“You still seem to me to be unsettled about something, Moonbeam.”
“Dinosaurs, man! Dinosaurs! Those things lived millions of years ago. Just look at their bones. They look really old, man. Anyway, the Bible doesn’t say anything about them, since the dinosaurs died out millions of years before the Bible was even written.”
“Are you sure Moonbeam?”
“Awe c’mon man. You’re not going to tell me that the Bible mentions dinosaurs. That’s impossible. No man has ever seen a live dinosaur.”
“Not only does the Bible talk about them, but other books and writings as well.”
“Give me a break. Show me where in the Bible it talks about dinosaurs, man.”
First, let’s define the origin of the word dinosaur. It means “fearful reptile”. The word dinosauria was first coined by British comparative anatomist, Sir Richard Owen in 1841. Since the Bible was completed around 100 A.D., you wouldn’t expect to see the word dinosaur in it. However, in the original Hebrew, the word that appears is ‘tannin’, which means serpent, dragon, or sea monster.
Let’s check out Job, one of the oldest books in the Bible (some historians place its writing @ 1500 B.C.). In Chapter 40 & 41, The Lord is speaking directly to Job about two of the largest creatures He made:
“Look at behemoth , which I made along with you and which feeds on grass like an ox. What strength he has in his loins, what power in the muscles of his belly! His tail sways like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are close knit. His bones are like tubes of bronze, his limbs like rods of iron. He ranks first among the works of God…” Job 40:15-19
“Can you pull in Leviathan with a fishhook? …Can you fill its hide with harpoons or its head with fishing spears? …If you lay a hand on it you will remember the struggle and never do it again. Any hope of subduing it is false; the mere sight of it is overpowering. No one is fierce enough to rouse it. Who can penetrate its double coat of armor? Who dares open the doors of its mouth, ringed about with fearsome teeth? Its back has rows of shields tightly sealed together; each is so close to the next that no air can pass between. Flames stream out from its mouth; smoke pours from its nostrils; its breath sets coals ablaze. Nothing on earth is its equal – a creature without fear.” …. Job 41:1-34
Why would God talk to Job about creatures He claims to have made, (along with Job), that Job could easily verify that lived alongside of him? Obviously God was really trying to make a point with Job. Now being as we have all been well brainwashed in evolution, including the theologians, notice the concordance (Biblical footnotes). Modern theologians indicate that God (regarding behemoth) is describing an elephant or a hippopotamus to Job. As for Leviathan: more metaphor and allegory. Tell that to the bombardier beetle and the electric eel.
“Now Moonbeam, that description of behemoth with a tail like a cedar tree: Does a hippo or an elephant have a tail like that?
“No way, man, I may be dumb, but I ain’t stupid; they got nuttin’ for a tail.”
“And behemoth’s tail?”
“That humongous tail is from a big sucker dinosaur. Ahhhhhhh! I can’t believe what I just said. Dinosaurs ARE in the Bible!”
“Hey Moonbeam, do you like steak?”
“Yeah man, medium rare. But don’t tell SC, she thinks I’m a vegan.”
“What if I buried a cow alive in your backyard? And then after some period of time I dug it up. What would I expect to find?”
“A dead cow, dude.”
“Of course, but what would remain of the animal?”
“I hunt and know all about dead animals and rottin’ stuff. So it would depend on what kind of soil it was buried in. How long it had been buried, and how much cold, heat, rain, snow and ice conditions the ground the cow was buried in was exposed to.”
“Excellent, Moonbeam; you are really thinking.”
“Yeah man, I even surprise myself sometimes.”
“OK, even assuming it was buried quickly under the best of anaerobic soil conditions, but still subjected to all the elements of nature, what would you find after a few hundred years?”
“Maybe some skin, muscle and tendons left on the bones.”
“And, what condition after a few thousand years?”
“Hmmm. That Annie rowing thing means like no air can get at the cow, right?”
“Right!”
“Probably still some skin, muscle, tendon and bone. Kinda like those Egyptian mummies.”
