I understand that at some Creation museum they show dinosaurs boarding the ark! So why are they all gone now?

Question

I mean, if they survived the Flood and all, it's home free, right?

Answer 1

Oh yeah, according to your A.I.G. people they certainly were. 2 of every dinosaur.

Rolling stone-good to see you aren't educating yourself, just as ignorant as always.

Answer 2

I can answer this but please note that I am a creationist but not a christian. Many christians that at the time of the creation of the earth there were massive ammounts of trapped water vapor in the air (Genisis states that there was a heaven to divide the waters) this made a "greenhouse" effect. They also feel that this would have lead to longer lives for all animals and people. This is shown by the amazing ages achived by people before the flood. Many lizards never stop growing. So if a lizard lived 400 years it would grow very very large, ie Dinosaurs. So dinosaurs boarded the arc, most likley "baby" dinosaurs, ie lizards. after the flood life spans declined rapidly and so dissaperared the dinosaurs. For full info on this idea and many other regarding creationism you should visit Dr.Hovind's website www.drdino.com He is the foremost name in christian creationism research.

Answer 3

If dinosaurs got on the ark, then dinosaurs got off the ark. That being the case, you would expect to find legends of dinosaurs in history. Why don’t we read stories about men fighting dinosaurs or dinosaurs eating people’s cows and stuff like that? Well, most people are unaware that the word “dinosaur” was not coined until the 1840s by Sir. Richard Owen (who was a Creationist by the way). 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. For instance, the flag of Wales depicts a dragon, which by the way, is claimed to be the oldest national flag still in use. Dragon stories have been handed down for generations in most civilizations, and from people from different continents who never had contact with one another.

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 same can be deduced from the 250+ different flood stories from around the world. Flood legends in many cultures that have never even heard of the Bible, and yet many of them are very similar to the account in Genesis. Why? Because everyone is descended from Noah. Some of the details have been distorted from thousands of years of telling and retelling, but it is based in fact. I believe the same is true of the dragon legends.

As Eric Lyons has said, “Such similar stories of unique reptilian creatures in only a handful of places on the globe might reasonably be passed off as just coincidence. The ‘coincidence card,’ however, looks rather weak in light of the vast amount of testimony regarding the longstanding, widespread nature of dragon legends.”

I’m sorry to say, but many of the dinosaurs and maybe all of them are extinct today. So why did they die off? Well, many Creationists believe the flood would have drastically changed the climate of the earth (cooler temperatures, more radiation, etc.), and that there was a short ice age after the flood. Some Creationists think the dinosaurs that survived the flood where not able to cope so well in the new environment. They also believe that is the reason why man’s life-span shortened so much after the flood, and why bugs and animals are so much smaller now.

Another possibility is that dinosaurs may have become extinct for the same reason that many animals become extinct today. Why do we have endangered species programs? Extinction is the rule. Why? People killing them, lack of food, man destroying the environment, catastrophes, disease, genetic problems, and so on. I’ve read that in the last 350 years, about 400 species have disappeared and some say the number is much greater. Of course we are talking about species and not Genesis kinds.

Let’s think for a minute—countries all over the world have stories of dragon slayers. Perhaps they went extinct from man killed them for food, sport, or because they were a nuisance. I think we just didn’t start our endangered species programs early enough.

Another thing, is that there have been (even recently) reports of strange animals in the amazon and the congo that sound a lot like dinosaurs. And there are reports of giant flying reptiles in Indonesia, and so forth.

There are thousands of square miles of almost impenetrable swamps and thick jungle in the world. Natives in some of these places describe beasts that fit with what just might be dinosaurs. And what about all the sightings of lake monsters?

This is a field called cryptozoology—the search for hidden animals. There just might be a few dinosaurs left, teetering on the edge of extinction. We are constantly discovering new species of animals and plants in remote areas. A tree can’t run away and hide and yet the Wollemi pine tree avoided detection until just recently (said to have become extinct millions of years ago). An evolutionist has to say, “No way.” But a creationist has no problem with this and can say, “Maybe.”

Answer 4

Dinosaurs weren't appropriate. According to 'Intelligent Design' otherwise known as Creationism, the world isn't old enough for there to have been dinosaurs. Depending on which faith you subscribe to, dinos are either hoaxes or did exist, but only in Eden where they were harmless creatures.

