What about the Dinosaurs

What about the Dinosaurs?

by Harley Pinon

Many years ago I listened to a radio program called, "The Bible Stands." The speaker was Wayne Carver. He was a scientist and former atheist. He began to study the Bible and was amazed that it made sense and answered many questions that he had. I have done a Google search for Wayne Carver, and maybe it was somewhere in the 900 possible sites it brought up, but since I am 66 and I think he was older than I, he may no longer be living, I do not know. As a result, I can only tell you what I remember him saying, and it did make sense.

Long Life Explains Dinosaurs

As we all know, Methuselah lived to be 969 years old. Adam lived to be 930 years. How long did reptiles live? Probably there is no way to know that for sure, but Wayne Carver believed they lived to a very long age. Reptiles are different from us in that they don't stop growing. How big would a lizard get if it lived to be 600 years old? I haven't done the math, but is there math that we can do? What we do know is that man lived about 12 times as long then as he does now, so why not reptiles? Maybe they lived more than 12 times their normal life. At any rate, it was his decision that the dinosaurs were probably just giant lizards of the days before the flood.

The Water Vapor Canopy

It was also Wayne's belief that before the flood there was a massive water vapor canopy that surrounded the earth. We all know what happens to the temperature on very cloudy days. The difference in the high and low temperature (called the range) is very small. It was Wayne's belief that this global canopy was such that it had the same effect on the entire world. His belief was that the temperature at the poles was not that different from the temperature at the equator. When the flood came, "In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened." (Gen 7:11 NKJV) Wayne believes that this was the collapse of the water vapor canopy.

What about long life?

Wayne said that the water vapor canopy did at least two things: (1) It keep temperatures constant, and (2) It filtered out the ultra violet rays of the sun. It was his belief, as a scientist, that the ultra violet rays contributed greatly to shortening human life. Methuselah lived until the year of the flood according to some calculations. After the flood, life expectancy dropped dramatically. Abraham lived well past a hundred, but there are no more lives of 300 or more years.

What about that Temperature Drop?

Wayne believed that that is the explanation of the frozen wooly mammoths. The temperature dropped so rapidly that some of them were frozen in the act of catching food. I believe one was still holding a fish in its mouth.

Concluding Remarks

I believe that some of the giant animals may be described in Job. Job 40:15 NKJV, says, "Look now at the behemoth, which I made along with you; He eats grass like an ox." 41:1 "Can you draw out Leviathan with a hook, Or snare his tongue with a line which you lower? 2 Can you put a reed through his nose, Or pierce his jaw with a hook? (Job 41:7-10 NKJV) Can you fill his skin with harpoons, Or his head with fishing spears? {8} Lay your hand on him; Remember the battle; Never do it again! {9} Indeed, any hope of overcoming him is false; Shall one not be overwhelmed at the sight of him? {10} No one is so fierce that he would dare stir him up. Who then is able to stand against Me?" This sounds like a huge animal. If it is a dinosaur, it would mean that dinosaurs and man were on the earth at the same time. Again, something that Wayne Carver would agree with. There are books that have been written about the water vapor canopy, but I don't have them. I'm sorry that I don't have the documentation for what is in this article, but I hope this has been of some benefit.

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