Creationism, the Great Flood, Dinasaurs and saddles?

Question

Many of the young earth creationist and the Creationism Museum depict man and dinosaurs existing together before the great flood. Some even depict dinosaurs as being domesticated and wearing saddles.

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They use the great flood to explain how allo fthe dinosaur fossils came into existence.

Fossilized dinosaur mummies have been found a few times and what I am wondering.

If there can be fossils that can preserve untreated skin/hide how come there are no fossil remains of these dinosaur related implements like saddles and such?

Rob - Please site your sources...

OK - for my slow friends - I am an ATHEIST that is using sarcasm to make a point.

Of course I do not believe this crack head crap - I think to believe this is a symptom of a mental illness - I am attempting to enlighten people by making an exaggeratedly ironic point.

Answer 1

I should say first that I do not for minute think that dinosaurs and people co-existed. However, given the sparsity of the fossil record compared with the number of animals that must have actually existed, the fact that no fossilized dinosaur "saddles" have been found is not really evidence that they didn't exist. I'm quite sure they didn't, but the absence of any fossilized saddles is not, by itself, evidence of their non-existence.

Also, as for Rob's suggestion that "dinosaurs" were carved on the walls of ancient cities, that is a matter of the utmost speculation. What he is referring to is the depiction on one of the restored gates of the ancient city of Babylon of strange four-legged creatures with long necks and tails (see link below). Now, I suppose one could say that these are dinosaurs, but they could just as easily, and more logically, be interpreted as dragons, a common motif in cultures around the world. People never lived with dragons, either, (at least there is no evidence they are more than fanciful), but that didn't stop people from depicting them as co-existing with people. Dinosaurs were real, of course, but I think the point is made.

Answer 2

For one I am not called to preach the creation of the Earth, but only the Gospel.

In my humble opinion, I think that science doesn't know a lot of things. As I have said before:

'To me science is currently like a toddler in a play pen, trying to explain to his mom why the car makes noise.'

The Creationists are guessing, to the best of their ability, and those scientists who are not Creationists are doing the same thing. All they can do is guess.

Both sides are apparently doing the best they can, both sides suspect their side is more correct than the other, but both are trying to compete for the common thought of millions.

I think that God will reveal the truth, whatever it may be.

By the way, some time ago I made a stand against those who call themselves the AM or Atheist Mafia. Just to let you know, I did not mind your question, but I intend to separate from participating with those who refer to themselves as 'Atheist Mafia'.

Answer 3

dinosaurs and people?? at the same time??

do you really believe this?? if you do i have some nice land in south florida that i can sell you.

mummies are preserved flesh, fossils are flesh molds made of rock. DUH!!!!

dinosaurs went extinct 64 million years ago. oldest human remains are only 3 1/2 million years old.

it would be cool however to show up to work riding a t-rex. lol

how gullable are you? really, come on now. Being a christian doesnt mean you got to be ignorant of science. Most scientists are ( in U.S.A. ) christians themselves. get a grip.

Answer 4

The museum looks like fun, but dinosaurs disappeared millions of years before man appeared on the planet

Answer 5

i don't know about saddles, but there are carvings of Dino's on ancient city walls , suggesting that who ever made those carvings must have known what the dinos looked like. the were not carvings of bones but of whole dinos.


search "dinosaurs at angkor" is a good one.

Answer 6

How do you explain dragon legends?

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.”

The story 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.

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 that was estimated by them to be over 100 feet long.

Dragons are prominent on Chinese pottery, embroidery, carvings, and so on. And yes, they have mythical legends, but there are some other interesting things as well. For instance, 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.

One ancient Chinese emperor of the Sung Dynasty (between 960-1276 A.D.) is said to have raised a dragon in his palace.

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 the 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. I think because of that, there are still Chinese people today who grind up fossilized dinosaur bones to take.

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.

The American Indian “Thunderbird” stories sound like pterosaurs and even some evolutionists have conceded on that point. Darlene Geis said, “The thunderbird appears in many Indian tales and Indian art work. Its description is very much like one of the prehistoric flying reptiles that flapped its way through the skies in the days of the dinosaurs.”

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 7

See, the Flinstones had it right all along.
(sarcasm)

Answer 8

What do you call an atheist funeral? All dressed up and no place to go!

Answer 9

The flintstones is based on fact, I tell you!

Answer 10

because humans+dinosaurs=baloney