Dinosaurs don't exactly fit into the Creationism theory, so whoever put them in that museum either wasn't a true believer or was just not thinking straight.

Answer 5

Lion of Judah has pointed to http://www.strangescience.net/stdino2.htm as possible evidence that humans and dinosaurs coexisted. As the person who made that page, I'm a little stunned. Lion of Judah apparently never looked at another one of my pages: http://www.strangescience.net/evolution.htm
The best scientific evidence we have available strongly suggests that dinosaurs went extinct more than 60 million years before the first humans evolved. They weren't still hanging around in the Middle Ages.
And contrary to what creationists would like us all to believe, there's no big debate within the science community about the reality of evolution.
The story of Noah's Ark may a great parable about sin, loss and redemption, but I don't endorse taking it as a literal truth about the physical universe. I doubt the original authors ever intended for their story to become material for a geology textbook.

Answer 6

Yes, However actually, they would not have boarded the ark, but carried into the Ark in Egg form, as the eggs of Dino's would need no care or feeding except to keep them warm,
Dino's over the last 3000 years or so have died out, many many species have died out even in this century alone.

While the word "dinosaur" is a relatively new word, there seems to be evidence in many places around the world that men and these creatures have co-existed. In the Bible, when God is responding to Job, in Job 40 and 41, we see two creatures described, the 'behemoth' and the 'leviathan.' Both are described as extremely large animals and seem reminiscent of descriptions of a dinosaur and a giant sea creature. Although Bible notes in many modern translations suggest these animals might be a hippo, a crocodile, an elephant, or other known animals, the Biblical descriptions defy those identifications.
http://www.rae.org/pteroets.html
The Bible and Pterosaurs: Archaeological and Linguistic Studies of Jurassic Animals that Lived Recently
The Chinese histories and legends abound with dinosaurs. But they are not called "dinosaurs." They are called "dragons." The dragon is one of the twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac. What is interesting is that all the other eleven are commonly known animals and there is no hint of 'mythology' involved with their identities. It seems as if the dragon was just a commonly known at one time. The pictures are often fantastical, but so are their stylized pictures of horses and other animals. I checked the web for accessible information on this. I was able to find a few things that were not having to do with video games, sculptures, movies, items for sale, and such. The following links may be of interest. There are more. If you have access to books, you might want to check the epic of Beowulf, in which he battles a monster. If you have access to a good book on the history of art, you may be able to see some dragons and sea monsters painted on ancient Roman pottery. The legends abound all over the world. They do not seem to be connected to each other, but each telling of its own place. We have the story of St. George and the Dragon; there is the reference regarding Alexander the Great of his army disturbing some giant monster in a cave on their way to India. The American Indian thunderbird may very well be one of the ancient flying reptiles. An excellent essay by Lourella Rouster is "The Footprints of Dragons," at http://rae.org/dragons.html
A couple of pages which chronicle a bit the possible existence of monsters in Europe are dragon myths from Austria http://www.strangescience.net/stdino2.htm page includes two paintings of dragons from the seventeenth century that are quite interesting!
Doug Sharp, whose webpage "Revolution Against Evolution" has Rouster's essay, also carries the following: http://rae.org/tuba.html
The Rhamphorhynchoid Pterosaur -- Scaphognathus crassirostris: A "Living Fossil" Until the 17th Century All in all, then, there is reason to doubt the evolutionist timeline that says dinosaurs -- or the dragons -- died out before man ever arrived. There is simply too much evidence in stone, art, writing, and legend which contradicts that idea.

Answer 7

wrong! you know even now there are many animals that go extinct. How many times have you heard on the news about some bear being endanger. Theres only 6 in the world and their trying to repopulate that animal. So your theory has flaws try again.

Answer 8

Are dinosaurs the only animals which have become extinct? Well, there could be a number of reasons for their extinction. Maybe there wasn't enough food for them, or maybe people killed them off for food (there couldn't have been too many since there were only two of each.) Maybe the climate killed them.

Answer 9

The Creation Museum only proves one thing: the truly mentally ill Americans aren't living in asylums, they are going to church every Sunday and believing the Bible. No wonder American children suck at science.

Answer 10

Yeah and what about Unicorns?! LOL. Dinosaurs on the ark, I could imagine how big that boat would have to be.

Answer 11

global cooling. They were reptiles and they died in the ice age. See Walt Brown's book on creationism, he has an interesting explanation.