[geocentrism] Dinosaurs Never Existed - Also, Fake Dinosaur Eggs

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      Dinosaurs: Science Or Science Fiction  
  Contents   Introduction   Dinosaur Discoveries   Discoverers And Nature Of 
Discoveries   Dinosaur Display Preparation   Known Bone Sculpture & Bone 
Carving Activities   Credibility Of Dinosaur Displays And Artistic Impressions  
 Radiometric Dating   Fossilization   Size and Lifestyle Paradox   Job 40:17   
Abiogenic Origin of Petroleum   Motivation   Summary   Conclusion   Various 
Related Links 
    Introduction   When children go to a dinosaur museum, are the displays they 
see displays of science or displays of art and science fiction? Are we being 
deceived and brainwashed at an early age into believing a dinosaur myth? Deep 
probing questions need to be asked of the entire "dinosaur industry".   This 
article will discuss the possibility that there may have been an ongoing effort 
since the earliest dinosaur "discoveries" to plant, mix and match bones of 
various animals, such as crocodiles, alligators, iguanas, giraffes, elephants, 
cattle, kangaroos, ostriches, emus, dolphins, whales, rhinoceroses, etc. to 
construct and create a new man-made concept prehistoric animal called 
"dinosaurs".   Where bones from existing animals are not satisfactory for 
deception purposes, plaster substitutes may be manufactured and used. Some 
material similar or superior to plasticine clay or plaster of Paris would be 
suitable. Molds may also be employed. A 144-page book titled "Make
 Your Own Dinosaur Out of Chicken Bones" provides step-by-step instructions 
complete with detailed drawings and diagrams.      What would be the motivation 
for such a deceptive endeavor? Obvious motivations include trying to prove 
evolution, trying to disprove or cast doubt on the Christian Bible and the 
existence of the Christian God, trying to disprove the young-earth theory, and 
trying to disprove creationism. Yes, there are major political and religious 
ramifications.   The dinosaur concept implies that if God exists, He tinkered 
with His idea of dinosaurs for awhile, then probably discarded or became tired 
of this creation and then went on to create man. The presented dinosaur 
historical timeline suggests an imperfect God who came up with the idea of man 
as an afterthought, thus demoting the biblical idea that God created man in His 
own image. Dinosaurs are not mentioned in the Bible.   Highly rewarding 
financial and economic benefits to museums, educational/research
 organizations, university departments of paleontology, discoverers and owners 
of dinosaur bones, and for the book, television, movie and media industries, 
may cause sufficient motivation for ridiculing of open questioning and for 
suppression of honest investigation.    Dinosaur Discoveries   Early Dinosaur 
Discoveries in North America provides revealing information about the first 
discoveries:   "The class Dinosauria was originally defined by Sir Richard Owen 
in 1842, in a two hour speech that reportedly held the audience captivated. The 
original dinosaurs of this new group were Megalosaurus, Iguanodon and 
Hylaeosaurus. However, each of these animals was known only from fragmentary 
specimens. It wasn't until the discoveries of dinosaurs in North America in the 
mid-19th century that people began to get a clearer picture of what dinosaurs 
looked like."   "It is generally accepted that the first discovery of dinosaur 
remains in North America was made in 1854 by Ferdinand
 Vandiveer Hayden during his exploration of the upper Missouri River."   "Near 
the confluence of the Judith and Missouri Rivers (shown above) Hayden's party 
recovered a small collection of isolated teeth which were later described by 
the Philadelphia paleontologist Joseph Leidy in 1856, in the Proceedings of the 
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia."   So, dinosaurs were described in 
1842 before the discoveries in 1854 which were required to give a clear picture 
of what dinosaurs looked like! Were discoveries made or constructed to fit the 
descriptions?   "Dinosaur skeletons were found for the first time in abundance 
in the Garden Park area of Colorado and at Como Bluff, Wyoming, in the late 
1870s. These specimens initiated the First Great Dinosaur Rush in North 
America, driven largely by the efforts of a Philadelphia paleontologist, Edward 
Drinker Cope (on the left), and Othniel Marsh (on the right), a paleontologist 
