Biblical Perspectives on Dinosaurs

Now, before the flood came, during this period right here, during

that period

from the creation till the flood, according to the Bible,

the people lived to

be over nine hundred years old. Read Genesis five.

It could not be more clear. Adam was nine hundred and thirty when he

died.

Adam lived a hundred and thirty years and begat Seth, and he lived eight hundred

years after that. The biggest pterosaur flying over the

inland sea is

a Pteranodon. Like all reptiles, it grows throughout its

life. Did you know reptiles grow all their life?

These are called indeterminate growers. They never stop.

So the dinosaurs were simply big lizards

that lived with Adam and Eve, 'cause that

was the time when people are living to be nine hundred.

I think we could assume things were different and everything

was living much

longer.

You let a lizard or a reptile live to be nine hundred, he's gonna get forty feet

long. So the question, if that's true, what the question would be, did Noah take

dinosaurs on the ark?

People say, "Dinosaurs on the ark?

They're kinda big, aren't they?" Well, the big ones were big, but the

little ones were little. And Noah was six hundred years old

when he built that

boat. I bet he'd be smart enough to figure out,

I don't have to bring the biggest

ones. Bring two babies.

Dinosaurs had two problems. One, they died because the climate changed.

Two, people hunted them.

But back in those days, they called them dragons.

See, the word dinosaur wasn't made up till

1841.

The Bible talks about dragons, though, quite a bit.

Says the poison of dragons that breaks the head of the dragons.

Dragons mentioned thirty-four times in the Bible.

There's dinosaurs on ancient artwork and pottery all over the world.

We got a whole section of our museum here at Dinosaur Adventure Land

with cool stuff showing dinosaurs living with man.

The, uh, walls of the ancient city of Babylon,

built about 600 BC,

show lions built right into the brickwork, and dragons.

Why would they put dragons on a wall in 600 BC?

Uh, because there were some still alive.

Alexander the Great reported his soldiers were scared by dragons when they

conquered part of India in 300 BC.