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The thing is most of the world's Christians are not Fundamentalists or Evangelicals in the narrow sense. (Pretty much all Christianity is evangelical, but Evangelical means something slightly different) You, and many of the Christians here, are taking a small slice of Christianity and extrapolating from that that there is an established Christian idea on dinosaurs or biology or physics or whatever. And I just don't think that's so. I doubt even the Southern Baptist Council or Lutheran Church Missouri-Synod has any documents specifically discussing dinosaurs. (I picked two groups that are officially/semi-officially Creationist)
Most Churches are not interested in documenting or speaking about issues the will make them look Religulous.
there are monsters mentioned in the Bible, could it be that that is what they spoke of ? could it be that in the part of the world (middle east) there were no dinasours to have been seen in Biblical times. At that time im not sure the writers had any idea how big the world was, I mean, in the 15 th centurey people thought the world was flat, so what did people think in biblical times
If you want to believe in the monsters of the Bible then Revelation has a seven headed one and Genesis has a talking snake.
One has to wonder who taught the snake to talk. Oops, he is dead from venom.
Apparently the center top carving has been found to be a forgery but that aside, stylized paintings and carvings are not uncommon.
These compared to whole skeletons that are hundreds of thousands of years old are poor evidence indeed.
Even the last two popes have endorsed evolution. I think it time for all Religionists do the same.
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DL
Could you please give us the link that shows the center top carving to be a forgery. Because I know most of what is stated about these carvings are usually without any scientific review. And in most cases, I would like to see who or how they came to that conclusion.
In the Book of Job dinosaurs are spoken of, and there are numerous examples of dinosaurs in ancient art. Consider the link below. You will see a Triceratops, and a T-Rex type dinosaur on Ica burial stones.
The stones were created by local villagers to sell to gullible tourists. Two peasants from Callango, Basilio Uchuya and his wife, Irma Gutierrez de Aparcana, have admitted to carving the stones they sold to Cabrera, basing their designs on illustrations from comic books, school books, and magazines.
The stones were created by local villagers to sell to gullible tourists. Two peasants from Callango, Basilio Uchuya and his wife, Irma Gutierrez de Aparcana, have admitted to carving the stones they sold to Cabrera, basing their designs on illustrations from comic books, school books, and magazines.
...So don't let anyone try to tell you that Erich von Daniken isn't alive.
Here's something that should heat up the subject about the dinos. A shocking carving of a stegosaur was found on a stone column at the ruins of the Angkor Wat Temple complex in Cambodia. I'm not sure how old the carving is, but it's very old. The complex itself is over 900 years old. The carving is real and depicts a real creature. How would anyone that long ago know what a stegosaur looked like? Was it from bones they found? Nope, because as you'll see, the creature fleshed out. What do you think?
Although I'm no expert about Cambodia, I do have family and friends in neighboring Thailand and I'm quite aware of the carving. You'll need to scroll down the page to see closeup photos of it. I'll leave it for you to wonder about for now.
The stones were created by local villagers to sell to gullible tourists. Two peasants from Callango, Basilio Uchuya and his wife, Irma Gutierrez de Aparcana, have admitted to carving the stones they sold to Cabrera, basing their designs on illustrations from comic books, school books, and magazines.
Just as there are fake fossils, so we have fake Inc burial stones. Yet to assume that the tens of thousands are all fakes would be ridiculous. In 1535 Father Simon who was a Jesuit missionary asked this question. What are all these strange animals found on these Ica burial stones? And he sent a number of these stones back to Spain. So historically, we know such strange animals have existed on these stones. And when it comes to the fakes, they look like the fakes they are, and are of lesser quality then the real stones from ancient times.
In 1970, Dr. Swift was a true believer in evolution, who also believed that the Ica burial stones were fakes. Yet it was during this time he was involved in the exploration of a Nazcan tomb. It was near sunset whe he states that a single shaft of light came through the entrance of the cave. And it illuminated a single Ica Stone. And when that happened he froze transfixed by this image from the past. And before him, for the first time he clearly saw carved on the stone, a dinosaur.
On that day Dr. Swift came to this conclusion.
"What this image revealed to me was that evolutionism's geologic column and fine tuned intellectual tower of time with its yawning gap of sixty five million years between dinosaurs and man, was merely a myth."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31mlbB8KFmY
This museum has received much criticism from the scientific community who see the timeline for creation to go well beyond 6 days and deny that man walked with dinosaurs.
If dinosaurs were around in the days of Noah then I cannot see how the arch would have held all the animals and the only animals mentioned in scripture are basically the animals we have today. There are ample ancient cave drawings, pictures and sculptures of early man but not a one of the largest animals to ever live. Why the ancient art world would have ignored this is unclear.
Is science wrong?
Is the Bible wrong?
If on the arch then where are the dinosaurs today?
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