I LOVE DINOSAURS

Ok i love dinosaurs now i don't know why but i think their amazing wonderful and facinating creatures. Ok i watched Jurassic Park 3 last night so i was quite in the mood to look up about dinosaurs. Here's a few facts that i bet you didn't know and i didn't and preeetty coool. So yeap here goes....
1.Where did Dinosaurs come from ?
When God created the world he created Dinosaurs were one of his creations.Like Adam the bodies of the first dinosaurs were formed from the dust from the earth. Man and dinosaurs lived at the same time.
2.Why did God create Dinosaurs ?
All animals, including the first dinosaurs, were created to benefit mankind in one way or another.
God's exact purpose for the various dinosaurs is still a mystery. Perhaps the larger dinosaurs kept certain types of lush plant life under control and cleared paths through the forest. Using their long necks, some dinosaurs could have eaten foliage at the tops of tall trees. In a thick forest, this would let light come down to the ground so smaller plants would have a chance to grow.

God brought many animals to Adam for his personal inspection; the dinosaurs may have been included. God watched to see what Adam thought of all these wonderful creatures. He waited while Adam made up a name for each one (Genesis 2:19). Each new animal must have been an interesting surprise, displaying their Creator's power and creativity.

Why did God invent so many different kinds of beautiful, interesting and surprising animals? Perhaps because He wanted to delight Man with His power, wisdom and love.

Part of God's purpose for creating the particular types of dinosaurs that become very large was surely to impress Man. Dinosaurs showed the great power of the Creator. No matter how big these creatures got, Adam knew God was always far greater. God designed every part of them, right down to the smallest cell. Even the largest dinosaur was like an obedient puppy in God's wise, powerful hands.

3.What would it have been like to live with Dinosaurs ?

The first man and woman, Adam and Eve, were close friends of God. And they were masters over all His wonderful creatures (Genesis 1:26,28). Adam and his family were meant to enjoy the animals and rule over them forever with love.

In those first, early days the earth was a beautiful paradise. Everything was happy and perfect--just as God intended. Wouldn't it be wonderful to have lived in those days? There were delicious fruits and plants of all types to eat. They were probably much better than the kinds available today.


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All of the animals were friendly and under man's control. None of the animals ate meat or killed. God provided the plants and seeds with all the vitamins people and animals needed. There was no sin, no death or evil or disease.

4.Why did animals begin to kill each other ?
After the Flood, God gave people official permission to kill animals for food and eat them. Man could now eat everything, green plants and animals (Genesis 9:2,3). This means that people from Noah's family could have eaten dinosaurs, if they tasted good.

But God told the animals (including dinosaurs) that they should not kill people. If they did, they would have to answer to God for it (Genesis 9:5b).

At the same time, the Bible does not say that animals were forbidden to kill other animals in this new world. God does not repeat his command, here or later, that animals are to eat plants. So, it could be that the end of the flood marks the time when land animals and birds began to develop the habit of killing for food. Or, it might just be the time when these habits started to become common.

In the world before the Flood some animals might have died because of natural causes. For example, some must have been killed by injuries, like falls from trees. Other animals would surely find these dead bodies and smell them. Could it be that some animals, also, decided to taste the bodies and even eat them?

Actually, this would have been a good thing. It would be best to have a quick way to get rid of dead, smelly bodies in the world after the Fall. Today, it is important for animals to do this.

So, it could be that animals ate dead animals once in a while before the Flood, but that few (if any) animals killed for food until sometime after the Flood. This seems to make sense, since the fossils show that the pre-Flood world had plenty of plants to eat. The animals probably did not need to kill to live.

Meat-eating would have been encouraged by the Flood. The Flood was the world's greatest disaster. It destroyed all the world's huge, lush forests of plant life. Until new forests grew, there was much less food. The Flood would have left a certain number of decaying animal bodies unburied on the earth's surface. The bodies would have been tempting meals for hungry, sharp-toothed animals.

It must have been much harder to survive in the world after the Flood. Since food was no longer so abundant, some animals were forced to compete. This would cause quarrels and fights, even among animals in the same family.

Plants growing in the soils of the destroyed earth would have had less protein and vitamins than before, especially in certain areas of the world. With an increasing taste for meat, hunger could have driven some animals to kill for food, instead of waiting for dead bodies to turn up. Animals needed to feed their hungry families. Hunger and starvation can make some creatures desperate and vicious.

5.Were dinosaurs ever really ferocious like they put it on the films and books ?
There is another mystery about dinosaurs to be explored. Today, many books and films show dinosaurs as terrible, ferocious beasts. But since there are only fossils to study today, it is very difficult to know for sure how dinosaurs behaved.

Most dinosaurs had small brains in comparison to the size of their bodies. The 29-foot long Stegosaurus had a brain the size of a walnut. Even the great Apatosaurus's brain was not much larger than a kitten's. If a huge Brachiosaurus (BRACK-ee-o-SOR-us) could be shrunk to the size of a human, its brain would be 10,000 times smaller than Man's. This does not necessarily mean these animals were stupid as animals go, but they were surely no match for Man's brain.
Brain cast from Tyrannosaurus rex. Notice that the brain size of a 10-year old boy is much larger

Many of the dinosaurs were quite small. The Saltopus (SALT-oh-puss) was really tiny--no bigger than a housecat. Most of the dinosaurs killed by the Flood were less than fifteen inches long, not including their tails which made them more than twice as long. In museums, most people never see the small dinosaurs because the jumbo-sized ones are so much more impressive.
And of course, all young dinosaurs were small. If they were born from eggs, they were very little. No one knows for sure if all dinosaurs laid eggs, but they may have. The eggs that have been found are never very big. The larger they are, the stronger and thicker the shell has to be. This made it harder for the baby dinosaur to get out. Eggs from medium-size dinosaurs are never much bigger than a turkey's egg. No one has found an egg from a great Brachiosaurus or Apatosaurus, but eggs were discovered from the 39-foot-long Hypselosaurus (HIP-se-loh-SOR-us). This dinosaur's shape was somewhat like the Apatosaurus. Its biggest egg was only 12 inches long

Find the baby dinosaur.

It probably took big dinosaurs a very long time to reach great size. Perhaps like the people before the Flood, dinosaurs also had long lives. One man, Methuselah, lived 969 years in those days of better health and environment. Adam and Eve were originally created with perfect hearts and eyes, perfect hearing and health--perfect bodies in every way. And so were the animals.

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Dinosaurs were not the only animals that grew very large. The fossils show there once were giant kangaroos, giant deer, giant birds, giant dragonflies, giant bears and bison. There were even giant beavers (eight feet long)! Even many plants grew much larger in ancient times. Perhaps the people were bigger, too. No one knows for sure, but it seems possible.