So I got a head full of dinosaur information not long ago and it got me to thinking. I always wondered, as everyone surely wonders; what’s the deal with the dinosaurs?

I should probably state before I get too far out of the gate here that I believe what the bible says about the flood, creation (although there’s no way it was seven twenty four hour days), the resurrection, etc. There are some bible stories that may have been described in such a way as to cause the reader to believe something a little bit too outrageous to be true. I don’t know, it’s just a thought; like Lot’s wife turning into a pillar of salt. All we know is that they were warned not to look back, and then we read that his wife “looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt”.

The Cecil B. Demille version shows her literally becoming salt before Lot’s eyes as she turns to watch the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. I may be called a blasphemer by the fundamentalists, but I don’t believe it was that cut and dried; bing, bang, bong, you’re a pillar of salt now.

I don’t know what the whole “becoming a pillar of salt” really means; whether she actually became salt, or if she went back to grab something she forgot because the “angels” rushed them out of their house and was consumed by some fiery shrapnel, or what. Whatever it means, Lot’s wife went against the Word and paid the price; and we get the lesson from it.

So, what do this rant about confusing bible stories and dinosaurs have to do with each other? Well, the first part of Genesis is given to us by Moses. It was given to him by revelation. We don’t have any record of what happened except for what he saw in vision. And what I’m trying to say is that a lot happened during those first thousand or so years, and it was all synopsisized (yea, I made that word up) into the first fifteen or twenty chapters of the bible by our pal Moses. So some of it might not come across as literal as what actually happened.

I’m a creationist. The evolutionists have good theories, I don’t discount everything they say; that would be stupid. They say that the earth, at one time was organized as a single land mass and that the tectonic plates split up and gave us our modern day topography. They also say that the “Bering land bridge” helped emigrate people from Asia to North America long ago. Science needs to publish theories that make them feel confident and doctoral; so today we are taught evolution, land bridges and tectonic plate shifts.

I’m here to say that we have the actual truth written out in that simple little book called the bible. It’s not all there, not by a long shot, but enough is there. And if science would have the guts to merge with the historical accounts in the bible, I would bet that a lot of unanswered questions would be resolved.

Here’s the history of the world according to me. After the earth was created, and some time before Adam and Eve were created, the continents were arranged as we know them today. Adam and Eve were created in North America and yadda, yadda, yadda; Noah is told to build the arc.

So Noah is faced with the issue of bringing all sorts of animals into the arc; but I don’t believe for one moment that he was able to save them all. And this brings us to the issue of the dinosaurs.

The bible tells us that there were giants on the earth in those days. So Noah is building an arc in North America where all the dinosaurs live, but he has to leave them behind.

The flood comes, the dinosaurs die, Noah and pals float off to Asia and start again in the Eastern Hemisphere. Hence, we have dinosaur fossils all over North America and really no where else.

And it’s really that simple. The flood told in the bible actually happened, which killed the dinosaurs and all mankind, and sent Noah far east to start the world all over again in a new land.

I find it fascinating that as science and archaeology make advances, they verify many of our age old bible stories. It’s unfortunate however, that the scientific community at large still dismisses the bible as a book of fables.