Are the Dragons Described in Ancient Tales Dinosaurs?

[Trichome Toker]

Creationists think so.

DINOSAURS - Every natural history museum in the world today displays large dinosaur models. Their defensive teeth, spikes and claws are often shown extended. As evidence of the prior existence of these kinds of creatures we have a myriad of bones found on multiple continents, footprints buried in sedimentary layers and ... legends. All over the world people remember the dangerous dragons of old. But they slowly went extinct. Men feared and hated them. Stories of ancient encounters with dinosaurs/dragons are found in China, Thailand, including other parts of Asia, and in Roman, Russian, Germanic, Anglo-Saxon, North, South, and Central America, and across Africa too. Are we so much smarter and more academically inclined than all of our ancestors that we should reject all of their historical records - just to prop up temporary evolutionary theory?

Carbon-14 dating of carbon buried in the same layer with dragon bones helps to confirm that they are really only thousands of years old. The myth-ions and myth-ions of years never happened; only in the past 200 years has it become fashionable to forget our true ancient history (of thousands of years) in favor of God-hating (or: "bumbling-inherently-weak-god") evolution. Evolution requires the belief in long epochs of supposed time and chance improvements.

Dragons and sea monsters have become mostly extinct prior to our modern era. By the way, there is evidence that they grew much larger prior to the Great Flood. Just as humans lived much longer (Genesis records ages of some people to have reached over 900 years!) so a reptile ... living much longer then could have grown much larger before the Flood - which is indeed what we see in the fossil record of the pre-Flood world.

Humans and lions live on Earth at the same time today. But we live in different places. Porpoises will ram sharks that come into their waters. So naturally then they also live in different places - while living at the same time. Why couldn't humans and dinosaurs have lived at the same time? They'd probably keep mostly separate and then get buried separately if there was a catastrophe, but this could be theoretically possible, correct? There are at least two places known today with human and dinosaur tracks in the same sedimentary layer: one is in Paluxy, Texas, the other in Eastern Turkmenistan. Plus we have the legends, from all inhabited continents mind you, which should not be automatically discounted. (text by P.A.)

http://www.creationism.org/topbar/dinosaurs.htm

 

[Pops]

I love the part about carbon 14 dating of dragon bones. I have 2 degrees as an anthropologist and archaeologist and I have never heard of "dragon" bones ever being excavated.

 

[NiteTiger]

They're saying "Dragons" were actually dinosaurs, and using the term as a substitute for dinosaurs. Not claiming to have actually unearthed dragons.

Stories of ancient encounters with dinosaurs/dragons are found in...

 

[Sativa_Fan]

LOL. Dinosaurs and humans have never co-existed. Man is a very young animal in the evolutionary chain of events. Besides if this were real evidence, don't you think it'd appear somewhere besides some creationism website? It'd be big news in the scientific world if it were found that we DID or DO actually co-exist. I don't care whether you believe in the theory of evolution or if you're a bible thumper that believes in the creation theory...this one is just ig'nant.

 

[Pops]

Actually, most creationists deny the existance of dinosaurs, as it tends to prove that the earth has been around a little longer then they would like.

 

[Trichome Toker]

Well, if you take their logic to it's logical extreme, all the fantastic creatures described in ancient texts probably really did exist, and we should discard science in favor of taking the word of those ancient documents.

I guess 10 headed dragons/dinosaurs as described in the bible really existed.

How about goat men, Hercules, the bird who bit off Pharoah's penis and they put it back on etc.

Just thought I would post it because I thought it was interesting, I definitely don't believe it.

I like to look at all sides of every debate, no matter how ridiculous.

Also, don't forget the sea monsters.

 

[Deft]

Lol, no just no, thats funny stuf... Those silly religions.

 

[wantaknow]

these were taken from tv ,there not real good ,but onhdtv you could see veins and pealing skin that was scally

 

[wantaknow]

everybody in bedZ -?

 

[SuperZero]

we(some/most) also have a natural fear of spiders, snakes, lions etc and therefore we have legends of animals with combinations of the features. We also fear dying, so we have legends of being able to ascend to heaven after death. It's the lord of the rings, our imagination at work.

 

[Sativa_Fan]

we(some/most) also have a natural fear of spiders, snakes, lions etc and therefore we have legends of animals with combinations of the features. We also fear dying, so we have legends of being able to ascend to heaven after death. It's the lord of the rings, our imagination at work.

Nice. Agreed.

 

[Guest]

Back when I was a kid (3.4 million years ago) I never saw any dragons or dinosaurs.........perhaps they lived farther North?


Bh

 

[GMT]

stay off the sativa and move to indica, dragons, unicorns, phenixs, mermaids and fairies do not really exist, nor have they ever, dinosaurs are more than a few thousand years old, and religions serve the heads of those religions not gods.

 

[Nikijad4210]

Silly inbred bible belt creationists, this is a good example of why you're supposed to stay in school, not marry your cousin when you're 12!

 

[Nikijad4210]

religions serve the heads of those religions not gods.

No shit, eh? Talk about a self-serving way of life---open up a church and wait for the naive and stupid to fork over their hard earned money.



And on a slighly different note, Jerry Fallwell was in Sarasota, FL a few days ago speaking to a church.
*cough cough* Fuckin' sheep *cough cough*
At least he got the bare minimum of media coverage----a passing mention on the news. I figured the loser'd use the local news to start up a statewide media blitz.

 

[wantaknow]

i saw the show and was more than convinced the midevil age was the end of the dragon ,was awsome ,and they showed excavations of skulls ,history.com you may find it there

 

[HCSmyth]

Are the Dragons Described in Ancient Tales Dinosaurs?

Well I would say take the level of ignorance, conspiracy theory, fear and complete ignorance of any science available that you find individuals spouting on internet message boards like icmag and multiply it by a factor of 1000 and you get you answer to what many people may have believed back then.

 

[NiteTiger]

If you're talking about the one narrated by Patrick Stewart (Captain Picard from TNG), it's presented in the style of a documentary, so they could present leading experts ideas on how the big animals were in deed physically possible.

But it wasn't an actual documentary. Was very well done, tho, a good watch.

 

[GMT]

You know, having said all that, it's not impossible to imagine someone digging up a dinosaur skeleton, and thinking, hmm, I could claim to have killed this.

 

[Guest]

There was some pretty crazy megafauna around just a few thousand years ago...

It probably wasn't much of a stretch for ancient people to think dinosaur bones came from an existing animal.