Dinosaurs were lizards. Lizards never stop growing. That's why old alligators and crocodiles can grow to 25 feet or more. If they lived longer, they would grow even bigger. Before the flood, life lasted longer. Men lived to be 400 to 900 years old. I am sure you don't wish to embrace that thought, but if you embrace God, you embrace His word, and He does not lie. The climate changed after the flood. The earth itself burst open and poured forth floodwaters. The rift probably split the continents asunder, created the mountains, and even tilted the earth off an even 0-degree axis to a 23-degree angle to its orbit. Seasons were born, and winter is hostile to lizards. Thus the dinosaurs died out.
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Okay, he makes up bizarre genetic connections (Crocodiles, alligators, and dinosaurs aren't lizards...), uses arguments that are actually suggested NOT to be used by fellow creationists (Earth used to have a 0 degree axis), and makes up facts about the growth rate of alligators and crocodiles. He also makes comments about human lifespan that are physically impossible for the human biology, and says that a being with multiples errors in his written word never lies. I won't even touch his flood theory.
Wait, so, before the "flood," Earth didn't orbit the sun?
Yeah, dinsosaurs were lizards, and humans are bats. That's why people can fly by flapping their wings.
"Dinosaurs were lizards. Lizards never stop growing. That's why old alligators and crocodiles can grow to 25 feet or more. If they lived longer, they would grow even bigger. Before the flood, life lasted longer. Men lived to be 400 to 900 years old. I am sure you don't wish to embrace that thought, but if you embrace God, you embrace His word, and He does not lie. The climate changed after the flood. The earth itself burst open and poured forth floodwaters. The rift probably split the continents asunder, created the mountains, and even tilted the earth off an even 0-degree axis to a 23-degree angle to its orbit. Seasons were born, and winter is hostile to lizards. Thus the dinosaurs died out."
-Glyptodon
TDR, I'm fine, the above post to Glyptodon returned me to sanity.
Dinosaurs weren't lizards, you numbskull! They were more closely related to birds and crocodiles, wether evolution is true or not (I personally don't believe in evolution, but it's more than obvious that birds are at least PARTIALLY related to dinosaurs.(points to Microraptor)). Also, not ALL dinosaurs were big. In fact, most were no bigger than modern peacocks and turkeys.
His premise is flawed...even more so than usual.
The flood was supposedly rainwater, (Read: "water from heaven") not water from the interior of the Earth.
Come on. Read your own stupid book.
"The rift probably split the continents asunder, created the mountains, and even tilted the earth off an even 0-degree axis to a 23-degree angle to its orbit..."
Well, it might fool fundies. However, for anyone who actually knows how to use their brain, it's nothing but bullshit.
(1) Dinosaurs weren't lizards. They were as distantly related to snakes and lizards as you are to a kangaroo. They were far, far closer--physically and genetically--to birds. Birds are highly-derived theropod dinosaurs, which appear to be the only dinosaur clade that successfully weathered the Cretaceous Extinction.
(2) There are evidences for (relatively) rapid climate changes in the form of tree rings, ice cores and ocean sediments. Unfortunately for you, those ice cores go back for more than 740,000 years, and the growth rings of trees match them. The oldest seafloor sediments we have are nearly 180 million years old. We have a very complete picture of climate that goes back for far, far longer than young-earth creationists claim that this universe has existed. What there ISN'T is evidence of a massive rifting event as you describe, extremely rapid continental movement, extremely rapid mountain building events, and an actual physical axial shift, because the physical evidence we have does not correspond with what we would see if these things had actually occurred.
Dammit, those 900 year old guys were exaggerations, just "fish stories", since their entertainment consisted of telling stories at night. I can tell the difference between tales that were meant for adults and tales that were meant to entertain children before bedtime, so why can't you? The more exaggerated the numbers, the more likely it was to be a kid's story, and not a single person over the age of six took it literally until we, the stupid generation, came along.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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