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Multiple books have been published with the title, "Dinosaurs and the Bible". This one is in regards to a booklet written by David Unfred. Please see the disambiguation page for the others.

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Dinosaurs and the Bible is a creationist publication written by David Unfred and published by Huntington House Publishers in 1990.

Contents

No Dinosaurs in the Bible

No Kidding! There are NO Dinosaurs in the Bible, except birds. Birds are direct descendants of dinosaurs; evolving from coelurosaurs, like Compsognathus, Sinosauropteryx, and Caudipteryx. Many scientists with great boldness even stated that birds are dinosaurs, which means Ostriches, Eagles, Robins, Wrens, even Humming birds are all included in the same scientific class that Tyrannosaurus Rex, Stegosaurus, Bambiraptor, Apatosaurus, Abelisaurus, Triceratops, Homalocephale, Stegoceras, Ornithomimus, and others are all a part of; Class Dinosauria! Traditional classification for birds is Aves. Even so, they are still they are a part of Dinosauria, thanks to the most spectacular fossils to ever have been dug up from China. So why do the YECs (young earth charlatans) persistantly turn a blind eye at every evidence ever shown to the world for birds being dinosaurs? Because they are so indoctrinated into their made up falsehood of the earth being created during the Egyptian Predynastic Period, which is among other events occurring at that time in 3995 BC/BCE, that they will not even hear of the truth behind the Archaeoraptor forgery YECs keep touting to convince their gullible followers of how wrong scientists are in everything that has to do with evolution and prehistory.

To them, YECs are all the self proclaimed Christian leaders who is all at the helm of Christian Authority and their teachings are the top notch, truthful, biblically correct, and sounded, and the one and only thing that is 100% accurate, perfect in every way like Mary Poppins, only slightly-fallible, and mostly flawless; never a man-made Bible interpretation, while nothing can be further from the truth. They are among the minority; yet they have the biggest mouths and are persistent in their made up stories and fantasies, and hell-bent on imposing all of their teachings on all people by making videos and DVDs, building pseudo-museums, selling posters, doing seminars, taking advantage of the 1st amendment, convincing educational boards to rule in their favor of teaching and dictating their beliefs in schools; especially in science classes, and most of all, publish books. Especially this one, Dinosaurs and the Bible by David Unfred published in 1990.

About the Book

Dinosaurs and the Bible (DATB) is all about dinosaurs told in a young earth view that isn't really a point of view, nor an opinion at all. There's nothing but blatant lies made up to win them and their money to their group. YECs call all of these lies “Biblical Truth.” It's anything but “Biblical Truth.” It's nothing more than a human-made doctrine imposed upon as if they were coming out of God's mouth getting their inspirations from science fiction paraphinalia, cryptozoology, and ancient folklore. All enforced by these YE Pharisees who will do whatever it takes to impose their falsehood on others including make schools teach creationism in schools. They are succeeding in a tad few cases; at least for a short while. Yet, they are failing even 1,000 times more, because of great multitudes concerned people, Christian and non-Christian, who have a strong support for science and have a great understanding of what evolution is all about. Still, YECs keep at it and publish book after book after book of all those myths they claimed to refute evolution, but instead add more and more lies by ripping scientific quotes out of context, mudslinging, treating those who oppose their views as if they are the Devil's advocates, excommunicating, abuse, and slander people who questions and exposes them for who they are and much, much more.

History of YE Dinosaur Literature

What You Should Know About -- Dinosaurs (1971-1973) by Bernard Northrup is probably the very first YEC book on dinosaurs ever published followed by Man, Dinosaurs, and History (1977) by Frederick Beierle, Dinosaurs Those Terrible Lizards (1977) by Duane Gish, The Great Dinosaur Mystery and the Bible (1987) by Paul Taylor, and this one, DATB. DATB, as usual, contains all sorts of YEC claims on dinosaurs that has been refuted time and time again. And yet YECs still make those claims to this very day. However, it is only recent years that we see many YECs abandoning 2 of the YEC claims on dinosaurs such as the Paluxy human footprint myth and the Japanese Fisherman boat myth involving an alleged Plesiosaur carcass, that's really a basking shark carcass. Yet, some still vehemently defend those myths to this very day. Kent Hovind and Carl Baugh is one of them. These are the 2 myths that are found in this book.

