Why is there no mention of time travel in biblical times?

[Cerebrum123]

Ever see the athletic competition where they whirl about and throw a heavy weight for distance? Common at Scottish highland games.

Similar process, but with a long ropes instead of a short chain. And it's a team sport where several people throw it at once.

They're celebrating after the competition tossing the weight (the "Triceratops") in the air. Strange custom but what can you say.

That crazy explanation won't cut it, the ropes are in all different different directions. They would all need to be in one spot, and then all spinning like the guys in your pictures.

[Sparko]

Rogue, that was a hunting party that had captured a flying triceratops and was taking it back to their camp to make into tricerabacon.

I know you like to think of yourself as some big muckety-muck dinosaur expert, but you obviously know nothing about dragons. Wilson has convinced me. And I went back in time in my trusty pirate time machine and confirmed it all. (see whut I did? I tied it all back to the OP! )

[rogue06]

That crazy explanation won't cut it, the ropes are in all different different directions. They would all need to be in one spot, and then all spinning like the guys in your pictures.

You aren't seeing them trying to throw it but fans tossing the weighted end up in victory celebration. They generally stand somewhat bunched up as a group when throwing though there are many different formations employed.

As to the attachment points... They're there due to ancient custom. Elephant hurling, er I mean dinosaur tossing goes back into the fog of prehistory.

Further, every sport has something that makes it more of a challenge. Think of soccer/football where the players can't use their hands! I mean how stoopid is that? Compared to not being able to use your hands the ropes attached to different spots in dino tossing doesn't seem so odd after all does it?

[rogue06]

tricerabacon

Primitive turkey bacon, those back-sliding heretical scum

[Sparko]

You aren't seeing them trying to throw it but fans tossing the weighted end up in victory celebration. They generally stand somewhat bunched up as a group when throwing though there are many different formations employed.

As to the attachment points... They're there due to ancient custom. Elephant hurling, er I mean dinosaur tossing goes back into the fog of prehistory.

Further, every sport has something that makes it more of a challenge. Think of soccer/football where the players can't use their hands! I mean how stoopid is that? Compared to not being able to use your hands the ropes attached to different spots in dino tossing doesn't seem so odd after all does it?

How would they be able to toss a triceratops like that unless it didn't weigh hardly anything to begin with? Hmmm. There goes your excuse.

[rogue06]

How would they be able to toss a triceratops like that unless it didn't weigh hardly anything to begin with? Hmmm. There goes your excuse.

Your pirate hat is on too tight. I said it had been hollowed out and the participants were all juiced up on steroids.

[Chrawnus]

I know you like to think of yourself as some big muckety-muck dinosaur expert, but you obviously know nothing about dragons. Wilson has convinced me. And I went back in time in my trusty pirate time machine and confirmed it all. (see whut I did? I tied it all back to the OP! )

How come I didn't run into you while I was flying through time in my time machine? You're obviously pulling our leg, Mister Would-Be Pirate.

[rogue06]

It's troo! The jet packs didn't fossilize

And I gots myself some photographical evidence after "borrowing" Sparko's time machine.

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The gun explains the fire-breathing misconception.

[Cerebrum123]

How come I didn't run into you while I was flying through time in my time machine? You're obviously pulling our leg, Mister Would-Be Pirate.

Didn't Sparko already say that he was the third Roman soldier from the right? Or was the from the left?

[Sparko]

Your pirate hat is on too tight. I said it had been hollowed out and the participants were all juiced up on steroids.

I was there. I took the photo when I went back in my time machine. They were trying to hold it down. It almost got away a few times but they finally got it back to camp and boy was that tricerabacon good!

[rogue06]

Of course over at Rogue Tech Armaments and Fish Bait (where all bait is 20% through the weekend) we were working on a different angle at getting our T rex airborne:

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Artist's conceptional drawing

[rogue06]

I was there. I took the photo when I went back in my time machine. They were trying to hold it down. It almost got away a few times but they finally got it back to camp and boy was that tricerabacon good!

