Dinosaurs On The Ark?

Are They All Extinct?

In order to say that dinosaurs are extinct you would have to have a person on every point on the earth, and in the oceans, at the same time. They would all say "there's none here" at the same time. Then you would have your answer. There is more than enough evidence to say safely that dinosaurs are not extinct. The only reason to believe that dinosaurs are extinct is the THEORY of Evolution, not the facts of science.

France: Feb. 8, 1856-Some workmen were digging a railway tunnel and using gunpowder. After an explosion, they brought out a huge boulder. When they cracked the boulder open, out came a huge bat-like animal. It was still alive! Coming into the light, it flapped it's wings and made a hoarse noise, then died. It was leathery, black, oily, and thick skinned with a long neck, and had rows of sharp teeth in it's"beak-like mouth". It's wingspan was measured at ten feet, seven inches. It had four legs joined by a membrane, talons instead of feet and had left it's imprint in the cavity of the boulder. The students of paleontology immediately identified it as a pterodactyl. A scientist was called in to examine it. He positively concluded it was a Pterosaur. The next day, February 9, The Illustrated London News had a report of this discovery on p. 166. This creature could have survived several thousand years inside the rock in a state of suspended animation, but not several million years.

Africa: The search is on for a large animal called by the natives "Mokele-Mbembe". As late as 1980 one native came to a missionary after just having seen a large, strange creature. The head was six to eight feet long, and "snake-like". The missionary later showed the native some dinosaur pictures,and the native positively identified it as a Sauropod. The native would have no way of knowing that dinosaurs are supposed to be extinct for 65 million years, without contact with an Evolutionary scientist. This obviously would not happen as most Evolutionary scientists do not go to the mission field to witness to African natives! Another sighting, about the same time, was by a young girl of the village. Caoning home next to Lake Tele,the girl got stuck on a sand bar. Every time she went to remove the canoe, something would push the canoe back onto the sand bar. Then in a moment, there was a great noise and splashing. An animal broke the surface " the size of ten elephants". She could not move, from fright. Her parents later came and got her. The tracks were still there, for hundreds of feet. The point is this: the natives don't think very much of these stories as they don't have a motive for making them up, and they don't have any reason to disbelieve them. They are not brainwashed into the evolutionary way of thinking as the only, and in many cases first, contact with the outside world is the missionary who has no desire to give them the theory of Evolution!

Ancient Egypt: "Herodotus, the famous Greek explorer, described small flying reptiles in Ancient Egypt and Arabia. These animals sound amazingly like Rhamphorynchus. They had the same snake-like body, and the bat-like wings. Many had been killed near the city of Buto(Arabia). He was shown a canyon with many piles of their backbones and ribs.

Herodotus said that these animals could sometimes be found in the spice groves. They were 'small in size and of various colors.' Large numbers would sometimes gather in the frankincense trees. Workers, when they wanted to gather the trees' valuable juices, would use smelly smoke to drive the flying reptiles away. The well-respected Greek, Aristotle said that, in his time, it was common knowledge that creatures like this also existed in Ethiopia. Similar animals (three feet long) were also described inIndia by the geographer Strabo."

Ireland: (900 A.D.)"An Irish writer recorded an encounter with a large beast with 'iron' nails on it's tail which pointed backwards. It's head was shaped a little bit like a horse's. And it had thick legs with strong claws. Those details match features of the dinosaurs like the Kentrosaurus and the Stegosaurus. They had sharp-pointed spines on their tails, thick legs, strong claws, and long skulls."

China: "Thousands of dragon stories and pictures can be found in ancient Chinese books and art. One interesting legend tells about a famous Chinese man named Yu. After the great world flood, Yu surveyed the land of China and divided it into two sections. He "built channels to drain the water off to sea" and helped make the land livable again. Many snakes and "dragons" were driven from the marshlands when Yu created the new farmlands. Some old Chinese books even tell of a family that kept "dragons" and raised the babies. In those days, Chinese kings used "dragons" for pulling royal chariots on special occasions."

