arjun wrote:Q.No.24: Did Dinosaurs really exist or is it only an imagination?
Ans:Dinosaurs and Dinosaur-like, four-legged, large animals existed at the beginning of the Copper Age which got transformed into other species of four-legged animals later on.
That is the standard BK line as well. I do not know that it was said officially but certainly that it was part of BK 'unofficial folklore'. The theory was either that when the nuclear power plants in the Silver Age were destroyed species were mutated or that there was some kind of war at the beginning of the Copper Age that caused it. As I said, both folklore rather than Shrimat. I guess most folk in Om Mandali knew nothing about dinosaurs and none of the rest cared. Is this a cultural thing? Or is it due to a complete lack of education amongst founding BKs? As kids in the West we are all taken to see massive dinosaur skeletons, personally, I have gone looking for and found small fossils.
Obviously, from a scientific point of view it is nuts and the answer far too incomplete. An wholly insufficient response. A non-answer.
Why, for example, did the dinosaur remains from that time fossilize but the human and other domestic animal remains not fossilized? How were those fossils laid deep down in layers of stone where human remains of the same time were not. Where were they created from, how and when destroyed or die out?
Science calculates that the dinosaurs existed for 165 million years and went extinct about 65 millions years ago. I don't "know" that either but we do know that the ecosystems that they lived in were vastly different from our from the plants life, seeds and DNA within them. It does take some time for genetic families and ecology to develop and mutate.
- If dinosaurs existed at the end of the Copper Age, that means at the same as Abraham and Buddha and the start of written, carved or drawn record and yet there is basically none at all.
- Conceivably, human beings might have noticed 40 foot flying Pterodactyls, 80 foot Brontosaurus, 3 tonne Triceratops and entirely carnivorous Tyrannosaurus rex strolling round their neighbourhood ... and been a *little* concerned.
Let's be honest, probably - say - 85% of all human beings not just Indian villagers but any sort of villager, has very little scientific knowledge whatsoever and is happy and content with folklore, mythology and fairystories as entertainment. Let's say, what 95% of Indians, are happy with accepting Hindu mythology as unquestionable fact. That elaves a lot of folk for Shiva to prey on their ignorance before he gets pulled up ont his stuff.
OK. So forget the peace, love and understnading for a minute; let us have a proper scientific theory of creation and complete history of the Earth ... or have him admit that he does not know and explain why the 5,000 years.