3/16/2012. Psalm Sound test on exit

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1 Dinosaurs and the Bible Psalm Sound test on exit Fascination 1

2 Did they exist? 2

3 No transitional Fossils Buried in sedimentary Rocks Triceratops 3

4 Hadrosaur We DON T know: The skin colour and texture The sounds or roars How many lived at one time 4

5 How Big Were Dinosaurs? Stegosaur 5

6 Not All Dinosaurs Were BIG A small dinosaur Height: 24 inches Length: 40 inches Weight: 8 pounds Compsognathus Komp-sog sog-nay NAY-thus How Fast Were Dinosaurs? Stegosaurs About 15 mph Tyrannosaurus About 20 mph Triceratops About 20 mph Olympic runner 29 mph Horse 45 mph Lion 45 mph Cheetah 65 mph 6

7 When did they live? Mount St. Helens Lava Dome Radio Isotope dating 7

8 Mt Saint Helens lava dome (Actually formed 1986) MILLIONS OF YEARS DOME 1 DOME 1L DOME 1M DOME 1H DOME 1P 0 Malachite Man Keystone Azurite Mine near Moab, Utah, USA 10 human skeletons found in the same rock layer with dinosaurs. 8

9 Paluxy River, near Glen Rose Texas Dinosaur footprints alongside human footprints Out of Place Fossils The Coelacanth was thought to have gone extinct with the dinosaurs 65 million years agountil it was discovered off the coast of Madagascar in Coelacanth Fossil 9

10 Circular Reasoning 1) The rocks are used to date the fossils. 2) The fossils are used to date the rocks. Both dating methods are based on the assumption(presupposition, belief,, faith) that evolution has occurred. Romans 1:20 (ESV) For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made 10

11 Are Dinosaurs mentioned in the Bible? The word dinosaur was reinvented in 1841 by Sir Richard Owen 11

12 On what day were dinosaurs created? All land animals were created on day six. The ancients used the words draco and tanniyn 12

13 Dragon in Hebrew Dinosaurs in the Bible? In that day the LORD ORDwith his hard and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay the dragonthat is in the sea. Isaiah 27:1 (ESV) Dragon = monster 13

14 The Wonders of God s Creation In Job , God answers Job by asking him a long series of rhetorical questions designed to reveal God s power and majesty by emphasizing the incredible creatures and things He has made. Dinosaurs in the Bible? 1 Can you draw out Leviathanwith a fishhook or press down his tongue with a cord? 7 Can you fill his skin with harpoons or his head with fishing spears? 10 No one is so fierce that he dares to stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me? 14 Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror. 15 His back is made of rows of shields, shut up closely as with a seal. Job 41:1-34 (ESV) 14

15 Leviathan Dinosaurs in the Bible? 15 Behold, Behemoth,, which I made as I made you; he eats grass like an ox. 16 Behold, his strength in his loins, and his power in the muscles of his belly. 17 He makes his tail stiff like a cedar; ; the sinews of his thighs are knit together. 18 His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like bars of iron. Job 40: (ESV) 15

16 What evidence is there that dinosaurs lived at the same time as people? Dinosaurs were not recognized to exist until the 1800 s So-any mention of dinosaurs (dragons) prior to the 1800 s is evidence that people saw dinosaurs 16

17 3/16/2012 Herodotus 5th century BC There is a place in Arabia, situated very near the city of Buto, Buto, to which I went, on hearing of some winged serpents; and when I arrived there, I saw bones and spines of serpents, in such quantities as it would be impossible to describe. The form of the serpent is like that of the waterwater-snake; but he has wings without feathers, feathers, and as like as possible to the wings of a bat. Dragon on the Ishtar Gate in Babylon constructed 575 BC by King Nebuchadnezzar II 17

18 Alexander the Great In 330 BC afteralexander the Greatinvaded India he brought back reports of seeing a great hissing dragon living in a cave, which people were worshipping as a god. Beowulf lived from AD in Sweden Beowulf He killed several sea reptilesand a terrestrial dragon called a grendel. He lost his life from wounds received while fighting a flying reptile (pterosaur?) 18

19 Flag Wales Saint George and the Dragon 19

20 Virtually every ancient culture has dragon legends From World Book Encyclopedia: The dragons of legend are strangely like actual creaturesthat 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. Dragons were generally evil and destructive. Every country had them in its mythology. Dragon in Mirror 20

21 Portion of the Nile Mosaic of Palestrina 100 BC Humans hunting a dinosaur Ancient Roman mosaic from the 2nd Century A.D. 21

22 Ta Prohm Temple near Angkor Wat in Cambodia 22

23 Ceremonial Burial Stones from Peruvian Tombs (c.a. AD ) A Triceratops? A T-Rex? 23

24 Dinosaur Figurines from Mexico 800 BC AD ,000 individually made, carefully sculptured figurines; 10% are dinos 24

25 Carlisle Cathedral Northern England Carlisle Cathedral Carpet Tomb of Bishop Richard Bell Died in

26 Brass Engravings Long Neck Long Tail Evidence that humans and dinosaurs coexisted Rock art (petroglyphs petroglyphs/carvings) Artifacts (stones/figurines) Dragon legends/stories/descriptions The Bible 26

27 Whatever Happened to the Dinosaurs? What Killed the Dinosaurs? The Flood (except for those on the ark). Climate change (an ice age after the Flood). A possibility that secular scientists cannot even consider: Over-hunting 27

28 The Flood Not all dinosaurs were big. Even the largest started out small. 28

29 A Wide Load A Comet?? 29

30 Did they evolve into birds? 30

31 Reptile to Bird Development of feathers Reform of respiratory system Reform of skeletal system hollow bones Reform of digestive system Reform of nervous system Construction of bills & beaks Mastery of nest building Acquisition of flight Development of sound producing organ Archaeopteryx Alan Feduccia(World authority on birds), Science,, Archaeopteryx: Early Bird Catches a Can of Worms, 1993 Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryxinto an earth-bound, feathered dinosaur. But it s not. It is a bird, a perching bird. No amount of paleobabble paleobabble is going to change that. 31

32 History of Evolution and Birds 1993: Time Magazine featured the flightless bird Mononykus as the dino-bird link It turned out not to be a bird, but a theropod 1996: Feathered fossil proves some dinosaurs evolved into birds. (Sinosauropteryx prima) Four leading paleontologists discovered that the feathers were just a parallel array of fibers Psalm 104:24 O LORD ORD,, how manifold are your works! In wisdom have you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures. 32

33 Jurassic Park?? Dinosaur Blood A medical pathologist examined dinosaur bone under a microscope and found dinosaur red blood cells still intact inside the bone. Earth,, June 1997, pgs

34 Scientists recover T. Rex soft tissue: 70-million million-year year-old fossil yields preserved blood vessels, 24 March 2005 An actual photomicrograph of what appears to be red blood cells inside a blood vessel. These are within an unfossilizedsection section of bone from a Tyrannosaurus Rex ex. All tests to date have been consistent with the finding that the red blood pigment, haemoglobin,, is also present. How,, then, can this dinosaur bone be millions of years old? 34

35 Teaching About Dinosaurs Dinosaurs were created after their kind (there are no intermediates) Dinosaurs lived at the same time as people Many historical accounts of dragons Pictures on cave or canyon walls Unfossilized dinosaur bones Mummified dinosaurs Dinosaurs were on the Ark Many dinosaurs died in the Flood Dinosaurs are referred to in the Bible The Dinosaur Myth? For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. 2Timothy 4:3-4 (ESV) * 35