read the whole thing.
oh god, i dunno if i can! it's so bad!
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For example, trained scientists have reported seeing a live dinosaur.[4]
# ‘ http://www.answersingenesis.org/...tion/v15/i4/dinosaurs.asp
aig?
that's your source? the bit they're referring to is a mokele-mbembe sighting (which, btw, i would be absolutely THRILLED if m-m was real and a dinosaur). but that's the same aig article with this gem:
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It is possible too that some of those huge flying reptiles, the pterosaurs, also survived Noah’s Flood and lived into recent times. The Illustrated London News of February 9, 1856 (p. 166) reported that workmen digging a railway tunnel in France last century disturbed a huge winged creature at Culmont, in Haute Marne, while blasting rock for the tunnel.
The creature was described as livid black, with a long neck and sharp teeth. It looked like a bat, and its skin was thick and oily. It died soon after. Its wingspan was measured at 3.22 metres (10 feet 7 inches). A naturalist ”immediately recognised it as belonging to the genus Pterodactylus anas’, and it matched the remains of known pterodactyl fossils.
"anas" as in duck. since the story takes place in france, does anyone know the french word for "duck?"
canard.
the story is a well known hoax. well known. in fact,
so well known that the author himself retracted the claim:
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[Ed. note: the author has since retracted his claim about the Illustrated London News report on the living pterosaur, since new evidence shows that it was a hoax. And in late 2005, John Whitmore wrote that the early reports of ”unfossilized’ dinosaur bones were overstated, as recent analysis shows that they should be referred to as ”fossilized’ ( ”Unfossilized’ Alaskan dinosaur bones? Letter to the Editor, Journal of Creation 19(3):60).]
http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/833
and the aig version:
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[Ed. note: In late 2005, a report in TJ provided an update on the scientific appraisal of some of the bones discussed in this article. See John H. Whitmore, ”Unfossilized’ Alaskan dinosaur bones? TJ 19(3):60.]
http://www.answersingenesis.org/...tion/v15/i4/dinosaurs.asp
yes. let's trust this source.
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A thousand people reported seeing a dinosaur-like monster in two sightings around Sayram Lake in Xinjiang according to the Chinese publication, China Today. [5]
same aig article, which references something else, which makes a vague claim about another mokele-mbembe-type lake monster. wow.
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An expedition which included Charles W. Gilmore, Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology with the United States National Museum, examined an ancient pictograph which is claimed to point to dinosaurs and man existing [6][7].
hava supai. which sure doesn't look like a dinosaur to me. it DOES vaguely look like an inaccurate coloring book version of a dinosaur, though, i'll give them that.
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The World Book Encyclopedia states that: "The dragons of legend are strangely like actual creatures that have lived in the past. They are much like the great reptiles [dinosaurs] which inhabited the earth long before man is supposed to have appeared on earth. Dragons were generally evil and destructive. Every country had them in its mythology." [8]
yes, dinosaurs have big nasty teeth and claws. but they sure don't look like medieval european dragons and wyverns, and they don't look even remotely like chinese dragons.
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The Nile Mosaic of Palestrina, a second century piece of art, is said to appear to be a piece of artwork that shows a dinosaur and man coexisting. [9]
again, doesn't look like a dinosaur. looks like a dark-ages fantasy.
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This is quite hard evidence.
ha! hahaha! hahahahahaahaha!
hearsay, conjecture, and rumor is hard evidence? tell me another one!
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Since 565 A.D. there are reports about the Loch Ness Monster (Nessie by birth)
ok, they CAN'T be serious. this site HAS TO BE a joke.
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People who saw Nessie described the Monster as it would look similar to a dinosaur.
dinosaurs were not aquatic. other archosaurs, however, like the pleisiosaurs and elasmosaurs were.
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In the life story of St. Columba, there is an account of him driving off a monster attacking a Pict. Some have taken this to refer to the Loch Ness Monster.
sure, why not. and grendel and his mother, while we're at it, were also dinosaurs. why not.
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Dinosaurs and Birds
As a number of feathered dinosaur fossils have been discovered, and the similiarity in the bone structure between birds and dinosaurs, scientists contend that modern birds are a descendant of dinosaurs.
...that's it? that's all they wrote? i guess they can't find any good objections?
perhaps the most telling are their references:
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1. ‘ TrueAuthority.com - Dinosaurs - About The Animals
2. ‘ http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/dinosaurs.asp
3. ‘ http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/3061/
4. ‘ http://www.answersingenesis.org/...tion/v15/i4/dinosaurs.asp
5. ‘ http://www.answersingenesis.org/...tion/v15/i4/dinosaurs.asp
6. ‘ Doheny Scientific Expedition, Hava Supai Canyon, Arizona
7. ‘ The page you were looking for doesn't exist (404)
8. ‘ In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood - References and Notes
9. ‘ http://www.s8int.com/dinolit2.html
10. ‘ Genesis, 1:25
11. ‘ Genesis 1:29-30
12. ‘ "Were dinosaurs on Noah’s Ark?", Answers in Genesis
13. ‘ "Dinosaur bones”just how old are they really?", Creation 21(1):54-55, December 1998
14. ‘ "Are dinosaurs alive today?", Creation 15(4):12-15, September 1993
15. ‘ "Could Behemoth have been a dinosaur?", TJ 15(2):42-45, August 2001
16. ‘ http://www.answersincreation.org/job4041a.htm
creationist source after creationist source. they don't even use those entirely honestly, either. look at the bible citations:
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that dinosaurs were created on the 6th day of the Creation Week[10] as a final addendum to the wonders God created, approximately 6,000 years ago; that they lived in the Garden of Eden in harmony with other animals, eating only plants[11];
the verses they cite in genesis certainly don't say that!
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