that we are to sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone that asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you. Yet we're to do that with gentleness and reverence. One of the best places, we think, to get equipped is our website, creation.com. Actually, right at 9,000 articles from 35 years of creation, research. We actually employ more scientists than any other Christian ministry in the world, at least that we are aware of. So it's a great place to get equipped to find answers to your questions. And I'd also suggest that you make it your home page. Terrific new article every day. We also publish creation magazine distributed in 110 countries now published since 1978. full-color glossy magazine with no paid advertising answering some of the critical questions that's being asked today and equipping you to be effective witnesses for the Lord. I want to talk to you this morning during the Sunday school hour about dinosaurs in the Bible. You know, dinosaurs are used more than anything else to cause children to believe in millions of years and even in evolution. But I hope that I can demonstrate that the Bible gives answers for dinosaurs. In other words, when you begin with biblical history, no matter what we look at, whether it's the fossil record or whether it's specifically dinosaurs, it all makes sense. So again, why talk about dinosaurs? Well, if dinosaurs are millions of years old, then the Bible's history is not true. And if the Bible's history is not true, then nothing else that it says can be trusted. And we have no hope. You know, we often say that the Bible is our final authority in all matters of faith and practice, and rightly so. But shouldn't we say that the Bible is our final authority in all matters of faith and practice and everything it touches there on? Isn't the Bible true when it touches on geology? Isn't the Bible true when it touches on biology? And it does. Isn't the Bible true when it touches on paleontology or even anthropology? You see, we need to connect the Bible to the real world. Very important for our young people. You know, when you begin with the Bible, when you have that biblical worldview, you tend to view things much differently. People view this world in one of two different ways. In other words, we interpret the world in which we live wearing either evolution glasses or biblical glasses. Everybody's looking through a set of glasses. Most people are looking through a set of evolution glasses today. They see dinosaurs just as flesh-eating creatures, basically. They believe that dinosaurs are millions of years old because of the rock layers in places like the Grand Canyon. But folks, it's based on assumptions, wrong assumptions. It's based on man's reasoning. Evolutionists believe that it took tens of millions of years or tens of thousands of years, I should say, for this dirt to be laid down and turned into rock. They believe if you simply count those fine sedimentary layers, you can count the years that it took for them to be laid down. In these rocks, we also find fossils. In some places, lots of fossils. And the age of these fossils are determined by the rock layers in which they're found. So does the millions of years actually, or I should say the millions of layers, actually represent millions of years? Well, here's some fossilized bone, a parasolrophilus. Now, notice it doesn't come with a tag reading 75 million years old. No. We have to assume its age based on the glasses that we're wearing, whether we're wearing evolution glasses or biblical glasses. So how do you fit dinosaurs into the Bible? Or maybe there's a better question. Maybe we should be asking, how can I use the Bible? to explain dinosaurs. I think that's a much better question. Well, first, we need to begin by wearing biblical glasses, believing that God's word is true. We begin with God's word, and then we look at the science. When we do that, we have much different ideas about dinosaurs and various things buried in rock layers all over the earth. You see, we believe that the Bible. Is God's word. It's his story, it's history from God's perspective, from from the perspective of truth. You know, the days of creation is the place that most people try to fit millions of years, but it just doesn't work. You know, the word day in Genesis one, it's the word Yom in the Hebrew. And anywhere you find the word young outside of Genesis one with either the one the word evening or morning or a number or even the word night, it always means a day or a part of a 24 hour day. In Genesis one, we have evening morning number young. Evening morning number job over and over. In one case, it has the word night. It's almost as if God didn't want us to even question that he meant a literal 24 hour day, even before the sun was created on day number four. So what was created on each day of creation? Well, the first day God created the earth. He created water. He created light, space and time. Second day, he created the sky or the expanse. Third day, he created land