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 ...
“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?
I thought it said Martha’s Vineyard and though Ted Kennedy had come back!.................
One can easily say the same about space aliens.
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?
It’s The Legendary Black Beast of Aaaaarrrrrrggghhh!
Google "Gigantopithecus." Bigfoot existed once - the only question is whether a small population somehow managed to survive to the present day undetected by science.
“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.
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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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
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...
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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.
Sure, but those are culturally specific. Pretty much every culture in the world has some version of dragons.
“...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?
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.
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.
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.
Exactly what I was thinking.
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