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Dinosaurs of Eden: Tracing the Mystery Through History

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Finally a book about dinosaurs that doesn't rely on mubo-jumbo like: macrofossils, microfossils, trace-fossils, geochemical observations, cladistics, DNA and protein synthesizing, isotopic dating, peer reviewed journals, biostratigraphy, geochemistry, hydrogeology, paleobathymetry, paleobiogeography, paleoceanography, paleoecology, scanning electron microscopes, taxonomy, and the so called "Scientific Method."

Just the cold, hard, indisputable facts of The Bible. Which is THE WRITTEN WORD OF GOD!. The wonderful thing is that you know its 100% true because there is only one possible way of interpreting The Bible!

"Scientists" will have a hard time talking their way out of this one!

This book is very interesting when it comes to tell your children about God, creation and fall. The Dinosaurs just became extinct, just like many other species, but that has nothing to do with particles to people evolution. My little daughter just loved it. I hope she will become a zealous creationist. Many people think that evolutionism is perfectly compatible with Bible teachings. The fact is that there are very good theological and scientific reasons that prove, beyond reasonable doubt, that evolution never happened and the whole concept in itself is incompatible with Bible teachings on topics such as creation, fall, curse, flood, Babel, dispersion, the emergence of civilitations, the alliance with Israel, the promise of a saviour, the life, death and ressurrection of Jesus Christ, redemption and restoration.

I cannot believe that there are people in the world who buy these ideas. This book tries to "explain" how dinosaurs came to be, in relation to the ULTIMATE HISTORY BOOK OF THE UNIVERSE (the Bible) [Their words, not mine]. The author gives very simplistic and shallow reasoning for dinosaurs, their teeth (because he reasons that the animals were vegetarians before the rise of sin), fossils, extinction, and so forth. He states that it is 100% proof-positive that humans lived at the same time as dinosaurs, and the world is only 6,000 years old. He mentions this even when discussing dinosaur fossils (but gives no explaination of scientifically accurate things like carbon-dating). On the subject of science, the book even states that all scientists have been brainwashed. I am a non-religious evolutionist, but I totally respect other people's rights to believe whatever they want -- I just find this particular book to be insulting (especially the "all scientists are brainwashed" part) and completely laughable. Please don't subject anyone to this book.

An excellent comprehensive look at the Dinosaurs in the Garden of Eden. If reading alone, I recommend age 8 and up. But, if you intend to read it to your child, you can start as early as age 3 and simplify the information to customize to your childs age. An absolute MUST HAVE for a christian parent of a child who loves dinosaurs!

This is an excellent book for those parents that want their children to understand the reality of the world we live in. The science behind this book is unrefutable in every way. So much so that people are only resolved to emotional argument.

Ken is a wise author and scientist that does a great job presenting the truth to young minds. Far too long we've had evolutionistic thinking shoved down our throats. This book turns the tide.

Buy two and give one to a friend!

I'm reading this book to my child and amazed at how, in the past, I swallowed hook/line/sinker all the ideas that were handed to me on a platter by my teachers and the media. Reading this book has made me open my Bible more and try to find out for myself just how and where these dinosaurs fit in. And right there in Genesis it says on the 6th day God created animals AND man. There are too many other references to dinosaurs in the Bible to mention right here, and I encourage you to investigate for yourself (look up dragons in the Bible, very interesting) but needless to say, it has changed my view.

Why is it easier for us to accept a theory than a fact? (Even Darwin himself didn't fully believe in his theories near the end of his life, a theory being, well, a THEORY, after all). Why not look to the best history book of all, the Bible, for any question we have about history? And please don't bash scientists. In fact, everything scientists have found supports events that happened in the Bible. (I know, you're thinking "What about fossilization?!?" Everybody has a different opinion on that! But when they found a dinosaur bone with red blood cells STILL IN IT, even the secular scientists admitted the bone couldn't be billions of years old. But THAT didn't get on the news, did it? No, because we would have to change all the school text books and secular scientists would have to admit they were wrong about something.)

