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Today’s Dino Rant will be a list of things that Creationists would like us to consider. Along side that list I will provide my own slanted comments. Ready?

· There is no proof whatsoever that the world and its fossil layers are millions of years old. – Nothing can be proven true. However, theories are ideas based on the best available knowledge. In this case, there is ample evidence that supports the Old Earth ‘Theory’ – Perhaps this should be a future blog topic…

· We are told God created the first man and woman—Adam and Eve—on Day Six. Many facts about when their children and their children’s children were born are given in Genesis. These genealogies are recorded throughout the Old Testament, up until the time of Christ. They certainly were not chronologies lasting millions of years. – It is a fact that the genealogies are written in the bible. That does not make them ‘Fact.’ And of course the chronologies don’t last millions of years. That is like saying a televised NASCAR race is not a million laps, when the screen shows 272 laps. Or something like that…

· Many fossil experts admit that not one unquestionable transitional form between any group of creatures and another has been found anywhere. – Ummm…I think the trouble with this one is the use of the word ‘unquestionable.’ There are many fossils that appear to be transitional forms. But are they ‘unquestionable?’ No… just theories. Theories based on the best scientific knowledge available.

· If dinosaurs evolved from amphibians, there should be, for example, fossil evidence of animals that are part dinosaur and part something else. However, there is no proof of this anywhere. – Like what? Half T-Rex half chicken? Or a Velociraptor with a salmon’s tail? Let us not be silly…

· The Bible tells us that God created all of the land animals on the sixth day of creation. As dinosaurs were land animals, they must have been made on this day, alongside Adam and Eve. – The dinosaurs had to be made on the sixth day if, of course, the bible were true.

· The Bible teaches that the original animals (and the first humans) were commanded to be vegetarian. There were no meat eaters in the original creation. Furthermore, there was no death. It was an unblemished world, with Adam and Eve and animals (including dinosaurs) living in perfect harmony, eating only plants. – Isn’t the killing of plants a death of sorts? I just don’t know what to say about this weirdness…

· The Bible plainly teaches from Genesis to Revelation that there was no death of animals or humans before Adam sinned. This means there could not have been any animal fossils (and no dinosaur bones) before sin.– Yeah, yeah, yeah… So where do the fossils come from then? Get on with it.

· Some people think that dinosaurs were too big, or there were too many of them, to go on this Ark. However, there were not very many different kinds of dinosaurs. There are certainly hundreds of dinosaur names, but many of these were given to just a bit of bone or skeletons of the same dinosaur found in other countries. It is also reasonable to assume that different sizes, varieties, and sexes of the same kind of dinosaur have ended up with different names. [It is possible. There are a few examples where errors have been made. That, however does not mean that paleontologists are so inept as to be wrong around 75% of the time.] For example, look at the many different varieties and sizes of dogs, but they are all the same kind-the dog kind! In reality, there may have been fewer than 50 kinds of dinosaurs. – Now this is just fucking stupid. So all the different breeds of dogs come from just one male dog and one female dog. Same for cats, horses, goats, and true of between 5 and 50 million species on earth today?

· God sent two of every (seven of some) land animal into the Ark—there were no exceptions. Therefore, dinosaurs must have been on the Ark. – Again, anywhere from 5 to 50 million (some believe 100 million!) species. Creationists explain this away by saying that all one million different types of spiders (and every other creature) came from only two of its ‘KIND.’ Then after the flood waters receded, the spiders (and other creatures) ‘speciated.’ That is a form of evolution. Okay, now we are let to believe that our incredible biodiversity only started 4300 years ago? If all this is true, then why is there no mention ANYWHERE of the amazing sight it must have been to see all these creatures speciate so rapidly. Here is some simple math: Let us assume that there is no mention of speciation because it happened really, really fast. I’ll give it a thousand years. Now the ark. I’ll be generous and say that the ark had five thousand different KINDS of creatures. That means that each and every year for a thousand years anywhere from 5000 to 50 000 new types of creatures were speciated. Does this sound a bit odd to you? Even if you double the time span or even triple it, the numbers are still just plain silly. Again, not one mention in any book of the bible OR in any reference in any culture. I think this is one of the fundamental problems with the young earth/flood story. While I’m at it… This city that is referred to in the pre-flood era would have had no one to build it. Cain built the city of Enoch. All by himself, for his family? Right…

· Well, what happened to all the land animals that did not go on the Ark? Very simply, they drowned. Many would have been covered with tons of mud as the rampaging water covered the land. Because of this quick burial, many of the animals would have been preserved as fossils. If this happened, you would expect to find evidence of billions of dead things buried in rock layers (formed from this mud) all over the Earth. This is exactly what you do find. – Sigh… That would mean that each and every fossil is buried at the same level in the geologic column. That just isn’t so.

· By the way, the Flood of Noah’s day probably occurred just over 4,300 years ago. Creationists believe that this event formed many of the fossil layers around the Earth. – OK, so if I get this right, the fossils we find today are from the time of the flood until lets say 2300 years after. (Roughly 0-AD ). I say it that way because none of the fossils that have been found show any species that could have been around after that point. Not that I put ANY weight to the idea of fossils being so damn young.

· In the Bible, God describes to Job (who lived after the Flood) a great beast with which Job was familiar. This great animal, called a ‘leviathan,’ and a ‘behemoth,’ is described as ‘the chief of the ways of God,’ perhaps the biggest land animal God had created. Impressively, he moved his tail like a cedar tree! Although some Bible commentaries say this may have been an elephant or hippopotamus, the description actually fits that of a dinosaur like Brachiosaurus. Elephants and hippos certainly do not have tails like cedar trees! – It is also written that the beast breaths fire…

· It is obvious that evolutionists don’t know what happened and are grasping at straws. [We don’t KNOW, but we can theorize with a high degree of certainty] The following is just a small list of theories: Dinosaurs starved to death; they died from overeating; they were poisoned; they became blind from cataracts and could not reproduce; mammals ate their eggs. Other causes include-volcanic dust, poisonous gases, comets, sunspots, meteorites, mass suicide, constipation, parasites, shrinking brain (and greater stupidity), slipped discs, changes in the composition of air, etc. – Sure… why not. All of those MAY be causes of dino death. That doesn’t mean that it’s wrong. All in all I feel like the purpose of this passage is to make the reader feel like all the reasons dinosaurs died are far fetched and bunk.

· If you remove the evolutionary framework, get rid of the millions of years, and then take the Bible seriously, you will find an explanation that fits the facts and makes perfect sense: At the time of the Flood, many of the sea creatures died, but some survived. In addition, all of the land creatures outside the Ark died, but the representatives of all the kinds that survived on the Ark lived in the new world after the Flood. Those land animals (including dinosaurs) found the new world to be much different than the one before the Flood. Due to (1) competition for food that was no longer in abundance, (2) other catastrophes, (3) man killing for food (and perhaps for fun), and (4) the destruction of habitats, etc., many species of animals eventually died out. The group of animals we now call dinosaurs just happened to die out too. In fact, quite a number of animals become extinct each year. Extinction seems to be the rule in Earth history (not the formation of new types of animals as you would expect from evolution). – And if you strip away anything that even resembles truth in the bible you get a spooky and boring ghost story. Getting rid of the evolutionary framework, including the millions of years needed, is paramount to supporting the bible. The biblical account is simply too weak to stand up on its own. One must become completely ignorant to believe the young earth biblical account. Prove me wrong.