Cover Description

Both the front and the back cover shows a scene where dinosaurs, humans, and modern animals running for their lives from the YE Great Flood coming their way, which is nothing more than a earthquake, severe storm, and a meteor shower being showned thus far. On the very back of the cover there is a summary made up by Carl Baugh, a YEC advocate even other YECs surprisingly highly regards him as a kook, yet the YECs are all kooks themselves including Answers in Genesis (AIG) (Say! There is an auto and financial insurance group that has the same acronym as Ham's organization!); creating a faux historical scenario that never existed. Yet, they continuously insist the opposite.

Book Forward

Pages 2 and 3 of the book has the same thing and a forward by Gary Parker a self proclaimed professor of Biology at a Christian College in Florida found on page 2 that states that dinosaurs have been used to lead people astray from the confidence of the Bible. A hypocritical lie. The truth is the other way around. It also states that this book will stimulate and satisfy the curiosities of young and old, while the book will actually do is lead people astray by YEC false teaching; setting them up for the fall and laying grounds for them to become atheists and agnostics, once they found out that they've been lied to all along.

The Bible Tells Nothing of Dinosaurs

On pages 6 and 7 there is no intro, but a myth about Behemoth of Job 40 being a Sauropod dinosaur, leaving for the reader some faulty clues that indicate what they say about Behemoth being a dinosaur is true, while in fact it's not. See The Truth About Behemoth for details. The real answer to the meaningless question, “What does the Bible tell us about dinosaurs?” is none! The Bible tells nothing about dinosaurs with the exception of birds. Some examples include birds being created on the 5th day of creation (Genesis 1:21) and doves and pigeons being used for sacrifices offered up to the Lord by those who could not afford buy sheep or ox for this purpose (Leviticus 1:14-17). The Bible does speak of modern dinosaurs, which are all birds and nothing else.

Pages 8 and 9 still addresses the dinosaurs in the Bible myth by the so-called creation “scientists” who are not really scientists at all (You can see all throughout the book and other like it, YECs being described as creation “scientists,” which they are not at all.) and claims that these verses describes the dinosaur concerning about what it looked like and how it behaved, while in fact theses verses in Job 40 is actually describes the hippopotamus, the one for a long time, biblical scholars have highly regarded Behemoth in the Bible as. The verses in Job 40 closely fits the hippo's description more than anything else in the animal kingdom.

Justifying Silly Beliefs

Then, Unfred, just like all YECs, claims that God was there at the very beginning and invokes the Bible verse in II Timothy 3:16 to justify their beliefs, just like all cult leaders have done with their false teachings for who knows how long since Paul wrote it to Timothy many years ago during the time of the Roman Empire to encourage him more to study the Law of Moses, the Psalms of David, the Proverbs of Solomon, and the writings of the Prophets. Despite what Unfred says, there was no worldwide flood. He invokes Exodus 20:11 to justify his creation story to be a 6-24 hour day period, while the verse was not meant to established any form of chronological time. This no doubt echoes the teachings of Seventh Day Adventism where it's believers observe the Sabbath day every Saturday of the week. It's responsible for the invention the Edenic (young earth) cult and its movement in the mid 1800s. Unfred claims that all of the animals was taken into the ark, which it's totally impossible for Noah to do concerning the ark being a 450x75x45 box - like vessel and the animal species living and extinct being about 90 million+ strong!

Making A Liar Out of God

Saying that God, whom the creationists claim never lies, created the earth thousands of years ago and yet finds that He in fact planted valid evidence that clearly points to the fact that the earth is billions of years old, is really saying that God is the Devil, who deceives people and leads them to believe that God always tells the truth while he does the exact opposite. This is exactly what YECs like Unfred is doing here, committing the most unforgivable sin against God by making such a blasphemous statement as being shown here.

