Did humans and dinosaurs ever coexist?

[Zen Badger]

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Most people believe that dinosaurs became extinct millions of years before there were any humans but there is some evidence that this belief is false.

Nearly all cultures have stories of dragons. The discriptions of these beasts resemble those of dinosaurs.

Evolutionist Adrienne Mayor spent considerable time researching the possibility that Native Americans dug up diniosaur fossils. But some of the reports she received make a lot more sense if these early Americans interacted with actual dinosaurs, not yet extinct. An old Assiniboine story tells of a war party that "traveled a long distance to unfamiliar lands and [saw] some large lizards. The warriors held a council and discussed what they knew about those strange creatures. They decided that those big lizards were bad medicine and should be left alone. However, one warrior who wanted more war honors said that he was not afraid of those animals and would kill one. He took his lance [a very old weapon used before horses] and charged one of the large lizard type animals and tried to kill it. But he had trouble sticking his lance in the creature's hide and during the battle he himself was killed and eaten." Mayor, Fossil Legends of the First Americans, 2005, p. 294.) This story conjures up credible visions of the scaly hide of a great reptile, something Native Americans would not know from mere skeletons. It was once thought that Woolly Mammoths had flourished in North America prior to the arrival of humans. But the discovery of sites where many mammoths were killed and butchered has established the co-existence of men and mammoths. Perhaps similar evidence involving dinosaurs will be forthcoming.

Of course it would be much less likely that they had travelled to Florida and encountered alligators,would it?

[quote]The atheistic astronomer Carl Sagan once remarked: "The pervasiveness of dragon myths in the folk legends of many cultures is probably no accident" (Sagan, Carl, The Dragons of Eden, New York: Random House, 1977, p. 149). Indeed he felt compelled to address the similarity to the great reptiles of the Jurassic era and "explain them away." How could Sagan do this? Peter Dickinson stated, "Carl Sagan tried to account for the spread and consistency of dragon legends by saying that they are fossil memories of the time of the dinosaurs, come down to us through a general mammalian memory inherited from the early mammals, our ancestors, who had to compete with the great predatory lizards." (Dickinson, Peter, The Flight of Dragons, New York: Harper and Row, 1979, p. 127). Thus Carl Sagan believed that we evolved not merely our physical bodies, but also memories "uploaded" from our mammalian ancestors!

And this quote supports your position does it?

http://www.genesispark.com/genpark/history/history.htm


There are also ancient pictures of animals that resemble dinosaurs. How could the people who made them have know what dinosaurs looked like unless they had actually seen them?

There are detailed pictures of all sorts of mythical creatures, do you think they existed too?

http://www.genesispark.com/genpark/ancient/ancient.htm

In fact it is possible that we still coexist and they haven't all died off:
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http://www.genesispark.com/genpark/behem...hemoth.htm

I can go on to google maps and zoom into my back yard.
Don't you think that something the size of an Aptosaurus would have been spotted from orbit by now?

http://www.genesispark.com/genpark/plesio/plesio.htm

In reply to your link.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globster

If there are still dinosaurs this wouldn't be the first time a species believed to be extinct for millions of years has been found to be still alive:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coelacanth

True, and if and when a live dinosaur is produced such as an aptosaurous or T-rex it will be sensational.
But, like the discovery of the Coelancanth it will not disprove Evolution.
Or provide proof for Creationism.

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Although not actually relevent to this discussion, this sentence;

He took his lance [a very old weapon used before horses]

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......made me laugh.

I refer you to this;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancer

particulary the opening sentence;

"A lancer was a type of cavalryman who fought with a lance."