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 ...
Indeed. Yet, think about the location. This is Georgia. Chameleons are found in Africa, India, Southern Europe, etc. but not Georgia. The heads are also small in the artwork, rather than large - but that could have just been the artist.
So this leaves a few explanations. The most likely explanation is that Chameleons had a larger habitat back then. The eastern coast of Georgia is a humid, subtropical zone.
Yes. Yes. This is a fertile land and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land! And we will call it… this land!
I think we should call it your grave!
Ah! Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!
Ha ha ha! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die!
Oh no god! Oh, dear God in heaven!
+ 1 million!
I would also equate the naysayers here to radical leftist idiots.
Seems to be the downward trend everywhere lately.
We all grew up in an educational system which assumed as “fact” that dinosaurs only existed millions of years ago. It’s becoming obvious to me that that mindset is going to be hard to shake off.
Like evolution and that the first humans were “cavemen”.
It may take a few taps of the reset button to achieve the changing of that mindset.
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