The Great Dinosaur Mystery Solved! Part 4
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The Great Dragon Lie
The nest question asks, “Is there another word for dinosaurs?” Answer: Except birds, No. No other word for dinosaur has ever existed, except for birds. But Ham, the liar thinks there is and it's not “birds” according to him, but dragons. Ham brings on the fabrication about dinosaurs being dragons, not knowing the word 'dragon' comes from the Greek word meaning “snake” or “serpent.” Dinosaurs don't fit the category of dragons because they don't have bodies that resembled snakes and serpents. Neither is Pterosaurs and Mesozoic Marine reptiles either. Sightings of dinosaur, mammoth, and other extinct animal fossils may have inspired dragon myths, but NOT sightings of live dinosaurs and their extinct relatives.
Distortion of Baryonyx
Among the dinosaurs that are exploited and made into an image and likeness of a dragon by creationists is Baryonyx, a large meat-eating dinosaur from the early Cretaceous Period of England about 120 million years ago. Baryonyx means “Heavy Claw” and is named to describe a massive claw that is growing on his first digit finger on each hand. This is YECs' own "hopeful monster", an imaginary monster YECs made up and used to promote false beliefs of dinosaurs-always-living-with-man fallacy.
They reason, "If it looks like a dragon and comes from England where dragon tales were told, then it must be a dragon that Knights like St. George has killed long ago." or so they falsely assumed. Another possible reason to why they made Baryonyx into the image and likeness of a dragon is because they assumed that it must have resemble horned dragons with arrow shaped heads as depicted in many Medieval art, especially those coming from England, France and other European countries. One look at the red dragon design on the Flag of Wales and the YECs concluded falsely that it must be Baryonyx whom people must have saw since the YECs themselves knew that the remains of the dinosaur have been found in England in 1983 in the town of Wales (actually its remains are found in Surrey, England), where dragon stories have often been told over there. However, none of the dragon images and descriptions of them in fact match that of Baryonyx (i.e. bat wings, fiery breath, dog-like ears, etc). But YECs made the dinosaur into the image and likeness of a dragon anyway and says that Baryonyx is the dragon that St. George has slain. All false. None of the dragons, especially the winged heraldic dragon St. George has killed, resembled Baryonyx in one form or another and vice versa.
On page 29, there is the imaginary version of Baryonyx as seen in Ham's book below.
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b18/Crazyharp81602/bluehist.jpg
All made up into the image and likeness of a dragon; to make it look like a dragon as shown in ancient folklore. Despite what is shown above, Baryonyx in fact never had dog-like ears, three or four horns on its crocodile-like face, a tail with an arrow like point at the end, an s-shaped neck (His neck is actually straight, not curved.), bat wings, and a fiery breath.
Now, here's exactly what Baryonyx really looks like in real life (Painting by Luis Rey):
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b18/Crazyharp81602/baryonyx.jpg
It was a fish eater. Yet, it occasionally scavenged among the dinosaur carcasses for food. Something Ham left out in his strawman descriptions of him. Inside the stomach area of the dinosaur, along side of fish remains, there are skeletal remains of a young Iguanodon Baryonyx must have either killed or scavenged found inside. Unlike most flesh-eaters of his time, Baryonyx's had teeth that were straight not curved. The better to get a grip on a very slippery fish with. It was an early Spinosaurid, which are dinosaurs with tall spines on their backs, including Spinosaurus, a well known spinosaurid from 90 million years ago in Africa. Another dinosaur YECs made into the image and likeness of a dragon and exploit along with Baryonyx to fit their own beliefs of what a dragon is like.
Verse Mining
Another distortion of dragons and dinosaurs is shown on pages 30-32 by giving out a distorted interpretation of Isaiah 43:20 in the King James Bible that when interpreted and translated rightly, the verse actually describes wolves and\or jackals among owls living in ruins of cities and towns.
More Baryonyx distortions
There, Ham gives out a distorted strawman description of Baryonyx claiming it was “rediscovered” in 1980. This is entirely all made up from Ham's head. No one, not even Adam, have discovered the dinosaur before 1980 despite his crackpot claim. Ham tells about how the dinosaur have been dug up and assembled as well giving out the false assumption about the dinosaur living on a so-called pre-fall diet of plants, wasting his precious teeth and stomach of a meat-eater away.
Ham lies and says that if the reader looks at the dinosaur at the museum, then he is looking at the dragon that St. George has slain which is a blataint lie as mentioned before, In fact, the famous tale is actually a Christianized version of a Greek Mythological tale of a great hero named Perseus who saved Andromeda, a beautiful lady from a fierce serpentine dragon named Cetus, who lived in the sea. The dragon in the tale of St George is nothing more than a Heraldic dragon, the classic example of what a dragon is like with bat wings, a serpentine body, 4 legs, forked tail and tongue, a fiery breath, arrow head, crested spiny frill, and pointed ears. Something Baryonyx completely lacks thereof.
