B. Characteristics

1. Reptilian qualities 2. Hip structure is distinct from other modern reptiles (lizard or bird hip) and gave them upright stance that modern reptiles do not have 3. Have found fossil eggs 4. Have found fossil scale impressions 5. Dinosaur footprints a. Can determine weight b. Can determine speed

C. Reconstructing dinosaurs from fossil bones

1. Opinions about fossils are only opinions, and there may be more than one valid opinion. 2. Some opinions agree with Scripture, and some do not, though both opinions are based on the same evidence 3. Christians must use Scripture to interpret science

1. Record of great lengths of time 2. Evolutionists date sedimentary rocks by the fossils found in them; they date them by the assumption of evolution 3. Dinosaurs were not alive at the time of man 4. Death is good and normal, because it brought man

B. Biblical interpretation of the fossil record and Earth history

1. Six days of creation; man and dinosaurs alive at the same time 2. Created as vegetarians to live forever 3. Death is the result of sin; significance of Christ's death 4. Dinosaurs created on days 5 ("dragons") and 6 5. Sin and the curse changed the creation and violence began 6. Flood - purpose - to destroy the earth and to stop the violence and blood-shed 7. The ark: a. Dinosaurs got onto the ark (younger, smaller; only representative of kinds) b. Dinosaurs got off the ark 8. Dinosaurs lived after the flood a. Job 40, 41 - Behemoth and Leviathan b. Cave drawings c) Dragon legends d) Loch Ness animal, Japanese fishermen find, Congo animal