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God Created Dinosaurs — And They Didn't Evolve into Birds!

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sizes and were a fascinating group of animals. The dinosaurs were land-living creatures, so that means that God created them on day six of Creation, when He made all of the other land-living animals. God also made man on day six.

The word dinosaur is used to describe a group of reptiles that lived on land. There were other huge reptiles that God created that lived in the oceans or seas. While these may have looked something like dinosaurs, they are called marine reptiles and would have been created on day five of Creation. During the first week of Creation, God also created flying reptiles such as Pterodactyls. These would have been created on day five with the birds and other flying creatures such as bats.

Most books or articles about dinosaurs do not tell the truth about God creating these marvelous creatures. They give false information that dinosaurs evolved over millions of years from other, lower animals. The problem with this idea is that it violates one of the most fundamental laws of science—the Law of Biogenesis. The Law of Biogenesis says that all living

creatures reproduce after their own kind. You know this law very well. When a dog has babies, what does it give birth to? Baby cats? No, dogs always give birth to puppies. When a bird lays an egg, what hatches out of it? An animal that is half-bird and half-monkey? Of course not. Birds always give birth to baby birds. Since we know that the Law of Biogenesis is true, we know that dinosaurs could not have evolved from lower animals. They had to be created by God.

But did you know that some people teach that dinosaurs evolved from lower

animals, and then those dinosaurs evolved into birds? Yes, some

people say that the birds that you see flying around in your yard are really little feathery dinosaur relatives. They say that dinosaurs evolved over millions of years into birds. There are several problems with this. First, it would violate the Law of Biogenesis. If a dinosaur lays an egg, what always hatched out of that egg? Dinosaurs, of course. No dog, cat, bird, or half-dinosaur/half-bird creature ever hatched out of a dinosaur egg. Second, God created birds a day

before He created dinosaurs. Birds are flying creatures that

God created on day five of Creation. Dinosaurs are land living creatures that God created on day six. If birds came before dinosaurs, then dinosaurs could not have evolved into birds.

Third, some scientists say that they have found dinosaur fossils with feathers on them. Even if they had, that would not prove that dinosaurs

evolved into birds. But they have not. It is true that some dinosaur fossils have little structures

around them that look

THE WORD DINOSAUR MEANS “TERRIBLY GREAT OR FEARFULLY GREAT LIZARD.” AND THAT IS JUST WHAT the dinosaurs were, at least some of them, such as T-Rex that could eat a single bite of meat that weighed hundreds of pounds. But some of the dinosaurs were only about the size of a small dog, or even a house cat. They came in many shapes and

something like whiskers, but they do not look like feathers. In fact, we have found bird fossils that do have feathers on them. When we compare the bird fossils to the dinosaur fossils, the little whisker-like structures do not look like the feathers. The scien-tists who want to teach that dinosaurs evolved into birds call these structures “protofeathers.” The term “protofeathers” means: structures that come before feathers. They gave these structures this name, not because they look like feathers, but because they want to teach that dinosaurs evolved into birds. The truth is, the structures do not look like feathers and should not be called “protofeathers,” because birds already had feathers a day before dinosaurs were ever created.

The Bible and true science fit perfectly together. The account of Creation in the book of Genesis agrees with every real fact we know to be true. Dino-saurs are amazing crea-tures that God created one day after birds. They could not have evolved into birds.

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"Seeing is Believing": Not a Good Plan

WE HAVE ALL SEEN PICTURES OR WATCHED MOVIES, LIKE JURASSIC PARK, WITH DINOSAURS IN them. Sometimes the dinosaurs are beautifully col-ored, with stripes or assorted spots, and sometimes they are merely gray like a rhinoceros or elephant. In videos, dinosaurs make all kinds of different sounds, from Earth-shaking roars to high-pitched chirps and screeches. The way they move and the things they do when they hunt are shown as though scientists saw them in the field alive yesterday doing those things. Without realizing it, we immediately come to believe that the things we are seeing or hearing in the movies are known to be true. But are they?

