Dinosaurs Lived With People

Here we go. .. In the Book of Job, written about 4,000 years ago, we read the following: Look at Behemoth,which I made along with youand which feeds on grass like an ox. What strength it has in its loins,what power in the muscles of its belly! Its tail sways like a cedar;the sinews of its thighs are close-knit. Its bones are tubes of bronze,its limbs like rods of iron. It ranks first among the works of God,yet its Maker can approach it with his sword. The hills bring it their produce,and all the wild animals play nearby. Under the lotus plants it lies,hidden among the reeds in the marsh. The lotuses conceal it in their shadow;the poplars by the stream surround it. A raging river does not alarm it;it is secure, though the Jordan should surge against its mouth. Can anyone capture it by the eyes,or trap it and pierce its nose? One may object that they do not believe in God, but the fact remains that this story was written for contemporaries so that they might see a real-life example of their God's majesty. If the animal here described, which is obviously a dinosaur, was not known to the Jews, then this story would have sounded to them absolutely absurd and it would not have been passed down. If behemoth didn't really exist for the Jews to see first-hand, using him as proof of the greatest of God's works would have been utterly ineffective and made the author the laughingstock of the people. Around 4,000 years ago, the Hongshan culture, in what is now China, carved a Montanoceratops out of jade: This proves the Chinese saw a live Montanoceratops. In China around 1,100 A. D. , Marco Polo saw a 50-foot reptile with jaws large enough to swallow a man, and a tail so heavy it left a trail in the sand as if a heavy beam had been dragged across. Here is his eye-witness account of this dinosaur: Here are seen huge serpents, ten paces in length, and ten spans in the girt of the body. At the fore part, near the head, they have two short legs, having three claws like those of a tiger, with eyes larger than a fourpenny loaf (pane da quattro denari) and very glaring. The jaws are wide enough to swallow a man, the teeth are large and sharp, and their whole appearance is so formidable, that neither man, nor any kind of animal, can approach them without terror. Others are met with of a smaller size, being eight, six, or five paces long; and the follow ing method is used for taking them. In the day-time, by reason of the great heat, they lurk in caverns, from whence, at night, they issue to seek their food, and whatever beast they meet with and can lay hold of, whether tiger, wolf, or any other, they devour; after which they drag themselves towards some lake, spring of water, or river, in order to drink. By their motion in this way along the shore, and their vast weight, they make a deep impression, as if a heavy beam had been drawn along the sands. Those whose employment it is to hunt them observe the track by which they are most frequently accustomed to go, and fix into the ground several pieces of wood, armed with sharp iron spikes, which they cover with the sand in such a manner as not to be perceptible. When therefore the animals make their way towards the places they usually haunt, they are wounded by these instruments, and speedily killed. The crows, as soon as they perceive them to be dead, set up their scream ; and this serves as a signal to the hunters, who advance to the spot, and proceed to separate the skin from the flesh, taking care immediately to secure the gall, which is most highly esteemed in medicine. In cases of the bite of a mad dog, a pennyweight of it, dissolved in wine, is administered. It is also useful in accelerating parturition, when the labour pains of women have come on. A small quantity of it being applied to carbuncles, pustules, or other eruptions on the body, they are presently dispersed; and it is efficacious in many other complaints. The flesh also of the animal is sold at a dear rate, being thought to have a higher flavour than other kinds of meat, and by all persons it is esteemed a delicacy. Around the same time (1,100 A. D. ), the following Wuerhosaurus was carved into a temple in Cambodia, proving that the Cambodians witnessed a live Wuerhosaurus: The artist was clever enough to exaggerate the head so that it wouldn't be confused for a tail, thus avoiding the creation of what would be mistaken for a headless animal. The lack of spines on the sculpture's tail is due either to lack of space, since the tail is cut off by the encircling design; or, the artist was