Our Sweet Lord was practicing creature design in hot lava (I kid you not!)
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Dragons, giants, monsters, that sort of thing. They weren't entirely wrong.
I mean, other than breathing fire, the difference between a particularly large pterosaur and a dragon mostly down to the shape of the head.
Dragons
I remember its been theorized (or proven) that the myth of Cyclops comes from a person finding a mammoth skull. So, probably informed lots of mythologies.
elephant skull!
Same shit nerd
Edit for a /s I'm just being silly
Specific theologies believe dinosaur bones were planted in the earth by satan to affront God.
Never met anyone in the flesh who actually believed this
My dad did.
It was the most infuriating shit ever, even when I asked him why would God allow Satan to create something so perfect as to deceive billions of people with evidence baked into the deception that cannot be contravened by any method known to man, his response was it's just to test your faith.
To which I countered, if God sent me to hell for believing that dinosaurs existed, then he's not a good God. And to which my dad replied, that's blasphemy.
And don't get me wrong, I am a Christian. I believe in Jesus, I believe in God. I actually believe in all of the major religions, but I lean towards Christianity personally, but there has to be some rationality, some understanding that human beings can rely on because God gave us the brains to think rationally and to consider what's directly in front of us for what it is.
If you have to willfully be stupid and believe lies in order to go to heaven, then why would God make smart people that want to see the truth?
I was at a small festival one time with my very rural-living family. There were people there passing out pamphlets that claimed dinosaurs were still alive in Jesus' time and that they existed alongside humans.
I nope'd away from them as fast as I could. Now I wish I'd stayed to listen and share the stupidity.
This satan guy sounds like a hoot. I want to see more of that.
[off topic]
Fun historical novel set just after the death of Alexander the Great.
The gryphon's Skull by Harry Turtledove.
Two peace loving traders just want to travel the Med and make a little money, but things keep happening. And BTW, they've found a gryphon's skull.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-gryphon-s-skull-harry-turtledove/e21a50075c822e97
I was under the impression the some Christians thought they were proof that giants existed, a la David and Goliath.
I would assume it's along the lines of "hey I found something....."
Followed by "WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT???"
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There's an eccentric hypothesis I thought of: maybe people used the fossils alongside the surrounding stones for buildings, without ever noticing the fossil. This makes me wonder how many ancient constructions, from simple huts all the way to entire castles and fortresses, contain fossils as stones.
And this doesn't even seem to be limited to fossils: if we jump to Neolithic onwards, then fast-forward all the way to contemporaneity, some of the artifacts from back then (e.g. figurines such as Venus figurines, clay tablets, vases, papyri, petroglyphs, etc) likely ended up as part of buildings. Maybe those artifacts ended up unwillingly torn apart and ground by heavy machinery (e.g. backhoes, other earthmoving machinery, mining machinery and drilling machinery for petroleum wells, although these often involves prospecting, etc).
The artifact doesn't even need to be that old: I once saw a news story about someone who used a "hammer" for decades before discovering it was actually a WWII grenade.