Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs

Professional, peer-reviewed papers about dinosaurs from the perspective of a recent creation and global flood within a biblical framework

Microraptor Reconstructed as a Bird

Microraptor Reconstructed as a Bird

Joel Leineweber • May 15, 2024

The author performs a systematic, comparative anatomy of both form and function to show whether Microraptor would have appeared avian or reptilian.

Feathered Turtles?

Feathered Turtles?

Matthew Cserhati • Sept. 27, 2023

Evolutionists assert that several dinosaur species had feathers, but what do the genes say?

The Stegosaur Engravings at Ta Prohm

The Stegosaur Engravings at Ta Prohm

David Woetzel • Sept. 13, 2017

Artwork at Cambodia’s Angkor Wat temple appears to depict a dinosaur. Though the engraving is “stegosaur-like,” this interpretation has been criticized.

Scriptural Geology, Then and Now

Scriptural Geology, Then and Now

Warren H. Johns • Nov. 30, 2016

The place of the biblical Flood in the geological record remains one of the most hotly debated issues among creationist geologists today.

Determining the Ark Kinds

Determining the Ark Kinds

Dr. Jean Lightner , et. al. • Aug. 1, 2014

This research effort provides information necessary for the best possible reconstruction of the animal kinds preserved on the Ark for the Ark Encounter.

Dinosaurs on Answers Research Journal

The existence of dinosaurs and their extinction are the subject of many debates. Dinosaurs are used as one of the key points against the authority of God’s Word regarding His creation, especially in relation to the account of Noah’s Ark and the Flood. Opponents claim that dinosaurs are a result of evolution, sharing an ancestor with birds. Skeptics of God’s Word also assert that dinosaurs did not live with humans and that they could not have fit in the Ark.

It’s important to remember that dinosaur is not a word in the Bible since it was not created until the nineteenth century. But the descriptions of creatures mentioned in many books, chapters, and verses of the Bible perfectly describe animals that are today known as dinosaurs. These eyewitness accounts are evidence that the biblical authors lived with dinosaurs and were writing about them as they did any other animal. Also, God created all land animals on Day Six of the Creation Week in the same day He created Adam and Eve, so dinosaurs did indeed live with humans. Lastly, dinosaurs did not evolve into birds or share an ancestor with birds. Birds were created on Day Five of the Creation Week—before dinosaurs. Birds and dinosaurs are two different created kinds.

The aim of these research papers in Answers Research Journal (ARJ) is to scientifically analyze dinosaurs from a biblical perspective of a recent creation. These peer-reviewed articles address issues related to dinosaurs and what happened to them in the pre- and post-Flood world.


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