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[Sparko]

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[wilson]

I think a dragon would be tough enough without your lousy fiber and foam. Read Job chapter 41 in the old testament. His real name is not t rex its leviathan and he can also swim like god zilla. Dinosaurs are still around they just go by thier real names komodo (dragon) that kind does not fly though of course but there is proof that some dino (dragons) could fly no doubt and they were just as terrifing as all the stories about them in every culture around the world has. How could everybody around the world imagine the same creature. Why dont history books mention dinosaurs? Becouse that word was just used for little over 100 yrs. All history books of all cultures mention dragons though. How many creatures go extinct everyday? What if man doesnt want a terrible tyrant lizard around? Do you think he can compeat with us we dominate the world only what we allow to live may live. Competition for flesh as meat after the flood made animals fear mankind. It will not always be this way.

[rogue06]

I think a dragon would be tough enough without your lousy fiber and foam. Read Job chapter 41 in the old testament. His real name is not t rex its leviathan

Leviathan was supposed to have been some sort of sea creature not a terrestrial animal like a T rex. Psalm 104:26 says, "There go the ships: there is leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein" (KJV). Clearly the habitat of leviathan in this context is the sea.

Further in Psalm 74 depicts God as "break[ing] the heads of Leviathan in pieces." Multiple heads would tend to disqualify T rex, any other type of dinosaur and any actual non-mythological creature.

And according to Isaiah 27:1 the Leviathan is called the "wriggling serpent" which doesn't sound much like a T rex and is said will be killed at the end of time meaning that Leviathan is still around -- another problem with identifying it with a T rex or any other non-avian dinosaur.

and he can also swim like god zilla.

Godzilla swam? Don't recall that but I haven't seen every Godzilla movie. I distinctly recall in at least one he was depicted as marching along the sea floor.

Dinosaurs are still around they just go by thier real names komodo (dragon) that kind does not fly

Komodos aren't dinosaurs and in fact belong to a different group of diapsid reptiles than they do. Dinosaurs were archosaurs. Their living representatives consist of modern birds and crocodilians. Komodo dragons, OTOH, are lizards which along with snakes, tuatara and amphibaenians (commonly called worm lizards) are lepidosaurs. So while komodo dragons share a common ancestor with dinosaurs they don't descend from them and, in fact, birds are more closely related to dinosaurs than are komodos.

though of course but there is proof that some dino (dragons) could fly

Yeah, we call them birds.

no doubt and they were just as terrifing as all the stories about them in every culture around the world has.

Far more cultures have myths about people turning into beasts hence I guess that demonstrates the validity of lycanthropes

Come to think about it there are numerous stories about animals turning into humans so I guess that serves to "prove" evolution.

How could everybody around the world imagine the same creature.

They don't.

In the west dragons are often depicted as fire-breathing carnivorous ‘Brontosaurus-like’ creatures that fly via bat wings and represent evil incarnate. The fire-breathing "evolved" through the years going from a venomous bite to dripping venom, to venom-spitting, finally in the latest stories to fire breathing. Often they're described as being large enough to curl around a hill or small mountain

Contrast that to the dragons of the Far East, especially China. These dragons were snake-like creatures (usually bearded) that fly by swimming through the air. Instead of being evil brutes they're said to be intelligent and beneficial. And they also inter-marry with humanity to create Emperors.

In the Mid East and southwestern Asia the descriptions are varied though many have multiple heads like the hydra.

Why dont history books mention dinosaurs? Becouse that word was just used for little over 100 yrs.

Closer to 170 years but who's quibbling.

All history books of all cultures mention dragons though.

(Emphasis added by rogue06)

Just checked almost a dozen history books. Guess what wasn't mentioned in any of them.

If you want a good explanation for these stories I suggest you check out Adrienne Mayor's "The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times" (I just picked up a copy now that it's in paperback).

How many creatures go extinct everyday? What if man doesnt want a terrible tyrant lizard around? Do you think he can compeat with us we dominate the world only what we allow to live may live. Competition for flesh as meat after the flood made animals fear mankind. It will not always be this way.

If dinosaurs recently went extinct please point to all the unfossilized dinosaur material.


Well that was fun.