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Not a straw man, there are those Christians that claim that archaeologists who find dinosaur skeletons are the equivalent of modern day cryptozoologists who use hybrid taxidermy to support their claims. The more sophisticated dino-deniers believe that dinosaur fossils are a test of faith, and presumably take the fact that they fit so perfectly into the fossil record without a trace of scientific incongruity as evidence that their deity is almighty and powerful enough to fake evidence really well.

There's also those who claim that dinosaurs lived at the same time as humans and are mentioned in the bible, despite this argument being easily refuted by geological dating of the rocks the fossils are found in.

So where's their documentation?

I believe it's called the Bible.

[[I thought I posted this last Friday, but it looks like I didn't. Sorry for the wait.]]

Sure, there are many lists. Just search "list of messianic prophecies".

Here is one that I reviewed, it even highlights the ones that are patently obvious: http://www.clarifyingchristianity.com/m_prophecies.shtml

That page also does a good job at explaining how someone could not have just lived his life in order to look like he was fulfulling prophecy (like say, "Well, the Old Testament says that the Messiah will do his first miracle in Galalee, so I better go there before I start telling people I am the Messiah.")

I list some points others may find interesting:

According to The Bible, the Earth is 6000+ years old.

Bible did talk about dinosaurs
Book of Job 40:15-24 behemoth,
Leviathan Job 41,Psalm 104:25,26 and Isaiah 27:1
http://www.clarifyingchristianity.com/dinos.shtml
mapping between Bible names and current names
tanniyn -> dinosaur 1841 AD
behemoth -> brachiosaurus 1903 AD
Leviathan -> kronosaurus 1901 AD

Something interesting of similar nature happened in 1997 look up "The real Jurassic Park", Earth June 1997. Red blood cells and hemoglobin have been found in some unfossilized dinosaur bone. Please look up estimates how long red blood cells can last.

C14 method doesn't work for >50-60000 years due to the lack of C14 past that amount of time

General problem with isotopic ratios dating is that outside factors can influence amount of C14 found such as we don't know how much C14 was originally in the organism. Think of it as an hourglass where you have two containers, one initially full and another empty, if that wasn't so (some sand was at the bottom container) it would take less time to fill the bottom container. Also we do not know if the rates were constant, after all observations have only been made within last 100 years or so. Also we do not know whether the system has remained closed. Think of it as some sand being added in aforementioned example to one of the containers. Clearly, calculated ratios would be different.

Also there are known anomalities with using radioactive dating (for rocks at least)
*1986 dactite lava (solidified) at Mount St. Helens volcano has been dated (by K-Ar method) to be 0.3-0.4 million years old
*5 cases in Mt.Ngauruhoe in New Zealand. Lava flows occured 1 in 1949, 3 in 1954 and one in 1975 they were ranged from less than 0.27 to 3.5 million years old. Likely explaination for such huge range is retention of Ar40 during solidification ofthe rock. The excess appears to have come from the upper mantle so the argon had little time to escape; [A.A. Snelling, "The cause of anomalous Potassium-Argon 'Ages' for Recent Andesite Flows at Mt. Ngauruhoe, New Zealand.............]

This is consistant with Bibles presentation of young age of the Earth. This brings up a question if such factors can cause large exaggerations for rocks of KNOWN age, then why should you trust the method for items of unknown age?

Another issue is conflict between methods of dating. Example from Australia of a piece of wood was burried by the basalt lava flow. The wood was dated by C14 method to be 45000 years old, basalt was dated by K-Ar method and was dated to be 45 million years old.

Also if C14 disintegrates within 50-60000 years how can a fossil wood from Upper Permian layers have been found with C14 still present. Commonly accepted age for the Upper Permian layers is around 250 million years old. Judge for yourself.

I recomend to all to read a book "Refuting Evolution" by Jonathan Sarfati. You may not agree with what he says, but it gives you good examples of what is commonly unquestionably accepted needs to be questioned.

Best regards,

~omi

the BIBLE talks about dinosaurs. they are specifically mentioned in the early books of the bible.

Specifically, many Christian creationists believe that tanniyn (translated "dragon"), b@hemowth ("behemoth" or "brachiosaur") and livyathan ("leviathan" or "kronosaur") were Hebrew names for dinosaur-sized creatures, as explained here.

What Dinosaurs? Excuse me, where are the Dinosaurs in the Bible? Well, which one is it, are we listening to the Bible or not?

Dinosuars are in the Bible.