WERE DINOSAURS ON NOAH'S ARK?

Noah's Ark was 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high.  The Titanic was 300 feet longer and Today's Queen Mary II was more than twice as long.  However, the ratios  of dimensions of the ark are the same as modern ships.

Could the Ark Hold All the Animals

The ark had three stories and if we put all the land animals on the ark by today's classifications that would be 35,000 animals.  THIS WOULD ONLY OCCUPY 28% OF THE SPACE.  (See the Genesis Flood  by Morris and Whitcomb, P & R press.  They just published their  50th Anniversary edition.  Another contemporary version is the two volume 1100 text, rather technical by geologist Andrew Snelling, Earth's Catastorphies, can be order from Answers in Genesis.)

O.K. WHAT ABOUT THE BIG DINOSAURS?

According to the museum of natural history, there were about 50  basic types of dinosaurs.  In their immature stage (which is when they are very productive) they would average about the size of sheep.  So holding ot a young earth and dinosaurs living during Noah's time, THERE IS NO PROBLEM THAT THE ARK COULD HOLD ALL THE ANIMALS INCLUDING DINOSAURS. By the way it's estimated there are now 10,000 scientist in all fields that believe in a young earth.

I believe that this miracle probably also caused the animals to have a hibernating-stupor so they could manage the ride of one year.   

 

WHY DID GOD CAUSE SUCH A DISASTER?

The Bible tells us that the world was filled with violence continually, Genesis 6:13.  The Lord had to wipe out this corrupt race and bring about a new beginning with the family of Noah.  The flood and the ark are used by our Lord when He speaks of His return to earth.  The world will be going about its normal activities, ignoring the Lord, when suddenly just like Noah's flood, They were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man (Matthew 24:39).  Make sure you have a real, faith-based relationship with Christ, based upon repentance and trust in our Risen Lord.

EVIDENCE FOR THE FLOOD

It is all around us!  We have fossils of sea life on top of mountains.  The top one third of Mount Everest contain sea fossils.  Sand from the Jersey Shore is found in Western California.  Layers and layers have been suddenly put down.  We see trees that are within various strata, showing these layers came about suddenly. 

 

Speaking of fossils, they only occur by a catastrophe.  A dead body will decay and be digested by living microorganisms above or beneath the earth.  It's only by a sudden catastrophe that a carcass in entombed in mud where there are no worms etc. to eat away at the body. Incidentally,  95% of fossils are from sea life.

  The Water of the Flood

If there were no land barriers to the ocean, it would fill the earth a mile high!  The rain clouds during that time were probably greater, because of the green house effect of vegetation which we see in ancient times  through geology.

The waters from the deep, may not be only underground rivers and streams,but also disruptions from the separations of fault lines (tectonic plates) causing eruptions

sea floor and tsunamis.  Incidentally,  the water on top of such a huge wave would be calm allowing the ark to ride on it.

Some creation scientists also see evidence of meteor bombardment during the flood, which may have loosened the plates (Snelling, Answers magazine, January, 2012).

NEXT TIME WE WILL BE TURNING OUR STUDIES ON PROPHECY.  I WANT TO PRESENT AN INTERESTING TOPIC, THE RAPTURE AND EINSTEIN!

ROSS LYON 

Were Dionosarurs and Humans Alive the Same Time?

 

Dinosaur Blood Found in Frozen Femur

I doubt if this dinosaur (female tyrranasaurus Rex) lived 65 million years ago!  Put a couple of raw steaks in your freezer and see how long they last!  If we believe the world was created some 6000 years or so in the past, then dinosaurs had to be alive when people lived on earth. 

 

I don't have hard evidence for this, but several facts do match the claim for a young earth.  

HISTORY DEMONSTRATES HUMANS KNEW OF DINOSAURS

A volume written by a naturalist in about AD 1000, shows animal drawings that resemble dinosaurs.  Cave dwelling drawings also depict figure that resemble dinosaurs.

The various dragon myths may have arisen from the ancient encounter with dinasaurs.

ONE GREAT EVIDENCE IS THE BIBLE ITSELF! 

The book of Job depicts the life of a faithful follower of God, a Gentile, who lived sometime in the era of Abraham or before.  The Lord explains that while He let Job suffer, He alone knows what He is doing, as demonstrated by the power and wisdom of His creation.  

"Behold the behemoth. which I made with you, he eats grass like an ox...he moves his tail  like a cedar...his bones are like bars of iron..." (Job 10:15).

Some of the newer translation use the word "elephant" or "hippopotamus."   Have you ever seen the "swiggely" tall of a elephant or hippopotamus?  The description in Job matches a dinosaur like an Aptosaurus!

 Here's some life-size models of an Aptosaurus.  

As of today, no human remains have been found with any dinosaur.  It may never be found.  1) I doubt any human would want in the neighborhood of an Aptosaursus! ("Honey the dinosaur stepped on the house again!") 2) Most fossils are sea creatures.  Human remains or animals including dinosaurs are within the 1% of fossil finds. We'll talk more about this when next time we will talk about the evidence of the flood.