and vegetation. The fourth day, he created the sun, the moon and the stars. What did God create on the fifth day? Any of you young people know? Anybody? OK. What's that? The sea creatures and the flying creatures, right? What about day number six? Anybody? He created man and what creatures? What type of creatures? Anybody? He created dinosaurs. That's right, because he created land animals and dinosaurs fits under the beast of the field. You're exactly right. So keeping that in mind. Which of these creatures have been on earth the longest? The bird. The dinosaur, the dolphin or the fish, or should I say, which group of these creatures have been on earth the longest, according to Genesis chapter one? It's an What's that, A, C, and D? That's exactly right. Dinosaurs are created on the same day as man, one day after the bird, the dolphin, and the fish. Dinosaurs, by the way, are actually defined as land-dwelling creatures, specifically. According to our long-age evolutionary cultures, dinosaurs became extinct almost 65 million years before man came on the scene. But do you know what that would mean? That would mean death before sin. You know, if we even say that that geologic column was laid down before Adam and Eve, we have death before sin. But, you know, according to God's Word, man and land animals were both created on day number six and there was no death. But you know what people say? What about all those sharp teeth? Doesn't that prove, because they're assuming that dinosaurs lived prior to man, but they say this with even some of the water reptiles and flying reptiles that were created a day earlier. So, doesn't that mean that they were meat eaters? Doesn't that mean that there was death before sin? That's what some people ask us about. That's a common question that we get. Well, what about it? The Bible says in Genesis 129, then God said, behold, I've given you every plant yielding seed that's on the surface of the earth and every tree which has fruit yielding seed. It shall be food for you. See, when we were first created, we ate lots of fruits and vegetables, all that really good stuff that you guys love, like broccoli, and spinach and Brussels sprouts and green, you know, the stuff that you really like. That's what we ate in the beginning. But not only that, the very next verse tells us. And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to everything that moves on the earth, earth, which has life, I have given every green plant for food. And it was so. So even the animal creatures, all of God's creatures were vegetarians. They were herbivores, weren't they? But doesn't the fact that creatures have sharp teeth prove that they're meat eaters? Look at those sharp teeth. Anybody have any idea what creature this skull came from? I mean, that has to be a meat eater, doesn't it? Now, it's not that big, but it's actually a pretty small creature. Blowing it up so you can see it. Anybody have any guess? No, it's even smaller than that. What's that? No, smaller than that. You're not going to believe this, but it's a fruit bat. They eat fruit and lick nectar from flowers. God gave them sharp teeth to bite through those hard fruit skins. Contrary to popular belief, and their sharp teeth. Most species of piranhas are herbivores. There's only a few species that are carnivores. They live on fruit that drop from the trees into the water in the Brazilian jungle. Most species are herbivores, vegetarians. So just because a creature has sharp teeth doesn't necessarily mean that they're meat eaters, you see. And I think that's important. So what about all the dinosaur fossils? Back to fossils again. Remember I said the type of glasses that we have on determines how old we think things are? Fossilized dead things buried in rock layers is the main reason given for believing in millions of years. But doesn't it take millions of years to form a fossil? Well, here's the historical evolutionary explanation. Dinosaur dies. He happens to fall into the water. He sinks to the bottom. The flesh and the skin, pretty much everything but the bones rot away. Slowly and gradually, the bones are covered with sediment. And so that bone, that organic material is replaced by minerals. That's fossilization. And then through time, either due to erosion or excavation, that fossil is discovered. But is that really how we get fossils? Do you think that the bones are going to lay there on the bottom for thousands of years for it to fossilize as the evolutionists suggest? What happens to a goldfish when it dies? Or any kind of an animal creature if it's in the water or falls into the water? What most of the time, what happens? It flows, doesn't it? It flows. It doesn't sink to the bottom. Rarely does that happen. Occasionally, yes, but rarely does it happen. And actually, my boss, Aaron, has a little girl. And he bought her a couple goldfish about two or three years ago. And she was so excited about her goldfish, she named them Romeo and Juliet. And one day Aaron hears his daughter just screaming in the