Quid est veritas?

It was a long time ago when I first came into my parents bedroom and asked my Dad, "When did God make the dinosaurs?" My Dad answered me by telling me to go get my Bible and we would find out. Yet no where in Genesis does it tell how God made the Earth, then the dinosaurs, then destroyed them all with an asteroid and then made us... or at least made the apes that became us. It didn't make sense. According to the Bible, the Earth was made in 7 days and there was no talk of a prehistoric time when dinosaurs ruled the Earth. In fact it seemed to me that man had ruled the Earth from the beginning?

As time moved on I basically came to this conclusion after being taught in school about evolution and everything, that it all went hand in hand with the story of creation. When the "big bang" happened, that was God saying, "Let there be light!" Yet still some parts of evolution didn't fit with the whole story of creation? I mean... what about apes becoming cavemen? What about dinosaurs... and where exactly did this terrible asteroid hit the Earth? Can we go see tours of it today? Do they have a gift shop?

Something still wasn't making sense to me. If God made the Earth, and Evolution happened all at the same time... then someone forgot to write about that in the Bible. And for a long time that's what I began to believe. And if you would have asked me I would have told you back then that the stories of the Bible in Genesis and even the story of Noah was fiction. Fictional stories made up by the early Hebrews who wrote the Old Testament to give a primitive explanation as to how our God made us all. And due to the times, and the lack of scientific knowledge... the whole creation story was more of a summarized version of what we know now about evolution.

WHAT? What was I thinking?? I was beginning to sound like Martin Luther! "Since this part of the Bible doesn't go with my way of thinking... let's take it out!" AHHH!!! No, no, no... this can't be the answer! This is not the truth! So then... what is? Was there really once an Adam and Eve?? As I soon found out, according to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Adam and Eve were real in respect to the fact that Jesus is the New Adam and the Blessed Virgin Mary is the New Eve! Whoa... this really messes things up for evolution! In fact, even according to science as I soon learned, all of our DNA can all be traced back to 2 people who lived in Africa. Did anyone know this? Why was I not informed about this? They did exist!! And what about Noah and the flood? Well all over the world there have been searches for Noah's Ark, and there are many claims as to where it is... but nothing proven yet, as far as I know. But there is one thing that is interesting... certain fossils of fish and other sea creatures have been found on the tops of mountains. MOUNTAINS?? You mean those big tall hills that are way WAY above sea level??? How did fish get up there?? Maybe there was a flood? And maybe the great flood was caused by the contents separating across the Earth!?

"Well by-George, I think he's got it!"

Okay, so no apes, no asteroids... and all fossils were formed by the great flood? Well then what about my first question... where did the dinosaurs come from? I mean, you go to a museum and they have all their bones there. And there are paleontologists all over the world finding these creatures! So when did God make them... or have I totally lost it and really the first explanation of evolution really defines everything we need to know?

I dunno, maybe I am crazy! Maybe these are just stories that the Hebrews wrote to show us the great power of God. Even Jesus told us parables on how to love our neighbor? I mean... come on, we even have a St. George who battled a dragon in the middle ages... there's no such thing as dragons... right?

I was soon answered this question when I was told that there are many saints that after Vatican II were believed to be made up. Even churches that had these saint names were even renamed, like St. Philomena's here in Omaha is now St. Francis Cabrini. What's going on here? Were there actually some saints that were made up?

Um... no! Of course not, every saint known to man had to be canonized by the Catholic Church, which has always been a long process that is based on the miracles that occur after the holy person has died. So then what about St. George and his dragon... was that just made up, even though there was a St. George? When I later posed this question to my Pastor, he responded by telling me... "Well Dan, there is some evidence out there that suggests that there were dragons at that time."

Evidence? What evidence?? I wanna see!!! Sure enough there is a bunch of evidence on this. Just do a search on "Dinosaurs or Dragons" on Google and there is a bunch of information on this! A lot of information that suggests that dinosaurs and dragons are one and the same. In fact it was Sir Richard Owen of England who came up with the name "dinosaur" in 1841. Before that, all big lizard creatures were called dragons. And if we begin to research this we find that there are stories of dragons all over the world. And in every part of the world, the dragon is described in the same way. In fact even the Chinese calendar includes the year of the dragon as a equal animal to all the other animals in the calendar. Also as I discovered, there are artifacts all over the world depicting dinosaurs. For example: deep in the jungles of Cambodia are ornate temples and palaces from the Khmer civilization. One such temple, Ta Prohm abounds with stone statues and reliefs. Almost every square inch of the gray sandstone is covered with ornate, detailed carvings. These depict familiar animals like monkeys, deer, water buffalo, parrots, and lizards. However, one column contains an intricate carving of a stegosaur-like creature. But how could artisans decorating an 800 year old Buddhist temple know what a dinosaur looked like? Western science only began assembling dinosaurs skeletons in the past two centuries. They had to have seen it! Suddenly St. George's dragon was beginning to sound more and more like a dinosaur than a mythological dragon!

In discovering this, I was beginning to see that there was definitely something going on here. Somebody was trying to make us all believe something about our history in this world, and that somebody was lying... BIG TIME!! But who? What?

Enter stage left: Charles Darwin and the Theory of Evolution!

It's thanks to Charles Darwin and his Theory of Evolution that scientists have pushed this radical idea that we all came about in this way. The only problem is that any scientist who believes these theories, can't prove what came before... what made the single cell organism that started the seed of life. And if you watch Ben Stein's movie "Expelled" you will see what damage they are truly causing in this world. And what more damage it could cause and even has caused to this world. The idea that evolution is true and that our only purpose in life is to live and die and that natural selection helps to keep the balance of things, opens up the doors to things such as eugenics, abortion, euthanasia, contraception and etc. Ideas that were once imposed by such governments like Nazi Germany. Ideas that pushed out things like religion and belief in God.

Quid est veritas? (What is truth?) Be careful who you ask... because according to Our Lord Jesus, "Every one that is of the truth, heareth my voice." John 18:37 Therefore I would trust my Bible over any atheist scientist who is ignoring certain questions that have great validity to their query!

I would love to discuss this topic more with anyone! It's a topic that has truly fascinated me lately! And if you have a chance I recommend you check out the movies "Expelled" by Ben Stine and also "Dragons or Dinosaurs". You will learn a lot!

http://www.amazon.com/Expelled-Intelligence-Allowed-Ben-Stein/dp/B001BYLFFS
http://www.amazon.com/Dragons-Or-Dinosaurs-Creation-Evolution/dp/B0033HKDX6