Recently, I had the wonderful experience of reading Beowulf for
the first time. Beowulf is the oldest English manuscript ever discovered. It is
the story of a man named Beowulf, who is a famed fighter of dragons. He kills
several in the story, including one underneath the ocean.
Dragons, in the language of the ancients, is the word for
dinosaur. The word dinosaur not having been invented until 1841 by an English
anatomist by the name of Sir Richard Owen. (The first dinosaur bone discovered
in modern time was in 1809.)
If the creation account is true, and man lived with
dinosaurs, then we should expect to find records of these great beasts. The fact
is, we do. If you go down to the city of Glen Rose Texas, as I have done, there
are, in many layers of strata, human and dinosaur footprints together, in
layers laid down within hours. In Colorado, there are pictures of dinosaurs in
caves. However, if this were the only instance of something like this, we would
dismiss these pictures as a mere nothing. The evolutionists say, “Well, it is a
mutant elephant that lost its ears in battle, because of course, men did not
live with dinosaurs, because that is antithetical to our worldview.”
However, the fact is, this is not the only example of such a
thing, down in Peru, near the city of Ica, there is a place, where over ten
thousand stones have bee found with ancient pictures on them. Many of which,
have pictures of men interacting with dinosaurs. (riding, killing, eating etc.) When the famed
Marco Polo went to China, he said the emperor was raising dragons to pull
chariots in his parade. On the Nazca plains near Nazca Peru, is a large plain
with massive pictures on it, some of which appear to be dinosaurs. In the Grand
Canyon, there are paintings on the walls form the Indians which appear to be
pterodactyls. There is an ancient Russian cylinder seal with a dragon. Also, on
an old Roman mosaic there is what appears to be two long necked dragons. There
are pictures in Egypt of them…and the list could go on indefinitely.
Besides Beowulf, there are many other stories and ancient
legends about dragons and sea monsters. Form the story of ST. George slaying
the dragon in 275. AD., to stories from China, to a story about France, in
which a man killed a dragon, and the city of Nerluke France was renamed for
him. Everywhere you go there are legends about dinosaurs or dragons. Men drew
pictures of them on their pottery, sewed them into the blankets of mummies, put
them into their recipes, (I am told that many ancient medicine recipes called
for such things as dragon bones, saliva, etc.) and told their children about
them. How could they have told so many stories, and made so many pictures, all
around the world, without having seen them?
And, what about the old Viking ships that had dragon heads on
the top of their ships? Or what about the dragons on the walls of the ancient
city of Babylon?
What is the future of man and dinosaurs, are there still
living ones, will we ever capture one? Whatever the truth about the living
dinosaur legends, we must always remember, that dinosaurs are the “chief of the
ways of God”, God is still God of the dinosaur, and although they have been
perverted in to some supposed evidence for a faulty worldview, dinosaurs still
proclaim the awesome glory of God, and their story, the story of how we will
view dinosaurs, and of how we will treat possible living ones, and how we will
interpret the bones, is just beginning. It is time to take back dinosaurs form
evolution. It is time to declare that God created the monsters as well as the
mice, and it is time bring the message of the Gospel of Creation to the world.
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