For many years paleontologists portrayed many of the dinosaurs without feathers (the Velociraptor, for example). After further study, some paleontologists now believe that some dinosaurs, like the Velocirap-tor, actually had feathers. That’s hardly what they

looked like in Jurassic Park I! The truth is, however, no dinosaur fossil has ever been found with feathers on it. Also, in the movie, Raptors were depicted as hunt-ing in packs, but after further study, scientists have had to back away from that idea. The dinosaur spe-cies Oviraptor, which means “egg thief,” was given its name because scientists thought it stole eggs, but after further study, they now believe it guarded eggs—not stole them. A few years ago, paleontolo-gists at UC Berkeley announced that about one-third of the dinosaur species paleontologists had named

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were probably not new species, but just dinosaurs in different stages of growth. Dracorex and Stygimoloch (STIG-ih-MOE-lock), for example, are now believed to be the immature forms of Pachycephalosaurus (pak-ee-SEF-uh-lo-SAWR-us). Paleontologists depict dinosaurs as living apart from humans by millions of years, in an ancient, very volcanic Earth. The Bible, as well as historical and physical evidences (like ancient burial stones, figurines, artwork, carvings, and sto-ries), actually prove that dinosaurs and humans lived at the same time. How do many scientists make such blunders that do not agree with the Bible or with the evidence?

Paleoartists are artists that try to draw things from the past that no one today has seen, like dinosaurs or extinct creatures. What is not always known by people that see paleoart is that paleoartists gener-ally make their drawings based on very little evi-dence, or the wrong kinds of evidence. A few fos-silized bones will be found and an entire creature will be drawn from that small amount of evidence. Since all they usually have to work with are fossilized bones or casts of the bones—not actual skin and flesh, for example—they do not know with certainty

how the dinosaurs actually looked on the outside, the organs they had on the inside, or how they sounded or moved. What color were they? What was their skin texture like? Did they really roar like the Tyrannosaurus Rex in Jurassic Park? Did some species have special abilities, like the dinosaur-like Leviathan of the Bible that could breathe fire (Job 41)? Bones do not give many of the answers to such questions, and so paleoartists guess or conjecture.

Some paleontologists admit that they do this. One famous paleontologist admitted that paleoart is “part art and part science.” When the evidence is actually studied, the art part proves to be quite a large part. Sadly, the minute we see the artwork of a paleoartist, whether it is accurate or not, we tend to believe what our eyes are seeing. After all, “seeing is believing,” whether we mean to or not, and whether or not what we are seeing is being incorrectly used to prove evolution. Keep that in mind the next time you see evolutionists’ pictures or hear descriptions of God’s most amazing creatures of the past—the dinosaurs. [Check out our dinosaur materials to learn more about them from a biblical point of view at http://apologeticspress.org/Dinosaurs.aspx.]

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True or False 1. ___ Early humans

lived at the same time as dinosaurs.

2. ___ Birds were created on day seven of Creation.

3.___OndayfiveofCreationGodcreateddinosaurs, which then evolved into birds.

4. ___ The average dinosaur was the size of a large cow.

5. ___ Dinosaurs became extinct millions of years ago.

6. ___ Humans have been able to live on Earth with all sorts of large and vicious creatures.

7. ___ The Law of Biogenesis proves that the Theory of Evolution is false.

8. ___ Dinosaurs with true feathers have been found in the fossil record.

