shernren
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(I hope I don't get into another shouting match like over at the global flood thread, but) I didn't make fun of you for what you believe, but for not checking it out. Here are some typical dino skeletons:
and here's the link to a typical crocodile skeleton (can't paste it directly - too big) : http://hemant_55.tripod.com/museums/crocodile_skeletons.jpg it's obvious that there is a difference between the dinosaurs' upright posture and the crocodiles' splayed posture that can be seen from skeletal structure alone.
Humans never lived with dinosaurs. It's an idea that isn't supported unequivocally anywhere in scripture or outside it. As to where they got dinosaur ideas? Well, humans are ... wait for it ... CREATIVE. Gee. Some of the ways ancients made up monsters were:
Chimerism. The best example of this, of course, is the chimera itself. Other examples are the sphinx, the mermaid, the pegasus, the unicorn, etc.
Gigantism. Even today we have sci-fi flicks of gigantic insects (remember Starship Troopers?) although there's no way hydrostatic pressure can support anything remotely close to human-sized insects. How much easier, then, to
Addition of lethal attributes. For it to be a challenge for the hero to slay the monster, there must be some supernatural power that is of great danger to the hero himself. For example the Medusa isn't just a pretty snake-haired lady, she can also turn people to stone when they look at her. Hence the fire-breath and the impenetrable scales.
Discovery of huge bones. If pre-modern humans discovered huge bones (belonging to prehistoric animals) surely they would have additional motivation for all the above in mythical animals - look, here's its skeleton!
If people can't come up with dinosaurs out of their own imagination, how did the first people who put together a dino skeleton know what they were? After all they hadn't seen a dino before. It doesn't take a lot of imagination to conjure a giant lizard out of the human psyche, it seems. Besides, why is it that each culture has dragons, but that Eastern dragons are very different from Western dragons? Eastern dragons couldn't possibly be dinosaurs of any kind, if you've ever seen representations of them before.
and here's the link to a typical crocodile skeleton (can't paste it directly - too big) : http://hemant_55.tripod.com/museums/crocodile_skeletons.jpg it's obvious that there is a difference between the dinosaurs' upright posture and the crocodiles' splayed posture that can be seen from skeletal structure alone.
Humans never lived with dinosaurs. It's an idea that isn't supported unequivocally anywhere in scripture or outside it. As to where they got dinosaur ideas? Well, humans are ... wait for it ... CREATIVE. Gee. Some of the ways ancients made up monsters were:
Chimerism. The best example of this, of course, is the chimera itself. Other examples are the sphinx, the mermaid, the pegasus, the unicorn, etc.
Gigantism. Even today we have sci-fi flicks of gigantic insects (remember Starship Troopers?) although there's no way hydrostatic pressure can support anything remotely close to human-sized insects. How much easier, then, to
Addition of lethal attributes. For it to be a challenge for the hero to slay the monster, there must be some supernatural power that is of great danger to the hero himself. For example the Medusa isn't just a pretty snake-haired lady, she can also turn people to stone when they look at her. Hence the fire-breath and the impenetrable scales.
Discovery of huge bones. If pre-modern humans discovered huge bones (belonging to prehistoric animals) surely they would have additional motivation for all the above in mythical animals - look, here's its skeleton!
If people can't come up with dinosaurs out of their own imagination, how did the first people who put together a dino skeleton know what they were? After all they hadn't seen a dino before. It doesn't take a lot of imagination to conjure a giant lizard out of the human psyche, it seems. Besides, why is it that each culture has dragons, but that Eastern dragons are very different from Western dragons? Eastern dragons couldn't possibly be dinosaurs of any kind, if you've ever seen representations of them before.
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