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To the Parent:Dinomania probably began in 1854. It was in June of
this year that an estimated crowd of 40,000 people
flooded the exhibition halls of the famed Crystal Pal-
ace in London. For the first time anywhere, visitors could
see three-dimensional, life-sized models of dinosaurs in
their natural setting. Like us, the Victorians were fasci-
nated by these huge, extinct creatures.
In the following decades, fossil hunters Othniel C. Marsh
and Edward Drinker Cope engaged in a fierce rivalry
for the choicest dinosaur remains. Massive skeletons
the hard-won spoils of their campaigns in the arid lands
of North Americas Wild Westchanged the design of
museum buildings forever.
The fever shows no sign of abating. In the last few dec-
ades, we have seen an unbelievable proliferation of dino-
saurs in practically every medium you can imaginefrom
B-grade movies to slick coffee-table books.
Yet there is more to this than commercial exploitation.
Dinosaurs hold a special fascination for kids. And with
that heightened level of interest comes an increased ca-
pacity for learning. Educators know this, and have used
dinosaurs as vehicles for teaching all sorts of concepts.
Unfortunately, the favorite topics are macroevolution
and uniformitarian geology.
Macroevolution, as the name suggests, refers to change
on a massive scale. It is the idea that one (or a very few)
organisms gave rise to everything else that ever lived.
In this view, jellyfish, sharks, apes, dinosaurs, and, yes,
even humans, are twigs on one huge family tree.
Uniformitarianismis the idea that geological processes
in the past were pretty much the same as geological pro-
cesses in the present. The present is the key to the past,as the old saying goes. If you find a layer of sandstone a
hundred feet high, and you know that sand accumulates
on modern beaches at the rate of one inch per year, then
you need only do the math to appreciate the numbers
implied by the uniformitarian assumption (well, there is
more to it than that, but we hope you get the point).
In recent years, geologists have awakened to the possibil-
ity of catastrophes on a regional or even global scale. Yet
the average geologist, walking around with geological
hammer in hand, still thinks in uniformitarian terms.
These two concepts are closely related because th
most popular version of macroevolution (put forward b
Charles Darwin in 1859) holds that mechanisms gover
ing changes in living things were the same yesterday a
they are today. So if the present is the key to the pas
then changes in major plant and animal groups mu
have been excruciatingly slow. As you probably have n
ticed on your walks through the forest or your drives
the countryside, species tend not to change very muc
within the course of a single human life span. The a
sumption, therefore, is that very long periods of time ar
needed to explain the extraordinary diversity of life o
Earth.
Needless to say, there are all sorts of problems with bot
these concepts, but they are the very ideas presented u
critically in almost all science books for kids. The me
sage goes something like this. Dinosaurs died out m
lions of years ago. Humans have been around only fo
a little while. Where did the dinosaurs come from? That
right! They evolved, just like we evolved from apes. An
see the little sparrow through your kitchen window?
evolved from the dinosaurs!
In fact, the message is so prevalent that many worship
going, Bible-toting Christians have become vehemen
supporters. If you tell our kids that man lived with din
saurswhy, theyll be laughed out of school; theyll los
their faith! This should not be a deterrent. As the apo
tle Paul pointed out, the Gospel always will seem a
foolishness to the unspiritual (1 Corinthians 2:14). T
these mockers of the faith, the very idea of a Mans bein
raised from the grave after three days is no more appea
ing than the co-existence of humans and dinosaurs.
Two objections arise frequently: (1) dinosaurs were to
mean and nasty to live with man; and (2), no dinosau
fossils have been found with human fossils.
As to the first objection, humans often have survived
the same neighborhood as fierce beasts. Dinosaur
would have been no exception. Indeed, a lot of othe
creatures our size might have found themselves havin
to dodge the deadly jaws ofT. rex. And thanks to dino
mania, we might have an exaggerated view of dinosau
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population densities. Perhaps some parts of the world
were safer than others. The existence of large preda-
tors does not, by itself, preclude co-existence with man.
As to the second objection, the absence of dinosaur fos-
sils next to human fossils would not prove evolution and
old Earth, and neither would it disprove the biblical view.
Overall, in fact, the fossil record is no friend of evolution
a situation that has not changed since Darwin bemoaned
the lack of evidence for long-term, large-scale evolution
back in 1859.
What is the biblical view? According to Exodus 20:11,
God created everything in the first six days of the Uni-
verses existence, and rested on the seventh. To put it
plainly, this leaves no room for macroevolution. It im-
plies, also, that representatives of all Gods creatures
were on the Earth at the same time (for a while, at least).
So, yes, dinosaurs and man did live together.
Further, if dinosaurs were around at the start of the Flood
(and we have no reason to think they were not), then
they qualified for berths on Noahs ark. God intended to
save at least two of every animal kind that lived on the
land and breathed air (Genesis 6:17; 7:22).
What eventually became of the dinosaurs? No one
knows for sure. Evolutionists favor the idea that an aster-
oid or comet hit the Earth, causing the sudden, mass e
tinction of the dinosaurs (making it a rare exception t
the uniformitarian rule). But why would such a catastrophe be so selective in killing off the dinosaurs, while lea
ing many other types of reptiles untouched? At least i
the Flood model, all land-dwelling creatures had an equ
chance of survival. It just happens that dinosaurs, fo
some reason, were not able to survive what might hav
been a rapidly changing post-Flood world.
This is not the place to get into a full argument about a r
cent creation and a worldwide flood. Apologetics Pre
carries a lot of materials on these subjects. We invite yo
to call or write for a free catalog (our address and toll-fre
number are listed below).
However, we have a number of hopes for this colorin
book. We hope it will nourish young minds with the trut
about dinosaurs. Even if your child cannot read, we hop
he or she will get the message through the depictio
of dinosaurs living with all sorts of creatures, includin
man. The captions are simple, but we hope slightly olde
kids will learn something about dinosaurs, and we know
that they will have fun learning the names. We hope
most of all, that this book will help lay the foundation o
firm faith in our Creator.
Copyright 2014, 2003 Abridged Edition
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On the Sixth Day...
Alioramus
Euhelopus
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Pachyrinosaur
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Seismosaurus
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Carcharodontosaurus
T.
rex
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God protected plant eaterswith spikes, horns,
and shields.
Styracosaurus
Stegosaurus
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Velociraptor
Deinonychus
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Some dinosaurs were very strange
Dimetrodon
Amargasaurus
Tanystropheus
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The ancient seas might havebeen quite scary.
Kronosaurus
Mosasaurus
Plesios
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Perhaps the leviathanof Job 41 looked much like this.
Gallodactylus
Plotos
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Maybe the behemoth ofJob 40 looked like this.
Ultrasaurus
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Humansmay
have
hu
nted
dinosaurs.
Dicraeosaur
us
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Acrocanthosaurus
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A fossil is a traceliving thing such aplant or an animal
In order for a fosform, the animal mbe buried very qui
Most of the time, tissues like skin anmuscles decay. Bubones and teeth o
become fossilized
Paleontologists arescientists who look forfossils.
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Well kids, its time to leavebefore Iguana Don gets us into
any more trouble.
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