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Dragons and Dinosaur - Are they the same?

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1.A mythical monster traditionally represented as a gigantic reptile having a lion's claws, the tail of a serpent, wings, and a scaly skin.
2.a.A fiercely vigilant or intractable person.
b.Something very formidable or dangerous.
3.Any of various lizards, such as the Komodo dragon or the flying lizard.
4.Archaic. A large snake or serpent.

Humans will kill any animal that possesses a threatening imposition and dinosaurs or large reptiles are about as threatening as animals get. However, historical accounts of dinosaur-sized animals are being dismissed as mythological because these animals are assumed to have gone extinct millions of years ago. We use "Dinosaur" in reference to a group of large reptilian animals as did the term dragon previously. Perhaps the extinct dinosaurs like the T-rex survived the flood of Noah, but they could not survive mankind.

It is believe by some that the legends of dragons and their slayings are historic accounts of when humans were hunting and killing the dinosaurs following the flood of Noah. The most famous account of a dragon slaying is the story of Saint George and the Dragon, which was included in Jacobus de Voragine's collection of Saints' lives written about 1275, to become part of the Golden Legends, translated into English and published by Caxton in 1483. The monument to right of St. George was consecrated on New Year's Eve 1489 in Storkyrkan, Stockholm. Cathedrals have been built in recognition of St. George in Ontario Canada (1828), Perth Australia (1888), London England (1848), there are also several in the United States, etc. etc. These cathedrals all proudly display a painting or relic somewhere depicting the slaying of the dragon by St. George.

A modern version says:

"At the town of Silene, in Libya, there was a dragon, who was appeased by being fed two sheep a day; when these failed, the townsfolk offered by lot one of their young people. One day the lot fell on the King's daughter, who was led out to the sacrifice, dressed in her wedding gown. George appeared and transfixed the dragon with his spear and then using the Princess's girdle led the bemused dragon into the town, where it was beheaded." Catholic Encyclopaedia

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Are Dinosaur Alive Today?

Komodo DragonIf the young earth creationist perspective is correct, the dinosaurs actually went extinct after they were reintroduced following the global flood of Noah.  Therefore, these animals have either gone extinct since the flood, or are still alive today in diminished form.

Reptiles are the only terrestrial vertebrate that continuously grows as long as they live. Mammals on the otherhand, have an adolescent period following which there is no further growth. For animals with this capability, the size they may reach remains totally theoretic especially when considering genetic diversity.

Historically, reptiles of any significant size have been automatically and immediately killed when in the proximity of human habitats. Large reptiles are simply perceived as a threat and hunted-down. This tendency has placed reptiles under intense natural selection. Selective pressure against large sizes will naturally remove this ability from the gene pool.  When we consider the range of variability available to other animals, as demonstrated by domestic breeding, it is not hard to imagine the immense sizes that reptiles might reach given their exceptional ability for growth.

Although many dinosaurs are extinct, it is certain that if allowed to live free from selective predation by humans, modern reptiles would reach much larger sizes than they do today and closely resemble their ancestors found in the fossil record.

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