He makes his tail stiff like a cedar; the sinews of his
thighs are knit together. His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like bars of
iron. Job 40:17-18
Evolutionists claim that dinosaurs evolved
and became extinct millions of years before human beings ever walked the earth.
They have thoroughly convinced many in today’s culture that this geologic
timetable has been proven beyond doubt. The fictional book and movie titled “Jurassic
Park” were based on the claim that many of these creatures lived during the “Jurassic
Period,” dated at 208-144 million years ago.
If all that is true, if dinosaurs never co-existed with
man, who told the biblical Job about them? How could the Bible describe a
dinosaur, if no one had never seen one?
Carefully read Job 40:15-24, where God is said
to be speaking to Job. What the text calls “Behemoth” describes a creature of enormous
size, strength, and dominance. Of course, the word “dinosaur” itself was not invented
until AD 1841. The Hebrew word behemoth would
be the best term available in that language to apply to a dinosaur. Note the
power of its loins and belly. Imagine bones like tubes of bronze and limbs like
bars of iron. Picture its moving tail, stiff and long like a cedar tree. A
turbulent river would not intimidate this gigantic creature, nor could man tame
it or even approach it.
No creature on earth, certainly not the hippopotamus,
matches this description. So how did Job know about it? There are only four
possible answers.
1. It has been suggested that the passage
refers to a mythical being, which never existed. That seems unlikely, because
chapters 38 and 39 of Job obviously depict real animals that are still with us
today. These include the lion, the raven, the mountain goat, the wild donkey,
and many others. In addition, reference to a non-existent creature would be of
no value in the context. Here God emphasizes that, though Job knows these
beings are real, he does not know what God knows about them, because he did not
create them.
2. Some have said that the Bible is actually
talking here about the hippopotamus. This is very doubtful, in part because the
hippo’s tail is short and small. The hippo also lacks the size and intimidating
presence of this behemoth. In addition the hippo, unlike this creature, has
been tamed. Furthermore, the use of such exaggerated language to describe this
creature does not fit the context, in which other animals are accurately portrayed.
3. Another theory – which I have never seen
anyone propose – is that the behemoth in Job 40 is a dinosaur, but that it actually existed millions of years before
Job or any other man ever lived. No unbeliever or evolutionist (as far as I
know) supports this, because he would then have to ask, “How could a man-made
book like the Bible record information about a creature that became extinct
long ages ago, without a God to reveal it?” So this solution would affirm, “Job
knew, because God told him.” That would require inspiration!
4. The only other possible answer is that
dinosaurs co-existed with man at some point. Evolutionists may call such a
conclusion laughable, but think about it. Either Job saw and knew of such a
creature firsthand, or he heard from others who had previously been aware of its
existence. By process of elimination, this solution seems the most plausible,
though it flies in the face of the unproven geologic timetable which separates dinosaurs
and human beings by millions of years.
Question: If the Bible is not true, and dinosaurs really
preceded man by millions of years, who told Job about behemoth?
Who invited Job to Jurassic Park?
There are other irrefutable proofs, outside
the Bible, showing that man and dinosaurs once co-existed. These consist of ancient
drawings and engravings of dinosaur-like creatures found in various parts of
the world.
● At the Natural Bridges National Monument
in Utah, there is an American Indian petroglyph (rock carving) that shows a
dinosaur.
● In 1924 Samuel Hubbard and Charles
Gilmore, leading the Doheny Expedition near the Grand Canyon, found another
dinosaur petroglyph and even dinosaur footprints.
● Waldemar Julsrud, a German businessman,
traveled to the El Toro Mountain in Acamboro, Mexico in 1944. He found
thousands of artifacts, including hundreds of handcrafted dinosaur sculptures.
This discovery was so damaging to evolutionary theory that many scientists suggested
that these figurines were fakes. After all, they were so accurate. Further
research, however, authenticated their antiquity.
● Javier Cabrera Darquea eventually gathered
over 11,000 ancient burial stones that the Inca Indians in Peru had placed with
their dead. The art form and the location dated these stones to the time of the
Inca Culture, ca. AD 500-1500. Almost one-third of these stones depicted
specific types of dinosaurs.
For more information, see Dinosaurs Unleashed, by Kyle Butt and
Eric Lyons, 2004, Apologetics Press, Inc., ISBN: 0-932859-61-5, pages 48-52,
58-59.
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Once again, if ancient peoples never saw or
knew about dinosaurs, how did they draw them? And if they did know, how did
they know? This is a dilemma that evolutionists cannot answer. Creationists can
not only answer; creationists can use such information, both inside and outside
the Bible, to defend genuine faith in the God who made heaven and earth.
Cory Collins
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