“Excellent, again, Moonbeam. Those mummies were well preserved at the point of death and placed in a sealed sarcophagus, in a pyramid, under very dry conditions, but still exposed to air, unfortunately.”
“What remains of the cow would you expect to find after 65 million years?”
“If no exposure to air – maybe bone, but only if fossilized. In reality – just dust, babycakes.”
“So, therefore, NO possibility of finding any tissue or blood cells from the cow after those millions of years?”
“C’mon man, get real!”
“What if I told you that scientists have found tissue and blood cells they claim are 65 million years old, not from a cow but a dinosaur; would that change your mind?”
“Dude, are you serious?”
“Moonbeam, would changing the animal from a cow to a dinosaur magically alter your thinking?”
“No! Absolutely not! A few thousand years – I could buy that; but 65 million – no way, man!”
Dr. Mary Schweitzer, in 1991, examined blood cells and tissue (possibly cartilage) from a partially fossilized T-Rex bone. Since then, other dinosaur tissue discoveries have been made. To date, no scientist has adequately been able to explain how biologic organic matter could possibly survive 65 million years exposed to all the elements of nature.
“What you have inadvertently admitted to Moonbeam, by giving credence to a few thousand year survival time, is giving supporting evidence for Noah’s Flood of 4400 years ago.”
“Wha? Huh? I don’t follow you man.”
“OK, let’s backup on this.”
“We agree that the Bible mentions dinosaurs – right!?”
“I’m cool with dat.”
“What day of Creation did God make all the land animals?”
“The sixth day.”
“Moonbeam, have you been reading the Bible?”
“Well man, to tell you the troot, all this science and Bible stuff you’ve been talking abou is startin to make sense. So I’ve been peekin through it a little.”
“Peeking a little? The Bible won’t bite you, Moonbeam.”
“I’m scared, man.”
“Of what?”
“Well if the history of the world, according to the Bible, is correct, then God punishes evil people like in Noah’s day and the Tower of Babel; so wha abou me, man?”
“What about you, Moonbeam?”
“Hell, excuse me- Heck- my evil ways and deeds make Sodom and Gomorrah look like my high school 50’s sock hop.”
“Keep reading, Moonbeam. You’ll also find a God of unfathomable mercy who loves YOU, His creation very much, and will forgive you. All you need to do is ask.”
“Now don’t get me wrong, Conti, I’m not totally convinced enough to give up on my vices. I like doing whatever I want.”
“It’s interesting how you are beginning to realize there is such a thing as right and wrong, otherwise why use the word – ‘vices’? Maybe you are not as much a secular or progressive evolutionist believer as you think you are. OK, we left off on Day 6 of Creation week about 6000 years ago. You said that all the land animals were created on Day 6?”
“Yeah!?”
“ALL the land animals, Moonbeam!? ALL of them!?”
“Dinosaurs? Adam and Eve, and DINOSAURS???? Wouldn’t that big T-Rex have eaten them?”
“And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground – everything that has the breath of life in it – I give every green plant for food. And it was so. And God saw everything He had made, and behold, it was VERY good.” Gen.1:30-31. Everything was perfect, Moonbeam. Adam and Eve and the animals (including the dinosaurs) ‘all got along together’, to use your phrase. ”
“Wow, all the animals and dinosaurs with Adam and Eve were vegans in that Eden garden in the beginning. I know I’ve heard that phrase somewhere. And den after everyone was kicked out of the Eden garden dats when everyone started to fight and kill and have poison and diseases because of that thermometer law and degermination – right?”
“Correct again, Moonbeam, due to entropy everything began to degenerate – the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics.”
“Too bad dough.”
“Moonbeam?”
“Ever since that Jurassic Park movie, I’ve always dreamed of bagging a T-Rex with my big 50 cal rifle.”
“Let’s stay on point. I don’t think our readers are interested in eating T-Rex steaks.”
“I’m starting to track with you now, man. While Noah was loading up that ark barge with two of each of the animal kinds, God also sent him two of each of the dinosaur kinds as well. Little ‘uns so they could easily fit on board – right?”
“Right!”
