How about a bit of Dinosaur History then. Here is an account of a Dragon Hunt (a real life Dinosaur Hunt) taken from our History.
What follows are the writings of Lucius Flavius Philostratus, a Greek sophist. He wrote about the life and travels of Apollonius.
Appolonius of Tyana pictured here was born in 15 AD and died 100 AD.
Initially this may seem rather an odd statement to make but before you throw this idea away as nonsense why not consider the following:-
- The word “Dinosaur” only came into use in 1841, being introduced to the world by Paleontologist Richard Owen. Prior to this any strange or huge creatures, outside those that were well known, were called Dragons.
- There are accounts, stories, legends from every culture on Earth concerning Dragons. There is no collusion here. This gives credence to the idea that quite a lot of Dragon folklore is based on actual encounters: in other words with Dinosaurs.
- It is generally believed Dinosaurs died out 65 Million years ago. This figure is gleaned from both rock layers in which Dinosaur fossils have been found and from Radiometric Dating techniques. These began early in the twentieth century and all of them register millions of years. The problem is these dates are based on un provable assumptions.
- However whenever dinosaur fossils have been tested using Carbon 14 dating methods, the dates that come back from the labs range between 20,000 and 40,000 years. No Carbon 14 should show up in these test because after 100,000 years there should be none left. But these tests always do register Carbon 14. So something is very wrong!
- Historical accounts which indicate man and dinosaurs coexisted are not even referenced by evolutionists, despite the fact there are many well verified accounts. One of these can be read below.
- Why is it so important to evolutionists that we believe Dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago? Maybe because it is the great icon of evolutionary theory, and it establishes in the public mind that long ages of millions of years are an undeniable fact. If this “fact” is shaken then we might begin to question every other “fact” linked to the theory of evolution. Evolutionists do not want you to think at all, let alone critically about their theory. Just in case you begin to consider the only alternative: the idea that just maybe, God created it all and in the timescale laid out in the Bible.
There is much more historical evidence and interesting facts about Dinosaurs on our companion website
“Dinosaurs for Dummies”.
History records many encounters between Dinosaurs and Man.
'Now as they descended the mountain, they say they came in for a dragon hunt, which I must needs describe. For it is utterly absurd for those who are amateurs of hare-hunting to spin yarns about the hare as to how it is caught or ought to be caught, and yet that we should omit to describe a chase as bold as it is wonderful, and in which the sage (Apollonius) was careful to assist; so I have written the following account of it: The whole of India is girt (full) with dragons of enormous size; for not only the marshes are full of them, but the mountains as well, and there is not a single ridge without one. Now the marsh kind are sluggish in their habits and are thirty cubits long, (45 feet) and they have no crest standing up on their heads, but in this respect resemble the she-dragons. Their backs however are very black, with fewer scales on them than the other kinds; and Homer has described them with deeper insight than have most poets, for he says that the dragon that lived hard by the spring in Aulis had a tawny back; but other poets declare that the congener of this one in the grove of Nemea also had a crest, a feature which we could not verify in regard to the marsh dragons.
- The word Dinosaur was introduced in 1841
- Dragons are Dinosaurs
- History records man and Dinosaurs co-existed.
- Recent Carbon dating of Dinosaur fossils suggest Dinosaurs lived within thousands of years not millions.
- Dinosaurs were created on day 6 of creation along with man.
- God describes a Dinosaur in conversation with Job in Job 40 v 15-24
And the dragons along the foothills and the mountain crests make their way into the plains after their quarry, and prey upon all the creatures in the marshes; for indeed they reach an extreme length, and move faster than the swiftest rivers, so that nothing escapes them. These actually have a crest, of moderate extent and height when they are young; but as they reach their full size, it grows with them and extends to a considerable height, at which time also they turn red and get serrated backs. This kind also have beards, and lift their necks on high, while their scales glitter like silver; and the pupils of their eyes consist of a fiery stone, and they say that this has an uncanny power for many secret purposes. The plain specimen falls the prize of the hunters whenever it draws upon itself an elephant; for the destruction of both creatures is the result, and those who capture the dragons are rewarded by getting the eyes and skin and teeth. In most respects they resemble the largest swine, but they are slighter in build and flexible, and they have teeth as sharp and indestructible as those of the largest fishes.'
That account does not read like a Greek Myth. If you got David Attenborough to narrate it most would believe it without hesitation.
