Kelly Seagraves - The Great Dinosaur Mistake

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GONE!

Yes, they're gone. But why?

Why did the mighty dinosaur go extinct?

What are the implications for mankind?

There is an answer!

A frighteningly different answer than you may have ever heard. Based on scientific discoveries

showing that man and dinosaurs lived at the same time, this book exposes...

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
The Biblical Framework
The Ark of Noah
The Animals
The Insects
Dinosaurs
When?
But are They?
The Answer!
Carbon 14 Dating
Dinosaur Monument
A Reptile that Grows
A Major Factor
A Brontosaurus in the Ark
A Comparison
Man and Dinosaurs
Some Opinions
Other Evidence
A Better Explanation
A Drastic Change
A Mighty Hunter
Extinction
A Very Great Flood
More than a Rainstorm
The Fossil Record
A Problem of Order
A New Set of Questions
The Answer
But what about Noah
A Little More Evidence
Of Coal and Oil
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But When?

Traditionally

A Mountain in Turkey

Where Have all the People Gone?

Lest we Forget

Back to Noah

For Further Study

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Introduction

Long ago the mighty dinosaur roamed the earth freely, displaying his power and majesty to all.

But when did these creatures live? And how did they go extinct, and why?

These are perplexing questions, yet they are honest questions. Questions that must be answered,

especially by those who believe and accept the Bible as God's authority on all matters.

But what does the Bible have to say about the mighty dinosaur? And again, how does the dinosaur

fit into the Biblical framework? Let us turn our attention to the early chapters of Genesis and

examine this framework in order to answer these questions.

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The Biblical Framework

Genesis 6 reveals that at one time in the past it was necessary for God to judge the entire world

through a great water cataclysm. We find the reason for this in Gen. 6:11-18:

"The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And

God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his

way upon the earth. And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is before me; for the

earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the

earth. Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt

pitch it within and without with pitch. And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it

of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and

the height of it thirty cubits. A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt

thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with

lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it. And, behold, I, even I, do bring a

flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from

under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die. But with thee will I

establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy

wife, and thy son's wives with thee."

Here we have a picture not only of God's judgment but of God's provision and protection as He

instructs a man named Noah to build a boat to preserve life upon the earth. In this passage Noah is

given instructions for the building of the boat.

Is it feasible to believe this account? Is the account reasonable? The evolutionist tells us that it

would have been impossible for a man in Noah's time to build a boat large enough to preserve all of

life. He maintains there are too many animals living on the earth for such a feat. He also ridicules

the concept of a worldwide flood.

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The Ark of Noah

Before we accept these objections let us examine the account and see what we find in the Word of

God. God speaks to a man named Noah and says the end is very near, judgment comes soon. He

instructs Noah to build an ark and describes that ark in verse 15. "The length of the ark shall be

three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits." To determine if

the ark was adequate to preserve life upon the earth, we first of all need to determine how big the ark

was. In order to do that we need to know what a cubit is. A cubit is basically the measurement from

the elbow down to the fingertips. If you happen to have a very long arm, you have long cubits. If

you have short arms, you have short cubits. I am sure you can see they had some difficulty in

determining size and so it became necessary to standardize the measurements. The ancient Hebrew

people had two measurements for a cubit; a shorter cubit of 17.5 inches and a longer cubit of 22.5

inches. For ease in our discussion we will round it off to 18 inches. Therefore the description of the

ark in Genesis 6:15 tells us that the length of the ark was approximately 450 feet long, the width

approximately 75 feet wide, and the height approximately 45 feet high. It resembled a giant railroad

boxcar or a giant rectangular, box-like river barge, constructed to float free upon the water. It was

not necessary for Noah to take a course in navigation to learn how to sail this boat. He did not have

to learn how to maneuver it through rivers, etc., because the purpose of the ark was simply to float

free upon the water. Built in this manner it had great stability, it could even tilt 45 degrees on its side

without overturning. Now while a tilt like that may not have been comfortable for the people inside,

it assured a successful voyage through the greatest storm in history.