A. OviraptorB. FiveC. DinosaurD. SixE. PaleoartistsF. Law of BiogenesisG. Killer Whale

1. ___ Artists who try to draw things from the past that no one today has seen

2. ___ Means “egg thief” 3. ___ Says that all living creatures

reproduce after their own kind 4.___ DayofCreationonwhichGodmade

birds 5. ___ Means “fearfully or terribly great

lizard.” 6. ___ Powerful sea creature that man has

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Dear Digger Doug, WhydidGodmakelionswiththickmaneswhenthey live in Africa which is a hot place? —Annie, Fayetteville, NC

Dear Annie,

I have always loved how beautiful and majestic male lions look with their furrymanes.Butyoumightfinditinterestingtoknowthatnotallmalelionshave big manes. Most of the ones you see in pictures do, but there is a group of lions in Tsavo, Kenya (a hot country in Africa) where the male lions do not have manes. These lions do not seemtoliveanylongerorbetterthantheoneswithbigmanes.Soitlookslikealion’smanedoesnothurthimverymuchinthewild.Let’sthinkaboutwhythatis.First,whenGodmadelions on day six of Creation, there probably was no “Africa.” The world was most likely a very different place than it is now. At that time, lions had the information in their genes to have long manes, or not to have manes at all. Over the years, some groups of lions kept their manes and some groups lost theirs. Second, many animals over the years have gone extinct, but the lion is still with us. That means that the lion is good at surviving. The extra heat that the mane of a lion causes must not be too serious, otherwise lions would have gone extinct. What isalion’smanegoodfor?Wedon’tknowexactly,butinsomestudies,itseemsthatfemalelions are more attracted to male lions with dark manes. And other male lions are less likely totrytofightalionwithalongmane.So,itlookslikeamalelionwithalong,darkmanegetstostayoutoffightsmoreoften,andismoreattractivetofemalesthanlionswithshorter,lighter manes. The most important thing is to keep “the mane thing the mane thing.” (Sorry, justalittlebitoflionhumor.I’mroaring with laughter, taking pride in my jokes.)

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How Could Dinosaurs and Humans Have lived Together?

TRUE OR FALSE: 1-T; 2-F; 3-F; 4-T; 5-F; 6-T; 7-T; 8-F. MATCH, FIND, AND CIRCLE: 1. E (Paleoartists); 2. A (Oviraptor); 3. F (Law of Biogenesis); 4. B (Five); 5. C (Dinosaur); 6. G (Killer Whale); 7. D (Six).

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RECENTLY I READ IN A POPULAR DICTION-ARY ABOUT “THE ABSURD

notion” that early humans lived at the same time as dinosaurs. For

most people, it seems silly to think that humans could have ever lived with dinosaurs. Evolution teaches that the last of the dinosaurs and the first humans were separated in time

by 60 million years. What’s more, most people simply cannot imagine a time when humans lived on Earth with T-rex and Brachiosaurus. Wouldn’t these (and other) dinosaurs have easily wiped out any human population? Weren’t dinosaurs too big and vicious for humans to have ever lived on the same planet with them?

First of all, the theory of evolu-tion is simply wrong in its claim that dinosaurs and humans never lived at the same time. Evolution is a false theory that has been

disproven. Dinosaurs did not die out 60 million years before humans. The Bible, history, and true science tell a very different story about dinosaurs than what evolu-tion teaches. (Check out A.P.’s book Dinosaurs Unleashed: The True Story About Dinosaurs and Humans to see amazing proof for the co-existence of dinosaurs and humans.)

Second, though dinosaurs were marvelous creatures, that doesn’t mean humans were too unintelligent and puny to live at the same time as these animals. Though a few of the dinosaurs were quite large, most of these crea-tures were not nearly as big as many think. In truth, the average dinosaur was only the size of a large cow (which is much smaller than hippos, rhinos, and elephants).

For thousands of years, man has been able to live with (and even tame!) such amazing creatures as elephants and killer whales, as well as lions, tigers, and bears. Why should it be so hard to believe that humans could have lived on the same planet as dinosaurs in the past? The fact is, the reason humans have been able to live on Earth with all sorts of large and vicious creatures throughout history is because God created man higher than animals and gave him the ability to “subdue” and have “dominion” over them (Genesis 1:27-28).

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