Do you believe in Dragons? And why?

Question

I've looked at some posts similiar to this, and pretty much all of them have a best answer stating they do not exsist. They say that we have no proof that they exsist.
Well, if you would open your eyes, you would see two things:
1. People in the medeval era spoke about this NUMEROUS times. Stories, books, journals were all filled with it. I don't think they banded together and said 'Hey! Let's make a pretend creature called a 'Dragon' and say that they exsisted, just to get a kick out of fooling the future people!' Give me one answer why they would do that.
2. You have NO proof that they DID NOT actually exist. When it comes to this, people usually lean towards the scientific facts. 'That is impossible, because it was discovered ..' Blah blah. I really don't know about the science of amphibians, (I think dragons would technically be amphibains, right?) so I won't delve too much into what they say. I would say more, but I don't have enough room to type everything down that I want to

Ok, so you think that because there are no fossils of dragons, they don't exsist.
You have a point.
Who's to say they didn't die by some great fire, or something? (Just an example.) Just because there are no fossils doesn't mean they don't exsist!

Answer 1

Most people are unaware that the word “dinosaur” was not coined until the 1840s by Sir. Richard Owen. So, if these creatures lived alongside humans prior to that time, they were not called dinosaurs. So what were they called? Dragons. Most cultures throughout the world possess ancient stories about dragons and sea monsters that closely resemble what we today would call dinosaurs. Dragon stories have been handed down for generations in most civilizations.

No doubt many of these stories have been exaggerated through the years, but that doesn’t mean they didn’t have their original basis in fact. I believe many of the dragon legends are simply distorted versions of dinosaur encounters. As Paul Taylor has said, “Most of the dragon legends are full of exaggeration, magic and marvelous deeds. But this is not true of all of them. Many stories seem rather believable.” It is true that many of them are mythical or legendary but it is also true that most legends are based on some truth. It cannot be an accident that so many separate peoples of the world tell such stories.

The stories of Gilgamesh, Beowulf, and Saint George killing dragons are likely to have been based on at least some fact. These were real men in history.

As you know, dragons are prominent on Chinese pottery, embroidery, carvings, etc. It’s interesting that the twelve signs of the Chinese zodiac are all animals—eleven of which are still alive today, but one is the dragon. It doesn’t seem logical that the ancient Chinese, when constructing their zodiac, would include one mythical animal with eleven real animals.

In 1271, Marco Polo (the Italian explorer) reported that on special occasions in China the royal chariot was pulled by dragons. Marco Polo also said that he saw long reptiles in Asia called Lindworms that could easily ran as fast as a horse.

In 1611, we can see that the emperor appointed the post of “Royal Dragon Feeder” which doesn’t make sense if there were no dragons to feed. We also find Ancient Chinese books telling of people using dragon eggs, blood, bones and other parts for medicine.

John of Damascus (an Arab monk in the 8th century) wrote against some of the wild and mythical claims about dragons and said, “I am not telling you, after all, that there are no dragons; dragons exist but they are serpents [reptiles] borne of other serpents. When just born and young, they are small; but when they grow up and mature, they become big and fat so that they exceed the other serpents in length and size. It is said they grow up more than thirty cubits [45 feet]; as for their thickness, they become as thick as a huge log.”

There is a well-known science book from the 16th century by a Swiss naturalist and medical doctor named Conrad Gesner called Historia Animalium. The book claims that dragons were still not extinct in the 1500's, but were extremely rare and relatively small by then.

After Alexander the Great invaded India (356-323 B.C.) he brought back reports of great hissing reptiles the Indians kept in caves. There was one that really frightened his army was estimated by them to be over 100 feet long.

And then there’s all the stories of giant sea serpents and sea monsters. As Dr. Mace Baker said, “For more than a thousand years ancient and medieval mariners often returned from their voyages with frightening tales of encounters with, or sightings of, large and dangerous sea monsters.”

There are hundreds of these types of legends. Evolutionists just say that it’s coincidence that many of them sound like dinosaurs. World Book Encyclopedia says: “The dragons of legend are strangely like actual creatures that have lived in the past. They are much like the great reptiles [dinosaurs] which inhabited the earth long before man was supposed to have appeared on earth.”

Answer 2

Actually, dragons do exist - just not the mythical, powerful, bat-like,snake-like, fire-breathing dragon you find in many folklore or myths. The Komodo Dragon is an actual animal, but is nowhere close to the size of the ones in stories. Besides, people didn't have to 'band' together to write stories about dragons. Dragons are cool! I wouldn't mind writing a story about those. So, they do exist - in other ways.

Answer 3

I do believe!

but just as animals that may have breathed fire.

they would have lived a long time ago and would have been killed by the KT event. there fossils could have been destroyed by Earth's movements. or we just have not found them. the only dragon that could be alive is the water dragon (big) witch is at the bottom of the ocean or changed by evolution so we would not Tell that it is a dragon. how they would heaved lived.

http://animal.discovery.com/convergence/dragons/profiles/profiles.html
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more info about dragons: http://www.biopark.org/dragonhistory.html

crap there is one more site that is really good but I can't find it.

Answer 4

maybe yes
dragons may have existed years ago
but there is no scientific proof for its existence and not even for its non-existence
however if medieval history is correct from head to toe then ....yes the dragons exists

Answer 5

I think that dragons come from dinosaurs. I think people saw fossils and created the myth.

Answer 6

Because they are in the bible and the nephilim were on the earth, they had to eat something, maybe thats were they (dragons) all went, they ate them all, the nephilim even ate each other.

Answer 7

Of course not.

Because I don't believe in fairy tales. Besides, where is the fossilized proof of their one time existence?

Just out of curiosity, how old are you?

Answer 8

I don't think they exist.
How ever my 11 year old is obsessed with the creatures.
I suppose I will say , they are as likely to exist as unicorns

Answer 9

NO but for some reason it seems as if they did exist just like the uunicorn.

Answer 10

Quit posting this crap. Dragons do not exist. Never have, never will.