room, so excited. Dad, mom, come here, look, Romeo is kissing Juliet. So Aaron goes in to investigate and he says, honey, I'm sorry to tell you, Romeo is not kissing Juliet. Romeo is eating Juliet. Juliet had passed away. And that's what happens. You know, things don't last very long, whether they're on land or in the water. This is something extremely rare, because if the bones actually make it to the bottom, they don't last long. Our biologist, our marine biologist, has done hundreds of scuba dives. All over the world, he's never seen this because the bones don't last long enough. It's extremely rare. See, they're being eaten by organisms. And actually, a whale carcass or whale bones are water soluble as well. So we're not talking about lasting that long. We're talking about days at the very best. So how do you get a fossil? Well, here's Freddy the fish. Beautiful day like today. Freddy is swimming along, happy-go-lucky. Everything is cool for Freddy the Fish. All of a sudden, here comes a whole lot of mud and a whole lot of dirt and buries Freddy the Fish. This is Freddy the Fish's funeral. Now usually, the skin, the flesh, the scales, and even the fins rot away, don't they? And you have nothing left but the bones. The bones are replaced by minerals. and you get yourself a fossil. But doesn't it take a long time for a fossil to form? Have you ever thought how in the world could bones last long enough to fossilize? Even buried under multiple layers of sedimentation, they don't last long. They have to fossilize quickly, don't they? Not only do they have to be buried quickly, they have to fossilize quickly. Here's a fossilized hat. This was a soft felt miner's hat buried in an explosion in 1880 in New Zealand. It's actually fossilized. That soft felt material has been replaced by minerals. That's fossilization. We could say it evolved into a hard hat in just 20 years. It was discovered in 1990. Could it be that fossils were made as a result of a worldwide flood? You know what the Bible says? The waters prevailed more and more upon the earth so that all the high mountains. The high hills, according to the Hebrew prior to the flood, everywhere under the heavens were covered. And I think biblically. I find that the evidence fits, doesn't it? The whale carcass and common sense show me that things need to be buried very quickly. The flood would have provided the mechanism to explain the fossil record as we have it. So is there really scientific evidence that supports a worldwide flood? With there certainly evidence that things were buried quickly? Here's a fossilized fish. He's eating another fish. We can call this Freddy again. He probably doesn't even get a chance to finish his supper, does he? He's buried in an instant and had to be fossilized quickly because you're not just looking at bones. You're looking at skin, flesh, scales, fins, and bones all fossilized. You know, buried under multiple layers of sedimentation, starved from oxygen to some degree, It doesn't take hardly any time for the flesh and the skin to rot away, does it? It had to fossilize quickly. Here's an exquisitely preserved fossil of an extinct marine reptile called an enthyosaur. Notice the mother enthyosaur is actually giving birth to a live infant, frozen in an instant. The beak of the young reptile is still inside the mother's birth canal. Now, ladies, if this took millions of years talking about a long labor, that would be ridiculous. That was featured in Creation magazine a number of years ago, the Bible says concerning the earth, very important verses for us, Psalm 104, you covered it with the deep as with a garment. The waters were standing above the mountains. At your review, they fled. At the sound of your thunder, they hurried away. Those high hills, those mountains as described prior to the flood, the mountains rose and the valley sank down to the place which you established for them. Those valleys became our sea basins. That's where the water is today. Seventy percent of the earth is covered with water. If you push up those sea basins and lower those mountains back down and level off the earth, you have water almost two miles deep. There's plenty of water for a worldwide flood. And not only that, but we would expect to find fossils on top of our highest mountains. That's precisely what we find. Marine limestone embedded with fossils were documented at the peak of Mount Everest, 1956, 1963, and on numerous occasions since. We also find something that no evolutionist would ever expect to find. According to evolutionary geology, dinosaurs lived 250 to 65 million years ago, but here you're looking at a slice of red blood cells from the bone marrow of a dinosaur bone in which the inside is not fossilized. Discovered in 1990 in North Dakota. No, excuse me, Montana. It was discovered in Montana. It's not fossilized. The paleontologist that discovered this, Mary Schweitzer, said this, if you stick a blood sample, if you take a blood sample and stick it on a shelf, you have nothing recognizable in about one week. So why would there be anything left in dinosaurs? Good question, Mary. Intact red blood cells, and since that time, we have documented somewhat intact DNA in these blood cells. 