Re: Fire Breathing T-Rex

Cliff Lundberg (cliff@noevalley.com)
Thu, 09 Jul 1998 09:58:08 -0700

McCarrick, Allan wrote:

> 2. Most Young Earth creationists find the commonality of dragon
> legends an evidence that dinosaur-like creatures were alive and had
> contact with humans from the creation to the Flood and beyond until
> most species died out in the different post-flood world ecology.

I've wondered about this. Why the legends of giant reptiles, but
none of giant mammals? In Asia, the dragon has positive connotations;
this might stem from the giant reptiles being fortunate finds, as when
a Maori found a succulent pair of moas.

-- Cliff Lundberg ~ San Francisco ~ cliff@noevalley.com