Monday, September 22, 2008

Dinosaurs in Angkor...What?

http://creationontheweb.com/content/view/6015

Oh wow. Isn't this something? Close-up photos of temple carvings at Angkor (in Cambodia) show, among other things, something that looks suspiciously like a dinosaur of the Stegosaur variety. These carvings are 800 years old. How on earth did the people who made the temple even KNOW what a stegosaur looked like? The amusing part is Stegosaurus as-we-know it was discovered in North America. This isn't to say that there were absolutely no Stegosaurid bones in Asia, but come on. 800 years ago, they're not going to be assembling bones of dinos after working in the coal mines or whatever and put them in the Smithsonian. They had other things to worry about. The carvings depict Hindu and Buddhist mythology, but they also depict ordinary everyday life scenes. And nobody is aware of any Hindu mythology where there is a Stegosaurus.

See, this is the pitfall of Evolutionary thought: they dogmatically assume and insist that because something "vanished" in the fossil record, that then is when it went extinct. This is based on the dubious idea that all the layers of earth represent various geological time periods over millions or billions of years. They were wrong about the Coelacanth. They were wrong about the Wollemi Pine of Australia. Who knows what else they are wrong about?

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