from Yale University."   "These two men started
 as friends but became bitter rivals in a feud of legendary proportions. The 
stories surrounding these two include tales of armed field parties, spies, and 
intercepting shipments of fossils intended for the other." (Bold and italics 
are mine throughout this article.)   Why were fossils being shipped to the 
discoverers and from whom?   Wayne Grady explains in his book The Dinosaur 
Project: "From Cope, Sternberg had learned cutthroat bone hunting. Cope and his 
arch rival, Othniel Charles Marsh, professor of paleontology at Yale 
University, had been engaged in what have been called 'the bone wars' 
throughout the 1870s and 1880s. It was a fierce scientific rivalry that 
entailed some of the most underhanded shenanigans in the history of science, 
but it also amassed stupendous collections of fossils."   "The Second Great 
Dinosaur Rush took place in the badlands of the Red Deer River in southern 
Alberta. Dinosaur remains had been known from this region as early as 1884 but 
it
 wasn't until 1910 that this region became an active collecting area. It was 
here that the second great collecting rivalry took place between Barnum Brown 
of the American Museum of Natural History in New York and C. H. Sternberg of 
the Geological Survey of Canada."   Why were there no discoveries by native 
Americans in all the years previous when they roamed the North American 
continent? There is no belief of dinosaurs in the native American religion or 
tradition.   For that matter, why were there no discoveries prior to the 
nineteenth century in any part of the world? According to the World Book 
Encyclopedia, "before the 1800's, no one ever knew that dinosaurs ever 
existed..".  "During the late 1800's and early 1900's, large deposits of 
dinosaur remains were discovered in western North America, Europe, Asia, and 
Africa." "Dinosaur deposits also lie in Belgium, Mongolia, Tanzania, West 
Germany, and many other parts of the world."   Why has man suddenly made all 
these
 discoveries? Belgium, Mongolia, Tanzania, West Germany (and North America as 
well) were inhabited and very well explored for thousands of years and there 
were no discoveries until the nineteenth century. Why?   At Dinosauria : Fossil 
Record we learn that "The late 1800s were the 'golden age' of dinosaur 
paleontology, when many animals that you might be familiar with were discovered 
and named. Today we seem to be in another 'dinosaur renaissance', with new 
information accumulating rapidly."   At The Meaning of the Hadrosaurus Find: 
Proof That Dinosaurs Were Real we learn that people were allegedly becoming 
enlightened by the new discoveries. The impression that I receive is that 
people were possibly being deceived and that the discoveries were possibly 
"being made" as a reaction and rebellion against God and the Bible.   "The 
First Real Proof of Dinosaur Existence"   "Eight years after this reference 
book was published the first comprehensive skeletal form of a real
 dinosaur--Hadrosaurus foulkii --was unearthed in Haddonfield, New Jersey. 
Taller than a house, it had the pelvic structure of a bird, the tail of a 
lizard and, incredibly, it walked upright on two legs, foraging with arm-like 
forelimbs."   Were the bones of a bird and lizard and other animals used in the 
discovery?   Discoverers And Nature Of Discoveries   Discoveries and 
excavations seem not to be made by disinterested people, such as farmers, 
ranchers, hikers, outdoor recreationists, but rather by people with vested 
interests, such as paleontologists, scientists, university professors, museum 
organization personnel, who were intentionally looking for dinosaur bones or 
who have studied dinosaurs previously. The finds are often made during special 
dinosaur-bone hunting trips and expeditions by these people to far-away regions 
already inhabited and explored. This seems highly implausible. More believable 
is the case of the discovery of the first original Dead Sea scrolls in
 1947, which were unintentionally discovered by a child, and which were all 
published by 1955. In some cases of a discovery of dinosaur bones by a 
disinterested person, it was suggested to them by some "professional" in the 
field to look or dig in a certain area.  Also very interesting to note are 
special areas set aside and designated as dinosaur parks for which amateur 
dinosaur hunters are required to first obtain a dinosaur hunting license.   
