who belive in dragons ?
375494
i used to believe them, but then one day i caught one of them in a lie, and they've never earned my trust back.
821992
I investigate them. I believe in a wide range such things---spirits, ghosts, demons, elves, lephrachauns, faeries, pixies, dragons, sasquatches, aliens, non-organic beings, etc. I have investigated all of these thinsg and experienced them with my own senses. \nHowever, for many people it wishful thinking. For example many people come to find these creatures through a fantasy that they exist--because they want them to exist. Howver cultural pressures also play a part in it. Many people believe in god just because their parents did and everyone else they know does.
216759
Yes.  Egytian hyroglyphics show dinosars.  Other cave drawings show dinosaurs.  Europe and Asia both have a lot of mythology about dragons.  Leviation, mentioned in Job 40, breathed fire.
860086
I believe people explain things to the best of their knowledge, and the people in the past are no different. As a general rule, mythology has some connection to fact - even if it is a very slim link.\n\nLet's take for example the Centaur - a being that has the body of a horse, and the torso of a man where the horses head would be. Now, imagine if you will that you have no concept of saddlery and you see at a distance a man or group of men riding horses. Anyone knows that a well-trained rider on a horse can appear to be fluid, and accomplish some amazing feats, so at a distance it might seem that a four-legged beast with the torso of a man is maneuvering. So the beginnings of a myth are created, and are propagated by the retelling of this tale.\n\nConsider another example - Dragons. While the exact appearance of a dragon varies (Eastern vs Western, wyrms vs serpents), one common detail is large size. Now, despite the reluctance of the current government, it can be agreed that China is the site of amazing fossil remains, as are many other locations all over the world. Imagine that someone was to dig up large petrified bones, but had no concept of 'dinosaurs' or the theory of evolution. A peasant, a magistrate, a knight, a feudal lord - all might surmise that they are the bones of a large animal and where there is one large animal, there are others. Eastern mythology places Dragons as part of the Celestial Order, Western mythology sees them as the test of mettle and chivalric valour. Again, the tale is told to any who will listen and gains some credence in folklore.\n\nGranted, this is supposition on my part, and might be a grand example of pulling together some half-assed truths. Then again, people judge their world by their own experiences and knowledge. It is easy enough for 'errors' in the retelling of tales about foreign creatures or things found to accumulate over time. From here, a fact becomes a tall tale, and over an age become legend and then myth. \n\nBesides - you know how gullible some people are...   8)
974309
are you asking a serious question about a myth ? it will happen when Satin rides past on a Unicorn chased by a Troll riding a Dragon
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That's interesting that you ask if they were his pets because of this verse from the book of Job that describes some type of gigantic creature with a Hebrew word whose translation is uncertain and long before the modern term "dinosaur" came into use.\n\nHere God is talking to Job about what He can do and asking Job if he thinks that he can do the same.\n\nJob 41:1  "Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook or press down his tongue with a cord?  (2)  Can you put a rope in his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?  (3)  Will he make many pleas to you? Will he speak to you soft words?  (4)  Will he make a covenant with you to take him for your servant forever?\n\nliwyātān: I. A masculine proper noun meaning Leviathan. It describes a huge indomitable being that God created and whom only He fully comprehends and controls.\n\nA further description God gives of this animal makes it seem like a sea going fire breathing dragon.\n\nJob 41:15  His back is made of rows of shields, shut up closely as with a seal.  (16)  One is so near to another that no air can come between them.  (17)  They are joined one to another; they clasp each other and cannot be separated.  (18)  His sneezings flash forth light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the dawn.  (19)  Out of his mouth go flaming torches; sparks of fire leap forth.  (20)  Out of his nostrils comes forth smoke, as from a boiling pot and burning rushes.  (21)  His breath kindles coals, and a flame comes forth from his mouth.\n\n\nHere's another unknown creature that God asks Job about.\n\nJob 40:15  Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.  (16)  Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.  (17)  He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.  (18)  His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.  (19)  He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.  (20)  Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.  (21)  He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.  (22)  The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.  (23)  Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.  (24)  He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares.
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I was taught that most dinosaurs died out in the flood, but there are references to massive creatures such as the Leviathan and Behemoth in Job that could have been dinosaurs.\n\nI wonder why every culture has tales of "dragons". One idea is that this is so because the early humans had contact with dinosaurs which are also "great lizards" and then some properties like breathing fire got added in the thousands of years that these legends have been around.\n\nAccording to some theories, the Loch Ness monster is a dinosaur.
246317
True and False.\n\nTrue they existed.  False that they existed "millions of years ago"
703173
The more important question is Do YOU believe in these things. A little advice, and I DO speak from experience...be careful what you ask for, and what you search for. If you really want to learn about such things you must search for the answers yourself and decide whether or not what you find out rings true. \n\nYou are right...We do indeed live in a world that is not what it appears to be...but what is truth and what are lies, and what is myth...all of these things are completely different (obviously). It is you, though, who decides this. Do not let anyone else tell you otherwise. Some people are very closed minded.
305419
Hahaha. For reals, huh? They know EVERYTHING about all of existence. I suppose that explains why they don't feel there is any real need for science......Here there be dragons! \n\nGod likes to eat heathens that God roasts in the flames of Hell like marshmallows.
311607
No.\n\nIf you examine the representations of dragons over time, you can watch them change.  European dragons become increasingly snake-like in their description, until the earliest descriptions are essentially exaggerated traveller's tales of large African snakes.  Fire breathing wasn't added until much later, after dragons came to be identified with Satan in mideval mythology.\n\nChinese dragons are based on the Chinese alligators.  When the alligators exhale, they sometimes blow out a mist of water left in their nostrils, looking like a little cloud.  This was included in pictures of the alligators and the "celestial" alligators of Chinese mythology.  (Basically, all animals had a magical counterpart.)  Pictures of the clouds became exaggerated over time, as the body of the "dragons" became longer.\n\nNumerous animals have been called dragons (leafy sea dragons, komodo dragons, bearded dragons, dragonflies, etc.) but those were all named for the dragon myths, not vice-versa.
766723
The Latin word for a dragon, draco, actually means snake or serpent. The Medieval Biblical interpretation of the Devil being associated with the serpent who tempted Adam and Eve, thus gave a snake-like dragon connotations of evil. Generally speaking, Biblical literature itself did not portray this association (save for the Book of Revelation)\n\nHowever, some say that dragons were good, before they fell, as humans did. Also contributing to the good dragon argument in Christianity is the fact that, if they did exist, they were created as were any other creature.\n\nI'm a Christian and have had other Christians tell my son his hoodie with a dragon on it is evil so I hear ya.
233423
Maybe not in the way we think they did. but yes i think they did. maybe back when there where dinosaurs. i think those are the closest to "dragons".
24541
We can't really prove it. All their insides were decayed, so the only evidence of them being reptiles is their bone structure. But for all we know, they could have been fuzzy, warm blooded, dinosaurs. There is no way to determine either way scientifically, because we can't see a live one.
487782
i think they found the skulls of dinosours and thats with a little imagination is what created dragons\nthere are dinosour bones all accross the world
1006828
I'm going to have to go with Angels. I have read a few books on Angels and I guess they are more excepted as being real while fairies are in the same catergory as leprachuans. OK. I am going to tell you the truth. I believe in it all. Faeries, leprachuans, hollow earth. All of it. \nLove & Light\nSharon
668208
i thought it was the welsh who had the dragons