Unfred arrogantly says “It's true! God says so! God cannot lie.” A real blatant cop-out. All other YECs says the exact same thing. Here Unfred is making God into a liar when he says all that through circular reasoning, 'God has says so in His word, it's true, He cannot lie.' while the scientific evidence points to the exact opposite. If God cannot lie, then why are scientists keep on finding evidence that clearly telling us that God is a liar and that the Earth and everything that's in it is NOT what YECs claim constantly it is? This is a kind of circular reasoning that appeals to authority and ignorance.

Let me reiterate, If what Unfred and other YECs say it is so, then how come we are finding evidence against what God supposedly claim for it to be true? Saying God cannot lie; and that the Earth is young and dinosaurs live with man; and yet, we see evidences of the exact opposite of what the YECs are saying about what God has done is in fact calling God a liar. A sheer act of sacrilege and blasphemy! Something YECs have been know to do; to commit this act of sacrilege and of blasphemy by using these kinds of circular reasoning and appeals to ignorance and authority by invoking God and the Bible to help justify their beliefs. Using God as a pawn and a cop out and say that 'God says so' or 'God cannot lie,' about what we find in nature and in the ground, and yet find the exact opposite of what YECs claim about what God has done is an act of sacrilege and blasphemy! It's all about twisting the verses around to fit their own views and controlling God like a puppet or a robot making Him agreeing in every falsehood they made up in hopes that God will Ok'ed them and have a part in it, while in fact He won't.

Bringing on the Confusion Themselves

Unfred claims that there's a confusion made around about the dinosaurs and the Bible, while the YECs actually brought along the confusion themselves, while there is otherwise none. Unfred claims the problem comes from when we believe the ideas of people who are wrong and makes mistakes rather than believe the 'Words of God' (Which young earthers falsely brand their dogma as.) that actually comes from the mouth of man (my emphases.) that are always right (or so they think.). Of course he is talking about the 'evolutionists' (An ad hoc word invented by the YECs themselves to describe people who embrace evolution only.), which in one person's view, there is no such people as and yet the YECs vehemently oppose. Because to them, they reject God, while in fact many evolutionists welcome God into their lives with open hearts and open minds and acknowledged Him as their Maker of all things.

Their Own Way of Explaining The Science of Dinosaurs

Now we get to the Question, “What can science tell us about dinosaurs? Plenty! But it's not at all what the YECs wanted science to tell. YECs would often invoke Noah's Flood to help explain fossils and sedimentary rocks. There's no evidence for all of this. Still YECs gives out the old global flood myth and says that perhaps people must have heard stories about giant reptiles that have escaped the flood on Noah's ark and thinks that could this be why stories of dragons are told all over the world from ancient time to now, right? Wrong! The answer is always NO (just like in the Capitol One commercials.) to those claims of dragons being dinosaurs, Noah's flood being makers of fossils, and all other YEC claims. And no, no one has ever heard of stories of giant reptiles being survivors of the flood on Noah's ark, because there were no such tales ever told back then during ancient times of long ago.

The History of Dinosaurs

Now we get to the YECs' own fabricated version of the history of the discovery of dinosaurs, where we read at the end of page 9 and all throughout pages 10-11 the discovery of dinosaur fossils being made by Gideon Mantell's wife, Mary Ann Mantell (not Anne as shown in the book!). Baron Georges Cuvier, who first brought on the idea of animal extinction caused not at all by Noah's flood despite what the book claims. He examines the fossils of dinosaurs brought in by Gideon and thought that the fossil teeth Mary found were all from a hippopotamus or a rhinoceros. This is wrong. So Mantell shows off the teeth to another scientist, who this time brought back the real answer. The teeth belonged to a large gigantic animal that resembles an iguana. Hence, what Mantell's wife has discovered is a reptile that is not like any other, with teeth that resembles an iguana. Even Cuvier had to apologize to Mantell for giving him wrongful conclusions about it and acknowledges the teeth to be really the teeth that belongs to an iguana-like reptile. This leads Mantell to name the creature Igunaodon, which means 'iguana tooth.' Iguanodon was a large plant eating dinosaur that lived 100 million years ago during the early Cretaceous period in what is now Europe. However, this is not the first dinosaur to be named and described by any person. Before that, Rev, Willian Buckland have unearthed and described a large meat eating 'reptile' he calls Megalosaurus, meaning 'huge reptile,' a dinosaur that lived 160 million years ago during the Mid Jurassic Period.

