1. Dinosaurs and the Bible

2. Where do dinosaurs fit in the Bible? The Bible says God made everything in six days (Exodus 20:11) and that sea and land animals are created days 5 & 6 Dinosaurs are sea and land animals

3. Dinosaurs would have been created, and after day six (Adam & Eve) God says everything is “very good” Man and dinosaur exist together according to the Bible

4. The First Words in land before time: “Millions and Millions of Years Ago…” But is that true? Or does science and history support the Biblical position? But! A lot of people don’t agree

5. History of Dinosaurs The word “dinosaur” is a new word Many “modern” words are older than it “Computer” “Locomotive” “Rocket”

6. All these words were around and used in an 1828 dictionary The word “Dinosaur” was added to the dictionary in 1841 after the first fossil discovery was made This means if they existed throughout history, they’d have to be called something else

7. Dragons We have all heard of dragons in fictional stories, but reality? There is overwhelming historical evidence that dragons were real creatures, and when examined they match the description of dinosaurs

8. Pictures of dragons on the ancient walls of Babylon Why would the Babylonians know what dragons (Dinosaurs) look like It looks like a reptile

9. Alexander the Great In India we have reports from 330 BC from Alexander the Great and his men seeing Dragons. They were worshipped as God’s by the locals The Greeks have other legends

10. The Nile mosaic of Palestrina is a late Hellenistic floor mosaic depicting the Nile in its passage from Ethiopia to the Mediterranean. The dating of the Mosaic (Not by Creationists) puts it around 100 B.C. Let’s see if you notice anything on it:

14. The Legend of Beowulf Beowulf lived from 495–583 AD. He killed a terrestrial dragon called a grendel. He died from wounds received while fighting a flying reptile

16. Sauropod Petroglyph Havasupai Canyon in Arizona Why are they drawing dinosaurs along with other real animals?

17. Angkor Wat in Cambodia 12th century

18. Daniel 14:23-27: “here was a great dragon which the Babylonians worshipped too. The king said to Daniel, 'Are you going to tell me that this is made of bronze? Look, it is alive; it eats and drinks… The Apocrypha contains two extra chapters in Daniel, and in chapter 14 there is a story of a dragon

19. you cannot deny that this is a living god; worship it, then.‘ Daniel replied, 'I will worship the Lord my God; he is the living God. With your permission, Your Majesty, without using either sword or club, I shall kill this dragon.‘ 'You have my permission,' said the king. Whereupon, Daniel took some pitch, some fat and some hair…

20. and boiled them up together, rolled the mixture into balls and fed them to the dragon; the dragon swallowed them and burst. Daniel said, 'Now look at the sort of thing you worship!‘” It’s not part of scripture, but it was written in ancient times

21. The piece of pottery in the Museum of the Nation in Lima, Peru, comes from the Moche culture which flourished between A.D. 400 and 1100

22. Bishop Bell, who died in 1496, is buried in the foundation of the famous Carlisle Cathedral. The brass engravings around the grave show dinosaurs (and other animals)

23. If the Bible is true you’d expect scientific evidence that dinosaurs didn’t live millions of years ago Soft Tissue and Carbon-14 Both strongly indicate that dinosaurs lived in the recent past

24. Dr. Mary Schweitzer first demonstrated the existence of soft tissue in a Tyrannosaurus rex fossil that is supposed to be 65 million years old Their optimistic about solving this

25. They also found C-14 in dinosaur fossils, showing they are young! Brachylophosaurus canadensis fossil (supposed to be 76 million years old) also has soft tissue Triceratops Fossil (65 million years old) shows strong evidence of having soft (original) tissue

26. All this talk leads one to ask the question: Do dinosaurs still exist? There may be a few survivors Loch Ness This monster is often described as looking like a plesiosaurus

27. A strange sea creature, said to resemble the Loch Ness Monster, has been reported off the coast of Cornwall in south-west England It’s not just today, but in history these claims were made

28. Champ or Champy is the name given to a reputed lake monster living in Lake Champlain 300+ sightings recorded The Iroquois and the Abenaki tribes, had legends about such a creature in the Lake. The Abenaki called it "Tatoskok”

29. Ogopogo is the name given to a lake monster reported to live in Okanagan Lake, in British Columbia, Canada This lake monster has the most evidence for it’s existence, and is described like the others

30. Over the past 150 years, there have been many reports of sightings of a swamp-dwelling animal known as ‘mokele-mbembe’ The imprints of clawed feet and other trail marks clearly show evidence of a large, heavy creature that is not a crocodile, hippopotamus or elephant.

31. Witnesses who have seen this monster describe (and draw it) looking like a sauropod dinosaur similar to a small Apatosaurus natives identify pictures of an Apatosaurus as Mokele-mbembe

32. Job 40:15-20: “Behold, Behemoth, which I made as I made you; he eats grass like an ox Behold, his strength in his loins, and his power in the muscles of his belly. He makes his tail stiff like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are knit together. His bones are tubes of bronze… Does the Bible mention them?

33. his limbs like bars of iron. “He is the first of the works of God; let him who made him bring near his sword! For the mountains yield food for him where all the wild beasts play.” Isaiah talks about Leviathan Psalms talks about sea monsters

34. The largest dinosaur fossil found was 40m (130ft) long and 20m (65ft) tall. Weighing in at 77 tones, it was as heavy as 14 African elephants

35. What happened to them They went on the ark But the VAST majority of the dinosaurs were killed in the flood (hence all the fossils) And like many other creatures, after the flood dinosaurs slowly died out because they couldn’t adapt

36. Dinosaurs and the Bible