughout the scientific community when the Wollemi Pine was discovered by accident in the Blue Mountains of Australia in 1994; found by National Parks Officer David Noble. These are large trees and can grow to around 40 meters (131 feet) in height, they are not able to run away and hide like the fish and lizard discoveries and yet this tree was thought to have become extinct 2 millions years ago. Once again, this demonstrates that scientists who promote their secular views can’t be trusted when they teach the ‘facts’ about evolution. The tree was created and designed around 6000 years ago: Genesis 1 11-12 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.
So what does any of this have to do with humans living with dinosaurs? Well, the Bible is clear that creation took place in the account of Genesis chapter one. The creation account is a fundamental part of faith in God. It explains the origins of life on earth, the cosmos, and is the complete opposite to the idea from Satan that we are here by pure chance events, without any intelligent input. Genesis goes through all six days of creation and explains which creatures came first and describes them as fowls of the air, creatures of the seas, and land animals. A dinosaur is a land animal, and fossils of sea ‘monsters’ have been found too. If believing the creation account there is no denying that when Adam and Eve were in Eden, they would have no doubt seen and lived with dinosaurs.
In scripture the word dinosaur cannot be found anywhere, so does that dispel the idea of them ever having been mentioned in any accounts? No, the Bible names them as something else. In 1841 the term dinosaur was coined by a British biologist, comparative anatomist, and paleontologist named Sir Richard Owen. The term dinosaur was originally dinosauria and originates from two Greek words; deinos – terrible, powerful, wondrous, and sauros – lizard. Before that time these creatures were known as dragons, and there are plenty of accounts in scripture that mention them.
Nobody has an issue with certain monitor lizards being called Komodo ‘Dragons’, but when the idea of humans existing with dinosaurs (formerly named dragons) is mentioned, most people think the idea is crazy. In the creation account of Genesis, day six states clearly that land animals were created; a dinosaur is a land animal.
So where in the Bible do we find any humans hear God describe such creatures? We find an account of exactly that in the book of Job, a man who was told about two creatures unlike anything we see today. When reading through the book of Job there is mention from God to him about two fascinating creatures. First of all, God describes many creatures we know about, and exist today, so why would he lie about the two amazing animals described after these real animals. First of all God described Behemoth: Job 40:15 “Look at Behemoth which I made along with you and which feeds on grass like an ox 16 What strength it has in its loins, what power in the muscles of its belly! 17 Its tail sways like a cedar; the sinews of its thighs are close-knit.18 Its bones are tubes of bronze, its limbs like rods of iron.19 It ranks first among the works of God, yet its Maker can approach it with his sword. The account continues to describe this animal as living in the water, rivers, and in the shade of the reeds. Many translations of the Bible describe this as a hippopotamus, but footnotes are not inspired of God so you can write off the idea this is a hippo. Firstly, God describes the Behemoth as having a tail like that of a Cedar Tree, nothing like the stringy little tail found at the back end of a hippo. It ranks first among the works of God, so again the hippo can be removed from the list of potential candidates of Behemoth. From what is being described in the account, the creature is likely a Titanosaur, or very large Brachiosaurus. These creatures did indeed have a tail like a Cedar, and fit the description perfectly.
What about the next creature God describes to Job, the Leviathan? The creature is described here: Job 41: 1 Can you pull in Leviathan with a fishhook or tie down its tongue with a rope? 2 Can you put a cord through its nose or pierce its jaw with a hook? 3 Will it keep begging you for mercy? Will it speak to you with gentle words? 4 Will it make an agreement with you for you to take it as your slave for life?
