Dinosaurs and People
Dinosaurs: Fact VS. Imagination
Millions of years ago when dinosaurs ruled the earth
is how evolutionists present dinosaurs in books and movies to the
general public and there has been a high level interest in dinosaurs
for well over 150 years. Hundreds of books and dozens of movies have
been produced on this subject. These books and movies usually present
the characteristics of dinosaurs as though the facts about them were
established with absolute accuracy. The reality of dinosaurs is
actually quite different.
What is really known about dinosaurs is limited to what has been found
in the fossil record and that is actually very little. The fossil
record gives us a clear idea of the size and shape of dinosaurs, most
of which were no bigger than a horse. Fossilized dinosaur skin has been
found indicating that dinosaur skin was bumpy, much like lizard skin.
Fossil footprints give some idea of their level of physical activity. A
fossil of a four chambered dinosaur heart and unfossilized bones with
blood cells still in them are convincing many paleontologists that
dinosaurs were actually warm blooded. And that is all that is really
known about dinosaurs.
One of the many things not known about dinosaurs is what color they
were. The color of dinosaurs, or of anything else, does not fossilize.
As an item undergoes the fossilization process, the minerals replace
the organic material so that the color of the mineral becomes the color
of the fossil.
Despite movies like Jurassic Park and Disney's Dinosaur,
virtually nothing is known about dinosaur behavior. Imaginative writers
and artists not withstanding, it is not known if dinosaurs hunted in
packs, if there was any of dinosaur family life, how fast they grew or
if dinosaurs were ferocious killers. Groups of dinosaur tracks have
been found, but that doesn't prove that the tracks were made at the
same time. Dinosaurs did lay eggs in nests, but there is no real
evidence that the mothers took care of the young after birth. And while
some dinosaurs may have been hunters, almost all of the coprolite,
fossil dinosaur dung, found is from plant eating dinosaurs, indicating
that the vast majority of dinosaurs were plant and not meat eaters.
Imagination, not science, has become the driving force for most
dinosaur storytelling today. For the overriding purpose of most
dinosaur stories is not to teach the facts about dinosaurs, but rather
to make money and spread the religion of evolution.
How this combination of imagination and desire to spread the religion
of evolution can lead to absurdity is well illustrated in the nonsense
regarding the "discovery" of a so-called "feathered dinosaur" named archaeoraptor.
The story of archaeoraptor is an illustration of the desperation of
many evolutionists to find any evidence for a supposed dinosaur to bird
link. The archaeoraptor fossil from China was found at a rock show in
Utah and claimed to be proof of dinosaur to bird evolution. Promoted
extensively by National Geographic, it was later learned that the
fossil was a fake. Someone in China had simply attached the fossil of a
dinosaur tail to the fossil of a bird. But so desperate were the
evolutionists for fame, money and "proof" of dinosaur to bird
evolution, they didn't bother to check to see if the fossil was real or
not.
The expression "seeing is believing" doesn't really apply to so many
evolutionary dinosaur claims, because imagination and desperation, not
science, has become the motivation for so many of the evolutionary
claims about dinosaurs.