simply representing a variety of spine-less, Wuerhosaurus-like dinosaur. In the late 1500s, The Father of Natural History, Ulysses Aldrovandus, recorded the following regarding a dinosaur which he saw with his own eyes: In the year of our salvation 1572, on the third day before the Ides of May, at the time of the election of the Supreme Pontiff, Gregory XIII, of Bologna, in that place a two-legged dragon hissing after the manner of a serpent showed itself. For it was making its lair at the estate of the Lord Petronius de Dosiis in the place known as Malavolta. But eventually after the day of the Ascension of our Redeemer of that same year, at the seventeenth hour on a public road next to a fence of the aforementioned property at a distance of one mile from the City, it was sighted by a certain farmhand named Baptista de Camaldulo. For, as he was going to the country from Bologna with his oxen drawing the carriage and he himself walking on foot behind the carriage, he noticed that the oxen came to a sudden stop. And so in frustration, he hit them hard with his boot, but they were terrified for some reason and, dropped to their knees, would not dare to go on any farther. Just then, hearing a loud hiss, the farmhand looked around and saw the astonishing figure of the Dragon. Right there, trembling with fear, he lifted his spear, struck the head of the beast, and killed the animal. But what is amazing is that the Dragon never left from that place, but rather chose to remain, with raised head, leering at the oxen and the farmhand with its cruel eyes, possibly in order to spring at them. [. .. ] And even though serpents are very voracious animals[. .. ] we must not for that reason believe that this Dragon with two feet had raised up its head for the sake of food but rather it did so in order to be able to spring at the farmhand more easily. Aldrovandus had the following painting of this creature made, revealing it was a dinosaur closely related to Tanystropheus: One may object that Aldrovandus' dinosaur is missing it's hind limbs, but that's not too unusual. There are species of lizards and skinks today which also lack hind limbs: At Palau de La Generalitat in Barcelona Spain, St. George’s Chapel contains a 1500s altar cloth depicting St. George slaying a Nothosaurus. The only way the artist could have illustrated a Nothosaurus so accurately is if people had seen it in real life; thus, the resolution is fulfilled. The “Ica Stones” were carved around the 1500s in Peru and depict various dinosaurs, thus proving people saw live dinosaurs: In the late 1800s, Geologist F. S. Homes, Paleontologist and Curator of the Charleston Museum, discovered Indian arrowheads, an axe, a human jaw bone and other human bones in the “Ashley Beds” of South Carolina, mixed together with Iguanodons, Duck-billed dinosaurs, Ichthyosauruses, and Plesiosaurs fossils. Here is an excerpt from his book, The Phosphate Rock of South Carolina and the Great Carolina Marl Bed: Not long after finding the above named relics of human workmanship, and engaged in our usual visits to the Ashley Bed, a bone was found projecting from the bluff, immediately in contact with the surface of the stony stratum (the Phosphate-rocks); we pulled it out, and behold a human bone! Without hesitation it was condemned as an "accidental occupant" of quarters to which it had no right - geologically - and so we threw it into the river. Alas! we have lived to regret our temerity and rashness. A year after, a lower jaw bone with teeth was taken from the same bed, and now we have it in the cabinet[. .. ] Subsequent events and discoveries show, conclusively, that the first human bone was "in place", and that the beds of the Post-Pleiocene, not only on the Ashley, but in France Switzerland and other European countries, contain human bones associated with the remains of extinct animals and relics of human workmanship, proving most conclusively that the Carolina specimens were found " in place"[. .. ] Obviously, finding human fossils mixed together with dinosaur fossils, embedded in the same rock formation, proves that humans saw living dinosaurs. I should clarify that my position of live dinosaurs being witnessed by people in the past few thousand years in no way defies science. The Ceolacanth was also thought to have gone extinct around 65 million years ago, yet it has been confirmed that they survive today. Similarly, the gigantic Wollemi Pine was once believed to have been extinct for millions of years, but we now know they grow in Australia. I look forward to my opponent's rebuttals.