The the Bible says "the Word of God will offend..." and apparently it does, especially on the issue of creation.

What an excellent book for anyone who wants to teach their children about a Biblical view of dinosaurs. This book discusses their origin, what interaction they might have had with humans, their existence on the Ark, and likely causes for extinction. This book touches on most topics lightly, but with enough detail to understand why they can make bold statements that fly in the fact of evolutionary views. Every Christian should read this to see why the Bible should be trusted above man (and then do some further research beyond this book).

The art on each page is lovely and vivid, truly a joy to browse through and learn the names of various dinos.

My son received this book as a gift. It has to be the most ridiculous thing I've ever had the displeasure of reading. My seven year old is obsessed with dinosaurs, the science of dinosaurs, he often talks about wanting to be a paleontologist. We have many, many books on the subject and even the most poorly put together one comes out head and shoulders above Dinosaurs of Eden. The only thing this book will do is confuse him with worthless "facts" made up by a fanatical creationist. If it's fun filled facts you are looking for look further....if perhaps you are looking for drabble to plug the holes that your child has found in your belief system then this is the book for you.

"Dinosaurs of Eden" along with "D is for Dinosaur" (reviewed separately) are both attempts to popularize and promote a fundamentalist Christian worldview based on a literal misreading of the Bible. The book depicts a rather "Dinotopia" like place and time where humans and dinosaurs live together in harmony, survive a global flood courtesy of an ark, and then encounter a changed post-flood environment which causes the dinosaurs to go extinct.

Nice story, now what genre do we file it under? The author would suggest religion and history, but the statements made in this book only qualify for tragedy, fantasy, farce, or comedy.

The earliest dinosaurs enter the fossil record about 225 million years ago in the early Triassic. They finally died out at the end of the Cretaceous approximately 65 MYA. These are scientific facts that can be tested and verified by any competent geologist, paleontologist, or interested layperson.

Hominid fossils make a late entrance into the history of life on earth between 7 and 6.5 million years ago. Anatomically modern humans appear 100,000 years ago and behaviorally modern humans follow at 50,000 years ago. Multiple lines of evidence ranging from molecular and evolutionary biology to paleontology, geology, anthropology, and archaeology are available to support these scientific facts. The accuracy of these claims can also be objectively verified.

Every credible scientist and researcher concludes that some 220 million years separate the origin of dinosaurs and humans (birds happily excepted).

This book claims that dinosaurs and man were created about 6,500 years ago. No facts are presented to support this assertion. None, nada, zero, zilch. Astonishingly the author states that none are needed - and that science, as we know it, is a vast conspiracy and a lie, sustained by evil "secular humanists" who worship "Darwinism."

To back up these assertions the author claims to possess an eyewitness account of creation itself that is perfect and inerrant in every detail - a book known as the Bible, specifically the Book of Genesis - twisted, perverted, and rewritten by Ken Ham.

In this alternate reality dinosaurs are beasts of burden, seemingly domesticated; complete with saddles, harnesses, and wagons. They are all vegetarians, at least until a snake with legs comes along and ruins everything by charming Eve into eating some fruit. Triceratops would be right at home in a petting zoo, and Tyrannosaurs and Velociraptors frolic with children in a veritable Garden of Eden!

Even P.T. Barnum would blush selling this bill of goods. Charles Ponzi as well. Kenneth Alfred Ham glories in it. Ken's elastic and contrived fundamentalist "newspeak" cunningly substitutes lies for facts and cynically encourages readers to exchange reason for blind dogmatic faith. Just check your brains at the door brother and sister and drink the Kool-Aid. Its cold and sweet.

Is Genesis a science textbook or an allegorical myth? On this point the facts are in and the answer is unequivocal. Genesis is myth. And so is this book. Reality-based dinosaur books for children include Extreme Dinosaurs by Luis Rey or How to Keep Dinosaurs by Robert Mash.

This book is awesome!!! Makes total sense if you believe in the Bible!!