Dino and the Ark.

[JesusisGod2]

Personally, I don't believe in dinosaurs. I think they are a figment of mans' imagination. And yes, I Know, they have found bones. Whoopie, big deal!! Any artist can carve anything he likes out of stone. Just look at Mount Rushmore. JMHO

in Him;

corey

I am not totally opposed to this train of thought either, I know that they have never found a complete skeleton, as a matter of fact most of the dino's you see in the museums are approx 90% model and not bones at all, from my understanding.

[DaniJ87]

I had a creationist speaker explain this one to me:

2 possible explanations:

Before the flood, the air was much more dense, and humid. There was a sort of "halo" of water around the atmosphere, protecting from harsh sun rays, etc... Because of the air being more dense, there was more oxygen in it. Oxygen is healthy for your body, (helps it heal- remember those pressure chambers they put people in?) and this explanation also explains part of why people lived so long. There was enough more oxygen that people's bodies healed faster from injury and sicknes, and they lived longer. Dinosaurs were created for this environment. Because of the higher pressure of the air, their lungs were smaller. After the flood, the pressure decreased, and it became apparent that the dinosaur's lungs were inadequate for the new environment, because they were not large enough to take in enough of this diluted air, in order to get enough oxygen. They were not made for the environment, (like, a fish is not made to be out of water, and a person can't breathe water) and so, the larger dinosaurs died out. The smallest dinosaurs did not have this type of problem, because their bodies were smaller, and they were able to adjust. (give a whale a very low oxygen content in the air above it's tank, and it will have problems. Put a smaller animal on top of a mountain- and it can adapt.) Many of these dinosaurs were killed, (think, dragons) by people, but some are rumored to still live, in an African swamp. (the locals go hunting for them; a creationist scientist got to see one, etc)

Another possibility, is that they ran out of food; perhaps the largest dinosaurs did not have enough to eat after the flood, when the animals had all just started multiplying again. After all, if the big dinosaur has six eggs at a time, and its food multiplies in sixes, the dino will run out of food, because it needs a lot to eat. This does not mean that they all died- just that most of them did. Note that this world has a lot of spaces that people have never entered; and that there could be lots of dinosaurs there.

Believing that there are still some scientists present solves a lot of problems- for example, what is in Loch Ness? I believe there are some water-inhabiting dinosaurs. Loch Ness is so large, that there is very little need for them to come out in the open- and searching for them may be futile, because they are able to hide.

As for the person who thinks that dinosaurs were invented...

I know a home-school group who went "dino digging", and found not one, but THREE giant dinosaur skeletons. They were the most complete skeletons that had ever been found for that kind of dinosaur, in fact.

here are some links to this story:

http://bhcsa.org/DinoStory.asp

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article....RTICLE_ID=27686

this is cool.

Note that these are not evolutionists, and not professionals. They dug these things out of the ground- they didn't create them.

maybe you should go on one of these dino excursions and see the bones for yourself...

However, I must agree that not everything in a museum is authentic. The paleontologists go a little overboard extrapolating what the creatures looked like. However, this does not mean that they do not exist- just that the ones in the museum may be useless- for example, when the flood had the ground all squooshy and swirling around as mud, how do they know that all the bones they have are actually for a particular dinosaur, and not parts of five or six?

also, while many of those models ARE mostly humanly contstructed pieces, think about it... if we have five different skeletons for one type of dinosaur, and each one was 20% authentic, and each had found some different pieces, for it, all they would have to do to get an idea of what their missing pieces looked like, is to look at the bones from the other museums' skeletons.

it's not so bad that way, is it?

Edited December 3, 2005 by DaniJ87

[Anne]

Thank you Dani,

You help with a question I had, I have been wondering why people don't live so long, I knew it had something to do with air pressure, you've helped loads, lol, cheers.

Anne

[Guest NewPilgrim]

Earth age = 4,500,000,000

extinction-level meteors = one in close proximity every 5,000 years

number of near misses during earth lifespan = 4,500,000,000 % 5,000 = 900,000

In Laymans terms the popular scientific data interpretations would have us believe that the chances of us being here are not far from 1 million to one against.

Dont know many folk who'd stake their lives on those odds.

Dinosaurs were hunted to extinction after the landing of the Ark, in combination with sparse food resources and fierce competition for the same. Anyone ever notice how the dragon (great lizard) myths concentrate around the middle east and become less common the further you travel from the "epicentre"?

[other one]

I always heard that the dinasaurs didn't make the trip to the ark because of their bad attitude, and the unicorn was off playing and just missed the boat.

[Anne]

lol@other one, i was serious in my comment.......was the unicorn really away playing?

[Anne]

Let's face it guys we don't really know what happened to the dinosaurs

[Gerioke]

Etymology: New Latin Dinosaurus, genus name, from Greek deinos terrifying + sauros lizard. (webster's online)

There are creatures today that fit that description

[other one]

lol@other one, i was serious in my comment.......was the unicorn really away playing?

Anne, I'm sorry. I was just having a bit of fun and making the point that we really don't know from scripture what happened to them.

I personally think that there is a lot of time between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2, and a lot happened between the two. I don't think there is any proof of it, but things in the real world just don't line up with scripture unless there is a lot that happened before the Father gave the Word the OK to replinish this earth and create Adam and Eve.

Don't really care who disagrees, for in reality it doesn't make any difference in salvation and does give me quite a peace of mind over it all.

But the Unicorn really was out playing......

[Gerioke]

Silly unicorn games