“And den dos animals and dinosaurs dat were NOTon board the ark thing died in the flood, and some became fossils, like the ‘whale on its tail’, and, and the McFish and, and everything and the fossil tree trunks in dos geography pol-parrot pancakes!!”
“You mean the polystrate fossils embedded in the stratigraphic layers of the geologic column Moonbeam?”
“Yeah man, all that stuff!”
“Hell, oops, Wow! I know how the dinosaurs died out, man! I know now! That crap with the asteroid killing ALL the dinosaurs never did make any sense to me.”
“Well Moonbeam, I must say you are blowing MY mind. You really are doing some good analytical thinking with that wonderful brain God gave you.”
If the dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid, how do DEAD dinosaurs evolve into the birds and mammals, and then the hominids, and ultimately man? And if, prior to the asteroid impact, some dinosaurs already had evolved into birds and mammals (as some evolutionists claim), how is it that fragile birds and small mammals survived this extinction level catastrophe – but ALL dinosaurs did not? Hmmmm!?
Of course, we are back again to it takes two – one male and one female to propagate the species. Why do the atheists and evolutionists always seem to forget this?-Must be a homosexual thing. In the 197 million square miles of earth and ocean, what is the statistical probability of a male bird or mammal popping out of a dinosaur egg and then finding a female bird or mammal (of the same species) to mate with- All this to be accomplished in a relatively short period of time (before they are too old to reproduce). And hopefully this magic must occur in the same locale or territory before they kick the bucket. Kinda hard to locate your mate halfway across the globe – still assuming both were hatched during the same evolving time frame, i.e. evolution therefore stops at this point. P.S. Making the statement that ‘nature will find a way’ isn’t exactly objective scientific evidence either.
“Evolution is a fairytale for grown-ups.” Pierre-Paul Grasse – Chaired the Societe Zoologique de France, Member of the New York Academy of Sciences and The Royal Academies for Science and the Arts in Beligum – Has received too many honors and titles to be listed here.
“OK man, the dinosaurs that were alive were the ones that got on the ark, which means they got off after the flood was over.”
“Right, Moonbeam.”
“If this was only @ 4400 years ago what happened to dem?”
“What would you do with that big 50 cal if you saw a dinosaur threatening you or your family?”
“I’d blast the S.O.B.!”
“And if you were hungry?”
“I’d shoot ‘em.”
“And how about for a trophy?”
“I’d mount their head on my walls. SC likes dumb pictures. I’ll put their heads up.”
“And if they were eating your crops?”
“Man, they’d be turned into dino burgers and jerky.”
“Moonbeam, as a whole, people have always been people regarding their attitudes and actions. Do you think people of 100 or 1000 or 4000 years ago were really that much different then?”
“No. Oh, I get it now – they died. Man extincted them. Wonder if they had any of those ‘keep them alive clubs’ back then?”
“Animal preservation societies?”
“Yeah, dos groups. But how come we don’t hear nothin’ abou dinosaurs and people, you know together?”
“But we do, Moonbeam, we do! And you have, too.”
“I have, man?”
“For example, in England, St. George killed a….”
“DRAGON!! – So he could rescue the beautiful babe. I got it now. The name just got changed from dinosaur to dragon. Ain’t I smart? Oh, Oh, in my English class we were reading about that Italian guy who brought back spaghetti from China.”
“Marco Polo?”
“Yeah man, that dude. He talks about his travels there and about powerful dragons; and a Chinese book tells of a family that raised dragons to pull the Emperor’s royal wagon thing. Our teacher said these were just made up stories. Oh, Oh, I almost forgot. On the way to China, when he was in Turkey, he went to Mount Ararat and saw Noah’s Ark. My teach said he didn’t know what he was looking at. The dumb b—- !”
“Slow down, Moonbeam. Cool your jets.”
“Sorry, man. I jus got too animatronic.”
“You mean animated. I bet she believed Marco Polo when he wrote about the secret of silk- that it is woven by worms.”
“Yeah, she did. How did the Chinese teach those worms to sew?”
