That the medieval peoples referred to "dragons" becomes far more interesting, doesn't it? And that scientists referred to dinosaurs by the same term, only inventing the term "dinosaur" about 160 years ago, lends credence that dinos were with us much more recently than "scientists" would have us believe.
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Maybe a time portal oppend and a dinsaur went through, then from our time a hot young scientist went through too and a knight looking to slay the dragon came after her roaming the streets of modern London thinking it was hell. But then by an animal rights proponent was taught that the beast wasn't a beast but just a confused animal.
A hundred internets go to the first person to get the reference.
Funny, how all those legends of Knights slaying dragons start out something like, "Long, long ago, in the far away kingdom of Norn..." etc. But yeah, it's cool how our ancestors found fossils and came up with such beautiful, fanciful menageries of winged griffons and dragons and such. Must've been fun spinning yarns for their kids around the hearth fire on a cold night, holding a piece of fossil dino jaw in their hand and describing how great-great grandpa slew da dragon.
dinos were with us much more recently than "scientists" would have us believe.
What if dinosaurs coexisted with humans or are even around today? Horseshoe crabs were around millions of years before the first dinosaur, and are still around today. So are lots of other animals, like cockroaches, lamprey eels and the coelacanth. The latter was thought extinct for 65 million years (about as long as the dinosaurs) until one was found in 1938. I don't get the point of the whole WLD discussion.
Right ok, so we have preserved medieval pelts of bears, wolves, rabbits, cows, sheep, moles, horses, deer, boars...
but nobody thought to hang on to a Dragon Scale?
@ John
"What if dinosaurs coexisted with humans or are even around today?"
- And what if there really is a Santa Claus? After all, Santa and modern day dinosaurs share the exact same amount of evidence: zilch.
Trouble is that the dragons always appear in mythical tales, often along with other mythical creatures which bear no resemblence to any known dinosaur. And where are the remains of the blemmyes and sciapods, Timberwolf?
@John:
No.
The coelacanth ( and the horseshoe crab and the ginkos ) have not remained constant for tens or hundreds of millions of years .
The discovery of the coelacanth was exciting because it showed that a lineage that had been thought extinct for a very long time had produced descendant species that were still present.
Things like the coelacanth are called 'living fossils' because their gross physical anatomy has not changed significantly. But the details of their bodies have changed. They are not the same species as they were in the past. The same for the horseshoe crabs (of which there are 4 species extant right now).
For example: Wikipedia describes the differences between the different coelacanth species: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coelacanth .
Evolution does not stop.
There are still descendants of the various Dinosauria around right now. They are the Aves clade. That is to say, birds. All the other dinosaurs are 65 million years gone. The current reptiles descend from other lineages. The last time they and the birds and dinosaurs had a common ancestor was ~300 million years back, a thing called a diapsid .
Even if donosaurs, by our modern definition, were still extant recently, or even, around today, it still wouldn't make creationism true.
I find it amusing how you immediately assume all the medieval stories are true. After all, surely human imagination only became a thing in, say, the last century, right? No possibility of people long ago making stuff up, right?
"That the medieval peoples referred to "dragons" becomes far more interesting, doesn't it? "
Star trek is far more interesting. And it's equally true.
"That the medieval peoples referred to "dragons" becomes far more interesting, doesn't it?"
Yes. And - along with Dragons - the Bible mentions Unicorns:
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'And that scientists referred to dinosaurs by the same term, only inventing the term "dinosaur" about 160 years ago, lends credence that dinos were with us much more recently than "scientists" would have us believe', eh? How right you are.
And as Princess Celestia is well over a thousand years old, therefore Equestria existed, thus "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic" is a documentary. [/hyper-sarcasm]
@#1501828
"Medieval knights fighting dinosaurs?
Sounds awesome."
Now why am I reminded of the later stages of the old Williams arcade game "Joust"...? [/nostalgia] [/MAME]
"...lends credence that dinos were with us much more recently than "scientists" would have us believe."
No, not to anyone who knows s*it from Shinola.
Really? Because every image of Dragons I've seen (from around the world) are not like any Dinosaur ever found. Asian ones have fur and dog faces!
People refer to:
Lepracauns
and so on down to recent myths like Spiderman
Where Liberty Dwells is where knowledge goes to die.
Actually, let's get a better look at this. We are supposed to take at absolute fact that stories like St. George and the Dragon where historical truths, even though they butchered the descriptions of a dinosaur so much that it came out in the end as a fire-breathing serpent with wings?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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