Interpreting the fossil record

Dinosaur Mania And Our Children Impact
How Do The Dinosaurs Fit In? Back to Genesis

A. Evolutionary interpretation of the geologic column 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 Problems in Dating Sedimentary Rocks (Sidebar 3) 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 Rational for Ark life surviving the Flood (Sidebar 4) Did Dinosaurs Survive The Flood? Back to Genesis 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 Mokele Mbembe (Sidebar 5) Unidentified Congo Basin Creature (Possible Mokele Mbembe Roar) (Sound Clip) Composite Analysis of Sounds (Chart) Larger view of chart (45K) Composite Analysis of Sounds

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