This document discusses several perspectives on dinosaurs and their relationship to biblical accounts of creation: - It questions whether God created dinosaurs and if they co-existed with humans, referencing theories of dinosaurs dying out 65 million years ago versus interpretations allowing for dinosaurs surviving later. - It examines biblical passages like Genesis and references to behemoth and leviathan that some argue could refer to dinosaur species. Fossil and archaeological evidence is presented arguing for human-dinosaur co-existence. - Ultimately it concludes that while certain details are unknown, the Bible affirms God created all life and mankind holds a special place, with dinosaurs likely on the ark with Noah or becoming extinct later.

1. Dinosaurs?

2. • Did God create dinosaurs?
– Gen. 1:20-25
Dinosaurs?

3. Col. 1:16 - 16For by Him all things were created that
are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and
invisible, whether thrones or dominions or
principalities or powers. All things were created
through Him and for Him.

4. • Did God create dinosaurs?
Dinosaurs?

5. • Did God create dinosaurs?
• Dinosaurs co-existing with man?
– 65 million years ago?
– Gap Theory
Dinosaurs?

6. Exo. 20:11 - 11For in six days the LORD made the
heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in
them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the
LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

7. • Did God create dinosaurs?
• Dinosaurs co-existing with man?
– 65 million years ago?
– Gap Theory
• Gen. 1:1-5, 16-18
• “day” is the same word
(yom) in verse 5 and
verse 18
Dinosaurs?

8. • Did God create dinosaurs?
• Dinosaurs co-existing with man?
– 65 million years ago?
– Gap Theory
– Day-Age Theory
• “evening and the morning”
• What about pollination?
Dinosaurs?

9. • Did God create dinosaurs?
• Dinosaurs co-existing with man?
– 65 million years ago?
– Gap Theory
– Day-Age Theory
– Fossil evidence
Dinosaurs?

10. "Over the decades, evolutionary theorists
beginning with Charles Darwin have tried to argue
that the appearance of multicelled animals during
the Cambrian merely seemed sudden, and in fact
had been preceded by a lengthy period of evolution
for which the geological record was missing. But
this explanation, while it patched over a hole in an
otherwise masterly theory, now seems increasingly
unsatisfactory. Since 1987, discoveries of major
fossil beds in Greenland, in China, in Siberia, and
now in Namibia have shown that the period of
biological innovation occurred…”

11. “…at virtually the same instant in geologic time all
around the world. ...just as the peculiar behavior of
light forced physicists to conclude that Newton's
laws were incomplete, so the Cambrian explosion
has caused experts to wonder if the twin Darwinian
imperatives of genetic variation and natural
selection provide an adequate framework for
understanding evolution...”
(Time, 12/4, 1995, p.67, 74)

12. "The Cambrian Explosion occurred in a geological
moment, and we have reason to think that all
major anatomical designs may have made their
evolutionary appearance at that time.
Contrary to Darwin's expectation that new data
would reveal gradualistic continuity with slow and
steady expansion, all major discoveries of the past
century have only heightened the massiveness and
geological abruptness of this formative event...”
(Stephen J. Gould, Nature, Vol.377, 26 10/95,
p.682)

13. "And we find many of them already in an advanced
state of evolution, the very first time they appear. It
is as though they were just planted there, without
any evolutionary history.”
(Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker, 1986,
p.229-230)

14. Dinosaur and human print together
(Paluxy River near Glen Rose, TX)

15. 30 ft. fossilized tree protruding through multiple
sedimentary layers (Cookville, TN)

16. Fossilized human foot inside leather cowboy boot
ca. 1950 (Iraan, Texas – 1980)

17. • Did God create dinosaurs?
• Dinosaurs co-existing with man?
– 65 million years ago?
– Gap Theory
– Day-Age Theory
– Fossil evidence
Dinosaurs?

18. • Did God create dinosaurs?
• Dinosaurs co-existing with man?
– 65 million years ago?
– Gap Theory
– Day-Age Theory
– Fossil evidence
– Archeological evidence
Dinosaurs?

19. Ta Prohm Temple, Cambodia (Khmer) 8th – 13th
Century

20. Ica, Peru (Nasca) 500 – 1500 AD

21. Ica, Peru (Nasca) 500 – 1500 AD

22. Acambaro, Mexico (Chupicuaro) 800 BC – 500 AD

23. Grand Canyon, Arizona

24. Montrose County, Colorado (Fremont Indians)
400 – 1300 AD

25. Matt. 19:3-5 - 3The Pharisees also came to Him,
testing Him, and saying to Him, “Is it lawful for a
man to divorce his wife for just any reason?” 4And
He answered and said to them, “Have you not read
that He who made them at the beginning ‘made
them male and female,’ 5and said, ‘For this reason
a man shall leave his father and mother and be
joined to his wife, and the two shall become one
flesh’?