Fabricating Dragon Tales
To prove their falsehood, YECs would take dragon tales out of context and distort, twist, and fabricate them around to fit their own beliefs about them. All these fabrications have all 100% failed miserably to explain how come there are no dinosaur remains (let along other prehistoric remains of animals) found mixed in with human and modern animal remains in the fossil record despite YECs assertions of them being the so-called "evidence" confirming their beliefs in the world where dinosaurs once lived with man. Ham then mentions on page 32, of an Anglo-Saxon history book that tells of the history of the early British and claims that there are accounts of people seeing dragons. Dragons, Ham falsely claims, to have descriptions that fit with dinosaurs but, I've looked at an online version of the book and it tells NONE of what Ham claims in the book. There is only one mentioning of dragons and that is located in the 793 AD or CE account, where the people saw a bad omen in the sky which it includes huge sheets of light, whirlwinds, and dragons flying in the air. No descriptions was made of what they are like at all. This what Ham claims is nothing more than a direct fabrication of ancient sightings of shooting stars, comets, meteor showers, and other forms of lights sighted by the ancient people who didn't know what they were. So, they regard them as "dragons" streaking across the sky, giving them a very bad omen of what's to come that could spell doom, destruction, and despair for the people who saw the lights in the sky and live in that area. Click here to see a page from the online book that tells of what I mean and how Ham, who probably have never look into the book, is wrong on what the book said.
List of Fabrications
Next, Ham shows a list of fabricated dragon claims made up by Paul Taylor in The Great Dinosaur Mystery book and film I've refuted in my first essay on page 33. Visit The Great Dinosaur Mystery and the Bible Part 3 to read the rebuttals of all of the distorted dragon tales Taylor made up in the book and film on part 3 of my essay.
Misusing Bible Verses
Next, Ham wrongfully claims that the Hebrew word “tannim” should also mean “dinosaur” as well as “dragon.” Problem is, this is not the actual translation of the word. When translated correctly, the word “tannim” actually means “wolf” or “jackal” not “dragon” or “dinosaur.” Note how Ham verse mined the 2 KJV Bible verses, Malachi 1:3 and Jeremiah 14:6 found also on page 33 out of context and fixed it to mean dinosaurs, while in fact when translated accurately and put it all in full context, it actually refers to wolves panting during a drought and jackals roaming in the wilderness among the ruins of many cities. Skipping a few pages to page 37, we find Ham claiming that there were “dragons” living in the sea as told in Psalm 74:13 and Isaiah 27:1 on page 37. But these verses are all mined too. The verse in Psalms put in context describes of how God destroyed a seven headed monster called Leviathan and fed its body to the animals of the desert. And no dinosaur have such a body with many heads on it. The other verse in Isaiah, when put in context, is actually saying that God will destroy Leviathan, the twisting, coiling snake like monster. No dinosaur ever coiled up their bodies like snakes. They're too stiff and bulky for that.
Plesiosaur Falsehood
Backtracking on page 35-37, skipping the Plesiosaur image on page 34 and its outdated, strawman classification right next to it, there is a section on the Plesiosaur that is nothing but strawman descriptions as well as twisted, distorted lies and myths about the Jurassic/Cretaceous creatures, including Clyptoclidus, a plesiosaur from the late Jurassic Period. Here Ham uses his delusional, warped imagination and pretends that before the Fall of Man, the marine reptiles ate nothing but low nutritional, mushy, indigestible kelp, seaweed, and algae, wasting their sharp tooth jaws and stomach for fish, mollusks, and other marine animals away that God has given them; making then highly useless; making the poor creatures very, very sick; suffer greatly; even die from indigestion; competing with other animals for plants; not giving the plants any chances to survive; bringing the underwater plant kingdom into extinction. Never to be given a chance to reproduce, grow, and rejuvenate. Then what will Plesiosaur eat? Rocks? Ham states that some of them may have survived the Flood into modern times, which is false. It's nothing but a folkloric myth creationists like Ham made up to fit their own fabricated views about cryptozoology, something creationists have been known to take advantage of concerning about alleged sightings of animals such as the Loch Ness monster and Big Foot.
Kronosaurus Is NOT Leviathan
On page 38-41, Ham makes up an imaginary claim about Kronosaurus being the Leviathan of the Bible. Kronosaurus was a pliosaur that lived during the early Cretaceous period 112 million years ago. Yet, Ham wrongfully brands this pliosaur as the fabled Leviathan of Job 41 and Psalms 104:26, while ignorant of the fact that Kronosaurus completely lack armor all over his body and a fiery breath. Many, faulty strawman descriptions is made of the pliosaur, including the hilarious imaginary concept about the sharp teeth and powerful jaws of the pliosaur, supposedly used for crushing ammonites and fish, gets wasted and render useless on mushy, low nutritious plant food, especially air choking algae during the alleged pre-fall era.
Here's the imaginary version of Kronosaurus made to look like the Leviathan of the Bible.
