The Great Dinosaur Mystery Solved! Part 6
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Post-Flood Fate
Page 59 now asks, “Is there any evidence of dinosaurs living after the flood?” This meaningless question answered by Ham is yes, despite the fact there are none found in the sediment rock strata dated back to the time of the building of the pyramids in Egypt. Otherwise we would be seeing Egyptian art featuring dinosaurs, other than birds, found on the walls of the pyramids and the tombs of ancient Egypt. And no such evidence has ever been found. Ham claims the world was more of a dangerous place for the dinosaurs after the flood. How right he is, if the flood was global as he claimed it was. Noah and his family may have to eat only meat just as God has told them to because they will have no choice. They'll find that all of the soil have been washed away so they can't plant their crops; They will witness many animals that are meat eaters killing off all of the plant eaters that are starving because all of the plants will all be killed off in the flood and die of starvation themselves; Lobsters, whales, and all other saltwater sea creatures have all die out too because they cannot survive in fresh water and vice versa; coral will be destroyed; Insects would die off; the water would all be salt and acidic like and totally unfit for anyone to drink in; parasites and diseases will all do the animals and people in; And the people will finally starve. So in a way the YECs are right. If there was a global flood, those that did survive the flood will not have a chance to survive in the extreme post-flood world that will finish them all off one by one. Talk about having the full judgment of an angry, merciless God who overdid it and went way to out of hand be brought up upon the earth; even to the point where He would not even spared Noah and his family of the flood's aftermath afterwards, the ones He supposedly rescued from the Flood! It is most likely that the actual Great Flood of Noah was no doubt a local event that was highly catastrophic by ancient standards at that time. Noah and his family, after they left the ark afterwards, will not go far to plant and raise crops for food, animals will have no trouble finding food to help sustain themselves, the coral will flourish, and all the fresh and salt water animals will live.
Behemoth Blunder
Then on the rest of page 59 and goes through page 66, Ham brings on the old fabled Behemoth-as-dinosaur myth and says that the account of Job 40:15-19 serves as evidence of people meeting up with dinosaurs. An excellent example of how YECs misquote bible verses fit their narrow-minded beliefs. See The Truth About Behemoth for more details on this fallacy. Ham then resorts to making sad, puppy face remarks by saying, “Isn't it sad that evolutionary education so dominant even the real (sic) thinking of Christians due to scientific evidence, that the translators would go against our ways of reading Job 40 and put in the name of the animal contradicted by what we demand our description of behemoth to be despite the contrary? (My emphases in bold.)
There is nothing sad about it. Ham, stupid as his talk, is implying that evolution is nothing but a religious doctrine, a concept made up by the YECs to counter the truthful claims about YECism being of religion.
Pages 62 shows a strawman image of a Brachiosaurus standing right next to a elephant and in front of a hippopotamus. No, this not a comparison of the dinosaur's full size to two modern animals, but is shown as a faulty example on the size of the tail (Dinosaurs Of Eden, the book I've refuted previously, does the same thing.). On the upper left hand corner, there is a strawman version of the classification of the dinosaur.
Brachiosaurus
Page 63-66 shows the strawman, in some cases outdated descriptions of Brachiosaurus whose wrongfully branded as the biblical behemoth of Job 40 by Ham despite having no sex organs outside of his body. Brachiosaurus was a massive sauropod that lived during the Jurassic Period, 150 million years ago that measures about 80 feet long and stood about 40 feet high. What's most intriguing about the dinosaurs is unlike most sauropod dinosaurs, Brachiosaurus has a body that resembles a giraffe with front legs longer than his hind legs. While some sauropod dinosaurs have horizontal necks and crop on low growing plants, Brachiosaurus' neck is held vertical with his head held up high to reach for high growing plants to eat and digest using stones to help grind his food due to lack of chewing teeth.
Extinction of The Dinosaurs
Ham's comedy shines in the section that starts on page 67 and goes all the way through page 78. This section talk about the extinction of the dinosaurs. But what Ham talks about here implies that man killed off all the dinosaurs for either sport or for food, which is among the comical stupidities Ham often dredges up from his head. Ham thinks he has solved the mystery of the dinosaurs this way, only to bring out more laughs than ever before. To start off this comedy, Ham states that after the flood, God told Noah that all animals would fear him (Genesis 9:17). Like I said, thankfully, dinosaurs were never affected by it. Ham then tells about how life would be hard for people and animals after the flood. It would be if there ever was a global flood as mentioned above. They will be forced to compete for food and space. In some cases, this has lead many animals, including some dinosaur descendants (birds), into extinction due to the destruction of the environment, over hunting, and over grazing. All because of man who want to settle everywhere he wants to make a living and do farming, and protect himself, his family, his animals, and his crops. Dinosaurs were not one of them. Otherwise we would have seen dinosaur fossils, other than birds, dating back to the time of the Babylonian Empire, the Roman Empire, the expeditions of Marco Polo, the Vikings, the Pirates, the sacking of Troy, Spartacus' rebellion, Anthony and Cleopatra, etc. But none are found!
