tsurara

Hindsight is 20/20

We didn't know about dinosaurs existance until the late 1800s... and yet we have numerous myths about dragons, sea monsters, etc. that could easily be "spun" into stories about "dinosaurs".

Look at how much people WANT to believe in the Loch Ness Monster even though we've sonared the whole lake, have fitted it with cameras and have proven nearly every image false. If people want evidence enough: they find it. And heck... even Nessie has, in the public imagination, transformed into a dinosaur lost in time (in spite of very likely not existing at all).

The reality is, the Bible doesn't make a definative statement one way or another about the existance of a race of lizards that died off before we set foot on the planet: rather it suggests the existance of a rare breed of "dragons" that co-existed with humans and ocaisionally required smiting of the St. Michael sort.

Saying that the Bible talks about dinosaurs and knew about them before we did is sort of like saying the ancient Olmecs, Mayans, Aztecs, Dark Age Europeans, Celts, Norsemen, ancient Africans etc. were all "in" on the dinosaur thing (and co-existed with them) because they all have myths about big lizards ocaisionally stomping out of the shadows to kill virgins, bring rain or denote the coming of another world. Yes, we might be able to compare these myths to dinosaurs in retrospect... but how much confidence can we place in that argument considering the context in which it's being made and a near complete lack of standing evidence to back it up?

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