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The Great Dinosaur Mystery

Posted April 25, 2006

The Great Dinosaur Mystery: Dragons in China

“Did dinosaurs really become extinct millions of years before the existence of humans?”

Jordan had the “companion book” to this film years ago—in fact, he may still have it today. (I never realized it was “just” a companion book, though!) I remember being rather surprised that no one else seemed to consider that there might be more than a kernel of truth within the plethora of “dragon myths” around the world. Check out the 20-minute video presentation they’ve got online before you write ‘em off.

Perhaps, as that great philosopher Weird Al once said, “everything you know is wrong!”

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7 Comments so far

  1. Kneon Transitt on April 25th, 2006

    I think I recall some sort of giant land-dwelling beast mentioned in Job…

  2. Travis on April 25th, 2006

    Leviathan is mentioned in Job, Psalms and Isaiah; Behemoth is mentioned only in Job; “dragon” appears in Nehemiah (”the dragon spring”), Isaiah, Ezekiel and Revelation.

    Interestingly enough, the King James Version translates “ra’em” as unicorn in Numbers, Deuteronomy, Job, Psalms, and Isaiah.

  3. Kneon Transitt on April 25th, 2006

    Dragons. Unicorns. How ’bout mermaids? ;)

    Quite possible. There is usually an element of truth to human mythology, and tales of dragons (or dragon-like beasties) exist in many cultures. If “terrible lizards” died out long before the appearance of man, how would we know of such things?

  4. Travis on April 25th, 2006

    It wouldn’t be much of a shock to me if the “unicorn” in those passages was really something like a parasaurolophus.

  5. Nicole Seitler on April 25th, 2006

    I was just telling Katie about dragons…and how they were probably dinosaurs. :D

  6. Kneon Transitt on April 25th, 2006

    Could be. Could’ve been an actual unicorn, too. How hard is it to believe that there once may have been a horse or goat with one horn? Species die out all the time.

    However, if someone suggests they were pink with hearts on their butts and had a penchant for singing showtunes, well… I’d say they’re just plain silly.

    But now the question is that if dinosaurs existed only a few thousand years ago… how did they die out? A meteor shower would’ve wiped us out as well. The flood, perhaps?

  7. Paul Reid on March 5th, 2007

    Or maybe people just slew them because they were giant and menacing?

    That’s the way the story usually goes. Whoever slays the dragon is a hero to everyone around for ridding them of such an awful beast.

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