Dinosaurs, Dragons and Men

It's funny how humans are so extreme in their thinking. On one side, if you are convinced there is no God and that we evolved, you jump on any evidence that makes our earth appear very, very, very, very old.

Otherwise, the theory of evolution is on shaky ground due to the incredibly low probability a string of slow miraculous changes in such a short time.

Even 5 billion years is not enough. The probability is more like a huge number we haven't even invented yet. (Read: Science and Religion: Both Dating Methods Are Wrong.)

But on the other hand, you get religious people counting "begats" in the Bible and claiming the earth was created less than 6000 years ago. And in order to get that theory to fit the physical evidence, you have to "prove" that dinosaurs and man coexisted at some time in the not-so-distant past.

The internet is filled with this "proof." Including dinosaur and man's footprint in the same fossil. Well, I'd hate to break it to you, but there are a lot of trilobite and human footprints in the same rock, too. All that tells us is that we don't entirely understand fossilization yet.

Or what about pictures, sculptures and other representations of dinosaurs in ancient civilizations. Even some on stone-age pottery.

But if that is proof, then scientists in the future are going to go nuts with all the "proof" that 20th century man coexisted with dinosaurs when they find this buried in a landfill . . .

Sorry to be so cynical, but stop and think for a second. The people who lived before the flood were just as curious and possibly smarter than we are. Consider how smart you would be if you lived to be 800 years old and didn't have a mind-numbing computer screen staring at you 24/7.

It is not a stretch to realize that pre-flood man found dinosaur bones and spent time reconstructing and studying them. I'm sure little boys back then were fascinated by these awesomely cool, giant monsters with big sharp teeth. In fact, don't you think that the legends of dragons existing in a prior, mythical time period stems from the discovery of dinosaur skeletons 6000 years ago? I don't think modern man has a monopoly on speculating about ages past.

Look, I'm proof that speculation is a very tempting human weakness. It's a lot of fun, too.

Science Bullies: Why the Revelation of Truth is So Painfully Slow

Scientists are portrayed in the media as selfless seekers of truth. Unfortunately, they are prone to the same human weaknesses that we all have. Even though the scientific method is the best we have for uncovering the mysteries of our universe (aside from revelation from God), it doesn't usually go that smoothly, because humans and their lust for money and their insufferable egos get in the way.

Since the beginning of scientific discovery, there has been two sides to the historic struggle of uncovering truth. The "bullies" on one side, the "martyrs" on the other.

Unfortunately, the truth the martyrs offer is usually kept hidden for years by the bullies. For this reason, truth as discovered by the scientific method progresses at a snail's pace, when it could be rocketing forward at the speed of sound if arrogant humans were not part of the equation.

Scientists work hard to gain notoriety through their hypotheses, theories and studies and experiments that prove their ideas. And with notoriety, comes money. Plus the years of experience and connections and relationships built up benefit a veteran scientist a great deal.

So when a new scientist approaches a problem with a fresh pair of eyes, from a different angle, and uncovers holes in the veterans' "proven theories," he or she can be in danger. The veterans' egos won't allow themselves to admit that they spent their entire life pursuing a flawed hypothesis. And the fear of the loss of money motivates them to use their network and influence to marginalize the upstart. "I'm the expert here and that young Dr. So-and-So is just wasting everyone's time and money pursuing ridiculous ideas." Sometimes this leads to the dismissal of the "crackpot." As well as blacklisting.

Below is a partial list of the great thinkers who spent their lives trying to overcome the scientific establishment's closed-minded dominance. Their names are links to informative articles, if you want to learn more about them and their body of work. There are also scientists who discovered disruptive new information that threatened the status quo, but later capitulated to help explain away their own irrefutable evidence in order to keep their standing among the scientific community.

Or course, someone could be in both lists. They were a disruptor in their youth and a bully in their old age. Let me know in the comments if I missed anybody and I'll add them to the list.

Bullies
Thomas Edison
Catholic Church
Richard Dawkins
Bill Nye
Lawrence Krauss
J. Eric S. Thompson

Richard Owen

Zahi Hawass


Martyrs
Nicolaus Copernicus (Heliocentrism)
Galileo Galilei (Heliocentrism)
Nikola Tesla (Alternating Current)
Alfred Wegener (continental drift)
Luis and Walter Alvarez (Chicxulah KT impact)
Stephen J Gould (punctuated equilibrium)
Victor Clube and Bill Napier (coherent catastrophism)
James Lovelock (Gaia hypothesis)
Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina (Ozone depletion)
Richard Firestone (Younger Dryas impact hypothesis)
Allen West (Younger Dryas impact hypothesis)
James Kennett (Younger Dryas impact hypothesis)
John Anthony West (sphinx water erosion)
Danny Hilman Natawidjaja (Gunung Padang)
Heinrich Schliemann (discovery of Troy)
Charles Hapgood (crust displacement theory)
Mark Armitage (fired for teaching dinosaur bones still have soft tissue)
Jean Steen-McIntyre (Hueyatlaco dating)
Matthew Stirling (Olmecs were parent culture, not Maya)
Louis Agassiz (empirical evidence disproved Darwin; maligned even today for not capitulating)
Stephen C Meyer (proponent of intelligent design)
Richard M. Sternberg (as editor, published Meyer's article in Smithsonian)

Gideon Mantell

Capitulators
J Harlen Bretz (Missoula floods)
Mary Higby Schweitzer (discovered dinosaur soft tissue)

Additional reading:
Major Evolutionary Blunders: Evolutionists Strike Out with Imaginary Junk DNA, Part 1
Major Evolutionary Blunders: Evolutionists Strike Out with Imaginary Junk DNA, Part 2

Is Modern Day Science Trustworthy?