Do you believe?

Question

Do you believe that dragons exist? Please answer!!! If you will be bashing another person's answer in your answer please do not!

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

Hail, The Lord Wisdom.

I believe that there is one Dragon, which beget onto other Dragons. The Dragon who is King Dragon is Satan and the other Dragons are his children. Dragons will exist untill the ending.

Answer 3

Well if you mean on earth, maybe. Most of the earth is mapped out already, but not all of it is explored so there is a chance anything can exist in those uncharted areas! If you mean in the entire universe, yea sure why not? Maybe there's even a planet full of 'em, Dragoth?

Answer 4

Yes i have a pet dragon, a bearded dragon.Seriously!
They have them everywhere here,(Australia).Look on the net.
Mine lives in a big fish tank, but i get him out and he sits on my shoulder, he is starting to follow me around now when i put him on the floor..He is really cool and his name is Puff( i know i know..but the kids named him!)
As for the mythical dragons...i think they used to exist, and i would like to think that a few have survived this mess we call society...x

Answer 5

Sure! I believe that there is a parallel universe and some beings have the ability to travel between them.

Answer 6

i think the idea of the dragon came from people in the middle ages who found dinosaur bones. they are a grand thought though.

Answer 7

I belive in nice Oriental dragons not one of those mean ones in Europe

Answer 8

Absolutely.

Answer 9

Only when I click my ruby slippers three times and kiss a frog on Wednesdays.

Answer 10

I believe they did exist and therefore may still exist in an ephemeral state.

Peace!