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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 beenfound, 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.