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b18/Crazyharp81602/leviathan.jpg
And here's what the marine reptile actually looks like in real life (from DK Publishing).
http://www.dorlingkindersley-uk.co.uk/static/cs/uk/11/clipart/exp_dinosaur/img/image_exp_dino021.jpg
Finally on the top of Page 42, Ham claims the word “whale” in Genesis 1:21 is a word for “dragon.” The word “dragon” does not refer to any Mesozoic Marine reptile, because they don't have bodies that resembled snakes, unlike Leviathan, the snake-like sea monster. Instead they have bodies that resembled dolphins, crocodiles, and of course sea turtles with long necks.
See The Truth About Leviathan for more rebuttal to the Leviathan falsehood.
Reference to the translation of the verse is here.
Pterosaur Myth
Now on page 42, we get to the Pterosaur myth made up by Ham and others like him based on Isaiah 30:6 KJV. There is no way can pterosaurs have bodies that resemble the “fiery flying serpents” as told in Isaiah 30:6 KJV. Gorillas with bat-like wings and bird-like heads maybe, but not serpents. Tree Snakes, like the Paradise tree snake, could possibly be the fiery flying serpents as described by Isaiah in the verse because of the way their venom, when injected into the victim, has been compared to a painful burn when touched by fire and the way they glide for long distances in search of prey, which makes a whole lot much more sense than what Ham falsely assumes what the last part of the verse refers to.
Ham's Description of Pteranodon
Moving on down to page 44-45, passing page 43 that shows an image of Pteranodon and the strawman classification next to it, there is a distorted description of Pteranodon. Pteranodon is a very well known pterosaur who lived during the Cretaceous period 70-65 million years ago. This pterosaur is about the size of a human being and has a wing span of 27 feet. Ham thinks this pterosaur is among the “fowl in the air” as told in Genesis 1:20-23. However, the word “fowl” actually do mean "bird" such as doves and chickens for instance despite what Ham claims about it. Pterosaurs are not birds and are not to be included in the fowl category. Ham then, gives out his version of the discovery of Pteranodon and claim that evolutionists theorizes that pterosaurs soar above the water surface in search of fish to eat due to the discovery of Pterosaur remains in ocean sedimentary layers. The theory is based on factual evidence that has zero to do with Noah's flood despite Ham's idiot claims. Ham also stated that pterosaurs could not have eaten fish before the alleged YEC style fall because fish, like all animals and man have “nephesh” meaning “spirit” or “soul” inside of them.
Explaining Nephesh
This is pure example of how Ham knows nothing of what the Hebrew word refers to. The word “nephesh” or “nepheshim (plur.)” refers to spiritual beings that show feelings and emotion. Fish, insects, reptiles, and other beings show no emotion and feelings is not to be included in the category. All throughout the Bible, the word 'Nephesh' is used to describe only Human souls. Only in the Genesis 1 passages, the word is used to describe mainly mammals other than humans such as dogs, monkeys, dolphins, whales, elephants, and cats that show feelings and emotions just like humans do.
Whether they have nephesh in them or not, plants are alive! They eat food, they drink water, they grow, they can reproduce, they are either male or female depending on gender. When inflicted, they bleed sap, which is a form of blood, out of their bodies. What makes him think that plants are not alive and don't die while in fact they are alive and do die? YECs thinks plants that whither doesn't necessary mean that they die. But they do. When plants whither, they die. Plants are no different then any living being on earth. The only thing in the world that doesn't have nephesh in them is rocks! Pterosaurs are falsely called "flying serpents" by the creationists who claimed that people like Herodotus and Isaiah once saw them at one time. In reality, no one has ever saw a living Pterosaur at all, not even Herodotus and the prophet Isaiah has ever saw them. No pterosaur fossils have in fact been found above and below the Mesozoic strata and never will be. Instead, Herodotus must have saw flying tree snakes with long flexible ribs that expand the skin to form wings when they glide from tree to tree and even glide long distances, following the direction of the wind current, and to search for food and a place to live. Isaiah must have saw the same thing as well and used them, instead of Pterosaurs, that were long dead by the time humans came about, to speak figuratively to the people of his time.
The Real Difference Between Ham's Fantasy Dragons and Real Dragons of Folklore
Now page 46 features a summary that claims that people are familiar with dragons and that some descriptions of dragons fit with dinosaurs, which is false. Not one Dinosaur have snake-like bodies, fiery breath, the power to create storms, eat maidens, etc. The only dinosaurs that are mentioned in the Bible are not fabled dragons, behemoths, and/or leviathans, but in fact birds. Eagles, doves, vultures, even sparrows just to name a few. Birds are the only dinosaurs to be mentioned in the Bible.
All these dragon stories are in fact no historical evidence whatsoever of dinosaurs living beside people, because they all fail miserably to explain how come there are no dinosaur remains found above and below the Mesozoic strata as well as mixed with human and modern animal remains in the fossil record.
