Hi Linda and everyone (good morning from my side of the world) <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Linda, just wanted to respond to you over Australopithecus. Because this was/is very ape-like, evolutionists no longer consider it to be a transitional form.

Australopithecus afarensis "Lucy" have had detailed studies done of the inner ear, skull/bones etc and show that "Lucy" and those like "her" are not part human transitions. They may have walked differently to most apes, but not in the human manner. Very similar to the pygmy chimpanzee or bonobo.

If people really wish to believe that we came from apes based on little to no evidence, they are free to this belief, but to refer to it as a scientific fact and not up for question is actually giving science a bad name. So until they have solid proof of an undeniable missing link between men and apes, it remains just that "missing" and possibly non existant.

I dont agree that the idea of dinosaurs and people roaming the earth at the sametime is necessarily fanciful, as you do not believe the idea that we come from apes is.....there have been many many reports even to this day and age of sightings of dinosaurs,.

Some key passages in the bible describe them long before the name dinosaur even came into existance in 1840 by a guy called Sir Robert Owen.

One of the oldest british books in history "The anglo saxon chronicles" records encounters people had with dragons throughout the ages "Dont forget the name Dinosaur had not yet been invented". This goes for the rock drawings also, plus they have discovered ancient vases with dinosaur and man crafted into it together interacting (sometimes being killed). These drawings/carvings are literally identical representations of the dinosaurs we see on full display in our day and age.

I doubt that is all coincidental and I doubt very much all the dragon legends in cultures around the world are all based on fantasy. Certainly it seems clear that our ancient ancestors knew of these beasts long before us. No fossils were necessary for them, they drew them as they were.