Talk:Dinosaur/@comment-26275013-20150606144312/@comment-26279493-20150607041453

OK, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and follow your logic for a bit.

If you're basing this argument on biblical sources, your second assumption, (humans weren't intelligent enough to know what dinosaurs were), is in contradiction to your source. Biblical humans were at least as intelligent as modern humans, and had the benefit of far greater experience because of the extremely long lives the bible tells us early humans lived.

If you're not basing your argument on biblical source, your second assumption is still false. Modern humans have been around for a long time, their lack of sophistication and technology is not evidence of lack of intelligence. We have plenty of records of the advance of sophistication and technology in the historic records. We even have records which may predate written records in the form of mythology.

It's entirely possible that early humans did encounter dinosaurs, at least the fossilized remains of dinosaurs. Lacking direct experience with living dinosaurs, early man may well have interpreted mamoth skulls as the skulls of giant one-eyed people, or fossilized dinosaur skulls as evidence of dragons. So, it may be that our mythology is further evidence that humans and dinosaurs were far seperated in time. Were they contemporary, the creatures of myth would be described as the evidence now shows them to have been.

So, no, the lack of human record, or prehistoric art of dinosaurs is not explained by the lack of intelligence of early humans. I'm not aware of evidence that early humans lacked modern human's intelligence, whether scientific or biblical.

The creation myth, or myths, in the Bible are wonderful stories even if they're not very sophisticated. Even if they aren't litterally true, they're still wonderful stories, and there are lessons there if you're wise enough to find them.