Dinosaur Artifacts

In June of 2008, I had the privilege of photographing two artifacts showing dinosaurs in Utah. The first shows a pterosaur - the flying reptile featured in films including Jurassic Park. The painting in Black Dragon Canyon, Utah, has a wing span over seven feet, with features that were unknown to scientists until the 1980s or even 2006. This canyon is 17 miles west of Green River, Utah. Maps are available by googling "black dragon canyon pterosaur". I nearly missed it because I walked past the log corral. The painting is on the wall just above the corral. Isaiah mentions a fiery flying serpent - many people miss this, because "serpent" once meant any reptile, not just snakes. Fiery may refer to red color, or to bio-luminescence - pterosaurs may glow in the dark.

Job Chapter 40 describes a sauropod dinosaur, in astonishing detail. This photo is of a sauropod dinosaur, chipped into the rock under Kachina Bridge in Natural Bridges National Monument in central Utah.

On the upper left is a stylized man, then some unknown symbols, and below the ledge is the sauropod dinosaur. As one hiker said "you mean that brontosaur-like creature". When I said that Biblical creationists use this as evidence for a recent creation, he said "I don't go along with that young earth stuff, but it does look like a brontosaur".

The "correct"modern name is apatosaur, but, yes, that is what it looks like. Some critics of Biblical creationists claim that the smaller thing just below the sauropods chin touches it and is part of a larger, mythical creature. I looked carefully - they do not touch. And a child with us said that the smaller thing looks like a baby sauropod looking back at its' mother.

Other critics claim that the stylized man is inserted digitally by creationists. Well, my photos were print film and professional slides - and the man is there. The best way to check it out is to go there, as I did.

For more dinosaur artifacts, try http://www.dinosaursandman.com/, http://www.bible.ca/tracks/dino-fossils.htm, or http://www.creationists.org/dinosaurs-humans-coexisted-artifacts-and-art.html

How Did We Come To Be?

I have found that all belief systems start with matter, space, and time - already existing. All belief systems, except Judeo-Christianity.

Whether your belief system has a deity, or does not, every belief system starts with these three. It is as if we are not able to conceive of anything where these do not exist.

When I mentioned this to an unsaved friend, he said, "but so does the Bible. It just starts with 'God", but it still starts with something".

Well, though he never acknowledged it, that was my point.

No one has ever imagined an origin before time, space, and matter - except the Bible.

For those who believe in materialism - that there is no god- this means they start with these three, and go on from there. For those who believe in a god, they start with these three, add in a god, and go from there.

Only the Bible (and beliefs based on it) start with a God who creates the time, space, and matter.

It is nice to realize that we Bible-believers are unique.

Some who believe in the Big Bang object. But, yes, the Big Bang starts with pre-existing time, space, and matter. The original theory had a ball of matter about one light year in diameter. More recent versions have all that matter scrunched into a sphere "smaller than the period at the end of this sentence", or even "a quantum fluctuation in the vacuum". All Big Bang theories have these three in existence, and start from there.

So, a few questions for materialists: Where did the matter come from?
Where did the space come from?
Where did the time come from?

For deists, where did these three come from?
And where did your deity come from, since he was not there until the time, space, and matter existed? Is he dependant on them?

For all: Will you accept the unique belief system, and accept Jesus Christ, who is God your creator, as your Savior?

Creation Debate

One News Now has a debate ongoing about evolution and creation, including the Vatican's stance on evolution
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=437818

That article is on whether the Gospel really needs creation and Genesis.

I find Dr. Terry Mortensen's comments illuminating and accurate. I would add that the Bible defines the everlasting gospel. Revelation 14 verses 6 and 7 say "I saw another angel flying in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach to those who dwell on the earth - to every nation, tribe, tongue, and people - saying with a loud voice, "Fear God and give glory to Him, for the hour of His judgement has come, and worship Him who made heaven and earth, the sea and springs of water" ".

So the Bible says that the everlasting gospel is that God created, will judge, and we should worship Him.

Seems to me that creation is indeed central to the gospel.

And I have seven unsaved brothers who agree - by default. They get extremely angry whenever I bring up creation, or, heaven help me, say that science supports the Bible.

Why do the unsaved get angry about the facts of creation? Because they have evil in their hearts, and as the light of truth shines into their hearts, they reject the truth and the One who brings that truth. Just as I did for the first 24 years of my life. And just as the Gospel of John ,Chapter 1, says that do.