Angkor saw a stegosaur?
by David Catchpoole
Photo by Chris Maier.<www.UnexplainedEarth.com>
Stone carvings adorning the temples of Angkor, reclaimed from the jungles of modern-day
Cambodia, depict aspects of everyday life along with Hindu and Buddhist mythology.
They are 800 years old.
One of the glyphs1 appears to show what even most children today would
readily identify as Stegosaurus, a dinosaur that evolutionary paleontologists
say became extinct millions of years ago—supposedly long before man walked
on this planet.
Photo by Chris Maier. <www.UnexplainedEarth.com>
So how to explain the stegosaur glyph? There were no paleontology textbooks 800
years ago to show the ancient carvers what a reconstructed stegosaur fossil would
have looked like.2 Clearly, the evolutionary history is wrong. Instead,
dinosaurs once lived alongside man, just as the Bible says (Genesis 1:24–28, 6:19–20, 8:15–19; Job 40:15–19),3 which explains how
the ancient people of Angkor could know what a stegosaur looked like.
References and notes
- From the temple of Ta Prohm. Maier, C., The fantastic creatures of Angkor,
www.unexplainedearth.com/angkor.php, 9 February 2006.
- Even in the unlikely event that the ancient jungle-dwellers could have extricated
a fossil from rock without modern techniques, it would not be obvious from the fossil
alone what the original animal looked like. That has required the accumulation of
specialist knowledge in modern times.
- See also Batten, D. (Ed.) et al., The Creation Answers Book, chapter 19:
‘What about the dinosaurs?’, pp. 235–253, Creation Ministries
International, Brisbane, Australia, 2006.
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