26. • Did God create dinosaurs?
• Dinosaurs co-existing with man?
Dinosaurs?

27. • Did God create dinosaurs?
• Dinosaurs co-existing with man?
• Dinosaurs in the scriptures?
– Behemoth (Job 40:15-24)
Dinosaurs?

28. • Did God create dinosaurs?
• Dinosaurs co-existing with man?
• Dinosaurs in the scriptures?
– Behemoth (Job 40:15-24)
Dinosaurs?

29. • Did God create dinosaurs?
• Dinosaurs co-existing with man?
• Dinosaurs in the scriptures?
– Behemoth (Job 40:15-24)
– Leviathan (Job 41)
Dinosaurs?

30. • Did God create dinosaurs?
• Dinosaurs co-existing with man?
• Dinosaurs in the scriptures?
– Behemoth (Job 40:15-24)
– Leviathan (Job 41)
Dinosaurs?

31. • Did God create dinosaurs?
• Dinosaurs co-existing with man?
• Dinosaurs in the scriptures?
• Where did they go?
Dinosaurs?

32. Gen. 6:19-21 - 19And of every living thing of all
flesh you shall bring two of every sort into the ark,
to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and
female. 20Of the birds after their kind, of animals
after their kind, and of every creeping thing of the
earth after its kind, two of every kind will come to
you to keep them alive. 21And you shall take for
yourself of all food that is eaten, and you shall
gather it to yourself; and it shall be food for you
and for them.” 22Thus Noah did; according to all
that God commanded him, so he did.

33. Gen. 6:19-21 - 19And of every living thing of all
flesh you shall bring two of every sort into the ark,
to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and
female. 20Of the birds after their kind, of animals
after their kind, and of every creeping thing of the
earth after its kind, two of every kind will come to
you to keep them alive. 21And you shall take for
yourself of all food that is eaten, and you shall
gather it to yourself; and it shall be food for you
and for them.” 22Thus Noah did; according to all
that God commanded him, so he did.

34. Gen. 6:19-21 - 19And of every living thing of all
flesh you shall bring two of every sort into the ark,
to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and
female. 20Of the birds after their kind, of animals
after their kind, and of every creeping thing of the
earth after its kind, two of every kind will come to
you to keep them alive. 21And you shall take for
yourself of all food that is eaten, and you shall
gather it to yourself; and it shall be food for you
and for them.” 22Thus Noah did; according to all
that God commanded him, so he did.

35. Gen. 6:19-21 - 19And of every living thing of all
flesh you shall bring two of every sort into the ark,
to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and
female. 20Of the birds after their kind, of animals
after their kind, and of every creeping thing of the
earth after its kind, two of every kind will come to
you to keep them alive. 21And you shall take for
yourself of all food that is eaten, and you shall
gather it to yourself; and it shall be food for you
and for them.” 22Thus Noah did; according to all
that God commanded him, so he did.

36. Gen. 6:19-21 - 19And of every living thing of all
flesh you shall bring two of every sort into the ark,
to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and
female. 20Of the birds after their kind, of animals
after their kind, and of every creeping thing of the
earth after its kind, two of every kind will come to
you to keep them alive. 21And you shall take for
yourself of all food that is eaten, and you shall
gather it to yourself; and it shall be food for you
and for them.” 22Thus Noah did; according to all
that God commanded him, so he did.

37. Deut. 29:29 - 29The secret things belong to the
LORD our God, but those things which are revealed
belong to us and to our children forever, that we
may do all the words of this law.

38. • Did God create dinosaurs?
• Dinosaurs co-existing with man?
• Dinosaurs in the scriptures?
• Where did they go?
Dinosaurs?

39. • Did God create dinosaurs?
• Dinosaurs co-existing with man?
• Dinosaurs in the scriptures?
• Where did they go?
• Mankind is special
– Gen. 1:26-28
Dinosaurs?

40. Isa. 43:7 - 7Everyone who is called by My name,
whom I have created for My glory; I have formed
him, yes, I have made him.
John 3:16
Eph. 2:10 - 10For we are His workmanship, created
in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared
beforehand that we should walk in them.
Gal. 3:26-27 - 26For you are all sons of God through
faith in Christ Jesus. 27For as many of you as were
baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

41. Dinosaurs?