Everyone has been so evolutionized, that if it doesn’t fit their pre-conceived model – including ‘millions of years’- they simply discard the evidence. Just like the scientists with the dinosaur tissue and red blood cells. They must flat out reject a young earth with Noah’s Flood having created the fossil layers only 4400 years ago, and cling to their ‘millions of years’ myth, even as the red blood cells are literally staring them right in the face. Their attitude is that SOMEHOW nature (Mother Gaia, The Force, Ewya) has permitted those red blood cells to still exist over the countless millennia.
“I got your drift, man. Oh, Oh, and I remember now seeing a picture taken of what looked to me to be one of those sea dinosaurs.”
“A plesiosaur.”
“Yeah man, that’s it. Some Jap fishing boat caught the dead rotting thing in its nets. They took a picture of it before they heaved the stinking mess back into the ocean.”
“The proper and polite term is Japanese.”
“Yeah, whatever – They make good cameras, though; it must be their small fingers.”
“Moonbeam, do you hear what you are saying. The progressives would call that not being politically correct. This is not a matter of being PC, nor a matter of identifying what is called a very subtle evolutionary put down – that somehow people who are ‘yellow skinned’ are not as advanced, evolutionarily speaking, as Caucasians. There is NO evolution. Therefore you can’t have evolutionary superiority, nor inferiority. Remember the Tower of Babel? We are all of ‘one blood’ Acts 17:26. When God confused the language into different tongues, each of those people groups also left Babel with their unique physical appearances, which we call phenotypes. We all ultimately come from Adam and Eve. Got it?”
“I may be brainwashed in evolution, but with SC it only took a light rinse. Wait ‘til you meet her.”
“Great. Japan memorialized that plesiosaur on one of their stamps in 1977. Of course, some evolutionary scientists said it was the rotting carcass of a basking shark.”
“Fried or baking shark my a–! That thing was a dino-fish.”
As for some other writings and reports:
The Greek explorer Herodotus describes perfectly the small flying reptile Rhamporhynchus as having a snake like body and bat like wings, found in Egypt and Arabia.
The famous Greek, Aristotle said in his time that these creatures were common knowledge in Ethiopia.
Alexander the Great brought back reports, after his invasion of India, of a great hissing dragon in a cave, which startled even his battle hardened soldiers.
The book of Daniel 14:23-30 (Catholic Bible) tells of Daniel killing a dragon called Bel which was worshiped as a Babylonian god.
An old science book, ‘Historia Animalium’, claims that these animals (dinosaurs) were not extinct even in the 1500’s, but that their numbers were rare, and few by then.
In Italy, a scientist named Ulysses Aldrovandus, describes a small ‘dragon’ on a farm road. The creature had been killed simply by being struck on the head with a walking stick by a farmer named Baptista on May 13th, 1572. The animal had done nothing wrong but hiss at the farmer’s oxen. The scientist made measurements and drawings of the ‘dragon’, which was mounted and given to a museum. From his description, it was likely a Tanystropheus.
The city of Nerluc, France, was renamed in the honor of the killing of a ‘dragon’ that was described as being bigger than an ox and had long pointed horns on its crested head, possibly of the Triceratops family of dinosaurs.
There is an ancient 2nd century Roman mosaic showing two long necked ‘dragons’ with their necks intertwined either fighting or making love.
The ancient Incas of Peru have many carvings of dinosaurs, one of which is on a stone that looks very much like a T-Rex type grabbing a man.
In Arches National Park, in Moab, Utah, there are ancient Indian petroglyphs (rock carvings), one of which looks distinctly like a sauropod dinosaur. When I personally asked the US Government Park Rangers what it looks like, they sheepishly said a sauropod dinosaur – Officially though, they can’t say anything. There are also sauropod dinosaur footprints a tourist can see in the Moab area.
“What’s a sore-spot dinosaur, man?”
“Those are the large gentle giant ‘veggie-saur’ dinosaurs from the Jurassic Park movies. Here let me show you a replica I have of a cast of a dinosaur footprint. What else do you see in addition to the dinosaur footprint Moonbeam?”
