Jesus and the Dinosaurs

By Jack Brummet, Bible Ed.

TruthInGenesis.com tells us:

 "The Bible says that God created all the land animals, including dinosaurs and man, on Day 6. So yes, dinosaurs and man did live together in the past. However, they didn’t call them dinosaurs. They called them dragons. Dragons are mentioned in the Bible 34 times."

There are a surprising number of websites and blogs out there debunking the science and making the case for Christianity AND dinosaurs, because The Great Deceiver has been using dinosaurs to achieve his nefarious ends.  Here are some images we found, along with quotes pulled from TruthInGenesis and some other sites:

"You won't find Tyrannosaurus Rex or the term "dinosaur" anywhere in the Bible. Yet, Scripture does use the Hebrew word tanniyn to describe a mysterious creature resembling a giant reptile. This being appears 28 times in the Old Testament, with English translations referring to it most often as a dragon, but also as a sea-monster, serpent and whale."

 "There could be a few still around. It is impossible to know what is living on every square inch of this planet. Most of the dinosaurs were killed during the flood of Noah’s day. Dinosaurs getting off of Noah’s ark faced a very different and harsh environment from that of the pre-flood world. Many died as a result of this post-flood climate change."

"Jesus affirmed that mankind has existed “from the beginning of the creation” (Mark 10:6); this certainly excludes the notion that dinosaurs became extinct millions of years before man appeared upon the planet."

"There is a growing body of evidence that dinosaurs and humans were contemporary. In 1970 newspapers reported the discovery of cave paintings in Zimbabwe. The paintings were made by bushmen who ruled that area from about 1500 B.C., until a couple of hundred years ago. Along with accurate representations of the elephant and the giraffe, is a painting of an Apatosaurus (brontosaurus). These art works have greatly puzzled scientists since bushmen are known to have painted from real life! (Bible-Science Newsletter 1970, 2)."

"Such an occurrence [i.e., human and dinosaur tracks in the same stratum], if verified, would seriously disrupt conventional interpretations of biological and geological history and would support the doctrines of creationism and catastrophism." - Journal of Geologic Education 1983, 111-123

"Unfortunately, our public school system and the media have convinced us that dinosaurs were extinct at least 60 million years before man appeared on earth. They have done such a good job in this area that we can not imagine people and dinosaurs living at the same time. The fact is that dinosaurs were created no more than one day before mankind, not many millions of years earlier—and we have evidence to support that statement."

"In spite of a lack of consensus among scientists about what made dinosaurs disappear, the media and pseudoscientific press have decided that the meteor impact theory is the only valid explanation. This is far from reality. Dinosaurs did disappear, but we do not know exactly when or why. However, the possibility of their extinction during the Genesis Flood (with or without the associated impact) can be viewed as a plausible scientific hypothesis and deserves consideration."

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Fighting dinosaurs in Ossineke, Michigan

Photo by chicamusica on Flickr, from the Ossineke Michigan Dinosaur Gardens.  The dinosaurs were built by hand from 1935 to 1967 by Paul Nathan Domke, using trowels and brushes on concrete mixed in a mud box.  Beneath the concrete, the dinos have frames of metal lathe.  

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Coloring book/digital art: Four dinosaurs

By Jack Brummet

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What happened to the dinosaurs? Answered (whether it was millions of years ago, or "4,000 years ago").

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Del Brummet's Evolution

Del Brummet and The Isla Nublars have released a new song, Evolution, a funny (and maybe just a little sad) song about a bird wistfully thinking back on his dinosaur ancestors and how they ruled the earth and did just what they wanted. Click here to hear the song.

A history of Dino rock icons The Isla Nublars (from their MySpace site):

"After starting out in their parent's basement in Seattle, The Isla Nublars found themselves at the top of the the Dino rock scene in 2007 with their debut album, Abducted!. The band's latest album, Delicious, fuses Del Brummet's introspective lyrics with jangling guitars to somehow pump out a bevy of chart-topping gems. With standout tracks like "Space The Infinite Frontier," already certified platinum in Europe, The Isla Nublars can count on loads of future success. "

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