[asa] dinos

AIG recently tossed out the following:

Q: Were dragons just mythological?

A: You may have heard about the flood legends that have come down from
many different people groups around the world, many of which are very
similar to the Bible’s account of Noah’s Flood.

For instance, the Australian Aborigines, before they even met
missionaries, had stories about a global flood. The stories included
many similarities to the Bible’s account. The same can be said of the
legends of the American Indians, Fijians, Eskimos, and other cultures
all around the world.

The reason for this is that these people are all descendants of Noah.
They handed down the story of the Flood to succeeding generations. The
stories changed over the years, but the similarities to the Bible are
still there.

The same sort of thing likely happened with dragon legends. These
stories are based on real encounters with real beasts. The stories
exist all over the world, handed down from generation to generation.

What were the dragons? When you read about the descriptions of many of
these dragons in the old history books, you will see that they fit
with many of the descriptions we have today of dinosaurs.

Yes, dragons were probably dinosaurs!

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Now I'm going to confess that the first time I saw this argument, it
argued (for me) somewhat persuasively that -- perhaps -- dinos and
humanity existed at the same 6time. The stories in the book of Job
reinforced this. Then when I saw dino tracks in a river in San Rose
(?) Texas, the credibility increased. Those tracks "looked" fresh --
not 100 MY old. (They still do).

So to a limited extent I stll hold a small chance (.01% perhaps) that
dinos did survive into recent times.

Of course, that possibility has nothing to do with the YEC view, I
think. Should a living T Rex be found in -- say -- S America, it WOULD
be interesting. I keep hoping ... .

Burgy

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Received on Tue Jan 9 15:38:09 2007