The point that I want to make is that there is evidence that matches that the dinosaurs lived when humans existed on earth.  This matches the claims of a young earth as well.

Now we need to look at whether or not dinosaurs were on the earth!  And what happened to the dinosaurs.  (Next time's article).

Ross Lyon, D.Min.

Geology and a Young Earth

The amount of salt and sludge that empties from earth's rivers into the sea is too small an amount if the earth were 4.5 billion years.

 Stalactites and Stalagmites could not be formed over millions of years.  That would mean water with lime etc. would have to flow precisely in the same spot for thousands of years!  These forms are made by catastrophes not "gradualism' (the dogma of geology.)  A major catastrophes would be Noah's flood (which I will go into at another time), rapid melting of the ice age ( young earth scientists believe there was one ice age which only existed 200-700 years).  At any rate these cave formations do not argue for a 4.5 billion year old earth.

  Mt. Saint Helens, a moderate volcano, erupted in the 1980's creating canyons which would have taken millions of years by  gradual erosion.  Newly formed lava has been dated by the clocking methods to be millions of years old instead of a month old.

DATING METHODS ARE PROGRAMED BY THE DOGMA OF GRADUALISM

Various elements and compounds will lose their electrons or change (decay) over time.  If the dogma that what appears today has always been and catastrophes are not taken into account, then faulty conclusions will be arrived at.

A team of scientists taking the various means of dating instruments found that there were millions of years of variation by the "clocks" that are used.  Again, most of this can be due to the 150 year old dogma of "gradualism."

DIAMONDS ARE A YOUNG EARTHERS BEST FRIEND

 

Recently, scientists have been able to blow open diamonds!  What did they find?  Carbon 14!  Carbon 14 decays after 5000 years! The samples taken were judged to be about 2,000 to 4,000 years old, not millions of years!  In other words the existence of diamonds formed by pressure on coal doesn't necessarily take millions of years.

I'VE JUST GOT STARTED!   I want to cover strata, the Grand Canyon, and dinosaurs next, and yes Noah's flood.  I use to believe that the earth was millions of years old.  One Christian has stated that even a universe of 13.7 billion years does not give enough time for all we see today.  Well, its all a miracle.  I just believe it is even more supernatural if we take some of these observances and show they match a miraculous six day (24 hours) creation!

I'd love to hear from you, and if you disagree, I won't burn you at the stake.

Ross Lyon

 

THE TELESCOPE GIVES EVIDENCE OF A YOUNG EARTH

Our universe has spiral galaxies, such as our own.  The center revolves faster than the arms.  If the Universe was 13.7 billion years, than the galaxies would be tightly wrapped up.  A younger universe seems to match this

 The great amount of comets.  Comets exist for 50-100,000 years.  They are not being formed now. The great amount of comets challenges the claim that the universe is 13.7 billion years old.

 Blue stars are not being formed.  These stars exist for 100 million years.  If the universe is billions of years than we should not have any blue stars in existence.

The universe is surprisingly of uniform temperature.  Starlight could not attach to other stars in 13.7 billion years.  Scientists, who support a "big bang" view of the origins, have hypothesized that light may have reached higher speeds in the past.  This hypothesis also fits a young earth view that the presence of starlight which takes millions of years to reach our planet, may have existed in more recent years with the higher speeds of  light.

Next time we will look at evidence of the earth for a young planet.

THE SKY SHOWS A YOUNG EARTH

We've gone over the text of Genesis one, which I believe conveys 24-hour literal days of creation.  Are there any scientific evidences that match a normal, grammatical reading of Genesis?  There are!  In the next few blogs I am going to list them, plainly and briefly.  We'll start with the sky!

  Dr. Jason Lisle (astrophysicist) shows that the MOON drifts two feet each year from the earth. It's claimed that life appeared on the planet 3.5 billion years ago.  That couldn't happen.  If we run two feet a year back toward earth, then 3.5 billion years ago, THE MOON WOULD BE ATTACHED TO THE EARTH AND LIFE WOULD BE UNSUSTAINABLE.  However, if the earth is really a few thousand years old, there's no problem.

 The SUN has been shrinking.  Measuring the rate of that shrinkage, and going back in time to a million or so years would mean that life couldn't exist then.  However, if the earth is only a few thousand year there's no problem.

 LET'S LOOK AT OUR ATMOSPHERE.  If earth is 4.5 billion years old, there would not be  helium-4 in our atmosphere. Helium-4 dissipates rapidly.  However, as A.J. Montey-White, Ph.D. (gas kinetics, Uni. of Wales) observed, this could only be possible if our world and solar system was only a few thousand years old.  This also is true with the abundant presence of carbon 14, which only can exist for maybe 50,000 years!

THE DECAY OF OUR MAGNETIC FIELD.  Dr. Russell Humphrey (astrophycist) has measured the rate of decay of earth's magnetic field.  If the earth was 4.5 billion years old, the magnetic field would be too strong for the existence of life. However, if earth is a few thousand years old, there's no problem.  Before the Voyager Humphrey calculated the magnetic fields of Uranus, based on a 6,000 year old solar system.  Humphrey was found to be absolutely correct when Voyager passed Uranus and measured the fields.

