To the Parent:

Dinomania probably began in 1854. It was in June of

this year that an estimated crowd of 40,000 people
flooded the exhibition halls of the famed Crystal Palace in London. For the first time anywhere, visitors could
see three-dimensional, life-sized models of dinosaurs in
their natural setting. Like us, the Victorians were fascinated by these huge, extinct creatures.
In the following decades, fossil hunters Othniel C. Marsh
and Edward Drinker Cope engaged in a fierce rivalry
for the choicest dinosaur remains. Massive skeletons
the hard-won spoils of their campaigns in the arid lands
of North Americas Wild Westchanged the design of
museum buildings forever.
The fever shows no sign of abating. In the last few decades, we have seen an unbelievable proliferation of dinosaurs in practically every medium you can imaginefrom
B-grade movies to slick coffee-table books.
Yet there is more to this than commercial exploitation.
Dinosaurs hold a special fascination for kids. And with
that heightened level of interest comes an increased capacity for learning. Educators know this, and have used
dinosaurs as vehicles for teaching all sorts of concepts.
Unfortunately, the favorite topics are macroevolution
and uniformitarian geology.
Macroevolution, as the name suggests, refers to change
on a massive scale. It is the idea that one (or a very few)
organisms gave rise to everything else that ever lived.
In this view, jellyfish, sharks, apes, dinosaurs, and, yes,
even humans, are twigs on one huge family tree.
Uniformitarianism is the idea that geological processes
in the past were pretty much the same as geological processes in the present. The present is the key to the past,
as the old saying goes. If you find a layer of sandstone a
hundred feet high, and you know that sand accumulates
on modern beaches at the rate of one inch per year, then
you need only do the math to appreciate the numbers
implied by the uniformitarian assumption (well, there is
more to it than that, but we hope you get the point).
In recent years, geologists have awakened to the possibility of catastrophes on a regional or even global scale. Yet
the average geologist, walking around with geological
hammer in hand, still thinks in uniformitarian terms.

These two concepts are closely related because the

most popular version of macroevolution (put forward by
Charles Darwin in 1859) holds that mechanisms governing changes in living things were the same yesterday as
they are today. So if the present is the key to the past,
then changes in major plant and animal groups must
have been excruciatingly slow. As you probably have noticed on your walks through the forest or your drives in
the countryside, species tend not to change very much
within the course of a single human life span. The assumption, therefore, is that very long periods of time are
needed to explain the extraordinary diversity of life on
Earth.
Needless to say, there are all sorts of problems with both
these concepts, but they are the very ideas presented uncritically in almost all science books for kids. The message goes something like this. Dinosaurs died out millions of years ago. Humans have been around only for
a little while. Where did the dinosaurs come from? Thats
right! They evolved, just like we evolved from apes. And
see the little sparrow through your kitchen window? It
evolved from the dinosaurs!
In fact, the message is so prevalent that many worshipgoing, Bible-toting Christians have become vehement
supporters. If you tell our kids that man lived with dinosaurswhy, theyll be laughed out of school; theyll lose
their faith! This should not be a deterrent. As the apostle Paul pointed out, the Gospel always will seem as
foolishness to the unspiritual (1 Corinthians 2:14). To
these mockers of the faith, the very idea of a Mans being
raised from the grave after three days is no more appealing than the co-existence of humans and dinosaurs.
Two objections arise frequently: (1) dinosaurs were too
mean and nasty to live with man; and (2), no dinosaur
fossils have been found with human fossils.
As to the first objection, humans often have survived in
the same neighborhood as fierce beasts. Dinosaurs
would have been no exception. Indeed, a lot of other
creatures our size might have found themselves having
to dodge the deadly jaws of T. rex. And thanks to dinomania, we might have an exaggerated view of dinosaur

population densities. Perhaps some parts of the world

were safer than others. The existence of large predators does not, by itself, preclude co-existence with man.
As to the second objection, the absence of dinosaur fossils next to human fossils would not prove evolution and
old Earth, and neither would it disprove the biblical view.
Overall, in fact, the fossil record is no friend of evolution
a situation that has not changed since Darwin bemoaned
the lack of evidence for long-term, large-scale evolution
back in 1859.
What is the biblical view? According to Exodus 20:11,
God created everything in the first six days of the Universes existence, and rested on the seventh. To put it
plainly, this leaves no room for macroevolution. It implies, also, that representatives of all Gods creatures
were on the Earth at the same time (for a while, at least).
So, yes, dinosaurs and man did live together.
Further, if dinosaurs were around at the start of the Flood
(and we have no reason to think they were not), then
they qualified for berths on Noahs ark. God intended to
save at least two of every animal kind that lived on the
land and breathed air (Genesis 6:17; 7:22).
What eventually became of the dinosaurs? No one
knows for sure. Evolutionists favor the idea that an aster-

oid or comet hit the Earth, causing the sudden, mass extinction of the dinosaurs (making it a rare exception to
the uniformitarian rule). But why would such a catastrophe be so selective in killing off the dinosaurs, while leaving many other types of reptiles untouched? At least in
the Flood model, all land-dwelling creatures had an equal
chance of survival. It just happens that dinosaurs, for
some reason, were not able to survive what might have
been a rapidly changing post-Flood world.
This is not the place to get into a full argument about a recent creation and a worldwide flood. Apologetics Press
carries a lot of materials on these subjects. We invite you
to call or write for a free catalog (our address and toll-free
number are listed below).
However, we have a number of hopes for this coloring
book. We hope it will nourish young minds with the truth
about dinosaurs. Even if your child cannot read, we hope
he or she will get the message through the depiction
of dinosaurs living with all sorts of creatures, including
man. The captions are simple, but we hope slightly older
kids will learn something about dinosaurs, and we know
that they will have fun learning the names. We hope,
most of all, that this book will help lay the foundation of
firm faith in our Creator.

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On the Sixth Day...

Euhelopus

Alioramus

Pachyrinosaurus

Garudimimus

God made dinosaurs.

Seismosaurus

...and small.

Carcharodontosaurus

T. rex

God protected plant eaters

with spikes, horns,
and shields.

Stegosaurus

Styracosaurus

Deinonychus

Velociraptor

Some hunters had big claws.

Some dinosaurs were very strange.

Amargasaurus

Dimetrodon

Tanystropheus

The ancient seas might have

been quite scary.

Kronosaurus

Mosasaurus

Plesiosaurus

Perhaps the leviathan

of Job 41 looked much like this.

Gallodactylus

Plotosaurus

Maybe the behemoth of

Job 40 looked like this.

Ultrasaurus

Dicraeosaurus

Humans may have hunted dinosaurs.

Acrocanthosaurus

A fossil is a trace of a
living thing such as a
plant or an animal.

In order for a fossil to

form, the animal must
be buried very quickly.

Most of the time, soft

tissues like skin and
muscles decay. But
bones and teeth often
become fossilized.

Paleontologists are
scientists who look for
fossils.

Well kids, its time to leave

before Iguana Don gets us into
any more trouble.

We would like to thank

Apologetics Press for
providing the images for
this book.

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