Take a look at Dilophosaurus Discovered and the discovery of Haddonfield's 
Dinosaur for some idea as to how this may have occurred.   Also, a multitude of 
bones and dinosaurs are strangely found in the same place, suggesting possible 
planting of bones. The following three paragraphs are from The Seizure of Sue 
the T. rex.   "The Larsons are still working this find, which they called the 
Ruth Mason Quarry. The find contained the remains of at least two thousand 
beasts. There is only speculation as to the reason so many bones were in
 one place. The river system could have transported the bones a few at a time 
to a sandy coast at the edge of a receding Cretaceous sea. Or a great storm 
could have trapped and drowned a herd on a spit of land. A preponderance of the 
fossils were of Emontosaurus annectens a duckbilled dinosaur which migrated in 
flocks. Various carnivores teeth, including that of T. rex, were also found at 
the site, which could simply mean that these beasts were scavenging the 
remains. 'We're only guessing', said Pete."   "In July, 1990, Maurice Williams, 
who had a ranch nearby, came by the quarry. He was fascinated by work, and 
offered to let the paleontologists search for fossils on his land. Pete told 
him he appreciated the offer and would do so at the earliest opportunity. On 
the morning of August 12, the team suffered a flat tire. Their spare was low 
and the pump was broken. Most of the crew decided to take the tires to Faith in 
another vehicle for repair. Susan Hendrickson, a Seattle
 archaeologist and amateur paleontologist who was working with BHIGR that 
summer, decided to take a hike through Williams' land instead."   "She returned 
to the quarry several hours later finding the team back at work with three 
pieces of vertebrae. Pete thought immediately, Tyrannosaurus. The team saddled 
up and drove to the site she'd discovered, a 60-foot sandstone cliff jutting 
out of the prairie. At about eye level, a huge femur (thigh bone) protruded, 
along with several other bones. Pete immediately sought out Williams, who said, 
I've ridden by that place a hunnerd times. Never saw a thing."   I find it 
unusually coincidental that a "commercial fossil collecting firm" would be the 
organization to make the dinosaur find. Why was rancher Williams unable to find 
"Sue" after all his years of ranching? Don't you find this unusual? The article 
T-Rex bones on sale for a cool $12 million indicates that the business of being 
a "commercial fossil collecting firm" is potentially
 very lucrative!   People who work for museums often seem to be the ones 
associated with the really prolific finds:   A discovery in a remote area of 
Argentina is described: "In November 1997, Dr. Luis Chiappe and Dr. Lowell 
Dingus went to Patagonia with an expedition team and discovered a nesting site 
that contained thousands of dinosaur eggs, including fossilized embryos and 
fossilized skin. ... The concentration of eggs was so intense and rich that, in 
an area of roughly 100 yards by 200 yards, we counted about 195 clusters of 
eggs."   Comptons Encyclopedia lists some prominent paleontologists and their 
prolific discoveries: 
"Ameghino, Florentino (1854-1911). Argentinian paleontologist who described 
6,000 fossil species excavated by his brother, Carlos, in Argentina, thereby 
establishing Argentina's reputation as a fossil-rich area. Briefly head of 
paleontology at La Plata Museum, where much of his collection is displayed. 
.... 
Douglass, Earl (1862-1931). United States dinosaur hunter who, in Utah in 1909, 
found the fossil-rich beds now forming Dinosaur National Monument. Over his 
entire career, sent 350 tons of excavated dinosaur bones to the Carnegie Museum 
of Natural History, Pittsburgh."   Finds of huge quantities of fossils in one 
area, or by one or few people, goes against the laws of natural probability and 
suggests a possible concentrated planting effort.   The number of dinosaur 
fossils extracted from the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry are listed in 
detail:   "More than 30 complete skeletons, 12,000 individual bones and several 
dinosaur eggs have come from this prolific fossil bed." ... "Over the years, 
bones have been taken from the quarry representing at least 70 different 
animals and 14 species. Cast and original skeletons assembled from these bones 
are on display in over 60 museums world-wide..."   "About 147 million years ago 
this area was a shallow freshwater lake with a muddy
 bottom. Plant-eating dinosaurs and the meat-eaters who preyed upon them 
occasionally became trapped in the mud. As the years passed, the skeletons of 
these animals accumulated until the site became a complex mix of bones."   
"After the lake bottom dried up it was covered with volcanic ash; and rivers 
and shallow seas deposited thick layers of sand and mud on top. Meanwhile, the 
bones fossilized. Millions of years later water and wind eroded the layers to 
produce the topography seen today. The bones are now close enough to the 
surface to be recovered by scientific excavations."   Somehow I find this story 
hard to believe that so many clumsy dinosaurs became stuck in mud and that 
circumstances are just so that all these bones are now on or near the surface 
of the earth. Why do we have so many dinosaur fossils but not fossils of other 
animals, such as the bison that roamed North America?    Dinosaur Display 
Preparation   Let's take a look at a description of how dinosaur
 bones are transported and prepared at Fossil Excavation, A Fossil's Trail - 
From Excavation to Exhibit .   "We ... now commonly use strips of burlap soaked 
in plaster to jacket over our finds.  After applying a tissue separator to keep 
the plaster from direct contact with the surface of the bone, the soaked burlap 
strips are laid onto our pedestaled fossil until they cover it in a half shell. 
