The idea of homo sapiens and dinosaurs having lived side by side is ‘laughable’ only to those who approach the subject with deeply-ingrained evolutionary prejudices! There is plenty of evidence they have lived together. There are literally hundreds of stories and depictions of large, frightening, reptilian creatures, often called dragons, from different cultures all over the world. Many of them sound or look very like what we now call dinosaurs. How could so many different and widely scattered people all have come up with such similar ‘mythical’ creatures? Isn’t it far more likely they were describing animals they had actually seen? Dinosaurs?

Two dinosaurs are described in the Bible (Job 40:15 – 41:34). The first is ‘behemoth’, a huge, land-dwelling plant eater. Although footnotes often say this was probably an elephant or a hippopotamus, it was far more likely to have been a diplodocus or an apatosaurus. Neither the elephant nor the hippopotamus has a ‘tail that sways like a cedar tree’! The other creature described in Job, called ‘leviathan’, sounds remarkably like a kronosaurus.

In Carlisle Cathedral, over the tomb of a certain Bishop Bell, there is a brass plate. Around the edge of this is a Latin inscription, and between the words are depictions of various animals – a dog, a pig, a bird etc. However, one pair of creatures would be immediately recognised by any child today as dinosaurs. There’s really nothing else they could be! Yet Bishop Bell died in 1495, long before modern discoveries of dinosaurs. So how could the craftsman have known what they looked like unless he had seen them?!!

It is myth that fossils take millions of years to form. It is a myth that rock strata take millions of years to be laid down. The Mount St Helens volcanic eruption in May 1980, and its aftermath, laid down c.600 feet of finely layered sediment, and then cut a gorge through it, forming a canyon one fortieth the size of the Grand Canyon in about two years! The rock strata and fossil beds we find today are best explained by a global flood, as described in the Bible in the days of Noah.

You say: ‘I expect if my faith was strong enough, I could let all these problems pass without satisfactory explanation - all those scientists who believe in the literal account of the Bible's version obviously are in this category.’