Dinosaurs and Dragons

Hello everyone and welcome back! So I don't know if you know this, but one of my favorite animals when I was a kid was dinosaurs. I was soo into them as a kid. I learned a ton of their names, I watched a ton of documentaries about them. There was even a point in which I learned in which time periods which dinosaurs "came into being". Yeah I was that kind of geek kid. But then there came a point in which a problem was presented to me. Well actually it was two different problems. But before I tell you what they where I wanted to ask you two question.

1) When you hear dinosaurs what do you think of? Are you like me and immediately think of this movie

And maybe you also think they lived millions of years before man.  

2) When you hear Dragon what do you think of? does this face pop up.

Are Dragons just beings of fantasy that live in our minds alone?

So the problems or issues that came up where "If your a Christian then you can't believe in dinosaurs because the Bible never talks about them" and then there was "Believing in the Bible is like believing in fairy tales, why? because the Bible has dragons in it. And dragons are not real"

So where did that leave me? I knew dinosaurs where real because of their bones, but what about dragons? No one has ever found dragon bones. After all dragons are not real right? Right?...Well what if I told you that Dinosaurs and Dragons are one in the same. What if I told you that Dinosaurs are not only in the Bible but also lived with humans until their “disappearance”. Would you believe me?

Well maybe. If you provided some sort of proof to your claims

In that case it's a good thing I didn't come empty handed! So I've done some research into Dragons and Dinosaurs. That was one of the benefits of being homeschooled, being able to research this topic I was passionate about. And what I found was that there are many different forms of evidence that prove dinosaurs and dragons are one in the same. And that they lived alongside man. But three sources of evidence transcend the rest.

            The first form of evidence is the Bible;

     Right now your probably thinking

But way are you going to the Bible? there aren't any dinosaurs in the Bible. 

Well first of all I will always go back to the Bible. first because it is the ultimate Authority in my life because it's author was God, who created everything in this world. And seconded because it is the oldest surviving text in the world. So if it says something or mentioned something you know it's good for it. But your right, the word "dinosaur" doesn't appear in the Bible because the word was not invented until 1841. "Dinosaur" is a new word while the Bible was translated in 1611. So it couldn't be in there even if there was dinosaurs around because it wasn't invented yet. But up until 1841 “dinosaurs” where known by another name... “Dragon”.

An 1800 Dictionary defined Dragon as “Now Rare” or “Large Scaly Lizard”. And that was just 41 years before the word was invented. But guess what. Dragons are mentioned in several places the Bible. The first and most important being Genesis 1:21where God creates all the sea creatures. In that verse it mentions “Whales” (NKJV) and most translations have "whales" there. But what you may not have known is that the Hebrew word is “Tannin” which is better translated as “sea monster” or “dragon”. What would be a better translation of that verse would be

And God created the great sea dragons and every living creature that moves in the ocean.

   So even in the beginning the Bible says God created dragons. But Genesis is not the only place where dragons are mentioned. They are mentioned in places like Psalms 74:13, Isaiah 27:1 and 30:6. some other places are Duet 32:33. Job 7:12. Psalm 91:13. 148:7. Isaiah 51:9. Jeremiah 51:34. Nehemiah 2:13. Lamentations 4:3. Ezekiel 29:3. 32:2. Genesis 1:21. And Exodus 7:9,10,12.  (as a side note you may need an older translation of the Bible, like a King James or something older. Because a lot of the new translations just say snake)

    Now in Job 40:15-19, a creature is described in detail that fits the description of a large sauropod dinosaur like Apatosaurus.

     Now the Bible isn't a science textbook, or a history textbook But when it talks about anything dealing with science, history, biology, astronomy or anything it's been proven to be dead right. The Bible mentions all kinds of real animals. With the only exception being the book of Revelations (which may or may not be real). So why then would a dragon be mentioned if it was not real?

            The second piece of evidence is ancient cultures;

Ancient cultures all over the world have pretty accurate depiction of dinosaurs. The Inca’s have dinosaurs carved onto burial stones, with some even depicting them riding the dinosaurs.

In a Cambodian temple there is a depiction of a stegosaurus next to depictions of other real life animals.