... The end result is a bone totally encased in a protective mummy-like 
fieldjacket and ready for safe transport."   So preparers and transporters work 
with plaster all the time! Plaster lying around therefore does not draw 
questions or suspicion.   "Through moldmaking and casting we can totally 
fabricate limbs, ribs, vertebrae, etc. for the missing pieces of an articulated 
skeletal mount. Plaster, fiberglass and epoxies are often and commonly used. In 
reconstruction work on single bones, small to large cracks can be filled in 
with mache or plaster mixed with dextrin, a starch that
 imparts an adhesive quality and extra hardness to regular molding plaster. 
We've also had success using epoxy putties. Large missing fragments can be 
sculpted directly in place with these same materials."   "Even fossils that are 
difficult, nigh near impossible to collect in the field, are harder still to 
prepare in the lab. Specimens that take from a day to a week to remove from 
their beds of stone can require months or even years to clean, consolidate, 
repair and reconstruct for study or display. This is an art and skill of the 
preparator (a term that appears to have first been used in North America)."   
What exactly is taking months or years? Is the public being given altered 
versions of bones? What exactly is going on? Is this science or art and science 
fiction? Is the public being deceived?   At The Changing Shape of Hadrosaurus 
foulkii we learn of an iguana skull being substituted for the skull of a 
dinosaur on display. Was the public told at the time? What are we
 not being told today?   "The original reconstruction of Hadrosaurus foulkii 
featured a creature in a kangaroo stance--an animal that used its tail as a 
third leg. At the same time, while the excavated fossil was nearly complete, it 
lacked a skull. Because parts of its skeleton resembled those of an iguana, the 
skull of a modern iguana was used as a model for the skull created for the 
original display in 1868. That sculpted skull (above, right) is currently on 
display at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia as a historical 
curiosity."   From elementary school curriculum, we learn that, in elementary 
schools, they're teaching students how to make their own fossils and what 
paleontologists do. Do paleontologists make their own fossils too?    Known 
Bone Sculpture & Bone Carving Activities   The possibility exists that key 
dinosaur bones on display have been artificially modified through sculpture and 
carving. Bone sculpture is not an unknown human activity. Many
 cultures participate in creating man-made objects out of existing bones, 
totally unrecognizable from the original shape. Is the dinosaur industry a 
customer of this sort of business?   Is it possible that dinosaur skeleton 
replica are secretly assembled or manufactured in private buildings out of 
public view, with bones artificially constructed or used from a number of 
different modern-day animals? Why bother having any authentic original fossils 
at all if alleged replicas can please the public?    Credibility Of Dinosaur 
Displays And Artistic Impressions   Many displays and drawings of dinosaurs 
appear to be an absurdity, showing a two-legged animal that would be totally 
off-balance, with the weight of head and abdomen much greater than weight of 
tail, which is supposed to act as a counter-balance.   Is the dinosaur industry 
a case of science trying to meet public desires or expectations? The movie 
Jurassic Park is an example of showing dinosaurs much larger than any
 current displays in museums. After the movie came out, it is interesting to 
note that many articles were written asking "Is this possible?". I recall a 
report of dinosaur DNA being discovered preserved in amber, which later turned 
out to be false.   At a description of Mill Canyon Dinosaur Trail we learn of 
dinosaur tracks being given credibility. Do you not find it rather difficult to 
believe that erosion and weathering would not destroy prints that are allegedly 
millions of years old?   Archaeopteryx, the ever-popular transitional form, is 
no real fossil evidence for evolution. "But, Sir Fred Hoyle, the prominent 
British scientist, in his book Archaeopteryx the Primordial Bird, "a case of 
fossil forgery," says that someone took a small fossil, put cement on it, and 
pressed a modern feather into the cement to create a forgery. The person then 
sold it to the British Museum for 36,000 gold marks, a hefty sum in 1861."   
Radiometric Dating   The original living material, and
 the material that is used to produce its fossil, are often two different 
things, and thus the ages of both are different as well.  Most alleged ancient 
fossils are found near the surface of earth, and are dated by the age of the 
rocks near where they are found.  If a modern-day animal was to die and its 
remains found in the same location, would it be dated the same age of the 
alleged ancient fossil?   According to Margaret J. Helder, Ph.D., in her book 
Completing The Picture, A Handbook On Museums And Interpretive Centres Dealing 
With Fossils, "Scientists used to be very impressed with the potential of 
radiometric for coming up with absolutely reliable ages of some kinds of rocks. 
