Walking With Dinosaurs series under review

Walking With Dinosaurs series under review

Look how the secular nature program clearly refers to how the dinosaurs met their demise in the Flood!

Dinosaurs are occasionally featured on TV. One of them is the BBC series Walking With Dinosaurs, which aired this year, which tells the story of various dinosaur discovery sites around the world. All the programs are based on visiting these discovery sites and watching how paleontologists dig up dinosaur remains from the soil and hard rock. In addition, each episode contains descriptions and fiction about the daily lives of dinosaurs. Modern technology makes it possible for these animals to move around in programs. Previously, this was not possible.

What did you remember from these programs? I would like to highlight a few points that I think are worth paying attention to. The most important of them are the question of when dinosaurs lived on Earth and the other is the question of the cause of their destruction.

Did dinosaurs live more than 66 million years ago? When you watch the TV series Walking With Dinosaurs, the following statement is made at the beginning of each episode: “More than 66 million years ago, the Earth was the age of dinosaurs.” How do we know this with such precision? No way. Dinosaurs have no labels or markings that they lived that long ago. It is a philosophical statement based on the theory of evolution and its geological time table. This time table was drawn up in the 19th and 20th centuries.

However, if we compare, for example, the fossils of dinosaurs and mammoths, no one can scientifically prove from the fossils that dinosaurs lived on Earth more than 66 million years ago, but mammoths only a little over ten thousand years ago. Because if the fossils of both species are equally well preserved and equally close to the surface of the earth, there is no basis for claiming that the fossils of one species were millions of years older than the other. Anyone who claims otherwise is outside the realm of real science.

Furthermore, these species may have lived on Earth at the same time, but only in different ecological zones, as is the case with different species today. There is no basis for claiming that they lived on Earth at different times.

Are dinosaur fossils really millions of years old? There are several arguments against this view. Dinosaur fossils have been found to contain, among other things, soft tissues, blood cells [Morell, V., Dino DNA: The Hunt and the Hype, Science 261 (5118): 160-162, 1993] , radiocarbon ( http://newgeology.us/presentation48.html ) , and DNA [Sarfati, J. DNA and bone cells found in dinosaur bone, J. Creation (1):10-12, 2013; creation.com/dino-dna, 11 December 2012] . All of these are substances that should not survive for millions of years.

For example, the official half-life of radiocarbon is only 5730 years, and the half-life of DNA is even shorter. These substances cannot be found in fossils older than 100,000 years. Therefore, dinosaur fossils must be much younger. Paleontologists should pay more attention to these internal indicators of fossils, which are much more reliable indicators than the geological table compiled in the 19th and 20th centuries, which has been found to be inaccurate several times (including because so-called living fossils, species that should have become extinct but are still living on Earth, have been repeatedly found).

It is also important to pay attention to people's references to dragons. What were these animals if they were not dinosaurs? The term dinosaur was only coined in the 19th century by Darwin's contemporary Richard Owen, but before that the word dragon had been used for centuries. Several peoples have mentioned dragons in their ancient writings:

The dragons of legend are, surprisingly, like real animals that lived in the past. They closely resemble the great reptiles (dinosaurs) that ruled the earth long before man is supposed to have appeared. Dragons were generally evil and destructive. Every people knew them in their mythology. ( The World Book Encyclopedia, vol . 5, 1973, p. 265)

A good example of how dinosaurs may have actually been dragons is the Chinese lunar calendar and horoscope, which is known to be centuries old. So, since the Chinese horoscope is based on 12 animal signs that repeat in 12-year cycles, there are 12 animals involved. 11 of them are still familiar today: rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog and pig. Instead, the 12th animal is the dragon, which does not exist today. A good question is, if the 11 animals were real animals, why would the dragon be an exception and a mythical creature? Isn't it more reasonable to assume that it lived at the same time as humans in ancient times, but died out like numerous other animals? It is good to remember again that the term dinosaur was only coined in the 19th century by Richard Owen. Before that, the term dragon was used for centuries.

What can we learn from dinosaur excavations? If we go back to the “Dinosaur Trail” series, it repeatedly shows scientists digging for dinosaur fossils in rocks and soil. They try to extract the fossils from the hard rock, and sometimes it can take months of work.

Why is this? Scientists have perhaps rarely considered this issue, i.e. why dinosaur fossils are found inside hard rocks. How did they get there, because no large animal – perhaps 20 meters long – can possibly go inside hard rock? Time doesn't help matters either, because if we waited millions of years for an animal to be buried in the ground and fossilized, it would rot properly before that happened or other animals would eat it. That way, dinosaur fossils, or any other fossils, are not created.

What can be concluded from the above? The only possibility for the formation of dinosaur fossils is that these animals were buried under mud and silt at some point. This is the only way dinosaur fossils could be formed and that they are now being excavated from within the rocks. But where does it happen that large animals get buried under mud and silt today? It doesn't happen anywhere, and no fossils are formed. However, it has happened in the past.