In Utah the Anasazi Indians left several Petroglyphs and Pictographs of dinosaurs.

In Mexico dinosaur figurines where excavated.

     The Native Americans have a legend of a great bird that flies before the storms, it signals that storms are coming and makes thunder by the beating of it's wings. It also happens that the  Quetzalcoatlus

    is the largest Pterosaur every found. With a wingspan of 35 feet, and is theorized to only be able to fly only before great storms because of  the wind provided by the storm was the only thing able to get it off the ground.

     And guess what? Quetzalcoatlus fossils have been found in America which offer support to the Native American legends and the theory that it was a dinosaur . The only difference in each of these cases is that they where called either called dragons or something else.

    If you where to look at a modern depiction of a dinosaur and a depiction of a dragon from an ancient culture they look almost identical.  One then has to think, How are these primitive cultures all drawing accurate depictions of dinosaurs if they never seen one? Maybe the answer is because they really did see them. Maybe because dinosaurs didn’t really die out millions of years ago, but in fact lived among humans from the beginning of creation, until recently.

The last piece of evidence is that dinosaur blood and soft tissue has been found.

What’s so interesting about this is that the soft tissue, and red blood cells, are found in poorly preserved dinosaur fossils.

What’s makes that amazing is the way a fossil is made. Fossilization happens when something dies and is buried; rapidly after death. If this does not happen immediately after death, and some form of decay starts you will either have a poorly preserved fossil or no fossil at all. So how can we find soft tissue in a poorly preserved fossil if it died millions of years ago? Tissue can’t last that long, especially in a poorly preserved. That is the question that has scientist scratching their heads today. But a theory involving knights and dragons seems to explain the "how it happened".

Remember all those old legends of knights fighting off dragons? So a group of  Knights (or one) fights off a dragons (or what we now call dinosaurs) and heroically defeats it wining the hand of the princesses or some other kind of reward. And after they took whatever they wanted from the now dead dragon (because surprisingly a lot of medieval remedies call for dragon something), they would leave the dragon’s body to be burned or left to the birds. Now the dragon’s body being left out would start to decay, so if it was later buried by a mudslide, or an earthquake, it could become a poorly preserved fossil.

This is one way we could get soft tissue in a poorly preserved fossils.  Modern science can’t tell us how soft tissue was able to last for millions of years in a poorly persevered fossil. Because decaying tissue can't last for millions of years. If dinosaurs did not die out millions of years ago and lived with man up until recently, that would explain how soft tissue can be found in some dinosaur bones today.

            So after looking at the evidence from the Bible, from Ancient culture, and even from the bones of dinosaurs themselves. What do we have? What do they say?

 1) The Bible, being one of the oldest record books in the world, mentions dinosaur like animals as if they were everyday animals.

2) Ancient cultures have a very accurate descriptions of dinosaurs and accurate pictographs when supposedly no man had ever laid eyes on one.
3) Decaying tissue can't last millions of year in a poorly preserved fossil. But it can be possible with the "Knight/Dragon" theory. 

    So you have to ask yourself; if dinosaurs didn’t live with humans, how are such accurate descriptions possible? If they weren’t seeing dinosaurs, what were they seeing?

    And then there is still the matter of soft tissue. How can a poorly preserved fossil over millions of years old still contain soft tissue? Soft tissue can’t last millions of years in a poorly persevered fossil, because of the rate of decay.

    These questions may seem over-whelming, because it goes against everything we learned about dinosaurs in school.  But the facts supporting dinosaurs living with man is more convincing than anything else.

    Could the people who draw the ancient depictions have been crazy? Maybe. It is interlay possible that a crazy person could draw something like that. And even if they where crazy we are talking about an pretty accurate depiction of a dinosaur. But let me tell you this, no two crazies can draw the exact same thing.

I've come to the conclusion that Dinosaurs lived with man since the beginning, but sadly with their disappearance they faded from our memory and took a place in our lore as dragon. But does that mean that Dragons never exited? Well my thoughts on that will have to be saved for another post if. So let me know if that will be something you would like to see.
And as always Stay True to the King!

By the way what are your thoughts on the subject? I would love to hear them even if we don't agree.

Special thanks to all these guy for providing all the material for this paper/post

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