How do evolutionists explain dinosaur petroglyphs?

Question

Does it show men and dinosaurs lived at the same time? Serious question for serious answers, thanks.

Answer 1

trust me i thin you will get many excuses... But it is true that many sites have been found (in the U.S. in Arizona and Utah) where there are drawings of Dinosaurs. Some look like "Dragons" and such, but others look like actual Dinosaurs such as:

http://www.bible.ca/tracks/dino-art-wall-etchings-grand-canyon.jpg

How can anyone explain this, considering Dinosaurs was not "Discovered" back then and surely they would not have known what a Dinosaur looked like without people actually being alive with them.

Good Question =)

God Bless

Edit: To Rocky Road

the creation time table is debatable, The Hebrew word for "day" ('yom') used in Genesis 1 to reference the seven days of Creation Week literally means one solar day. As a matter of fact 95% of the bible uses "yom" to describe a day, but there are other times where another word is used (the other 5% that doesn't literally mean one solar day. "olam" is the Hebrew word to describe a long period of time and I believe God would have used that instead of using a word that literally meant a day. Most people do not think of going back to the translations used to translate the English bible to study. =)

God Bless

Answer 2

Oh, WOW!!! Yes, that crude scribbly squiggly petroglyph in the posted link is *clearly* a dinosaur and proof that evolution is WRONG! I have seen the light!

Honestly, folks. And y'all say *evolutionists* grasp at straws! ROTFL!!!

As for the dragon lore guy . . . well, you've convinced me too! That DRAGONS exist!!! Because I've seen a LOT of dragon art (most of it from the Middle Ages, btw, not Paleolithic times) and I've seen a LOT of dinosaur fossils and illustrations . . . and I can tell you one thing with complete assurance: dragons don't look like dinosaurs, and there's yet to be a dinosaur discovered that looks a thing like a dragon.

Answer 3

Many of the supposed artifacts that prove human beings lived at the same time as dinosaurs are suspicious -- fakes, frauds, hoaxes. The other evidence, historical, mythological, Biblical, can be accounted for simply by the existence of fossils -- if we can find dinosaur bones, ancient people found them too, then made up stories about them. That is where all the legends and myths of dragons come from.

Answer 4

I would seriously like to see these petroglyphs for myself.

Mostly because you can't know who is just making things up on here. I'm sure you understand.

Answer 5

"How do evolutionists explain dinosaur petroglyphs?"

The same way that they do anything else that contradicts their pre-suppositions that deny the Biblical account of creation. They come up with a "just so" story where they postulate some naturalistic explanation that doesn't upset the apple cart of their carefully laid out evolutionary time line and claim that their explanation is the most rational one and so everyone should treat it pretty much as if it were a fact until something else that can be show to have greater proof comes along to take it's place.

Dragon History - Universal Concept in Ancient Cultures
Dragon history is nearly universal throughout the world's ancient cultures. Where did this global concept originate? How did societies throughout the world describe, record, draw, etch, sew and carve such creatures in such uniformity, if they did not witness these creatures during their lifetimes?

Dragon History - Dinosaurs Revealed
Dragon history can be summed up as follows: "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 is supposed to have appeared on earth." (Knox Wilson, "Dragon", The World Book Encyclopedia, Vol. 5, 1973, pg. 265.)

In light of that statement from The World Book Encyclopedia, many people don't realize that paleontology (the study of past geological ages based primarily on the study of fossils) is a relatively new science. In fact, the concept of dinosaurs (giant lizards) only surfaced in its present form less than 180 years ago. Prior to that, anyone who found a large fossilized bone assumed it came from an elephant, dragon or giant. There wasn't any notion of "science" attached to these finds.

It wasn't until 1841 that English scientist Richard Owens suggested that the group of "newly discovered" animals be called "dinosaurs," which literally means "terrible lizards." Throughout the next few decades, the first artist depictions of dinosaurs were actually comical when compared to what we can scientifically discern today. How then, do pottery, linens, cave paintings, and written descriptions of "dragons" from 2,000 to 4,000 years ago depict dinosaurs better than what science could muster in the mid-1800's?

Dragon History - A Summation of the Evidence
Where are all these accounts of dragon history? Actually, let's start with the Bible, the most widely published book in history. A search for the word "dragon" in the King James Version of the Bible produces 34 separate matches across 10 different books written between approximately 2000 BC and 90 AD. The word "dragon" (Hebrew: tannin) is used throughout the Old Testament, and most directly translates as "sea or land monsters." In the Book of Job, the author describes the great creatures, Behemoth (Job 40) and Leviathan (Job 41). Although the latest Bible translations use the words elephant, hippo or crocodile instead of Behemoth and Leviathan, the original Hebrew and the context of the descriptions do not allow for these interpretations.

Of course, dragon history is by no means limited to the Bible. Dragon accounts from China, Europe, the Middle East, and ancient Latin America share similar accounts of "dragons" and other beasts. Some cultures revered these creatures. For instance, records of Marco Polo in China show that the royal house kept dragons for ceremonies and dragons were hunted for meat and medicine in the Province of Karazan. Records of the Greek historian Herodotus and the Jewish historian Josephus describe flying reptiles in ancient Egypt and Arabia. In other cultures, it was a great honor to kill these creatures. There are numerous records of warriors killing great beasts in order to establish credibility in a village. Gilgamesh, Fafnir, Beowulf and other famous legends, including the mythology of Egypt, Greece and Rome, include specific descriptions of dragons and other dinosaur-like creatures.

Dragon history is revealed on numerous objects of ancient art throughout the world. Dinosaur-like creatures are featured on Babylonian landmarks, Roman mosaics, Asian pottery and royal robes, Egyptian burial shrouds and government seals, Peruvian burial stones and tapestries, Mayan sculptures, Aboriginal and Native American petroglyphs (carved rock drawings), and many other pieces of ceremonial art throughout ancient cultures. What does all this evidence really mean? Please keep reading…


Read Dragon History Page 2 Now! http://www.allaboutcreation.org/dragon-history-2.htm

Answer 6

or does it show a man telling a lie to the others about the great beast he slain?

much like i hear the youngsters at work telling tall tails about how many people the beat up at the same time after how many beers they drank in just 30 min.

paintings are nice but hardly evidence of anyting.

Answer 7

A day with God is as a thousand years. Time means nothing to God since he was never born and always was and has no end.
God created man after He destroyed the dinosaurs.
God knew we would need prehistoric animal and plant life for fuel. The bible is not a science book. The bible is a guide to heaven.

Answer 8

Haven't seen this ever before, but there are more cover-ups in the scientific circles than there are in Washington.

Answer 9

There is no need to explain them. They don't exist.