1) why study dinosaurs? 2) “dinosaurs are not mentioned in the bible!” 3) a living dinosaur! 4)...

Dinosaurs

1) Why Study Dinosaurs?2) “Dinosaurs Are Not Mentioned in the

Bible!”3) A Living Dinosaur! 4) Did Humanity and Dinosaurs Coexist?5) What Happened to the Dinosaurs?

A) Two Views

1) Evolutionist

2) Creationist

Why Study Dinosaurs?

B) Two Reasons

1) Faith

2) Science

Why Study Dinosaurs?

Term dinosaur was created by Richard Owen in 1841

King James Version was translated in 1611

Dinosaur literally means “terrible lizard”

Dinosaurs Are Not Mentioned in the Bible!

A) Leviathan - Job 41

“his teeth are terrible round about” (vs 14) “Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.” (vs 19) “Out of his nostrils goeth smoke: (vs 20) “a flame goeth out of his mouth” (vs 21) “When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid”

(vs 25) “esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood”

(vs 27) “The arrow cannot make him flee” (vs 28)

Dinosaurs Are Not Mentioned in the Bible!

B) Behemoth – Job 40:15-24

“moveth his tail like a cedar” (vs 17) “His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his

bones are like bars of iron.” (vs 18) “He is the chief of the ways of God” (vs 19)

Dinosaurs Are Not Mentioned in the Bible!

Behemoth?

C) Dragons

Psalm 44:19 Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

Jeremiah 51:34 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.

Dinosaurs Are Not Mentioned in the Bible

C) Dragons

Isaiah 27:1 In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.

Dinosaurs Are Not Mentioned in the Bible!

Dracorex – “dragon king”

Hogarth & Clery in “Dragons”

“No matter where they lived, everyone could describe dragons and dragon behavior in colorfully lurid detail”

Hogarth and Clery in “Dragons”

“The evidence for dragons is not confined to works of natural history and literature but appears in everyday chronicles of events…And such eyewitness accounts are not derived from hearsay or anonymous rumor; they were set down by people of some standing, by kings and knights, monks and archbishops, scholars and saints”

D) Flying Serpent

Isaiah 14:29 Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.

Isaiah 30:6 The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.

Dinosaurs Are Not Mentioned in the Bible!

E) Reptiles

Grow to environment

Average age of man 907 (Genesis 5)

Dinosaurs Are Not Mentioned in the Bible!

F) Large & Unusual Animals Today

Elephants – 22,000 lbs

Whales – largest animal ever◦ Blue whale 400,000 lbs

Komodo dragons, anacondas, giraffe, alligator gar, etc…

Dinosaurs Are Not Mentioned in the BIble!

A Living Dinosaur

Animals created day 5 & 6 (Genesis 1:20-25)

Humanity created day 6 (Genesis 1:27)

Mark 10:6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.

Did Humanity & Dinosaurs Coexist ?

Exodus 20:11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

Job 40:15 Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee;

Did Humanity & Dinosaurs Coexist?

Ken Ham – Answers in Genesis

“Some were as small as chickens, other even smaller. Of course, some dinosaurs were very large, weighing in at an estimated 80 tons and standing 40 feet high! The average size of a dinosaur, however, was probably about that of a small horse.”

Did Humanity & Dinosaurs Coexist?

Gorgosaurus fossil

Gorgosaurus – Recreated Skull

Gorgosaurus

Gorgosaurus

Did Humanity & Dinosaurs Coexist?

Did Humanity & Dinosaurs Coexist?

Did Humanity & Dinosaurs Coexist?

Did Humanity & Dinosaurs Coexist?

“Taken all in all, the proportions are good. The huge reptile…is depicted in the attitude in which man would be most likely to see it – reared on its hind legs, balancing with the long tail, either feeding or in a fighting position possibly defending itself against a party of men”

Did Humanity & Dinosaurs Coexist?

Did Humanity & Dinosaurs Coexist?

Did Humanity & Dinosaurs Coexist?

Did Humanity & Dinosaurs Coexist?

Did Humanity & Dinosaurs Coexist?

Evidence points to a large catastrophic event

Over 80 theories

What Happened to the Dinosaurs?

Genesis 7:11-12 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

What Happened to the Dinosaurs?

Genesis 9:2-3 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.

What Happened to the Dinosaurs?