They do not feel that way anymore. Having had to deal with numerous calculated 
dates which are too young or too old compared with what they expected, 
scientists now admit that the process has many more uncertainties than they 
ever would have supposed in the early years. The public knows almost
 nothing about uncertainties in the dating of rocks. The impression that most 
people have received is that many rocks on earth are extremely old and that the 
technology exists to make accurate measurements of these ages. Scientists have 
become more and more aware however that the measurements which the machines 
make, may tell us nothing about the actual age of the rock."   Fossilization   
Margaret J. Helder continues to explain: "Under what circumstances did whole 
organisms remain intact long enough to be fossilized? In most cases it seems, 
these victims were rapidly buried in great loads of sediment, which quickly 
hardened into rock. Not only did these situations require catastrophic burial 
but also the sediment involved had to be very fine grained in order for such 
exquisite preservation of detail to come about. Geologists generally interpret 
silt beds as the result of fine particles settling gradually out of still 
water. If that had happened in these instances, the
 corpses would have decayed long before burial and lithification (turning to 
rock) could occur."   The replacement process is supposed to involve calcium in 
skeletal material being replaced, atom by atom, by silica, calcite, pyrite, 
dolomite, etc., over a long period of time.  This goes against the natural law 
of increasing disorder, entropy.  How are all these dead atoms intelligent 
enough to know what to do and where to go to produce the finished fossil?   
Another alleged mode of preservation is permineralization, whereby porous bone 
structures are supposed to become more dense by the deposition of mineral 
matter by groundwater.  The more porous the bone, the more susceptible it is to 
destruction.  In Speed and Conditions of Fossilization, we learn that 
"secondary mineralization, remineralization, leaching of bone mineral, and 
biologically-induced mineralization begin very rapidly after the bone is 
exposed to the environment. If the bone is not buried or underwater within
 1-2 years of defleshing, it will literally become dust in the wind. The bone 
fragments may persist for several more years, but they are unrecognizable as to 
species."  After a so-called dinosaur dies, I would conservatively estimate the 
chances of its bones becoming buried or underwater within 1 to 2 years of 
defleshing at much less than one in a thousand.  "Hypersaline environments in 
which carbonates are precipitating favor bone remineralization and secondary 
mineralization. Saline environments also are good, but there the processes are 
slower."  Are not dinosaurs supposed to have lived in a relatively non-saline 
fresh water environment?  Inducing mineralization under ideal laboratory 
conditions is one matter, but completely different than real-world natural 
processes that tend to dissolve, not precipitate, bone mineral.  Once the 
internal part of a decaying bone fills up with saline water from a sea, I am 
unaware of any reason why it should be a preferred location for
 mineral precipitation compared to the rest of the sea bottom.   Fossilization 
is also discusssed at Evolution versus Creation, where we learn that "... there 
are no fossils being formed today on a large scale like they did many years ago 
... when a fish dies, it doesn't sink to the bottom of the ocean and become a 
fossil, it merely decays and is eaten by other fish or animals. Even today, 
there is hardly a trace of the millions of buffalo that once existed, but were 
slaughtered all over the plains just a couple of generations ago. (Some herds 
were big enough to cover a whole state)."   Size and Lifestyle Paradox   
Dinosaurs and the Expanding Earth discusses the paradox between the dinosaurs' 
size and lifestyle.   "The dinosaurs' large size has presented palaeontologists 
with an interesting paradox. Calculations of the structural dynamic stresses 
within the bones of the largest dinosaurs indicate that they were too large to 
move fast without injuring themselves. Contrary to
 this view is the fact that detailed bio-mechanical reconstructions indicate 
that they were agile, active creatures."   "Depending on the arguments used, a 
particular dinosaur can be reconstructed in two ways, slow and lumbering, or 
fast and agile, with both sides of the argument appearing equally valid."   