65 million years old? I don't know about you, but I have a problem with that. I don't think so. So is there any evidence that dinosaurs actually lived after the flood? Well, let me show you a few examples. Here's an ancient Mesopotamian cylinder sail. It pictures what appears to be a Tynostropheus. How did they know what a Tynostropheus looked like if they never seen one before? There was no such thing as paleontology. up until the 1800s. This is the tomb of Bishop Bell in the Carlisle Cathedral in Northern England. He was buried in the 15th century, almost 400 years before dinosaur fossils were discovered. There's all sorts of animals carved in that brass band surrounding the grave there, including what appears to be two sauropod dinosaurs. almost identical to our modern understanding of sauropods. Stone carvings adore the 800-year-old temples of Angkor, Cambodia. Here's a carving of what appears to be either a stegosaurus or in the same dinosaur kind as a stegosaurus. How did they know what a stegosaurus looked like? This pictograph was drawn by North American Indians that lived in an area that's now become Natural Bridges National Monument in the United States. It appears to picture a sauropod dinosaur. Do you see it? Let me draw it for you. North American Indians, even noted anti-creationists, agree that it resembles a dinosaur and that the brownish film, which is hardened over the image, attests to its age. How did they know what a sauropod dinosaur looked like? The dragon symbol has been used in Wales since the Romans invaded and occupied Wales in the first century AD. Stories come from people all over the world, from every culture of people on every continent. You know, it's hard for me to believe that so many people from so many different places could have come up with such similar descriptions if these creatures did not exist and live alongside of man. This is our concept and it's pictured on one of the books that we have there in the back of a dragon from the past, but this is the fossilized remains of a dinosaur discovered in 2003 in South Dakota. It's called a Dracorex. Identical to our concept of dragons from the past. An Irish writer recorded an encounter with a large beast with iron nails on its tail that pointed backwards. Its head was shaped a bit like a horse's and it had legs with strong claws. Is he describing a mythical creature? This Irish writer or is he describing a stegosaurus? Sounds a lot more to me like he's describing something like a stegosaurus. And here's the final proof, folks. I survived the flood. See, I told you I would prove it, you know. Well if dinosaurs live recently why don't I find the word dinosaur in the Bible. Well we relate this back to the King James Bible. You know the word dinosaur dinosauria wasn't discovered until 1841 by famous British scientist and creationist Sir Richard Owen. He used the word dinosauria because it means terrible lizard. That's what the bones made him think of. But it wasn't till many years later that the King James Bible was translated. That was 1611 or excuse me earlier that the King James Bible was translated. He invented the word dinosauria or dinosaur 230 actually 230 years later. That's a mistake there. But the word dragon is found in the King James Bible some 35 times. Creationists believe that it's often referring to dinosaurs and we won't get into why the modern translations haven't used the word dinosaur but they should have. The Hebrew word for dragon is the word to name and it's used some 22 times in the Hebrew Bible. Could it be that the Hebrews actually lived among creatures that we call today dinosaurs. Look at this first. This is the place in the King James that uses the word dragon. Jeremiah 51, 34. In this passage, Jerusalem has been destroyed by Babylon. And as if Jerusalem can speak, Jeremiah records, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, hath devoured me. He hath crushed me. He hath made me an empty vessel. He hath swallowed me up like a dragon. He hath filled his belly. with my delicates. He have cast me out. Sounds like he's talking about a dinosaur type creature to me. And what about behemoth? After the flood, God describes to Job a huge animal, huge creature called behemoth. Job must have been familiar with this creature that God is describing, or the lesson would have been pointless to him. This creature is described as being made with man. Probably a reference to being created on day number six. He eats grass like an ox. He has a powerful back and belly, bones like iron, chief in the ways of God, and having a tail like a cedar. What's a tail like a cedar? You know, the cedars of the Middle East were called the cedars of Lebanon. These were huge trees. Not all were this huge. But we're talking about huge trees folks. Yes some Bible some of our modern day study Bibles have