The sources present a case for the coexistence of dinosaurs and humans through a combination of historical legends, ancient artwork, and scientific findings that challenge conventional evolutionary timelines.
Historical Evidence
- Ubiquity of Dragon Legends: Legends of “dragons” are found in almost every human culture, including the Chinese, Aztecs, and even the Inuit. These stories often describe large, fearsome reptiles with massive tails and spiked backs—descriptions that closely match various dinosaurs.
- Ancient Testimonies: Respected ancient historians, such as the Greek historian Herodotus (c. 450 B.C.), documented the existence of flying reptiles. Similarly, the English epic Beowulf, written over 1,000 years ago, describes an encounter with a “fearsome earth-dragon”.
- Terminology: The term “dinosaur” was not coined until the early 1840s. Consequently, any ancient accounts of these creatures would have used different names, such as “dragon” or “serpent”.
Physical and Scientific Evidence
- Rock Art and Carvings: Ancient depictions of dinosaurs have been discovered globally in contexts that suggest firsthand observation:
- Ta Prohm, Cambodia: A 12th-century stone carving at this monastery accurately resembles a Stegosaurus and is surrounded by other real-life animals like monkeys and parrots.
- Kachina Bridge, Utah: An Anasazi petroglyph (dated between A.D. 500 and 1450) bears a “startling resemblance” to a sauropod like Apatosaurus. Notably, Apatosaurus fossils have been found within 50 miles of this site.
- Havasupai Canyon, Arizona: A pictograph discovered in the late 1800s depicts a dinosaur-like creature standing upright and balanced on its tail.
- Carlisle Cathedral, England: A 1496 brass engraving on Bishop Bell’s tomb shows two long-necked, long-tailed creatures resembling sauropod dinosaurs.
- Artifact Collections:
- Acambaro, Mexico (Julsrud Collection): This collection of thousands of clay figurines includes hundreds of dinosaur-like reptiles. A “clincher” for their authenticity is that figurines from the 1940s depict sauropods with dermal spines, a feature that scientists did not discover in the fossil record until 1992.
- Ica Stones, Peru: Thousands of stones depict an ancient culture interacting with dinosaurs, including scenes of humans hunting or riding them.
- Soft Tissue in Fossils: The 2005 discovery of flexible, resilient soft tissue (including blood vessels and bone cells) inside a Tyrannosaurus rex femur challenges the idea that these fossils are 70 million years old, as such material would not be expected to survive for that duration.
- Carbon-14 Analysis: Scientific tests on dinosaur bone fragments have revealed detectable traces of Carbon-14, which should be entirely absent if the bones were more than 100,000 years old.
Biblical Evidence
- Creation Week: The Bible states that God created all land animals and humans on the sixth day of creation (Exodus 20:11; Genesis 1:24-28), meaning they would have begun their existence as contemporaries.
- Job’s Descriptions: The book of Job describes two massive creatures: Behemoth, which had a tail like a “cedar” and bones like “beams of bronze” (Job 40), and Leviathan, a fire-breathing water creature (Job 41). The authors argue these descriptions fit dinosaurs and dinosaur-like marine reptiles far better than modern animals like the hippopotamus or crocodile.
Addressing the Lack of Co-located Fossils
The sources argue that the absence of human fossils alongside dinosaur fossils does not disprove coexistence. They note that human fossils are extremely scarce in general and point to “living fossils” like the coelacanth and Gingko tree. These organisms were once thought to be extinct for millions of years based on their absence in specific rock layers, yet they are alive today, proving that a lack of fossil evidence in a particular strata does not mean an organism was not alive at that time.