NEXT TIME WE WILL TAKE THE TELESCOPE AND SEE MORE EVIDENCE THAT IS IN HARMONY WITH A BIBLICAL DATING OF EARTH   I'd love to have your comments. Take a few seconds and write your response to what I've reported.

Are the Days of Genesis Literal (continued)

How would an ordinary Hebrew hearing Genesis One interpret the creative days?  First they are numbered and form a week.Every passage of Scripture outside of Genesis speaks of literal days when the days are numbered.  Each day is introduced with the phrase "evening and morning" which in any other section of Scripture describes literal 24 hour days.

Moses in describing the Sabbath Day observance in Exodus, speaks of the fact that God created the earth and its inhabitants in six days and rested on the seventh day.  So Moses commands Israel to keep the 24 hour Sabbath Day. (Exodus 20:11.)
Brown, Driver and Briggs Hebrew Lexicon, a work that was the best Hebrew dictionary for 100 years , gives Genesis One and Exodus 20:11 as examples where the Hebrew word for  "day" is used literally.

How Could You Have 24 Hour Days When the Moon and Sun Were Not Functioning on Earth Unitl the Fourth Day?

Simple.  The fourth day did not make the days 24 hours, but measured  them as already literal 24-hour days.

Doesn't the Lord say in II  Peter 3:9 say that "a thousand years" is like a day?

Yes, but this passage is addressing God's mercy.  A period of a thousand years is a short time for the Lord to extend mercy.  His mercy "is long-suffering to us."  However, many don't quote that Peter also wrote, "a day is like a thousand years."  Here continual unrepentant sin for a day is like the affront of a thousand years of sin!  Obviously,  this passage has nothing to do with the creative days.

How Could Adam Name All the Animals in One Day?

No offence, but I find this objection rather silly.  First God created families of kinds of animals, not all the variants we call "species" today.  For instance there was only one cat-creature, canine-creature etc.  The Museum of  Natural History states there were only 50 major types of dinosaurs.  Adam had to name the representative kinds of birds, livestock, and land animals.  It no doubt took him most of the sixth day of creation.  However, Adam's naming the animals is no real issue that the creative days are literal.

A Scientific Question for those Who Think the Creative Days Were Millions of Years

On day four God made plant life.  On day six he made living creatures and creeping things (insects)?   How could the plants on day four survive for millions of years before insects were formed to pollinate them?

So What?

God's word is plain (Proverbs 8:8:9).  We should take a passage literally when it presents itself in that light.  We must understand that all knowledge starts with certain models or truths.  As Christians, we start with the claim of the Bible itself, that it is true.  If scientific observation for the moment seems to be opposite from the Bible , we must be patient.  Historic science is not an exacting discipline. "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, lean not on your understanding.  In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will direct your paths" (Proverbs 3, 5,6).

HOWEVER, THERE'S MUCH SCIENTIFIC DATA THAT MATCHES A LITERAL SIX DAY CREATION OF THE BIBLE.  IN THE COMING WEEKS WE WILL LIST SUCH OBSERVATIONS! 

In the meantime have confidence that the Bible speaks plainly and is true, not the varied fallible observations of limited man.  Wait and see.  The Bible through the centuries has always demonstrated to be true--in history, science, and our comfort, strength, and peace through our Lord Jesus Christ

P.S.  Dr. Hugh Ross, a Christian astrophysicist, states that if the universe is 13.7 billion years old, it still isn't old enough to have arrived at its present form with life on this planet. In other words the present condition of the universe is miraculous!  Therefore, I have no problem believing the Lord could have created the earth in six literal days.

ARE THE DAYS OF GENESIS ONE LITERAL?

In the middle of the nineteenth century Christians began thinking that the study of geology showed a very old earth.  The days of believing the earth was created in 4004 B.C. began to disappear.  When I was in seminary in the 1960's I knew of no Bible believing Seminary or undergraduale Christian college that held Genesis One to be literal.  

I was taught that the days were figurative for the acts of God's creation encompassing millions of years.  Other schools taught that Genesis 1:1 was the original creation but there was a gap of millions of years between the first verse and second verse.  In that "gap" was an old fallen world that God destroyed and Genesis one was a restoring of the past earth.

THEN CAME THE BOMBSHELL! In the 1960's Dr. Henry Morris of VIP and Dr. John Whitcomb wrote the Genesis Flood. In that they explained that most of geology could be explained by the flood, and that the earth by this catastrophe was not the millions of years claimed by popular science.

The introduction of the book was written by the head of Geology at the University of Louisianna. He stated that Morris and Whitcomb had taken all the data of geology and explained it from the standpoint of a universal flood and a young planet.  He humbly wrote that he would hope they are wrong!  Because, this would mean that  he and the universtiy had been wrong for 30 years!

In the next blog we will look at what does the Bible present as to the creative days.  If they are literal, what about science?  Are there scientific evidences that match a literal view of Genesis.