suggested that behemoth was a hippo. So I'll ask you this morning. Does a hippo have a tail like a cedar. I don't think so. Some of our study Bible suggest that behemoth was an elephant. So I'll ask you again. Does an elephant have a tail like a cedar. No. What's a towel like a cedar? There's a towel like a cedar. Does it fit the hippopotamus? No. There's a problem there. Does it fit the elephant? No. Does it fit the sauropod dinosaur? It certainly does, doesn't it? Behold, behemoth. Probably referring to a sauropod dinosaur. Maybe something like a brachiosaurus. We don't really know. But doesn't this look like the creature that Job would understand as being chief in the ways of God? I think so. Not only does Job write about Behemoth, he writes about another creature. We're going to skip that for the sake of time, but it's Leviathan. And that's another interesting one. Now, if dinosaurs lived recently, they must have been on the ark. So let's begin with this question. How could they fit? How could you put a dinosaur on Noah's Ark? I knew you would ask that question. Well, we often portray the Ark something like this. Sadly, these kind of pictures grossly misrepresent the biblical event. They give children the idea that the flood was a fairy tale. Folks, it was not a fairy tale. And the Ark was a huge vessel. You can see there the people at the bottom right for scale, the transfer truck and trailer for scale. Noah's Ark actually had the carrying capacity equivalent to 522 stock cars, railroad stock cars. So certainly the ark was large enough to carry dinosaurs. But how many different dinosaurs had to fit on the art? You know, we have discovered in just the last few years that a lot of the dinosaurs that we know by name were actually the same species of dinosaurs at different ages. Even evolutionary paleontologists have admitted this. And creation scientists believe there were only about 50 dinosaur kinds. There's speciation in those kinds but 50 dinosaur kinds. You know the Bible says that God sent two of each kind to Noah to the ark. And here's here's an example. Here's a triceratops. Every child is familiar with the triceratops. But did you realize that the triceratops is a part of the ceratopsia kind? And here's just a few examples of the ceratopsia kind. God would have sent two ceratopsia dinosaurs. A pink one and a blue one, right? A male and a female. So not every species had to go in the ark. We're only talking about 50 dinosaur kinds. That's a hundred dinosaurs. But how large were the largest dinosaurs that had to fit on the ark? Do you think this is an accurate portrayal of Noah trying to get the dinosaurs on the ark? I don't think so. Now, it's certainly true that some of the dinosaurs were huge, humongous creatures when they were grandpas and grandmas. But some of the dinosaurs were as small as chickens. The average size of a dinosaur was about that of a sheep or a goat. And the most humongous dinosaurs that ever lived came out of an egg. Anybody have any idea how big the largest egg, like even from a brachiosaurus or a seismosaurus, actually is? That's about right. We say just a little bit bigger than a football. So that's just about right. Very good. So that means even a Sosmosaurus or a Brachiosaurus came out of an egg this big. In other words, they started out little, didn't they? And based on the growth rings in an Apatosaurus fossil, we know that the Apatosaurus dinosaurs went through a teenage growth spurt, just like our children do today, don't they? So let's think about this. If God sent a four-year-old Apatosaurus to Noah, and that Apatosaurus got off one year later, that Apatosaurus would weigh quite a bit less than a grown elephant. And wouldn't God send a young one? After all, they need to reproduce after they get off the ark. God's not going to send grandpa and grandma dinosaur to the ark. You see, when we just use our common sense, wearing our biblical glasses, it makes sense. I have to think biblically. And it's not a problem whatsoever to have dinosaurs on Noah's ark and all animal kinds. with room left over for food and even for waste. No problem whatsoever. But you know, if I try to put millions of years into Genesis, say dinosaurs lived before man, I have to begin to mark out or cut out part of the Word of God or say that's not literal truth. And when I begin to do that, where am I going to stop? Where are you going to stop? You see, God's Word is true from the very first verse. It's trustworthy. When you begin with the Bible, the real science makes sense. No problem whatsoever. So where are dinosaurs today? Well, as far as we know, they're not here. There's some people that think there's still some dinosaurs or there could be dinosaurs that still exist, but that's not documented. So we assume that dinosaurs are not here. We really don't have any concrete evidence to suggest otherwise. So they died out at some point. Well, evolutionists tell us that dinosaurs, or at least for, well, since the 1970s, evolutionists have told us that dinosaurs