Unfred claims that William Buckland was a creationist, but never told anyone that this individual was a advocate of a ancient world far beyond 6,000 years old. In fact, he was NOT a young earth creationist, He believed that the earth is very old and that God created the earth by length of ages, not in the fabled 6-24 hour time periods like what the YECs claimed he believed. Richard Owen, a British Naturalist, who invented the name Dinosauria meaning “fearfully great lizards” hated Darwin's theory of evolution and did what it takes to discredit his writings. Ironically, he does acknowledge that animals and plants do change over time. For example, he believed that birds descended from pterodactyls (flying reptiles) (Reference, here.) an idea that was eventually rejected due to fossil evidence. He also believed the layers of sedimentary rock each represents a period of time and has helped Waterhouse Hawkins into the making of large life-like models of dinosaurs for the Crystal Palace exhibition.

Charles Darwin's Revolutionary Idea

Owen lived at the same time a revolutionary idea that came about by another British Naturalist named Charles Darwin, who set sail on the HMS Beagle and collected scores of evidence from fossils, plants, and animals to come up with an idea that plants, animals, and even people have went through a change that occurred over a period of time through natural selection. This is called evolution. You can read about Darwin and his groundbreaking idea on this page here. Darwin's ideas became a worldwide sensation. But it's not without major opposition from the church who rejected his views, (and still do!) because that idea contradicts the idea of God creating all things as told in Genesis 1 of the Bible. On page 12-13, Unfred gives out a straw man version of what evolution is; claiming Darwin has convince many people to not believe in creation the YEC way and claims that no evidence of evolution have been found, while the opposite is true. He even claims that evolutionists are all enemies of God, who accepts evolution by faith invoking Romans 1:20-25 to justify this lie. He hypocritically does not realize, or more likely ignore on purpose, of the fact that a leap of faith is never of what it takes to except evolution. Evidence? Yes. But a leap of faith? No. Evolution is not at all a religion that requires people to have faith. YECism does! He also ignores the fact that many evolutionists are Christians who accept the fact that God created everything and that verse in Romans 20, believe it or not, clearly describes the YECs themselves, not evolutionists, who are the ones who are without excuse. See this page on Answers in Creation website for details.

Unfred then makes up this statement: “True science, based on observation, logic, and knowledge, will always support what the Bible teaches.” Not the way YECs and their supporters wanted it, it does. How can YECs say things like that, while in fact they make up lies, give out false evidence, nitpick at the mistakes of the scientists while hiding their own, rip quotes, legends, and rock carvings out of context, etc.? No, creationism is not about observation, but made-up fairy tale lies.

Time Establishments

Page 14 and 15 shows the claim that says the reason we have a 7th day week while ignoring the real history of how we tell time. It's because of Exodus 20:8-11 that tells us that God had made the world in 7 days. But that passage had nothing to do with an establishment of a chronological time period. It does say simply that the Israelites are to observe the Sabbath on the 7th day just like the Lord had done after He created the heavens and the earth. Besides what what we think what a day is and what God thinks about what a day is is 2 different things (II Peter 3:8). Unfred also states that dinosaurs were created on the 6th day of creation along side of all other land animals and man, but what the YECs claim is not what the fossil record reveals. The fossil record clearly reveals that dinosaurs lived and died long before there were any humans on earth. It's no sin and evil to accept such a concept. It also clearly reveals that dinosaur remains are not found mixed together with modern animals like giraffes and gorillas, let alone mixed together with trilobites, dimetrodons, mammoths, and man.

