The Beginning of the Dinosaurs
Bible-believing scientists in the 19th century.
Who "discovered" dinosaurs?
For His own glory.
Why did God create dinosaurs?
The fossil finds were explained as the bones of dragons, giants, or other beasts.
How did people who found dinosaur fossils explain their finds?
Paleontologists use the same name classification system that is used in Biology.
How do dinosaurs get their names?
The nickname of California's state dinosaur.
Who is Auggie?
Uniformitarian thinking.
What kind of thinking began to dominate science by the middle of the 19th century?
The scientists who interpret the rock layers of the Earth's crust as representing millions and millions of years of Earth history.
Who are mainstream scientists?
Sir Richard Owen first used the name "dinosauria"
Who first used the name "dinosauria"?
The Linnaean Hierarchy.
What is the system that both paleontologists and biologists use to classify creatures?
Auggie is a ______________.
What is a hadrosaur?
The belief that the Earth has been shaped by mostly continuous and uniform processes over millions of years.
What is uniformitarianism?
Scientists who interpret the rock layers as having been mostly deposited during the year-long Flood, just thousands of years ago, as recorded in Genesis.
Who are creation scientists?
Sir Richard Owen was the first to notice what about dinosaurs?
A great innovation and an important part of the Linnaean system.
What is binomial nomenclature?
The scientific name of California's state dinosaur.
What is Augustynolophus morrisi?
Yes. Only after man's sin did creatures begin to each other.
Were all dinosaurs herbivores before the Fall, and resulting curse?
The Hebrew word for "kind".
What is "min"?
The man who categorized dinosaurs into two main groups--Saurischia and Ornithischia-- based on their style of hip.
Who was British paleontologist Harry Seeley?
Name of theropod dinosaur that means "tyrant lizard king" or "tyrant reptile king"
What is Tyrannosaurus Rex?
Philanthropist and paleontologist from which Auggie got his name?
Who are Gretchen Augustyn and William Morris?
As land animals, they would have been created on Day Six of the creation week.
On which day of creation week must the dinosaurs have been made.
Yes. Based on the biblical timeline, and their straightforward reading of Genesis 6:20, creation scientists believe and teach that two of each kind of dino was on the ark.
Were dinosaurs on Noah's ark?
Two suborders of Saurischian(lizard-hipped) dinosaurs.
What are theropoda and sauropoda?
Swedish naturalist and creationist who established the system that paleontologists and biologists use to classify creatures.
Who is Carolus Linnaeus?
Museum where Auggie's fossils are housed, and can be viewed.
What is the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County?