Ham then asks why are people so intrigued about the extinction of the dinosaurs. Answer: it is a very mysterious event that have baffled even scientists for a long, long time. For years and years, scientists have been searching for clues to the mysterious disappearance of the dinosaurs and lately they have uncovered a while lot of evidence that tells us that a meteorite, 65 million years ago, slam itself in the earth in what is now the Gulf of Mexico creating a catastrophe that have wiped out about 60-70% of life on earth, including dinosaurs. And this is man's almost science-fiction? Then, what do you call all this in Ham's book? Exactly what Ham thinks of evolution of course. He is indeed advocating an almost science-fiction when he teach lies in God's name about science, evolution, and the age of the earth. Evolution due to scientific evidence is certainly far from it.
Distortion of Evolution
Evolution is anything but propaganda. Ham lies even more about evolution saying that it is a propaganda that even Christians are being “permeating” (meaning “to spread or flow throughout; pervade” just like what YECism is doing to science and pure, true Christian thinking!) by evolutionary “philosophy” (that really isn't.). Note, how Ham is distorting the concept of evolution. Note, how Ham is saying that this is a made up myth being spread about, which The Edenic Cult is exactly what it is. Everything Ham falsely claims evolution to be. Ham thinks that there is nothing mysterious about the dinosaur extinction , if we build our brainlessness (my emphases) on the Letter of the Law, Ham and other YECs strongly follow and embrace.
One Big Joke!
Why go to a zookeeper and ask about Endangered Species Programs and such while you can view them on TV and in books that tells about why we have endangered species programs and why are so many animals are becoming extinct. Yet, this is what Ham wants you to think (or for that matter, not use your brains against his views) about if you are to go to a zoo and ask questions about endangered species program, why are animals becoming extinct, and finally what happened to the dinosaurs. The answers given on the page may imply that the zoo keeper may feel agitated over the questions being asked to him. In reality, zookeepers are more than happy to answer all of the questions being given to them including explaining the extinction of the dinosaurs by saying that the most popular theory based on evidence is the meteorite coming from space, slamming itself into earth, and cause a global disaster that wiped out the dinosaurs. However, according to this deluded-minded clown, the reason dinosaurs are extinct (Get this! This will make you laugh!) is because we didn't start the endangered species program for them early enough. What a funny-ha-ha JOKE! The reason why animals of some species are extinct is the same reason dinosaurs are extinct(!). This, what is claimed by Ham, is the most hilarious statement ever made from a YEC clown like Ham! How are we supposed to believe that and not start a endangered species program for dinosaurs earlier while they've been extinct for 65 million years, long before us humans were ever around and no traces or accounts of any dinosaur hunting, poaching, and extermination caveman style as well as dinosaur skin and bones used as jewelry, clothing, and weapons has ever been found? Not even in ancient sites like the Aztecs and the Sumerian sites for instance? What a JOKE! This has got to be one the biggest jokes Ham and others like him ever shoot out of their mouths!
Triceratops
Pages 69 shows a Triceratops picture with a strawman classification of him underneath the picture.
Pages 70-73 shows a distorted, strawman, description that's outdated in some cases and false history of Triceratops, the largest of the horned dinosaurs that lived during the late Cretaceous period 70-65 million years ago in what is now North America. In it, as before, Ham blames the fabled global flood for the extinction of Triceratops while there is no evidence of it to ever have occurred in the past.
Cryptozoology Ham's Way
Pages 74-77, Ham brings on the myth about living dinosaurs other than birds. Please keep this in mind, in order to find living dinosaurs in even in the Congo basin, you have to find bodies of fully intact dinosaurs as well as mammoths, pterosaurs and Mesozoic Marine Reptiles, but none are found! Ham stated that the answer to the question, “Are dinosaurs extinct?” a stupid meaningless question, is hard to say because of sightings made of plants and animals that once thought to be extinct. His claims of living dinosaurs include claims of alleged sightings of mammoth like elephants in Nepal, alleged sightings of sauropods in Africa, the fabled Loch Ness Monster, and a stupid fabled plant-eating T.rex! Even if these animals are found, these animals would neither be a problem, nor an embarrassment for evolutionists because to them, this is sure fire evidence for evolution in action. Dinosaurs, Mammoths, Pterosaurs, Plesiosaurs, would all have evolved to adapt to the modern conditions of today. A land dwelling sauropod would evolved into the classic amphibious sauropod, a cold-blooded plesiosaur would evolved into a warm-blooded reptile to take on the cold waters of Loch Ness, a Woolly mammoth would evolved less fur to take on the hot steaming jungles of Nepal, and a Meat-eating T.rex would evolve into a plant-eater with a huge gut belly as pictured in many a classic T.rex images, chewing molars, and smooth, blunt, thin teeth. Ham also made claims of alleged cave drawings of dinosaurs found at a National Park in Utah. But the drawings are likely hoaxes made up by those who either took spray paint or any other kind of paint and draw their own interpretations of the dinosaurs on certain rock walls or take photographs of the drawings and use a Photoshop program on them and tell it like it is. Something forensic science will even confirm.
So-called Living Fossils
Ham says that when scientists find animals and plants that have been known to be extinct for millions of years, they call them living fossils. But what Ham thinks it's all an embarrassment to evolutionists, actually thrills them. What Ham neglects to inform his followers is that these plants and animals are all different species related to the extinct types of them. Like the Australian trees for instance. These Australian trees once thought to be extinct are actually an unknown species of that kind of tree that are related to the trees that are all extinct. The ones that should be embarrassed over all of this is the YECs like Ham themselves tried to refute the extinction myth as told on pages 74-75 by fabricating them into one whole species, but they can't.