Dinosaur Flood Myth

Pages 16 and 17 reveals the old myth about dinosaurs being destroyed by Noah's flood. Unfred mentions some of the theories that were made in the past to explain the causes of the dinosaur extinctions in his book. But he believes that the dinosaurs were all killed in Noah's Flood, which there is no evidence for. What is bad about this is that the YEC version of the flood also includes volcanoes, earthquakes, and meteor showers, which the Bible speaks nothing of.

Pages 18 and 19 gives out 3 examples of how a volcano have caused devastation all over the world throughout time. Like the Krakatoa volcanic eruption in 1883 that triggered a Tsunami that destroyed the islands around the volcano, a Thera volcanic eruption occurred around the time of the Exodus and hit the island of Crete with waves up to 300 feet high, and a Tambora volcanic eruption that have cause a prolonged winter to occurred in the northern parts of the world in 1815.

On page 20, there is an example of an earthquake that have shook Missouri in 1811 and 1812 and an example of an asteroid slamming into the earth in Siberia in 1908 found on page 21. Unfred claims the craters on the moon were all made up by comets and meteors that have showered the moon and the earth during Noah's Flood. The problem is that the Bible tells absolutely zero of meteors and comets, earthquakes and volcanoes occurring during the Flood. The verses in Genesis 7:11, YECs interprets as a shower of meteors, and earthquake, and volcanic eruptions, actually tells of only torrential rainfall and tsunamis come crashing onto land during the flood. This is what the biblical scholars have long interpreted Genesis 7:11 to mean. No meters, no earthquakes, and no volcanoes. The moon craters were actually caused by many millions of meteors and comets hitting the moon gradually over the years due to lack of atmosphere found on the moon. A lack of erosion and little geological activity on the moon prevents the craters from dissolving away. This is why, unlike earth that does have an atmosphere, the moon has scores and scores of craters, large and small, covering the surface all the time.

Page 22 reveals the old silly flood story told the YEC way. A global flood with comets, meteors, earthquakes, volcanoes, and floodwaters destroying everything including freshwater fish, coral, and everything else in this world. Mountains arose, great canyons and rock formations form and those so-called billions of dead things laid down by water all over the earth, all buried in mud. This silly flood story is a fictional, unlike the real great flood of Noah that actually happened in the Middle East right around the Black Sea that overflowed big time around 7,500 years ago. Although this is a localized event, by man's standards it was a dramatic event, where the wicked people were all drowned and Noah, his family and all of the modern middle eastern animals were all saved on board the ark. Nowhere else do we find earth's history being disrupted by Noah's flood anywhere. Not even in Egypt do we find such a thing over there. Much of my essays have links to websites that exposes the flaws of the worldwide flood story. This essay is no exception. Here are some links to websites that examines the YECs flood story and refutes them one little bit at a time.

Mass Graveyard Does Not Prove A Flood

There is even a claim of a mass graveyard in a valley in France where coal mining is important. In it contains plants and animals, especially ocean life, amphibians, spiders, millipedes, scorpions and reptiles. The fossil graveyard Unfred claims serve as a memorial to Noah's Flood. This is false. What he is actually talking about is the Montceau-les-Mines in France, which contains fossils that are dated back to the Upper Carboniferous Period, around 300 million years ago. The fossils found in many layers indicate many incidents of local flooding that have occurred on many occasions throughout the time period. No way does it point to Noah's flood.

The Bible Solves Nothing

Pages 24 and 25 reveal a claim made up by the YECs like Unfred, who said the mystery of the dinosaur extinction can be solved by using God's Word, the Bible. It won't work. Using the Bible to explain scientific mysteries is like using a banana to drive a nail into the wall or using a mechanic book to know how to make furniture. The Bible will do nothing to solve the mystery of what really happened to the dinosaurs. However, Unfred, just like the other YECs, still claims that the Bible has all the answers to the so-called great dinosaur mystery, which includes the fallacy of fossils being made up of animals being buried in mud by the great flood of Noah, which the fossil evidence rules clearly against. Not all rock layers were made of mud. There were also layers of rock that is made up of sand, volcanic ash, and sediment from the lakes and rivers and oceans.

Continued in Part Two: Dinosaurs and the Bible, Unfred D, Part 2

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