We are told that the waters of the flood were very great upon the earth: "Fifteen cubits upward did

the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered." (Genesis 7:20) That means the waters covered

the mountains that were present before the flood by 22 1/2 feet. If it be assumed the ark was loaded

until it was half-submerged, its draft would be 22 1/2 feet. Therefore the ark could float free over all

the earth without lodging upon anything. So God in His planning prepared all the things necessary

for this voyage of Noah. The ark would displace about 24,000 tons and thus be a good-sized ship,

even by modern standards. Still, we are left with the question, was it possible to put all the animals

necessary to preserve life upon the earth inside the ark?

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The Animals

In order to answer that question we first of all need to know how many animals there are. We could

count them all -- elephants, camels, rats, mice, giraffes, etc.

But it is easier simply to accept Ernst Mayr's figures, since he is an outstanding evolutionary

taxonomist and an expert in the classification of animals. He tells us there are over a million species

of animals living on the earth today. Can we put a million different animals inside the ark? Quite

honestly the answer is no. But before we say the Bible does not work and laugh at it as many people

do, let us look at Genesis 7 again. We are told in the 21st verse:

"And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast,

and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: All in whose

nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died. And every living

substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, cattle, and

the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the

earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark. And the

waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days." (Genesis 7:21-24)

If you check that list very carefully you find certain animals were destroyed -- fowl, cattle, beasts,

and every creeping thing -- all of the insects, and even man. It is emphasized again for us that all the

dry land animals died. We are told that every living substance that was upon the face of the ground

was destroyed. If you read carefully you will find that nowhere in the account are fish mentioned. It

was not necessary for Noah to find a male and female goldfish, he did not have to gather killer

whales; he did not have to worry whether his piranhas were bothering anything else inside the ark.

Since the judgment was to be a water cataclysm it seems logical that the fish should stay and survive

in the water. Though many were destroyed because of the violence of water action (we find trapped

fish in the fossil record), still in all, it is logical that the creatures that lived in the sea, fish,

echinoderms, brachiopods, whose natural habitat was water, survived the flood simply by staying in

the water.

Therefore we can eliminate their number from the million species of animals Mayr tells about.

Eliminating those animals that live in the sea, except for amphibious animals which, though they

might have survived in the water will be included in the ark, we find that instead of a million species

of animals there would be only 17,500. That is a little different.

We still have a slight problem with the figure of 17,500. If you have studied several years of biology

and a couple of years of physiology you may have noticed this one fact: to preserve life upon the

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earth, a male and a female are required, preferably these should be of the same species. So we need

to take 17,500 males and 17,500 matching females of each species, a total of 35,000 animals inside

the ark. The average size of these animals is about the size of a sheep. You say, wait a minute; I

have gone to the zoo and seen large animals such as elephants, giraffes, rhinoceroses, hippos, all

these big animals which are larger than sheep. True, but fortunately there are also rats, mice, prairie

dogs, etc., that are smaller than sheep. The average size of all animals is about the size of a sheep.

You can place 35,000 sheep in 146 railroad boxcars specially designed with three tiers of flooring.

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The Insects

We must also account for the insects. Again taking Ernst Mayr's figures, there are 850,000 species

of insects. We need a male and a female of each species. Fortunately Noah did not have to figure out

if he had a male and a female tsetse fly because God brought all the animals and insects to him. We

need room for 1,700,000 individual insects for the 850,000 species. Giving each of these insects 2

inches of flying space, being very careful to pack the termites in the middle, 850,000 pairs of insects

can be placed in 21 railroad boxcars. Thus, 146 railroad boxcars are needed for the animals and 21

railroad boxcars for the insects; or 176 railroad boxcars in all.

The ark, figuring the cubit at the smallest known measurement, 17.5 inches, has the capacity of 522

railroad boxcars. Very simply, that means we can put all of the animals in the lower story, Noah and

his family on the second story, and we have plenty of room on the third story for recreational

facilities. Or you could use the third deck, or extra room, for animals which have gone extinct before

our time, such as dinosaurs.

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