Posted on 07/02/2009 9:21:03 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
Harry Potter fans are looking forward to the boy wizard’s next screen adventure, when Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince opens this month. Pottermania broke loose when J. K. Rowling’s first book appeared on bookstands in 1997, prompting the creation of films, fan websites, and dozens of similarly themed books. Rowling’s world of wizardry has even inspired the name of a dinosaur fossil, Dracorex hogwartsia. But serious researchers are seeing evidence that dragons were more than just fantastical creatures...
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Ping!
My fiancee just saw this picture and was like “what the heck is that”
This is a thead about dragons not gorgons.
wow, I was so close.
This guy really doesn't know what he's talking about. The Western visual representation of dragons is quite different from their depiction in Asian art (and there is a lot of variety in how they are depicted in the West, too). Also, the stories around dragons are quite different between the two cultures- Western myths consider dragons to be malevolent, while Asians tend to view them as benevolent.
Our ancestors were no less imaginative than we are- it's not surprising that they created stories around the fossils they discovered.
Helen Thomas looked pretty good yesterday in her castigating Obama’s press secretary ... Robert Gibbs.
They seem to be taking for ever to finish the series. Which is odd because they are such money makers.
Unfortunately I will have to wait until it comes out on DVD.
St. George slaying dragon
Chinese dragon
Thanks for the laugh! You’re on a roll today.
Other Myths with some Truth:
1) Bigfoot
2) Loch Ness Monster
3) Hollow Earth
4) Paul is Dead
5) Global Warming
6) Islam is religion of Peace
7) Jimmy Hoffa buried in Meadow lands endzone
8) liberals are openminded
9) Obama is a capitalist
10) The illuminati killed Princess Di
That’s a classic picture! I’m saving it for these threads.
You may think this funny, but Jesus believe in the inerrancey (and accuracy) of the Whole OT, including Genesis.
Is that the last picture of the stupidest man in the world?
Nobody knows for sure; the cameraman disappeared, too.
Thanks for the ping!
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/dinofossils/First.shtml
“The First Dinosaur Fossil Scientifically Described
The first dinosaur to be described scientifically was Megalosaurus. This genus was named in 1824, by William Buckland; Gideon Mantell (not Ferdinand August von Ritgen) assigned the scientific type species name, Megalosaurus bucklandii. Buckland (1784-1856) was a British fossil hunter and clergyman who discovered collected fossils. (Note: the first dinosaur found was Iguanodon, but it was named and described later than Megalodon.)
It was the first dinosaur ever described scientifically and first theropod dinosaur discovered (this is all in hindsight, because the dinosaurs had not yet been recognized as a separate taxonomic group - the word dinosaur hadn’t even been invented yet).
The first dinosaur models (life size and made of concrete) were made by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins of England in 1854. The first dinosaur used for amusement was a life-size model of an Iguanodon (made by Hawkins) that was used to house a dinner party for scientists (including Richard Owen) at a major exhibition. The invitations to the party were sent on fake pterodactyl wings. The party took place in London, England, in 1854 “
I read most of the books. They got longer and longer. Some of the concepts were rather cool, but for the most part, I thought they were too contrived. Voldemort rears his head on Halloween, next thing you know it’s Christmas, and all of the important events occur on holidays. They had a lot of time off between crises.
I think it wasn’t until after the first book that the author started to take the whole thing seriously. I still think Dumbledore is a stupid name. It contains and starts with the word Dumb. My impression was that the author started out intending the old wizard to be a bumbling character, like the one in Disney’s Black Cauldron. By the time she decided to make him into a Gandalf, he was stuck with that name. It doesn’t seem like a name that could strike fear into the hearts of evildoers.
I have yet to see even one Harry Potter movie. I won’t be waiting in line for this one, either.
You may think this funny, but Jesus believe in the inerrancey (and accuracy) of the Whole OT, including Genesis.
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Are you suggesting that Jesus actually rode around on a dinosaur as the picture in the post you responded to depicts?
IIRC, for a long time some show (Barnums?) displayed a mammoth skull as the skull of a Cyclops...
That may be the first Dino fossil that was scientifically described, but our ancestors most certainly ran into fossils before then. The stories of such beasties were passed on and became the mythological creatures of various cultures.
Okay- that would be all kinds of awesome.
Dunno.
When you look at the different roles, maybe they’re not related at all. In the Orient, dragons are divine and, mostly, forces for good.
In the West, dragons are evil and destructive.
So why did not ONE dinosaur from the fossil record make it on the Ark?
You’d think the author of Job, while he was going on about the tail, might have mentioned the whole flying and breathing fire thing.
“Dumbledore is a stupid name”
It’s the common name for a feces-living beetle in England
Fitting, since Dumbledore in the books turns out to be a poofter.
Leave Bigfoot alone. He has quasi religious significance.
I've never met anyone who has seen vertebrate fossils (other than fish) in the field.
Still a mythological beast (the only one in the Chinese zodiac in fact) appearing in two distinctly separate cultures...pretty odd.
Every culture since ancient time has had “Dragons” in its mythology. Chinese/Asian, Mayan, Judeo-Christian, yet, no one has ever seen a dragon. But you can take a drawing of one anywhere on earth and people automatically KNOW what it is!............
The Temple Of Darwinism has sent its backbenchers to bray and hoot.
Stories that linger in human memory usually have a basis in past reality. So dragons, dinosaurs of some kind? Possible.
Look at how widespread stories of the Flood are.
Given that most societies started around rivers, it's not surprising that stories about terrible floods are common. And anyone living in the area that is now the Black Sea at the time the Mediterranean broke through the Bosporus would have told the story of that huge flood.
One could say practically the same about God, angels, demons, etc.
I guess the point I’m trying to make is that, appearances aside, Oriental dragons are not really dragons at all by Western standards. They’re not the same creature at all.
How about all those pictures of Jesus that portray him as a tall Caucasian? They will be very surprised when a short dark Middle Eastern Jewish guy shows up!.................
Hoe did you know we were laughing at you?
Who could probably be easily mistaken for any short, dark Middle Eastern guy.
Once again, I hope you are a better surveyor than editor. LMAO!
Or like the black Jesus in the BBQ place I love downtown.
Which “myth?” - Alexander the Great’s or Marco Polo’s? - Or the carvings on the Ankor Wat temple?
Their descriptions don’t sound mythical at all.
Well, he’d have long hair locks at the sides like a Hasidic rabbi, and he’d be wearing the Levite priestly vestments........
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