I'm a Creationist. I have always thought evolution was a load of crap [everything in this post is my own opinion - I do not intend to offend anybody] - I never bought it. There's so many discrepancies it's not even funny. There's no way it's scientifically possible. If an animal is born mutated, it's never a good thing - it usually dies early and suffers the entire life that it does live. It doesn't grow new legs when it wants to, or make its neck longer to reach leaves that are a foot higher.

     I also don't believe the earth has been around for "billions of years". Thousands, yes. Well, maybe it was around for millions of years, but that's before God created Life. Genesis 1:2 says, "the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters."

     Anyway, that gets me to the point of this post - dinosaurs. I've loved dinosaurs my entire life. I've been made fun of for it, but I never cared, because why can't I be obsessed with dinosaurs if you're obsessed with dogs/cats/birds/etc? No difference to me. I didn't play with dolls and Barbies when I was a child - I played with Jurassic Park and Discovery Channel brand dinosaurs. I wanted to be a paleontologist when I grew up. Well even though I've kept every last one of my dinosaurs in a huge collection, I no longer play with them. Nowadays, I'm interested in them for the animals they are - the scientific part of it. And for their beauty. I that never found them to be "scary". Just as scary as a lethal tiger, are they not beautiful?

 

 

God also speaks of the mighty behemoth, in Job 40:15-24:

Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.
Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.
He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.
His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.
He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.
Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.
He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.
The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.
Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.
He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares.

     After reading of the behemoth, do the Apatosaurus [formerly "Brontosaurus"] or Brachiosaurus not come to mind? "He moveth his tail like a cedar..."

     Consider the Loch Ness Monster. It has been spotted by many people for hundreds of years. Although many photos of it, including possibly the most famous one, have proven to be fakes, that doesn't mean Nessie doesn't exsist. I'm sure you've heard all about the Loch Ness Monster though, so I'll not bore you with that. I'll instead provide the stories to some very different marine dinosaur sightings...

     Now, I will quote some bits from a book written by Phil Phillips entitled, "Dinosaurs - The Bible, Barney, and Beyond":

Might Dinosaurs Still Be Alive?

     "If dinosaurs survived the Great Flood on Noah's Ark, evolution scientists argue that there should be some evidence of that.
     Creation scientists respond, "There has been and is!"
     Not all creatures died during the shifts from period to period. Ammonites, once thought to be alive only in the Cretaceous period are now found in layers of sediment described as Triassic - millions and millions of years apart, according to evolutionary science.
     Others claim that dinosaurs have been and still are being sighted in our modern age."

Do Plesiosaurs still Swim the Oceans?

     "What happened to the great sea dinosaurs? An old Hebrew legend says that only three animals survived the Flood besides those on the Ark. They were the 'giant og, the monster reem, and the fishes.' The word 'og' means gigantic and long-necked. Plesiosaurs?
     Plesiosaurs, the giant dinosaurs of the ocean, disappeared millions of years ago, according to evolutionary scientists.
     Yet...
     On April 10, 1977, a Japanese fishing boat [Zuiyo-maru of the Taiyo Fishery Company Ltd.] pulled in an unexpected catch off the coast of New Zealand. Their net held the rotting remains of what they reguarded as an ocean reptile. The captain tossed the carcass back into the sea [for fear it would spoil their catch of fish], but took photographs and made measurements first.
     The creature was thirty-two feet long and wieghed about 4,000 pounds. Its skin was pinkish-red in color. Photographs show a long neck and fins on an otherwise reptile-like crature.
     The Japanese fishermen took a sample of the creature's flesh back to Japan and a scientist at the National Science Museum concluded that it was a Plesiosaur! Furthermore, the scientist deduced that the animals are not only not extinct, but that there must be a group of them still surviving in the ocean depths since these creatures could not survive more than sixty million years alone. [Also take note: judging on how much this creature had rotted, it was concluded that it had been dead for only a month or less before the fishermens' discovery.]"

     "And...
     A few years ago, the U.S.S. Stein tangled with an unknown creature on its way to track submarines near South America. The ship returned to the Long Beach Naval Dockyard when its sonar went out. The ship was put in dry dock and when the crew examined the underwater sonar dome, they found the rubber cover that normally protects the dome torn and tattered with dozens of large gouges. Hundreds of sharp hollow teeth (or possibly claws) were still in the rubber - some of these were longer than an inch. To date, scientists have not been able to associate these teeth or claws with any known species."

Is Leviathan still around?

     "Leviathan may very well have been a Kronosaurus. This was a large reptile with great, sharp teeth, fast-swimming, with strong jaws and protection on its back and undersides. Psalm 104 describes them as swimming where the ships travel, probably the Mediterranean ["Here ships ply their course; here Leviathan, your creature, plays"]. While not a true dinosaur, this was a very large reptile, a close cousin to the dinosaur, and a creature we do not see in today's oceans (at least as far as we know to date).
     One may have been spotted in 1915 in the North Atlantic. The British steamer Iberia was torpedoed by a German submarine and sank quickly. A few seconds after the steamer went down, a violent explosion broke the water and pieces of wreckage shot out of the sea. Along with the wreckage came a gigantic sea animal, writhing wildly.
     It was seen by the German submarine captain [Georg von Forstner], his officers on watch, the chief engineer, the navigator, and the helmsman. None of them had ever seen a creature like it before. They described it as being about sixty feet long, crocodile in shape, with four limbs, webbed feet, and a tail that tapered to a point."

Are There Any Sauropods Roaming the Jungles?

     "In recent years, American and Japanese scientists have been searching the jungles of Africa for a dinosaur the natives call 'Mokele-Mbembe'!
     Large animals have been reported in the swamps of the 'Congo' area for decades. One native said that in 1980, he saw a reddish-brown animal rise from the water in front of his canoe. The creature had a 'snake-like head', six to eight feet long. As he paddled away, he saw the animal's back appear. In looking at photos offered by missionaries, he identified the animal as a Sauropod [i.e., Apatosaurus, Brachiosaurus], a plant-eating dinosaur.
     Another native, a young girl, was paddling her canoe along the shore of Lake Tele when her boat became stuck on a sand bar. As she tried to dislodge her boat, suddenly a large animal broke the water's surface with a great deal of splashing. The frightened girl could not tell the animal's head from its tail, but she did see its body. She described it as being the size of four elephants. Her parents found her in shock and crying for help. They went to the place where she had apparently seen this mysterious creature and found large, unrecognized foot prints for hundreds of feet along the lake shore."

Do Pterosaurs Still Fly?

     "What about Pterosaurs? The supposedly died out sixty-five million years ago.
     Yet in 1856, railway workers in France were digging a tunnel. They blasted the area with gunpowder to remove a boulder, and when the dust settled, the workmen found a huge bat-like creature. It was stunned, but not dead. The workers brought it out into the light and it began to shake its wings, made a horse cry, and died shortly thereafter.
     The creature had a long neck, rows of sharp teeth in a long beak-like mouth, and was shiny black. Its wingspan measured more than ten feet! A scientist concluded that it was, indeed, a Pterosaur.
     Ptreosaurs are not supposed to have lived any time close to the era of man, according to evolutionary science. In fact, they are supposed to be tens of millions of years apart! One apparently survived until 1856."