{"id":578,"date":"2018-08-22T04:55:22","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T04:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.creationevidence.org\/blog\/?p=578"},"modified":"2019-07-20T20:18:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T20:18:46","slug":"creation-devotional-august-14-paleontology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.creationevidence.org\/blog\/creation-devotional-august-14-paleontology\/","title":{"rendered":"Creation Devotional August 15 - Paleontology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Devotional \u2013 August 15<\/p>\n<p>Paleontology<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Noah took two of every kind of land animal on board the Ark, including dinosaurs. After getting off the Ark, these dinosaurs spread around the world. The ancient histories of many cultures document dinosaur encounters.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Britain\u2019s history contains hundreds of stories about large reptiles called dragons.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>According to one account, a large reptile killed and ate King Morvidus in 336 B.C.<\/li>\n<li>Just over 100 years ago, elderly Welsh folk told of a colony of winged serpents (pterosaurs?) that lived in the woods around Penllin Castle in Glamorgan. These \u201cwinged serpents were the terror of old and young alike\u2026they were described as very beautiful,\u2026 looked as if they were covered with jewels of all sorts\u2026when angry, they flew over people\u2019s heads\u2026 they were as bad for poultry as foxes...they were terrors in farmyards.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>In 1405, after an unsuccessful attempt by local archers to kill the dragon with its impenetrable hide, the villagers near Sudbury drove into a swamp a \u201cdragon vast in body with a crested head, teeth like a saw, and a tail extending to an enormous length. Having slaughtered the shepherd of a flock, it devoured many sheep.\u201d After the Flood, people also spread across the Earth, but who would want these terrifying creatures living near their village? Many dinosaurs likely went extinct due to human expansion. When we put on our biblical glasses, it is no surprise to find these types of widespread \u201cdragon\u201d reports. Dinosaurs definitely did not go extinct 65 million years ago!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.<\/p>\n<p>~ Genesis 8:19<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: \"Pearls in Paradise\" by authors Bruce Malone and Jule Von Vett<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.creationevidence.org\/documents\/creation_devotional_references.pdf\">References<\/a> for this devotional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Devotional \u2013 August 15 Paleontology &nbsp; Noah took two of every kind of land animal on board the Ark, including dinosaurs. After getting off the Ark, these dinosaurs spread around the world. The ancient histories of many cultures document dinosaur encounters. &nbsp; Britain\u2019s history contains hundreds of stories about large reptiles called dragons. According [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[4,50],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creation-daily-devotional","tag-creation","tag-paleontology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.creationevidence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.creationevidence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.creationevidence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.creationevidence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.creationevidence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.creationevidence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1129,"href":"http:\/\/www.creationevidence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions\/1129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.creationevidence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.creationevidence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.creationevidence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}