Dinotopia

Like many kids whom grew up with Barney (Barney immigrated to China after it opened its doors in the 80s), I was also fascinated by Dinosaurs when I was growing up. I remember seeing a dinosaur skeleton for the first time in Bejing Museum of Natural History, after staring at it in awe for what seems like hours, I spent the next few days at the museum drawing diagrams of various dinosaur skeletons.

There has been many mysteries in understanding dinosaurs, since fossil records can only tell us so much. For example, there are still no consensus on whether dinosaurs are hot-blooded or cold-blooded (see DinoBuzz) or whether birds evolved from dinosaurs. However, if you are a creationist, the question hardly matters and all answers can be found in the Old Testament (Jesus came after the flood so you would not expect to find any answers in the New Testament). See Christian Science's explanation for the existence and distinction of dinosaurs.

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In order to bridge the gap between today's science and the Bible, creation scientists have come up with this theory: Dinosaurs lived in the pre-flooded world about 4,300 years ago. They were caught in the Great Flood in the beginning and floated on flood waters. As the flood intensifies, they all drowned and were buried by the Great Flood. 4,000 years later, fossilized remains were discovered by man.

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A dinosaur eating a prehistoric fruit. It looks 2-3 times larger than a watermelon so it is probably not easily swallowed. If you look carefully, this poor animal has no teeth. They probably all fell off due to his old age (one assumes). The plaque below reads: God said: "To every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for food." - Genesis 1:30 Before man's Fall, animals were vegetarians. In a "very good" creation, no animals would die, so there were no carnivores. All the beasts of the earth, not just the "beasts of the field" that God brought to Adam to name, ate only plants. I wonder how T-Rex ate plants with only incisor like teeth. The lack of molars must have driven them crazy.

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Left Photo: A (female?) T-Rex protecting its babies (lower left). Look at those cute little front legs! Right Photo: Close up of the same T-Rex. Note the sharp incisor teeth and the lack of molar teeth. If it were a vegetarian, it would have been a starving vegetarian that can only swallow fruits in whole.

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Do Edaphosaurus have sex?

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Thescelosaurus. The caption reads: Named because the discovers were surprised when they found that it represented a new form of orthopodous dinosaur. In 1993, a fossil was discovered near Buffalo, South Dakota, that revealed the first fossilized dinosaur heart. A CT scan showed that it had four chambers indicating that the dinosaur was warm-blooded, although some reptiles living today, such as crocodiles and alligators, have four chambered heart and are cold-blooded. Whether dinosaurs were warm-blooded or cold-blooded is still a subject of study and debate. The preservation of delicate internal tissues of a heart indicates burial under sudden and catastrophic conditions, such as the global Flood of Noah's day. For more information about the dinosaur heart, see Willo, dinosaur with a heart. It is important to note that most palentologists today question whether the object found inside Willo's skeletons is indeed a heart. The debate and the research is still ongoing and there has been no consensus at this time.

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The plaques read: (Left Picture) Did DINOSAURS live on the EARTH after the FLOOD? Two of every "kind" of dinosaurs came off the Ark. So, at least for a time, dinosaurs lived in the world after the Flood. (Right Picture) What happened to the DINOSAURS that didn't go on NOAH'S ARK? The dinosaurs that did not enter Noah's Ark were drowned in the flood (about 4,350 years ago), and many were buried and preserved as fossils

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Miscellaneous photos. From Left to Right: 1. A Dinosaur guarding the front entrance of the museum. 2. No it's not

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