COAL, OIL, AND DINOSAURS


  1. Dinosaurs in the Bible
    1. The Behemoth- Job 40:15-24
      1. Webster: A gigantic creature
      2. A hippopotamus or an elephant? Ever seen their tails? Not exactly cedar-like!
      3. Neither is chief in the ways of God.
      4. A Seismosauraus? 40 feet tall & 110 tons
    2. The Leviathan- Job 41:1-34
      1. Vv. 1-2 unable to apprehend him
      2. Vv. 7-10 unable to kill him
      3. Vv. 14-17 his scales are inpenatrable
      4. Vv. 18-21 fire comes from his mouth and smoke from his nostrils. . . NOW WAIT JUST A MINUTE! DO YOU MEAN TO TELL ME. . .
    3. Have you ever seen:
      1. A burning bush that was not consumed?
      2. Two men hold up another's arms and the sun fail to set?
      3. A child born of a virgin?
      4. A man raised from the dead after four days?
      5. A man raise himself from the dead after three days?
    4. Have you ever heard of:
      1. The trap-door spider?
      2. The bombadere beetle?
      3. A lightning bug? Bioluminescence
    5. Exodus 20:11 "For in six days the Lord made the heaven and the earth, the sea, and all that in them is. . ."


  2. Why Do We Find this so Hard to Believe?
    1. 1940's Dr. Samuel Hubbard explored the Havasupai region of the Grand Canyon looking for artifacts.
      1. He found many artifacts as well as cave drawings of cattle, sheep, oxen, dinosaurs, buffalo, horses. . .
      2. "The proportions are good." Even the tracks were found nearby. How could they have drawn something they had never seen nor heard of?
    2. June 1968 Antelope Springs UT Albert Meister looking for trilobites which are supposed to have been 400 million years old and extinct since 250 million years ago.
      1. Found them- imbedded in a human footprint- wearing a sandal
      2. Researchers reported the sandal had worn evenly on the outside
    3. 1970's Albert Ingle- KY coal mine exploration-
      1. human footprints embedded in coal
      2. Similar findings in VA, WV, IN, MO, Rocky Mtns.
      3. 'I can't explain it except to say it isn't true. Men didn't live that far back.'
    4. A steel-tipped hammer found in coal, the wood handle had already begun to turn to coal.
    5. Ruby Falls- Chattanooga, TN stalagtites & stalagmites 20 million years old 1 inch every 100,000 years. Philadelphia, PA National museum had stalagtities 2 ½ feet tall 2-3 million years old?