Do you think a humans recreation of a dinosaur is an accurate depiction?
596682
I'm STILL waiting for my cookie!\n\n\n::tapping foot::
20843
I read somewhere that when people found dinosuar bones, they believed them to be dragons. I guess as a way to explain them.  Not sure though
470855
I know the Incas did it a lot too...The Peabody Museum at Yale had a Machu Picchu exhibit a couple of years back and they had some deformed skull replicas and how they did it.
656279
i think it was just dinosaurs\n\nthat was a cool show, wasn't it?? lol
726808
Pictures are not "proof" nor are words written by humans in a book called the Bible. \n\nPeople have made pictures of many things which were not real - like the Star Trek television series which you mentioned. To many of us they are all stories meant to entertain or to educate - but they are not necessarily "documentary" in nature. \n\nAs far as I'm concerned you can believe whatever it is that you wish, but please do not be offended if the rest of the world doesn't decide to remain rooted in ignorance with you. \n\nThe images of the "feathered serpent" which you refer to, are just as probable to be something as subjective as an artists' conception of a kind of giant snake called an Anaconda. It could have been something that the artist heard about second hand from a traveller. It may have been a composite creature like the sphinx. If it was a description of an Anaconda it would have seemed a terrifyingly powerful and godlike being, just as the Jaguar and other totemic spirit creatures were often viewed in the context of being gods or at least superior to humans, by certain Central American cultures of antiquity. \n\nThese things need not have been part of the daily life of the people who carved it - they were just as likely to have been images which were symbolic of religious ideals and concepts or metaphores - Doesn't your own religion use "parables" to teach certain ideas? \n\nThe entire body of evidence resulting from paleontology, geology and other sciences and the quite consistent technology by which fossils and other forensic evidence are used to determine the dates when the earth was once inhabited by creatures which are now extinct, is not going to be invalidated simply because -you- personally find it to difficult to understand. \n\nWhether -you- believe it or not, really doesn't matter. The evidence fits the theory - in fact the theories are refined and improved a bit more each time a new discovery is made, as thousands of tiny observed details are added to the body of knowlege we call a science. In fact, some of the discoveries were made based on predictions that fit the climatic records that we have independently aquired from geological records produced from independent studies that were conducted elsewhere on the earth. The discoveries from physics and mathematics that help us to date these things, also helps us to predict where the finds should be - so unless there is some secret global conspiracy of all scientists and those who accept reason instead of faith, to falsify the evidence just so we can fool -you- It seems like we are the ones who might be genuinely seeking the truth here.\n\nIn fact it seems pretty likely that the real truth is that the Bible just isn't a comprehensive reference text to all knowledge about everything in the objective world. Especially when it comes to determining the history of the planet. I'm not saying the Bible doesn't have a purpose or value just that it's not as accurate or useful source of data when it comes to details about earths prehistory as observing the rate at which alluvial sediments of certain sizes and granularity and porousity are deposited and calculating from that how long it would take to pile up millions of tons of soil and sand and clays and turn them into the natural formations where we have dicovered the dinosaur bones. \n\nI'm sorry if you cannot understand why this seems more real to me than your religion - but your limits are not my problem - so why should I or anyone else care what you think or say on the subject?
976776
Absolutely.  But you can't draw a picture of how it really is in 3D - go try it.   The ball in the blanket is still the best analogy anyone has come up with, so far.   \n\nSo: not "wrong", but "analogy".  Can't get through science without analogies.   They mustn't be taken literally, though.
940472
Sorry, I think they are mythical creatures.  Nice to think about, but not real.
696182
its all so fake.  take it for the entertainment value\nb
1052857
it is there just look a bit harder, the word "dinosaur" is obviosly not.\n\nhttp://www.clarifyingchristianity.com/dinos.shtml\nhttp://www.christiancourier.com/archives/dinosaurs.htm\n\nANd a great site on Dinos and Humans togeather:\nhttp://www.creationevidence.org/\nhttp://www.creationevidence.org/fa_questions/dinoman.html
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)
630790
They think it's a fictional piece of work...or should.
377157
Dinosaur picture taken by camera doesn't exist!\nIt's a picture of simulated dinosaur.\n\nTry to search for movie such as JURASSIC PARK, KING KONG etc. \n\nGoogle search on dinosaur (picture) is ok.
52805
Yes, they are real.  A pic can be found on Wikipedia (see source).
614414
Did one of the Beatles actually pose for it, or did the guy just sketch it off some other drawing/image?\n\nI'd have to see just how good it is.
402454
From experience I can tell you that most of it is real. If it looks like it hurts trust me it really does.\nOf course some things are faked but 99.8% of them are not.
485805
Not explicitly. But many Christians take the liberty to give a compatible meaning to the Creation story. When God made the animals of the earth in one day...some say that that includes dinosaurs and that one day in "God's time" is symbolic for a period of time that's extraordinarly long in human terms.\n\nThen again, I've also heard people who dismiss the whole dinosaur discovery thing as something the devil planted in the ground to shake people's faith.
838001
In a word, no.\n\nLet's put it this way. That movie is "based" on reality. All the effects, however, are completely done by the movie producer.