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Dinosaurs (grades 1-6)

Mike Riddle
Institute for Creation Research

www.icr.org

Some definitions

• Creation
• Evolution

 The story of creation

• In the beginning (God  chance) created the heaven and the earth

• How long did it take God to create everything (1-day, 6-days, million years)?

• God’s creation was (messy  perfect)

• The days of creation

  • Day 1: Earth, light, and darkness

  • Day 2: Atmosphere

  • Day 3: Dry land, seas, and plants

  • Day 4: Sun, moon, and stars

  • Day 5: Fish, sea creatures, and birds

  • Day 6: Animals and humans

• What did sin do to God’s perfect creation (nothing  corrupted it)?

• What was God’s plan to help us? (hint John 3:16)

• What happened when everyone except Noah and his family became bad?

Some Dinosaur Questions

• Did dinosaurs exist?
• What does the word dinosaur mean? Terrible lizard
• How many kinds of dinosaurs were there? About 700. Is this true?

• Dog family

• Ceratopsia

 Dinosaur Characteristics

• Dinosaur groups

• Theropods (two-footed meat eaters) (T-rex)
• Sauropods (four-footed plant eaters) (Apatosaurus)

• What did dinosaurs look like?

• Iguanodon
• Long necks: Ultrasaurus, Supersaurus, Brachiosaurus

• How big were dinosaurs?
• The average size was about the size of a small pony
• Seismosaurus and Argentinosaurus were over 100 feet long and weighed about 100 tons
• Argentinosaurus, 100 tons, 100 feet long
• Dinosaur footprints
• Compsognathus, Komp-sog-NAY-thus
• Height: 24 inches
• Length: 40 inches
• Weight: 8 pounds
• Stegosaurus, a brain the size of a walnut
• Horned dinosaurs (Triceratops)
• Height: 9 feet
• Length: 26 feet
• Weight: 14,000 pounds (7 tons)
• What about Brontosaurus? (really an Apatosaurus)
• Dinosaurs with big teeth (Tyrannosaurus rex)
• Question: Do big teeth mean meat eater? No
• Euoplocephalus (You-op-loh-SEF-ah-lus)
• Velociraptor
• It had about 80 very sharp, curved teeth
• 3 to 4  feet tall
• 5 to 6 feet long
• How fast were dinosaurs?
• Could you out run a Tyrannosaurus rex?

 When Did Dinosaurs Live?

• Genesis 1:25-31
• Dinosaurs and people

• Many legends
• Ancient drawings (petroglyphs)
• Possible dinosaur and human footprints
• Unfossilized bones
• A new discovery (a mummified dinosaur carcass found in Montana, a duck-billed hadrosaur)
• What did dinosaurs do?

• They roamed the cities?
• We had dinosaur pets?
• We used them to pull heavy objects?
• We brought them to school for show-and-tell?

 Are Dinosaurs Mentioned in the Bible?

• The book of Job 40:15-18 (behemoth)

• He eateth grass as an ox
• He moveth his tail like a cedar
• His bones are like bars of iron

• Job 41:19 (Leviathan)

• Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out
• The Bombardier beetle
• Dinosaurs and dragons

 What Happened to the Dinosaurs?

• The meteor impact theory (65 million years ago)?
• We ate them (Kentucky fried dinosaur)?
• They evolved into birds?
• The Genesis Flood (Noah’s Flood)
• Dinosaurs on the Ark
• What did the Ark look like?
• 450 feet long,  75 feet wide,   45 feet tall

Evidence for Creation

• The woodpeckersaurus
• Life is complex – the human brain
• About 3 pounds
• 100 trillion connections
• Quadrillion bits of information
• Quadrillion calculations per second
• 1-Trillion pennies (how many pennies does it take to get to heaven?)

Some Questions

• Did dinosaurs become extinct 65 million years ago?
• Did dinosaurs live at the same time as people?
• Were dinosaurs on the Ark?
• What did the Ark look like?
• What happened to the dinosaurs?

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