Dinosaur Deceptions?

23 August 2011

These pictures were taken when we went to the Australian Museum in Sydney.

I remember meeting a man in the past who didn't believe that there were ever real dinosaurs. He thought it was all a fraud and the public had been deceived by atheists. Though there was one well known fabrication of human skeletal remains called Piltdown Man (see here), it is extraordinary to imagine, without any substantial evidence, that every dinosaur specimen is a fraud.

Clearly the evidence also points away from Dinosaurs having lived at the same time as humans and only eating grass until human's sinned. T-Rex's teeth are designed for eating meat. A woodpecker's whole neck is designed for boring holes in trees for the sole purpose of getting grubs to eat. It is hard to imagine them eating leaves until human's sinned and then getting a wonderful creative reshaping of their whole neck to then start eating grubs. Psalm 104 is about the goodness of the created world. In verse 21 it explains that God provides the lions with their prey. Animal death is part of a good world – ask any Arnhem Land local about the goodness of a dead kangaroo! Human rebellion prevents human life – not animal life. Christianity is about life for humans, not woodpeckers.