At the Creation Museum, we have an exhibit throughout our portico that highlights dragon legends from history. But these stories represent only a fraction of the legends found around the world regarding scaly, dragon-like creatures. Do these stories have any grounding in reality?
Well, evolutionists have a hard time explaining the global prevalence of dragon legends. But in a biblical worldview, the similarity many of the descriptions bear to real creatures—dinosaurs—is not surprising.
Dinosaurs were created alongside mankind on day six of creation week, and two of each kind survived Noah’s flood on the ark. After the flood, men and dinosaurs lived alongside each other until the eventual extinction of the dinosaurs. But it’s certainly possible the stories of people and dinosaurs existing together live on in dragon legends (even if these stories are somewhat exaggerated at times!).
But can we match dragon legends with actual dinosaurs known from the fossil record? Joel Leineweber, a paleoartist and our VP of design at AiG, believes we can, and he presented his research in a live presentation at the Creation Museum that was later posted to our YouTube channel. I encourage you to watch this fascinating presentation:
Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken
This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.
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