Dinosaurs and the Expanding Earth also discusses the structural dynamics of 
dinosaurs.   "One method of finding out more about Dinosaurs is to study their 
structural dynamics. This method considers the loads and forces acting on the 
structure of their skeleton as they moved.  The Dinosaurs' structural dynamics 
indicates that the loads acting on their skeletons where much greater than that 
of present day animals. In some causes, because of the Dinosaurs' large size, 
calculations indicate that the bones of the largest Dinosaurs were likely to 
buckle and crack under their own immense weight. These calculations were 
responsible for promoting the idea that the Dinosaurs must
 have moved very slowly to prevent sudden shocks to their skeleton."   "This 
idea of slow moving animals does not agree with the bio-mechanical analysis of 
dinosaurs, which indicate that the Dinosaurs where agile, active creatures. 
This is the paradox between the Dinosaurs size and lifestyle."   Dinosaurs and 
the Expanding Earth also analyzes the bio-mechanical aspects of dinosaurs.   
"One method of discovering more about Dinosaurs is to perform a bio-mechanical 
analysis.  This method considers how the Dinosaurs must have moved and acted in 
order to survive. It  relies on comparing the structures of today's living 
animals with those of the Dinosaurs in order to establish how Dinosaurs moved 
and acted. This method indicates that the Dinosaurs must have been agile, 
active creatures."   "The idea of active animals does not agree with the study 
of the structural dynamics of the Dinosaurs, which indicates that if the 
Dinosaurs moved as fast as present day creatures they would
 injure themselves. This is the paradox between the Dinosaurs size and 
lifestyle."   There is a simpler solution to these paradoxes other than having 
to reduce earth's gravity!   Job 40:17   Some people point to Job 40:17 as 
evidence that dinosaurs are mentioned in the Bible.  They state that only 
dinosaurs could fit the description of having a "tail like a cedar".   He 
moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together. 
(Job 40:17, KJV)   However, Bible translations other than the King James 
version clearly reveal that alternative understandings are possible for what 
this verse is actually stating.   He doth bend his tail as a cedar, The sinews 
of his thighs are wrapped together, 
(Job 40:17, YLT)   Job 40:17 could be stating that the behemoth bends his tail 
with the same ease and speed that he bends a cedar tree, such as would be 
required in clearing land.  Indeed, this is consistent with his strength and 
force (Job 40:16) and suggests his usefulness as being a beast of burden for 
man.  God made the behemoth with man (Job 40:15).   His tail [1] sways like a 
cedar; the sinews of his thighs are close-knit. 
(Job 40:17, NIV)   He makes his tail stiff like a cedar; the sinews of his 
thighs are knit together. 
(Job 40:17, RSV)   Alternatively, Job 40:17 could be stating that the tail of a 
behemoth sways in the same manner that a cedar tree sways, or that the behemoth 
makes his tail as stiff as a cedar tree.   The behemoth could very well be the 
elephant.  The elephant is a beast of burden for man in that it is used to move 
tree logs, such as cedar logs, with its trunk and tusks (Job 40:17).  The 
elephant can move these logs around like it moves its tail.  In India and some 
other Asian countries, elephants are used in the logging industry.  An elephant 
can move a log that weighs 600 pounds.  It lifts smaller logs with its tusks 
and holds them with its trunk.  An elephant can knock down a tree 30 feet high 
that has a diameter of two feet.  Elephants eat grass, shrubs, leaves, roots, 
bark, and branches.  Wild elephants drink up to 40 gallons of water daily.  The 
Matthew Henry Commentary on Job 40 concurs with the idea of the behemoth being 
the elephant.   Since other logical
 explanations are available for what the behemoth is, other than the 
"dinosaur", 
there is no requirement for Christians to consider the behemoth of Job 40 to be 
the dinosaur or to even believe in dinosaurs. 
    Abiogenic Origin of Petroleum   Petroleum is often referred to as "fossil 
energy", however, Thomas Gold has shown that hydrocarbons are found in many 
locations where a biogenic origin is improbable or impossible, such as in the 
earth at great depths below any biological debris, and on asteroids, comets, 
the planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and their various moons 
such as Titan and Triton. Meteorites have been found containing coal and 
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs).  PAHs are components of petroleum and 
coal.  Numerous other arguments against a biological origin for petroleum 
exist, such as the fact that hydrogen-saturated hydrocarbons are unlikely to 
have been derived from any biological debris. Petroleum is not a "fossil fuel" 
with a surface origin.  Therefore, one can conclude that the alleged past 
existence of dinosaurs (or the alleged past existence of any other ancient 
living material) is not necessary to explain the origin of petroleum. 
