“They loved reptiles, and they relished dinosaurs”
exactly right - they’ve found mosquitos with dinosaur blood still in them.
Reptiles never stop growing. The large lizards we find (and the dragon tales from hundreds of years ago before people wiped them out) were just very old lizards, like over 100 years old. That’s why, of all the things out there, we find that lizards used to get very big when the atmospheric pressure and oxygen content of the air was higher - everything lived longer, and lizards never stop growing.
There are lizards now that look exactly like dinosaurs, but smaller. The triceratops for example, has a mini version, which never stops growing, and if it lived to be a couple of hundred years old, would look the spitting image of a triceratops.
Looks like Creationists can finally do an actual scientific experiment!
Why don’t you take this supposed mini-triceratops and raise it with higher atmospheric pressure and oxygen content and see if it gets to be Triceratops size after “like over 100 years”.
I know you have to believe in some pretty silly things to be a Creationists, but modern lizards and dinosaurs are not even the same taxonomic class, let alone species.