What is remarkable in the series is that it is mentioned several times that young and well-formed individuals, with no injuries or bite marks, have been found inside the rocks. They did not die of old age or were eaten by others, but must have died in some other way. The following are some quotes from the programs. They refer to young individuals and how large amounts of bones may have been found in certain areas:

Most baby dinosaurs never made it to adulthood… The researchers’ excavations are nearing completion, but the exact cause of Colver’s death is still unknown. ...We don’t know for sure how Clover died. No signs of predation have been found on her bones. There are no visible injuries or bite marks. The cause of death is still a mystery.

However, the bones suggest that it was barely an adult… It could have lived longer. If we assume a typical lifespan of around 30 years, this individual's life ended prematurely.

New bones are constantly being discovered in the ground… There are a lot of bones in a small area… The bones must have come from several individuals… It seems that all the Gastonians found at the site were about the same age… Judging by the remains, the animals are immature. They have been developing from juveniles to adults. They have been at an age that corresponds to human adolescence…. Finding several young individuals in the same place tells us something unexpected.

These bones belong to a young individual…. Researchers have found bones from as many as twenty-six different individuals at the site…. It is difficult to determine which bone belongs to which individual. There are so many bones. This is clearly a mass grave of several albertosaurs. ...Albertosaurs that died together probably lived together.

I don't think I've ever seen a bone this small before... There were thousands of individuals in this herd... There are large adults, small cubs, and everything in between. It was a huge herd... Scientists don't know why so many dinosaurs are buried in this particular place.

Researchers are now investigating what happened at the end of the journey, and why such a large number of dinosaurs have been buried here. … There is a large cluster in the corner. The two are completely stuck together…. The bones are stacked on top of each other in a single pile. It is all just bone. There is very little stone in between. The bone forms a solid mass. Here too, you can see ribs of different sizes. The bones are from different individuals, because their sizes vary. ...The bones of young and old individuals are mixed together. There are even more bones in the ground than the researchers initially believed. ...When we look at the number of bones in this section we have described, and combine the data with the map we have made, there are about 100-300 bones per square meter here. The fossil-rich layer continues for another kilometer. ...Based on the findings, the researchers estimate that tens of thousands of pachyrhinosaurs have been buried in this area. Only a very catastrophic event could explain such a mass death. …

What can be concluded from the above? The only possibility for the simultaneous death of dinosaurs and the formation of fossils is a catastrophe in which thousands of dinosaurs were buried under mud at the same time. Where do such catastrophes occur today, in which large animals are suddenly buried under mud? They do not. Instead, the Flood mentioned in the Bible best explains this matter. It did not happen 66 million years ago, but only a few millennia ago. It is useless to try to find any other reason for the destruction and fossilization of dinosaurs than the Flood, because only such an event can explain the formation of fossils.

I have previously watched other similar nature programs on TV about dinosaurs, and they also mentioned water as the cause of the destruction. I have written about these programs in other articles.

One such program was “Dinosaur Apocalypset” (Production: BBC/PBS/France Télévisions, Great Britain, 2022). It cited water as the cause of the destruction in the Hell Creek area. It is one of the most famous dinosaur discovery sites:

There was probably a flood or a mudslide here that buried everything in an instant… Now we're talking about a tsunami of a completely different kind. It was much higher and bigger than modern tsunamis. … It was at least a kilometer high.

When water and the mud it stirred up are the most likely cause of dinosaur death and the reason for these animals becoming fossilized, the same view is brought up in the “Walking With Dinosaurs” program series. The first quote explains how soft sand is linked to the death and survival of animals. Now that the sand has hardened, it is of course because there was water with the sand. Simply dry sand does not harden in the same way:

This is a real gold mine… Inside a nine-ton sandstone boulder are the remains of an entire group of Utahraptors. … There are hundreds of perfectly preserved teeth, claws and bones… There is a huge amount of material in this boulder. … The best-preserved bones are in this sandy spot. It suggests that sand is associated with the death and preservation of animals. … Now the sand has hardened, but Jim believes that when the beasts died it was soft… The animals were buried in the substance that killed them.

The second quote makes it even clearer how water was the cause of the destruction. The scientists are right on track. Because of their education and their atheistic worldview, they are unable to connect the destruction of dinosaurs and other animals with the Flood. However, that is the only reasonable explanation for these events. In addition to the Bible, the Flood is mentioned in hundreds of other ancient writings, so it is completely justified to consider it a historical event. Another proof of the Flood is that remains of marine life have been found on all the high mountains, even on the top of Mount Everest. When the next quote tells of a powerful flood, it also provides evidence of this catastrophe mentioned in the Bible:

Lift it up, I want to see the cross-section…. Important evidence is revealed. ...Look. The black parts are finely decomposed plants. Some great force has pushed the mud into motion, and the plants have torn apart like that. That fossil was found near the bones. These eddies tell us that something dramatic has happened here, related to water. The water has bitten into the rock. This is like a fossilized wave. Something really violent has happened here. ...All the evidence points to the same conclusion. These dinosaurs have been victims of a devastating flood. ...There is hardly any animal that could have survived such a powerful flood.

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