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 dinosaurs not even in the dictionary in 1891?

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

Now, dragons are mentioned in the Bible 34 times.

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

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 your hero, to prove your 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 got to, 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?

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.