Numerous fossilised dinosaur tracks running next to and on top of human tracks, like the famous Paluxy River prints in Texas, together with the worldwide traditions of "giant dragons" (eg. St.George and the Dragon, the Dragon of China, the Beowulf Epic etc), "monstrous sea serpents", and "gargantuan flying reptiles" on land, sea and air, tears the evolutionary timetable to shreds, and indicates that some dinosaurs lived contemporaneously with men within historical times, although most dinosaurs perished in the Flood.
Iyov himself may have seen some these huge Flood survivors: "Behold now Beheimoh which I created with you...he eats grass like an ox...he moves his tail like a cedar...his bones are like bars of iron...he can drink up a river...he can draw up the Yarden into his mouth. The Leviyoson...his teeth are awesome...the scales of his flesh cannot be sundered...flames shoot from his mouth...he laughs at the arrow and spear...iron is like straw and brass like rotten wood before him....he makes the sea to boil...." (Iyov 40 and 41).
The Talmud's description of the Nochosh in Gan Eden ie. a tall, bipedal, upright walking, reptilian type creature is remarkably dinosaurian. Had it not been cursed, it and its descendants would have been valuable assistants to mankind: "Woe for the loss of that great servant!" (Sanhedrin 59). Rav Elie Munk ztz"l posited that the Bnei Anak were actually dinosaurian in nature cf.the webbed hands and numerous rows of teeth ascribed to these zamzummim (Chullin 60 and Midrash Avkir). Chazal relate of the tremendous skeletal size and part-angelic yichus of the Antediluvians. Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai humbled the Emperor Hadrian by showing him the 18 amos long corpses of the original Amorite inhabitants of Jerusalem. Even Moses, who himself was 10 amos tall (Brochos 54) was hard put in despatching the brothers Sichon and Og, who were the last and the least of the antediluvian giants!
"We were as grasshoppers in their sight!" (Bamidbar 13).
The phenomena of giant creatures, such as the 45 foot tall Barosaur, the 50 foot wingspan Pterosaur, the 100 foot long Diplodocus and the 100 ton Chronosaurus, let alone the the Tannin, Leviyoson, Re'em, Rochov, Beheimoh, Shor Habor, Ziz, Sorof M'ofef and Adnei Sadeh of the Tenach and Talmud, is explained by the very far reaching physiological effects of the higher speed of light that prevailed in the past eg. lower fluid viscosity, faster nerve impulses, higher lift-to-drag ratios, more efficient breathing, diffusion, growth, fecundity, blood flow and ion transfer. The fossil record shows that flora and fauna were much larger than today. There once existed mosses 3 feet tall, wheat with kernels the size of fists, dragonflies 4 feet long, 12" cockroaches, shellfish 5 feet across, 10 foot turtles, 50 foot crocodiles and 70 foot sharks!
In Messianic times, the wondrous original size of many of Hashem's creatures will be restored (Sifra, Bechukosai). Help!
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