HOW DID DINOSAURS SURVIVE THE FLOOD?
Creation magazine explains how dinosaurs survived the flood. This is a question that often de-rails the faith of young people. Make sure it does not happen to your children, subscribe here: https://creation.com/magazines The best value colour magazine available. Gibber! Gibber! Chugley How did dinosaurs survive the Flood? by Erin Hughes and Lita Sanders (nee Cosner) Published in Creation 41(4):32–35, 2019 Last time, we learned that dinosaurs and man lived together. But if people saw dinosaurs and wrote about them, that means they must have survived Noah’s Flood. And that means they must have been on Noah’s Ark! The Bible tells us that outside the Ark, every creature “on the dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life” died. Dinosaurs were land animals (plesiosaurs and similar ‘sea dragons’ are not classified as dinosaurs). God instructed Noah to take with him a pair (male and female) of every kind (seven pairs of some) of airbreathing land animal aboard the Ark (Genesis 6). So it shouldn’t be strange to think dinosaurs were on the Ark. Could dinosaurs fit on Noah’s Ark? Yes. The Ark was big enough to fit dinosaurs, all the other animals, and all the supplies. Actually, there would have been room left for many people in the Ark as well. The Bible gives us an idea of just how huge the Ark really was. God told Noah to make the Ark 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide and 30 cubits high. A cubit is an ancient measurement based on the distance from an adult elbow to the fingertips—generally around 45 cm (1½ ft). To put this in perspective, the Ark could have held over 500 railroad stock cars; each could have contained over 200 medium-sized animals. There weren’t actually many types of dinosaurs. It is estimated that God only created around fifty dinosaur kinds, so…