re: Did Man and Dinosaur Coexist?

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Can you seriously discount the absence of dinosaur fossils younger than 65 million years? There's just nothing to be found. They died out when the asteroid impact in Mexico devastated the earth. Only birds remain of that great line of species.

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Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

You cannot authoratively claim that this is false. Anecdotal evidence is still evidence. It's just not enough to satisfy you or the wider academic community at this time. And I freely admit that. But I also believe this will not always be true.

It may surprise you to find out there have been fossils found that when dated gave back much, much earlier dates than 65 million years. But they have been dismissed. Cast aside as some sort of error. Couldn't possibly be true!

Eventually though there will be enough of them to make a case. For the time being this is just fun to think about.

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The emergence of dragons and other dinosaur-like creatures in many cultures is no doubt due to the discovery of dinosaur fossils by ancient peoples.

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The first recorded fossil finds were in the late 1600's and they were not able to piece together a whole dino out of bones until much later. So, logic would tell us that these ancient folks just found a whole set of fossils and pieced them together? It is more likely that if they found anything, they may have found a large bone or tooth or something.

There is something else to consider here. Not that dinosaurs lived here post 65 million years ago, but that humans have been here much longer than what currently thought. Older and older modern human remains are being found all the time.

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Not that dinosaurs lived here post 65 million years ago, but that humans have been here much longer than what currently thought.

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I'm in this camp, I think man has been around a lot longer than we currently believe

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I'm in this camp, I think man has been around a lot longer than we currently believe

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How much longer? Upright ancestors of humans first appeared about 6.7 million years ago. Big-brained human ancestors came on the scene about 2 million years ago. The Homo lineage arose about 1.5 million years ago. Modern man evolved about 300,000 years ago. Those seem to be incrediblly long periods of time.

Of course they did.

Sure. One block of text came from the Holy Bible and the other comes from an Old English epic poem.

The pictures have been posted numerous places online.

What makes you think I copy pasted something from there?

I used some of the photos and quoted two passages from old books.

I didn't post any of the commentary. If I had wanted to use some of that author's commentary I would have linked that thread.

But yes, this is the thread I used to gather those photos. Like I said before though, those photos have been used loads of times. Not just that thread. And there are loads more photos like them to be found that were not used in that thread.