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Dinosaurs in Noah’s vineyard (carvings at 14th century church)
Creation Ministries International ^ | 6-19-16 | David Lewis

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at creation.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: derp; dinosaurs; holyland; losers; pathetic; youngearth
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

“I saw some photos that suggested that a few pterodactyls lived into the Wild West days and were shot down by pioneers.”

Photos or link, please?


21 posted on 09/19/2016 1:50:09 PM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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Hey, found one, pretty cool...

http://www.dinosaurhome.com/19th-century-pterodactyls-200702.html


22 posted on 09/19/2016 1:51:47 PM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: fishtank

I thought it said Martha’s Vineyard and though Ted Kennedy had come back!.................


23 posted on 09/19/2016 1:52:02 PM PDT by Red Badger (YES, I'm Deplorable! I Deplore the entire Democrat Party!....................)
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To: fwdude
Human history is permeated with accounts of the existence of “dragons.” Where would these accounts originate, if not from eyewitness encounters with dinosaurs?

One can easily say the same about space aliens.

24 posted on 09/19/2016 1:53:36 PM PDT by gdani
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To: webheart
A) Those are monkeys

That's my guess too. Some creature like a monkey that curls its tail. Of course that's assuming that it is supposed to represent a real creature and not a fictional creature of some sort. Who knows? Who cares?

25 posted on 09/19/2016 1:53:40 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: fishtank

It’s The Legendary Black Beast of Aaaaarrrrrrggghhh!


26 posted on 09/19/2016 1:55:24 PM PDT by freedomlover
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To: who_would_fardels_bear
It could be that Yeti are the last few remaining creatures of some human-like creature.

Google "Gigantopithecus." Bigfoot existed once - the only question is whether a small population somehow managed to survive to the present day undetected by science.

27 posted on 09/19/2016 1:55:48 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: webheart

“A) Those are monkeys and

B) I guess that is all the proof we need that the “world” was created 4500 years ago.”

No, those are ancient aliens from our distant future who traveled back in time to enlighten us, their ancient ancestors.


28 posted on 09/19/2016 1:56:41 PM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: fishtank

Interesting, although I need no other proof of the world’s age other than what God wrote in the Bible.

What is fascinating is their curling tails.

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29 posted on 09/19/2016 1:57:05 PM PDT by VaeVictis (~Woe to the Conquered~)
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To: fishtank

Years go Earl Stanley Gardner wrote of small statues of dinosaurs in Mexico. No one knew who was behind it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ac%C3%A1mbaro_figures


30 posted on 09/19/2016 1:57:12 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: VaeVictis
They look like chameleons.


31 posted on 09/19/2016 2:00:18 PM PDT by Oberon (John 12:5-6)
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To: webheart; butlerweave
Webheart: "Those are monkeys"

butlerweave: "Kissing Spider Monkeys"

If those are monkeys, they appear to have prehensile tails. Only New World monkeys have prehensile tails, and the New World had not been discovered in the 14th century...

32 posted on 09/19/2016 2:10:15 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: treetopsandroofs; who_would_fardels_bear
The Ute Indians that lived here in the Grand Valley seen them too, and had a legend based on them:

Giant Birds Rule the Sky Above Western Colorado’s Grand Mesa

33 posted on 09/19/2016 2:10:36 PM PDT by dware (TRUMP/PENCE 2016!)
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To: fishtank

It’s not a wall carving, it’s an early wall plate for a light switch. It proves that electricity was in use many, many years before the Industrial Age.


34 posted on 09/19/2016 2:17:10 PM PDT by MeganC (JE SUIS CHARLES MARTEL!!!)
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To: TexasGator

Sure, but those are culturally specific. Pretty much every culture in the world has some version of dragons.


35 posted on 09/19/2016 2:18:43 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: VaeVictis

“...I need no other proof of the world’s age other than what God wrote in the Bible.”

What did God write in the Bible about the world’s age?


36 posted on 09/19/2016 2:19:42 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: fwdude

Don’t let the naysayers get you down.
If somebody does their due diligence just looking at the Old Testament, there’s enough proof there that Dinosaurs were around at the time of Job.


37 posted on 09/19/2016 2:20:13 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (*Convicted of thought crimes by the Left and the Right*)
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To: fishtank

Judging by the exquisite detail of the window arch contrasted with the crudeness of the “dinosaurs,” I’d say that the latter were carved much later by a graffiti artist.


38 posted on 09/19/2016 2:20:15 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: fishtank

What amazes me is how the flood arranged the geologic strata and the fossils in those strata just in the manner that natural process would have done if evolution was he explaination. Where are the modern human, mammal, bird, etc. fossils in the same strata with the trilobites, dinosaurs, flying reptiles. Pretty tricky to arrange things to uniformly support deep time and evolution.


39 posted on 09/19/2016 2:22:55 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: Oberon

Exactly what I was thinking.


40 posted on 09/19/2016 2:24:14 PM PDT by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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