“It’s, it’s a human footprint right der partially overlapping the dino one. I can’t believe my eyes. Is this the only one?”
“No there are others. The original has had hundreds of CAT scan X-rays done to it, and many qualified paleoarcheologists examine it. Even in this replica you can see the mud push-up on the side of the toes of both human and dinosaur from the pressure of their feet. The mud push-up and the pressure of the imprints are bigger and deeper for the heavy dinosaur and lesser on the lighter weight human. When the scientists cut through the original you can easily see the compressed layers of mud (now hardened like concrete) on both animal and human; the mud compressions are more severely compacted with the dinosaur obviously. There is no way someone could have carved this. Probably both were running from the rising waters as Noah’s Flood was descending upon them.”
“Jeez, I still can’t believe what my eyes are seeing. This alone blows away the whole idea of millions of years and evolution at the same time – doesn’t it? Why don’t we hear about this stuff on NOVA or Discovery?”
“Do you think they might have an agenda Moonbeam? Why expose students and the Public as a whole to the truth. You can control people better when the people don’t believe in Almighty God. The people then trust only what the ‘powers that be’ say to trust – Mother Gaia (the religion of evolution that bore you) and the high priests of that religion that interpret the faith (the almighty government).”
“Man, you some kinda of conspiracy nut?”
“If science truly is the search for the truth, why not discuss this openly – or are they afraid of something? Like maybe losing their power and control over you Moonbeam. Try bringing up an honest discussion of these topics in class as a teacher; and see how far you get with the school administration and the ACLU.”
“Yeah man, guess I had swallowed some of the Kool-Aid.”
The dragon legends became more exaggerated and fanciful as the creatures became less in numbers and man’s true memory of them faded. With Sir Richard Owen’s discoveries in 1841, and the name he gave – dinosaurian – new generations of fossil hunters emerged.
“One final story I believe you will find fascinating, Moonbeam, is of a German submarine captain during WW I, and his experiences with …. I’ll just let the captain, Georg von Forstner, tell it in his own words:”
“On July 30th, 1915, our U28 torpedoed the British steamer, Iberian, carrying a rich cargo in the North Atlantic. The steamer sank quickly, the bow sticking almost vertically into the air. When it had gone for about 25 seconds, there was a violent explosion. A little later pieces of wreckage, and among them a gigantic sea animal (writhing and struggling wildly), were shot out of the water to a height of 60-100 feet. At that moment, I had with me in the conning tower my officers of the watch, the chief engineer, the navigator and the helmsman. Simultaneously, we all drew one another’s attention to this wonder of the seas…. we were unable to identify it. We did not have the time to take a photograph, for the animal sank out of sight after 10 or 15 seconds. It was about 60 feet long, was like a crocodile in shape, and had four limbs with powerful webbed feet, and a long tail tapering to a point.”
“One of dem pleasing-sores?”
“Pleisosaur, Moonbeam. Point is – these were experienced seamen. They knew what they had seen. None of them had ever seen anything like this before, nor read of it in their training manuals.”
“Moonbeam, remember the old Ford Thunderbird?”
“Oh yeah, my uncle had a real cool robin’s egg blue ‘55. Man, it was cherry.”
“Ever take a close look at the emblem?”
“Yeah, it was kind of a weird bird, with a large bumpy thing sticking up on top of its head.”
“It’s called a bony crest.”
“Yeah, that’s it, man. Oh, Oh, I know, I know!! From the Jurassic Park movies; that flying dinosaur bird thing.”
“A Pterdactyl.”
“That’s it, man.”
“The story is that a Sioux Indian hunting party got caught in a violent thunderstorm. They saw this giant ‘bird’ get struck by lightning and fall. It took them 3 days to find it. When they did, all that was left was essentially the skeletal remains – the desert scavengers having picked the carcass clean. The animal was different from any bird they had ever seen, and had a large bony crest, and a long beak. They gave it the name ‘Thunderbird’.
“How DID the Ford car get that name man?”
“It is said that a Native American Indian was involved in the name selection, but that’s another story for another time, Moonbeam.”
Gene Conti, MD
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