Top 10 Myths About Dinosaurs

There are lots of myths about lots of things...like the teeny tiny colorado river carveing the grand canyon...it was carved my HUNDREDS of massive tidal waves,back when the moon was LOTS closer to the earth...

Somehow I don't see evangelicals getting past Myth #1.

Humans existed alongside dinosaurs. I saw pictures of it in the newspaper for years. Some guy named Alley Oop even rode a dinosaur.

Barney Rubble wrote:

Humans existed alongside dinosaurs. I saw pictures of it in the newspaper for years. Some guy named Alley Oop even rode a dinosaur.

Look at that cave man go.

Preston2 wrote:

Somehow I don't see evangelicals getting past Myth #1.

Why don't you try to understand if what "evangelicals" believe may be true since almost anything we know about what happen to the dinosuars is myth or unexplainabe. I believe in my heart that dinos and man where here together. It is because of evidence that I have studied leads me to this belief. I believe man saw dinos becasue one of them wrote about them, Job.

Is the evidence peer-reviewed by other scientists? That is an important question.

Also, remember that believing sincerely (i.e., "in my heart") does not qualify for others to follow such.

Job, or whoever wrote Job whom we call "Job," takes these motifs of _leviathan_ and _behemoth_ right from Ancient Near East stories.

If one wishes to argue naturalistically, then one could say that leviathan as Job presents it could be a crocodile (some even now in Africa are well over 20' in length) and that behemoth could be a hippopotamus (the stiff tail would be a euphemism for the phallus).

But who knows? To me it's simpler to put this in the context of Job, ANE story mixed with metaphorical expression to represent poetic reality in order to get a point across.

Im in no way a bible thumping evangelical but strangely enough i do believe dinosaurs and man coexisted...this does not mean I believe the earth is 6000 years old and made in 7 days but how does one account for the ancient cave drawings of man and dinsaur together?

Plus as ive said before science as we know it is very flawed. Take any study or finding with a grain of salt because money drives results and ideas.

jteamjohn wrote:

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Why don't you try to understand if what "evangelicals" believe may be true since almost anything we know about what happen to the dinosuars is myth or unexplainabe. I believe in my heart that dinos and man where here together. It is because of evidence that I have studied leads me to this belief. I believe man saw dinos becasue one of them wrote about them, Job.

Maybe you should study real evidence without the crack pipe. Where do these crazys get these psychotic notions when thousands of trained scientists have studied this stuff or over 100 years?

Gee, I have a theory... there really isn't gravity.. God is actually pushing down on our heads. Duh!!!

Brandy wrote:

Im in no way a bible thumping evangelical but strangely enough i do believe dinosaurs and man coexisted...this does not mean I believe the earth is 6000 years old and made in 7 days but how does one account for the ancient cave drawings of man and dinsaur together?
Plus as ive said before science as we know it is very flawed. Take any study or finding with a grain of salt because money drives results and ideas.

Yea, thats the answer. General relativity? Flawed research, the two cities in Japan just happened to be hit by meteors at the same time we dropped bombs on them. Moon landing? Faked... you can see the wires, dude! Modern medicine? We don't do real research,... prozac is really an old herbal remedy.

Seriously, antipsychotic medication is just a psychiatrist visit away.

Concerning man and dinosaurs co-existing at the same time; Albert Einstein said it best: "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former".

jteamjohn wrote:

I believe in my heart that dinos and man where here together. It is because of evidence that I have studied leads me to this belief.

Please, point me to your evidence, that you have studied.

jteamjohn wrote:

I believe man saw dinos becasue one of them wrote about them, Job.

H.G. Wells wrote about Martians in 1898, do you believe they exist too?

Dogen3 wrote:

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Maybe you should study real evidence without the crack pipe. Where do these crazys get these psychotic notions when thousands of trained scientists have studied this stuff or over 100 years?

Indoctrination is a powerful thing, especially when it begins at a very early age. People can be made to believe the most outlandish notions.

Dogen3 wrote:

Gee, I have a theory... there really isn't gravity.. God is actually pushing down on our heads. Duh!!!

It would seem that some peoples' heads were pushed down on a bit harder than others. ;-)

Whether that's the work of "god" or just bad genes is still open to speculation.

Brandy wrote:

Im in no way a bible thumping evangelical but strangely enough i do believe dinosaurs and man coexisted...this does not mean I believe the earth is 6000 years old and made in 7 days but how does one account for the ancient cave drawings of man and dinsaur together?
Plus as ive said before science as we know it is very flawed. Take any study or finding with a grain of salt because money drives results and ideas.