5 Can you make a pet of it like a bird or put it on a leash for the young women in your house?
6 Will traders barter for it? Will they divide it up among the merchants? 7 Can you fill its hide with harpoon or its head with fishing spears 8 If you lay a hand on it, you will remember the struggle and never do it again! 9 Any hope of subduing it is false; the mere sight of it is overpowering 10 No one is fierce enough to rouse it. Who then is able to stand against me? The account goes on to describe this creature as having the ability to breath fire, and on seeing the beast it would cast down even the most fearless of men. Again, footnotes in some translations, as with Behemoth, point to a creature we see today. This time the crocodile is often used to describe Leviathan, simply more uninspired footnotes. Plenty of people have seen crocodiles and not been cast down, have even kept them as pets, and if they were mentioned in Job surely the description given by God does not match a crocodile. A person may think that a creature breathing fire sounds too far-fetched, but do some research into Bombardier Beetles, a creature that fires a mixture of chemicals from its rear end against predators, the liquid shooting out at temperatures of 100 degrees Celsius. What about glow worms and fireflies, able to create light in their bodies. And if electric eels had never seen buy humans, they would not leave any proof in fossils that show they have the ability to produce enough voltage to kill a human, it would be too far-fetched to believe in such an idea. God describes Leviathan as having the ability to produce flames, which could easily be a methane gas from its gut or hollow about its head, ignited by a spark.
There are many examples where drawings, carvings, and even some fossils, prove that humans saw dinosaurs long before paleontologists began to uncover the remains of these amazing creatures. If a person could draw a dinosaur before they were more widely known from digging up their bones, then how else can anyone explain such accurate images of something that were not supposed to have ever been seen? All over the world there are images of these creatures that date well before paleontologists began finding the bones of dinosaurs, there is surely no other explanation other than they were seen by humans when still alive on earth, and only thousands of years, or even centuries, ago.
Another valid point about dinosaurs and their dying off is that their fossil record shows many died due to being drowned in floods, and not an impact of an asteroid in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. That impact no doubt caused some serious damage, but not enough to have killed off all life on the surface; however, the flood would have left no land creatures alive, apart from those aboard the Ark. There are plenty of paleontologists who believe a lot of the dinosaurs died in a flood (even though they won’t often admit to it being a world-wide deluge). Even so, the proof of flooding as a reason for many fossils being formed and discovered makes sense, and often the larger creatures are found in a pose known as opisthotonic posture, the neck showing signs of being bent back and the body fosillised in a position as if it were crushed by water and mud; a sudden death from a catastrophe. The flood of Noah explains perfectly why we find so many fossils and how these animals were destroyed during the deluge that covered the highest mountains by fifteen cubits (demonstrating it could not have been a local flood).
Let’s go back to Adam and Even and then the flood. In Genesis God brings the animals to Noah, two by two, some by sevens. A dinosaur, or dragon, is a land animal and any creatures that survive in water don’t need to be on the ark. It makes sense that dinosaurs would have too been on the ark. Why not, after all they were commonly not much larger than a sheep, and the giants could have been taken on as very young and therefore much smaller in size, and would sleep more often too.
The problem with secular ‘education’ relating to creation and evolution, is that Satan is a master at lying, he is after all the father of the lie: John 8:44 You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
Secular indoctrinating goes completely against the idea of there being a God, and His Son Jesus Christ. Instead, the idea of millions of years is used to cover up the obvious creations of God. There really is no excuse to look around and not understand there is clear intelligent design in everything we see: Romans 1:20 For from the creation of the world the invisible things of Him are clearly seen, being understood through the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse.
When Charles Darwin set off on his voyage aboard HMS Beagle on December 27th 1831, he would discover that a river in Argentina, in the Rio Grande Valley, carved out a massive canyon over millions of years (in his imagination), but instead of Darwin and his idea of millions of years, it was later discovered that the canyon was formed by an ice glacier and took around 1000 years. With the idea of these massive amounts of time in his head, he then was fooled into the idea that life could have made gradual changes over such lengthy time periods, changing one creature into another along the way. His observation of finches on the Galapagos Islands were just one example of nothing more than adaptations, and not some evolutionary magic that over millions of years changed their bills. No matter how hard he wanted to believe his ideas, they were still finches and will always reproduce as finches. There has never once been found a transitional example of any creature, and never will there be any proof as it does not exist. God made them in kinds, and one very common example of variation without the animal changing is seen in dogs. They will always produce dogs (and have more variations than any other animal) and will continue to do so forever, as will all other living creatures produce according to their kind. God designed and created all life, it wasn’t some accident with impossible odds that gave us our home, earth, and life. The dinosaurs were just other living creatures who shared our world until they were likely hunted to extinction for food, killed for being a menace, or simply died out from loss of habitat. One thing seems certain from research of scripture, and that is dragons did indeed live with humans.
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