What Creationists Say About Dinosaurs

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To maintain a belief that God created the World in 4004 BC Creationists inevitably have problems when anyone with half a brain cell mentions the dinosaurs of the Triassic / Jurassic Period and countless other prehistoric creatures found by palaeontologists. Creationists have three choices imposed by claims about dinosaurs. 1/. Accept that a literal interpretation of the Biblical creation story is impossible to adhere to. 2/. Totally deny that dinosaurs ever existed. 3/. Claim that there were dinosaurs but assert that they coexisted with early humans, travelled on Noah’s Ark and only went extinct some time between the lives of Abraham and Jesus. Most creationists refuse to reject Genesis. Many creationists accept that the evidence that dinosaurs did exist once is too overwhelming to dismiss. They do however refuse to believe that the oldest dinosaurs date back 230 million years and the most recent ones trace back to 65 million years ago. How could they when the ages of the ancestors of Joseph, step-father of the virgin born Jesus only go back to 4004 BC and stop with Adam? The Creationist Museum in Kentucky actually asserts that all dinosaurs were vegetarian and friendly to humans, co-exiting happily alongside Adam & Eve in Eden. This makes The Flintstones cartoons into social documentaries rather than silly cartoons. Dinosaurs on the Ark are easily explained by Creationists as being naturally small, or babies and therefore took up little room on the Ark. Even if they were all taken onto the Ark as newborn vegan infants there are 700 known and named species of dinosaur that have had their bones and footprints found in the rock stratas around the World and hundreds more potentially not yet discovered by fossil hunters. The dinosaurs alone would be too many for a crew of eight humans to tend to as well as keeping the Ark-ship itself afloat and on course during the flood. Add to that the thousands of birds, insects, reptiles and mammals that still survive, as well as now extinct post dinosaur era creatures like mammoths & sabre toothed tigers and the Ark gets rather crowded. Dinosaurs are not mentioned once in The Bible, but to be fair neither are aardvarks, wildebeest, zebras or Emperor Penguins. The word dinosaur itself was not coined until 1841. While paleontologists claim dinosaurs died in mass extinctions caused by comets and a few small survivors evolved into birds, creationists see this as impossible as Genesis specifically lists birds as being created on the 5th day, a whole 24 hours before land animals, including elephants and the Allosaurus. Creationists believe that dinosaurs were dragons as dragons have been seen in legends and referenced in The Bible too. The Behemoth, which is almost certainly an elephant or hippopotamus, as referred to in the book of Job is not a giant dragon as the Creationist Museum would have us believe. I watched one Youtube of a Creationist claiming in all seriousness that dragon-fire is a product of breathing heavily after energetic exercise causes flared nostrils to spark and emit flames. It’s a wonder I haven’t exploded myself after my energetic laughter on seeing that from a grown adult. A few Creationists dismiss the immense fossil record as a conspirational hoax perpetrated by scientists who are Satanists and possibly planted in the rocks by Satan personally. The obvious fact is that there was no Noah’s Ark and the events of Genesis are mythical and that claiming they are literally true is just plain stupid. The dinosaurs are believed to have had very small brains. The same is true for many creationists. Arthur Chappell