were killed out by an asteroid impact. About a two mile wide asteroid that hit the earth, supposedly 65 million years ago, created a global winter and killed off the dinosaurs. But because of so many problems, and we're limited in time this morning, but there's so many problems with this view, evolutionary scientists have come up with new theories. And you're not going to believe some of them. This is amazing. Some evolutionary scientists tell us that dinosaurs died out after plants evolved into narcotics. They became junkies and died off. That's a scientific view. Check it out on the internet. There's over a hundred different theories today as to what happened to the dinosaurs. Some scientists tell us that plants evolved to where they couldn't be digested and dinosaurs died off because of constipation. We won't even talk about that anymore. There's an overeating theory as well. They're grasping for straws. Here's a more biblical explanation. We know there was a worldwide flood. We believe there was an ice age after the flood. Matter of fact, the flood provides the only mechanism by which you can get an ice age. If you cool the earth slowly over long periods of time, You cannot get an ice age because the oceans cool at the same rate or basically the same rate as land. If evaporation stops and you can't get ice buildup on land, it's impossible. The flood provides the only mechanism. The ice age would have peaked about 500 years after the flood based on computer models. We have tons of evidence that we had an ice age after the flood, after all the sedimentation you see that was laid down. So what did happen to them? Well, I think the primary thing, and I'm going to tell you, nobody knows for sure, but based on some stories you can read about in one of the books back there on our website, I think the human factor was the biggest factor. Dinosaurs were killed by man for protection, for food, and even for sport. A couple years ago, I was up in Michigan. Speaking in a small church up there. It was fall of the year and a young boy had just come back from killing his first deer. 13 year old boy. You talking about? I mean, that church was excited. They were rejoicing with that young man. Can you imagine coming back from killing your first dinosaur? That would be huge, wouldn't it? But you know, let's think about this. After the flood. Depending on where you're living in the world would be more of a factor than others. But maybe you're living, it's a few hundred years after the flood, you're struggling to survive. It's cold. Even places maybe like North Carolina or even South Carolina, maybe even parts of Georgia, it's very cold. It's hard to raise a crop. Maybe you're living in a village of 30 families, 20 families. You're struggling to even provide food from gardens for your family. Here comes a dinosaur wandering near the village. What are the men of that village going to do? It could be for protection in part, but even if it's a herbivore, even if it's not carnivorous, the men of the village will rally. They will risk their lives. to provide food for their families, won't they? That makes a lot more sense to me than the constipation theory. Actually, we have story after story from history of where men killed dinosaurs for protection, for food, and for sport. I think that's what happened, or at least that's the most probable thing that happened, that the dinosaurs You see, when you put on biblical glasses, you look at the evidence, the evidence fits. So you begin with God's word is literal truth. Then you look at the evidence and there's no problem with it whatsoever. So dinosaurs can actually be missionary lizards, can't they? They certainly can, because they fit biblical history. There's no problem whatsoever. Now, let me challenge you. Our time is about up, but we need to be ready to make a defense to everyone that asks us for a reason for the hope that is in us. Are you equipped? I'm going to tell you today, you're going to get a lot of questions. You go out sharing Christ with people, you're going to get questions. Your children are going to come home with questions about dinosaurs, about evolution, natural selection, genetic mutation. We need to be equipped to give those kids and those people that we're witnessing to answers. One of the best places to get equipped is the website creation.com. And I challenge you as well to consider checking into the magazine. I'll share a little bit more about that in the 11 o'clock hour. We have all kinds of resources available. You know, that's what we're all about. We realize that you'll only remember a portion of what you hear today, but if we can connect you to nothing more than our website, then you have a resource that will be a help to you. I appreciate your time this morning. It's an honor to be here, and my throat is a little bit scratchy. I've had quite a cold this week while we were on vacation in Florida. But I'm doing the best I can and we'll get through the 11 o'clock hour, Lord willing. Thank you for your time. God bless.