Just finished Part 1 of the Dragons or Dinosaurs? lecture. Here is the link again for anyone interested.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF7JUdWOwRw
Again much thanks to you Tintin! This lecture totally blew me away and I haven't even got to part 2 yet! All ready I can tell this is a great documentary and I would highly recommend it to anyone on here.
Some things I noted:
First things first, I really liked the introduction the speaker gave into basics on paleontology (ie: how they dig the bones up, how almost all dinosaur skeletons are found in a state of disarray, and how most skeletons are vastly incomplete.) Also I very much enjoyed the host of the lecture and found him to be very knowledgeable and well-spoken. I also enjoyed the process he uses to posit his theory.
Secondly, things I all ready knew but it was cool just to see them collaborated:
1. Term dinosaur doesn't arise until the 1800s (can't remember if the speaker mentioned Dinosaur simply means Terrible Lizard)
2. Almost all mythologies have some sort of large lizard-like animal all with somewhat similarities to eachother when you take away all the supernatural glitz.
3. Oral histories and written histories also describe dragons/dinosaurs in a context that is supposed to be literal, not supernatural.
4. Archaeology shows the Ancients at least had a concept of the dinosaur, much of which is the same way our modern artists depict such creatures.
5. Rock layering and petrification of fossils themselves seems to indicate a mass catastrophe involving a lot of water.
6. The utter absurdity of the Sagan Hypothesis (dinosaurs and dragons are same, but are the product of the collective unconcious memories of our ancestors. Lol, didn't really need the documentary for me to figure out that's just far-fetched.)
7. I had heard the more plausible and skeptical hypothesis before that the Ancients merely saw dinosaur bones and thus created mythology around them. However this documentary does a fantastic job in showing why that is pretty improbable due to the cultures aversion to bones, and furthermore outright impossible since these cultures would have had to conduct their own paleontology for which there is no evidence they did such.
8. Ghost Lineages pretty much being science fiction.
Now for some points I either never realized before, though I still will have to investigate these further:
1. The Bombadier Beetle proving biological fire/heat creation is possible. (I personally never heard of this beetle before, and though I personally assumed dragons were dinosaurs due to the overwhelming prevalence of their mention throughout time, I personally always assumed the fire-breathing aspect was merely the product of myth. I won't say I believe all or any of the dragons could actually breathe fire, but the fact a mere beetle can do it at least implies a possibility worthy of some investigation.)
2. That many of the evolutionist scientists rely on daydreaming and visions in dreams for their "Revelations." Not only is this highly unscientific, but it is quite curious that furthermore it is asserted they receive such revelations by inducing "lucid dreaming" which is connected to paganism and demonism, which when we consider the mainstream "atheist" scientific bodies have a thing for the roman pagan gods this really makes me start to wonder about their motivations. Though I suppose that's better left for the Conspiracy Theory Section lol.
3. This I think is the most awesome thing in the Part 1 that I saw. This is the evidence of organic tissue, particularly blood found in a fossil in Montana. Now I have seen that some dinosaurs were recovered before with roganic tissue intact, however those were found in arctic or subarctic terrain always being frozen over, thus with plausible explanation. However, for them to find organic dinosaur tissue in a temperate climate like Montana is pretty much impossible if the Earth is Old. The only way this could be possible is if the Earth is Younger than the secular community asserts.
Now like I said this evidence is new to me so I will have to investigate this further, however if it is indeed true that organic dinosaur tissue has been found in a dinosaur that has not been frozen or in a severely cold climate, this would seem to me to be the final nail in the coffin of a billions or millions year old Earth.
Kudos again for the documentary Tintin, and I recommend this to anyone on the page. Kinda tired so I will watch Part 2 tomorrow and post my review of it here as well.