    Motivation   "Dinosaur" bones sell for a lot of money at auctions. It is a 
profitable business. There is pressure on academics to publish papers. There is 
pressure on museums to produce displays. There is pressure on movie producers 
and the media to make money. The media loves to hype alleged dinosaurs finds.  
Much is to be gained by converting a bland non-dinosaur discovery, of a bone of 
modern origin, into an impressive dinosaur find, and letting artists' 
interpretations and imaginations take the spotlight, rather than the basic 
boring real find. There are people who desire and crave prestige and attention. 
There is the bandwagon effect. And then there are people pursuing political and 
religious agendas.   During the nineteenth century a new world view of 
evolution was being pursued by then influential people such as Darwin and Marx. 
During this era of thought the first dinosaur discoveries were made. Were these 
discoveries "made" to try to make up for inadequacies in
 the fossil record for the theory of evolution?   A History Of Evolutionary 
Thought lists some of the influential people setting the stage for the 
evolution way of thinking:   "Preludes to Evolution    Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 
(1744-1829) 
 Thomas Malthus (1766-1834) 
 Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) 
 William Smith (1769-1839) 
 Étienne Geoffroy St. Hilaire (1772-1844) 
 Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873) 
 Patrick Matthew (1790-1874) 
 Mary Anning (1799-1847) 
 Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892) 
 Louis Agassiz (1807-1873)    Natural Selection    Alfred Russel Wallace 
(1823-1913) 
 Thomas Henry Huxley (1824-1895) 
 Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) 
 Edward Drinker Cope (1840-1897) 
 Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857-1935)"   The pro-evolutionary bias is evident 
with this organization promoting dinosaur discoveries.   As mentioned earlier, 
motivations for the possible invention of the dinosaur include trying to prove 
evolution, trying to disprove or cast doubt on the Bible and the existence of 
God, trying to disprove the young-earth theory, and trying to disprove 
creationism. Of course, the devil's ultimate goal is to cast doubt on the deity 
of Jesus Christ and prevent people's eternal salvation.   The name of Devils 
Canyon Science and Learning Center may possibly provide good insight to the 
real source of the dinosaur concept.    Summary   The following issues raise 
red flags as to the integrity of the dinosaur industry and cast doubts as to 
whether dinosaurs ever existed.   1. Nature of dinosaur discoveries - only 
within the last 150 years and in huge unusual concentrated quantities going 
against the laws of nature and probability.   2. Nature of dinosaur
 discoverers and excavators - not by (initially) disinterested parties. When 
discovered by parties without a vested interest, they need to be told by 
dinosaur experts that they are dinosaur bones.   3. Nature of public display 
preparation - integrity and source of fossils - possible tampering and bone 
substitution and possible fraudulent activities on a massive scale.   4. 
Existing artistic drawings and public exhibits showing off-balance and awkward 
postures that basic physics would rule out as being possible.   5. Very low 
odds of all these dinosaur bones being fossilized but not the bones of other 
animals.   6. Implications of dinosaur discoveries to the theory of evolution 
and the belief that man was created in God's image, suggesting possible hidden 
and subtle political or religious agendas served on a naive and unsuspecting 
public.   7. A lack of organizations and people questioning or being skeptical 
of each and every discovery and public display. Dinosaurs are
 popular.    Conclusion   The dinosaur industry needs to be investigated and 
questions need to be asked. I personally do not have any reasons to believe 
dinosaurs ever existed and I believe they may be a fabrication of nineteenth 
and twentieth century people possibly under Satanic control pursuing an 
evolutionary and anti-Bible and anti-Christian agenda.   People should attempt 
to question what they are being told instead of blindly believing the dinosaur 
story and carefully consider issues I have raised in this article for the sake 
of "good science".   When faced with the choice of believing the word of man, 
the evolutionists, or the word of God, the Bible, the latter easily wins.   
Various Related Links   Genesis - The Account of God's Creation   Genealogy of 
Christ   THE DINOSAUR DILEMMA AND MODERN SCIENCE 
Did They Roam The Earth Millions Of Years Before Man?   Sike!: On the subject 
of "Dinosaurs"   Fossils and Strata   The Radiometric Dating Game   Dinosaur 
Bones: Just How Old Are They Really?   Dino Heresies   Ballyhooed dinosaur 
fossil find questioned   All mixed up over birds and dinosaurs   Archaeoraptor: 
Feathered Dinosaur from National Geographic Doesn't Fly   Iffyosaurus Dinosaur 
skeleton exposed as fake   Dinosaur News 
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