I don't think anyone has found dinosaurs in "ancient cave drawings"!

Our anscestors DID draw some very nice Mammoths, Aurochs, Horses, etc...

How do you know that science is "very flawed"?

I might add that very few scientists earn a lot of money!!!

jteamjohn wrote:

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Why don't you try to understand if what "evangelicals" believe may be true since almost anything we know about what happen to the dinosuars is myth or unexplainabe. I believe in my heart that dinos and man where here together. It is because of evidence that I have studied leads me to this belief. I believe man saw dinos becasue one of them wrote about them, Job.

Hmmmm... I don't think vague references overrule the vast amount of physical evidence saying otherwise...

Those misconceptions are almost exactly the points that I try to get across to my students!

Pterosaurs weren't dinos, marine reptiles weren't dinos (but birds were!), mammal evolution roughly coincided with dinos, etc...

They could have added "Mammoths aren't dinos" either...but that would have made "11" myths!

Brandy wrote:

Im in no way a bible thumping evangelical but strangely enough i do believe dinosaurs and man coexisted...this does not mean I believe the earth is 6000 years old and made in 7 days but how does one account for the ancient cave drawings of man and dinsaur together?
Plus as ive said before science as we know it is very flawed. Take any study or finding with a grain of salt because money drives results and ideas.

Brandy, could you please tell me where you saw or heard about ancient cave drawings depicting humans in the company of dinosaurs because I would love to see them. You need to have a little faith in peer reviewed science, they dont make up this stuff, the serious study of palaentology is only a couple of hundred years old and what they have learned already makes the bible, which is thousands of years old, seem ridiculous when it comes to the origins of life on earth. It's myth and legend with faith in the knowledge of the world as described by primitive nomads who rarely moved more than a few hundred miles from the tent where they were born. Their beliefs do not stand up to science and require more and more faith everyday. As for doing science for the money, most scientists would love to have the kind of money televangilists make, not to mention the pastors and preachers at large churches and dont get me started on the wealth accumulated by the catholics and the mormons and any other large denomination. Science is not perfect by its very nature, it doesn't claim to be, every scientific discovery and conclusion is subject to scrutiny, revision and possibly refutation, the bible on the other hand is to be accepted on faith and is the last word of god whether or not it makes sense. If someone has claimed to have seen cave drawings depicting humans and dinos, they have either deliberatly lied to validate their beliefs, or they have seriously misinterpreted what they saw.

I see only reiteration of the same tired story. They said there would be proof, but offered none. The "ages" are the backbone of the belief system of evolutionism, since the Geologic Column exists nowhere in the world outside of textbooks. Even then, using it is faith-based insomuchas they date fossils by the age of the rocks, and rocks by the age of the fossils - a perfect example of circular reasoning. That ain't real science, folks!

rightside wrote:

I see only reiteration of the same tired story. They said there would be proof, but offered none. The "ages" are the backbone of the belief system of evolutionism, since the Geologic Column exists nowhere in the world outside of textbooks. Even then, using it is faith-based insomuchas they date fossils by the age of the rocks, and rocks by the age of the fossils - a perfect example of circular reasoning. That ain't real science, folks!

Your version of "geologic science" is nonsense, and made up by people who figured that you wouldn't know better...

Rocks are dated by various forms of radiometric dating and a number of more recent methods, and checked by using more than one technique.

Fossils are useful to correlate rocks, and, in the absence of established absolute dates, used for limited dating information.

The geologic "column" of course is different everywhere...exactly what we would expect, since the different conditions at each site would produce different sequences of rocks.

If (for instance) there had been a "Noah's Flood", we would expect the rocks to be virtually the SAME everywhere...

By the way...there ARE areas where all Periods of the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic are ALL present (the entire "rock column").

rightside wrote:

I see only reiteration of the same tired story. They said there would be proof, but offered none. The "ages" are the backbone of the belief system of evolutionism, since the Geologic Column exists nowhere in the world outside of textbooks. Even then, using it is faith-based insomuchas they date fossils by the age of the rocks, and rocks by the age of the fossils - a perfect example of circular reasoning. That ain't real science, folks!

Obviously written by someone who knows a great deal about science. None of what you posted is true. In fact you got to be on crack if you believe half this stuff! You have been brainwashed with a bunch of lies, told by a bunch of liars.

Are you interested in learning about how science is really done or are you to attached to your nonsense?

Date the fossils by the rocks and the rocks by the fossils. What a hoot!!!!

On a related subject, here is a good link on the death of ID.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/id/

'Dinosuars and humans walking together',

If you guys will simply google these words above this will all be cleared up.