The wall carvings at a church in Georgia show creatures that have dinosaur-like features.
Photo: Manana Tsiramua, courtesy of Georgian Holidays (www.georgianholidays.com).
Posted on 09/19/2016 1:18:28 PM PDT by fishtank
Dinosaurs in Noah’s vineyard
by David Lewis
The carving (see image at right), which appears to show two dinosaurs, is on an outside wall of the bell-tower of a fourteenth century church in the Republic of Georgia. Holy Trinity Church (also known as Tsminda Sameba) is on Mount Gergeti, near Stephantsminda village, in the Mount Kazbegi area—close to the borders with North Ossetia and Ingushetia.
When I visited this area in 2006 and saw the carvings, I asked a Georgian cleric at the church what they depicted. He commented that they looked like dinosaurs, and he had no idea when or why they were carved on the bell-tower....
...Creationists have often suggested that many stories of ‘dragons’ (also often labelled ‘serpents’) are likely inspired by actual sightings of living dinosaurs, distorted through time and retelling.4 If so, these carvings from Georgia are consistent with medieval engravings and sculptures, from as far away as Britain and Cambodia, showing what look just like known types of dinosaurs.5
Inside the church is also an icon depicting St. George slaying a (snake-like) dragon
Just as dodos, mammoths and other well-documented living creatures that were contemporary with humans subsequently became extinct, the same happened to the descendants of the various kinds of dinosaurs that were on Noah’s Ark.
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The wall carvings at a church in Georgia show creatures that have dinosaur-like features.
Photo: Manana Tsiramua, courtesy of Georgian Holidays (www.georgianholidays.com).
Could be Komodo dragons, but the proportions of the limbs are wrong. The proportions of the limbs are also wrong for any large, herbivorous dinosaur we know of.
Very...childlike. I guess they couldn’t afford to hire a better artist.
Human history is permeated with accounts of the existence of “dragons.” Where would these accounts originate, if not from eyewitness encounters with dinosaurs?
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/deadthings/2016/06/01/found-medieval-dinosaurs/#.V-BKdvkrJaQ
A) Those are monkeys and
B) I guess that is all the proof we need that the “world” was created 4500 years ago.
Eyewitness encounters with dragons?
Kissing Spider Monkeys
hmmm.
We have drawings of unicorns and centaurs ....
Noah lived in what is now called the sub-Sahara.
One picture worth a thousand dinosaurs.
Yes, how else would humans witness dragons?
It could be that Yeti are the last few remaining creatures of some human-like creature.
I saw some photos that suggested that a few pterodactyls lived into the Wild West days and were shot down by pioneers.
A few lingering hold outs, however, does not prove that Noah somehow fit thousands of species of dinosaurs onto the Ark.
That’s my opinion. I think dragons are in a different category from dinosaurs ... although our female beardie looks like a cross between a dinosaur and a toad, colored orange.
I think it was a 14th century attempt at Art in Public Places. This particular work was assigned to a class of local 3rd graders.
Sir Richard Owen coined the term “dinosaur” in 1841. Prior to that people called them dragons. Cultures throughout history have stories of encounters with dragons.
My goodness. Maybe the Trump boys DID bag a pterodactyl!!
:)
Whatever it was supposed to be, it had a prehensile tail like a monkey. The carvings are so worn and eroded, that most anything with four legs and a large tail could be interpreted as looking like a dinosaur.
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