Why do people believe that Beowulf is fiction?

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There are creationists who believe Beowulf is non-fiction and the hero fought dinosaurs.

Yeah creationists believe Beowulf really existed (just ask Dirch or GC or Alphamale) not just that but they are taught by their biology textbooks that Nessie is also real as well as some other cryptozoological/ mythical animals. Here's a page from creationist's textbook

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And it's all payed by taxpayers.

This is really depressing to hear.

Deliberately lying for Jesus.

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Really, I've seen dragons and sea serpents on the discovery channel and in science books.  

Not the flying fire breathing dragons of myth you haven't.

At least not in genuine science books. I've heard that the discovery channel's standards have dropped recently but I don't actually watch it.

I've also heard animals that can talk such as parrots, or through sign language such as Gorillas.  

Parrots don't understand what they are saying. They are learning to repeat patterns of sound that they are trained to repeat.

Gorillas can be taught limited sign language by humans but that's about it.