Dinosaurs and Dragons in History

Made the dinosaurs go extinct.

Do you realize they're asking the wrong question?

The question is not what made them go extinct.

The question is, did they go extinct?

People say, "Come on now, dinosaurs aren't in the Bible." Well,

of course, the

word's not in there. They didn't make up the word till 1841.

The word computer's not in there either, but there really are computers, okay?

Now, they didn't call them dinosaur, though.

They called them dragon.

See, the word dinosaur wasn't made up till

1841.

So for most of human history, these creatures are called dragons.

Did you know dinosaur's not even in the dictionary in 1891?

For most of human history, they were known as dragons.

Now, d- dragons are mentioned in the Bible 34

times.

Dragons are listed in the dictionary in 1946 as now rare.

Hmm.

As the population of people began to grow after the flood, the population of

dragons began to go down because nobody wants to live next door to a dragon.

People killed dragons for meat because they were a menace,

to prove you're a hero,

to prove you're superior, competition for land,

or for medicinal purposes.

Many ancient recipes call for dragon blood, dragon bones, dragon

saliva.

Why?

Gilgamesh is famous for slaying a dragon.

A Chinese legend tells about a guy named Yu that surveyed the land of China.

It says after the flood, he surveyed the land

and divided it into sections.

He built channels to drain the water off to the sea and make the land livable

again. Many snakes and dragons were driven from the marshlands.

Yeah, that's just normal. If you want to build a city, you gotta,

you know, drive

off the dragons and then build your city.

Why would the Chinese calendar

have 11 real animals, you know, the pig, the duck, the dog,

and a dragon?

Why would they put a mythical animal in there?

Could it be that at the time they come up with these 12 symbols, there were 12 real

animals?

Hmm?

Here's one of the oldest pieces of pottery on planet Earth.

It's a piece of slate from Egypt, first dynasty of united Egypt.

It shows long-necked dragons.