Professional, peer-reviewed papers about dinosaurs from the perspective of a recent creation and global flood within a biblical framework
Description and Analysis of an Allosaurus fragilis (Dinosauria: Theropoda) Skull
Nicholas Rush , et. al. • Oct. 9, 2024
Analysis of the skull of CMP 279 offers valuable insights into the species Allosaurus fragilis, and further research promises to yield even more valuable information.
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.
Are Birds Dinosaurs? A Critical Analysis of Fossil Findings
Reinhard Junker • April 24, 2024
The putative descent of birds from dinosaurs has become established as one of the most popular evolutionary transitions.
Reply to the “Response to ‘The Debate over Classification of Archaeopteryx as a Bird’”
Dr. Gabriela Haynes • Dec. 6, 2023
This paper aims to address some issues raised by McLain et al. (2023) in an article titled “Response to ‘The Debate over Classification of Archaeopteryx as a Bird.’”
Response to “The Debate over Classification of Archaeopteryx as a Bird”
Matthew McLain , et. al. • Dec. 6, 2023
Matthew McLain, Dr. Marcus Ross, Matt Petrone, Noël Lay, and Matthew Speights take issue with Dr. Gabriela Haynes’ 2022 discussion of the difference between birds and dinosaurs.
Feathered Turtles?
Matthew Cserhati • Sept. 27, 2023
Evolutionists assert that several dinosaur species had feathers, but what do the genes say?
The Debate over Classification of Archaeopteryx as a Bird
Dr. Gabriela Haynes • Sept. 14, 2022
Based on several findings, no reason remains for Archaeopteryx to be classified as anything other than a bird.
Living Evidence of a Global Catastrophe: How Microbial Biogeography Supports Noah’s Flood
Dr. Andrew Fabich • Oct. 17, 2018
The biblical account of Noah’s Flood provides an update to modern microbial biogeography and modern creation apologetics.
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.
Do the Data Support a Large Meteorite Impact at Chicxulub?
Dr. Timothy L. Clarey • March 8, 2017
The evidence for a large impact at Chicxulub may not be as strong as generally believed. A case can also be made that there was no impact.
Is the Cambodian Stegosaur-like Carving Another Argument Creationists Should Not Use?
Joshua Cedar • Jan. 25, 2017
A bas-relief carving from the 12th–13th century Ta Prohm temple in Angkor, Cambodia is hailed as a possible depiction of a recently living stegosaur.
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.
The Nature of the Neo-Darwinian Evangelicals’ Criticism of Young-Earth Creationists
Jim Owen • Nov. 23, 2016
If we do not understand the dimensions of the war we are engaged in, we are already halfway to theological and historical oblivion.
Determining Average Dinosaur Size Using the Most Recent Comprehensive Body Mass Data Set
Dr. Timothy L. Clarey , et. al. • Feb. 18, 2015
Most literature states the average dinosaur was only the size of a sheep. This paper hopefully assists creationists base statements on the best available data.
Discerning Tyrants from Usurpers: A Statistical Baraminological Analysis of Tyrannosauroidea Yielding the First Dinosaur Holobaramin
M. Aaron • Nov. 26, 2014
In this study, I analyzed a theropod dinosaur group, Tyrannosauroidea, through the use of statistical baraminology.
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.