Europe:"A well known , old science book, the HISTORIA ANIMALIUM, claims that dragons were still not extinct in the 1500's. But the anmimals were said to be extremely rare and relatively small by then."

Italy: " A scientist named Ulysses Aldrovandus carefully described a creature seen on a road in Northern Italy. The date was May 13, 1572. The poor, rare creature was so little that a farmer killed it just by knocking it on the head with his walking stick. The animal had done nothing wrong except hiss at the farmer's oxen as they approached it on the road. The scientist got the dead body and made measurements and a drawing. He even had the animal mounted for a museum. It had a long neck, a very long tail, and a fat body. The skeletons of a number of ancient reptile-like creatures match this basic description."

Scandinavia: "One old legend describes a reptile-like animal that had a body about the size of a large cow. It's two back legs were long and strong, but it's front legs are remarkably short. And it's jaws were quite large. One of the unique things about many dinosaurs was their short front legs, compared to their long, strong back legs. Many also had large jaws. Examples of dinosaurs which fit are the Edmontosaurus and Iguanodon, and Tyrannosaurus Rex, etc."

NOTE: Almost all ancient peoples had legends of dragons, even those who were on faraway, remote islands. They couldn't have had contact with each other, according to the theory of Evolution. This is way too coincidental to brush off. Any historian will tell you that there has to be some truth to any legends of the same type if they originate from various independent sources, as these do.

Conclusion: The people must have had visual sighting to describe them in such detail. Really, objectively the only reason to doubt these stories is the THEORY of Evolution, not the facts of science or history. Who knows? Maybe the writer of the popular television show The Flintstones was right-Fred could have had Dino for a pet!

The Bible speaks of God as the Creator of ALL creatures (the word creature is from Creator or Creation), including dinosaurs. In Genesis chapter one, the Hebrew word "tannin" is used to describe a certain creature. This word means "dragon". The fact that so many cultures have stories of dragons is proof that they must have seen them. There are just too many to brush off as myth. The people writing them left no indication that they intended them to be myths. At the end of the book of Job there are two great creatures described which, if taken literally, can only be dinosaurs. They are the Leviathan, and the Behemoth. Read the descriptions carefully and see if these are not some horribly, awesome creature.(JOB chaps.38-40).

There are other references- to large serpents, land animals, creeping things, etc. Noah most assuredly took the dinosaurs on the ark. The capacity of the ark was 3,600,000 cubic feet. That's three football fields long, three decks,more than enough space to not only hold all of the creatures, but room left over for each one to have it's own television set! Noah could have taken young ones of each type, or eggs.

The problem with fossils is that they don't describe what the whole animal looked like. Hair, fur, skin, fleshy knobs, ears, nostrils, muscles,etc. are not discernible. The paleontologist has to make a guess as to what the creature looked like. They can be totally incorrect. The fossils do not come with a sign describing themselves either.

For instance, the brontosaurus does not exist. The head was never found. The head was used from another dinosaur found three to four miles away. The skeleton was from a type of Diplodocus, and the skull was from an Apatosaurus. The museums and textbooks carried this dinosaur for one hundred years. This is not scientific integrity at all, but the story gets much worse as we will see when we get to "humanoid" fossils.

The Bible says that all animals ate plants in the beginning. There is no reason, scientifically, to doubt this. The traditional view of Paleontologists has been that many nasty looking dinosaurs ate meat, such as Tyrannosaurus Rex. They simply do not know. The spider monkey of South America has very nasty canine teeth, yet it eats fruit. The Pre-Flood world is the only one that could have supported the size dinosaurs found in the fossil record. Uniformitarianism does not account for a way to feed an Ultrasaurus. If the "Present Is The Key To The Past" as they claim, then the present is nowhere near sufficient. Even elephants have a hard time today. Again, the fossil record shows that the earth, pole to pole, was lush and green (tropical).

Dinosaurs Fit On The Ark