Taming the T-rex

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Taming the T-rexAnd other dinosaurs

• CHALLENGING EARTH HISTORY Part IV
• The Biblical Questions
• Elaine Kennedy, Ph.D.
• Geoscience Research Institute
• http//www.grisda.org

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Does the BibleTalk About Dinosaurs?
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Job 418,15, 29, 31

• If you lay a hand on him leviathan,
• you will remember the struggle.
• His back has rows of shields tightly sealed
• together.
• A club seems to him like a piece of straw
• he laughs at the rattling of the lance.
• He makes the depths churn
• and stirs up the sea. NIV

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Job 4015, 17, 21

• Look at the behemoth
• which feeds on grass like an ox.
• His tail sways like a cedar
• the sinews of his thighs are close-knit.
• Under the lotus plant he lies,
• hidden among the reeds of the marsh.
• NIV

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Were Humans DinosaursLiving Together?
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What Are Some of The Questions Christians have
about Dinosaurs?
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Werent Dinosaurs too Big for the Ark?

• One Christian author says
• Soon after the flood the race began to
  rapidly
• decrease in size, and in length of years. There
  was a
• class of very large animals which perished at the
  flood.
• God knew that the strength of man would
  decrease,
• and these mammoth animals could not be controlled
  by
• feeble man.
• EGW 4A SG 121

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Werent Dinosaurs too Big for the Ark?

• As we have seen, ½ the families of dinosaurs were
  smaller than an adult giraffe. So there is no
  reason to think that they might not be on the
  Ark.
• Perhaps the author is talking about the large
  mammals, reptiles, amphibians, insects, etc. that
  went extinct during the Flood. The extinction of
  large animals seems to be a consistent trend in
  the fossil record.

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Were Dinosaurs Amalgamations?

• One Christian author says
• Every species of animals which God
• had created was preserved in the ark.
• The confused species which God did not create,
• which were the result of amalgamation,
• were destroyed by the flood.
• EGW 1SP 78

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Were Dinosaurs Amalgamations?

• This author specifies that amalgamated species
  were considered confused species. There is
  nothing confusing about dinosaurs. Their bone
  structure is distinctive, their skeletal features
  are distinctive and when the data is studied,
  dinosaurs are a clearly defined group of animals.

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Part IV Summary

• What does the Bible say about dinosaurs?
• Job 40 (large herbivore, probably low to the
  ground, probably not a dinosaur)
• Job 41 (marine creature, not a dinosaur)
• What are some of the other questions about
  dinosaurs?
• 4A SG 121 (large animals, not just dinosaurs)
• 1 SP 78 (amalgamated, probably not dinosaurs)