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“Cattle” is a word that speaks of animals which can be tamed and domesticated for man's use. He is
including all animals that can be tamed and domesticated and used by man.

And then second category is creeping things. And, of course, immediately snakes and lizards and things
like that come to mind, but it probably stretches beyond that. Anything that creeps or crawls on the
ground, that would include a whole world of insects, and as one Hebrew writer says, "Animals with
short legs whose bellies are not far from the ground." This would include insects, rodents, as well as
snakes and amphibians, etc. Leviticus 11: 29 says, "These are to you the unclean among the swarming
things which swarm on the earth, the mole, the mouse, the great lizard, the gecko which is a kind of
lizard, the crocodile, the lizard, the sand reptile and the chameleon.”

And then the third category, the beasts of the earth, would be four-legged animals of some size which
are generally not tamed. We think immediately of lions and giraffe and elephants and rhinos and
hippos and tigers and animals like that that are not domesticated for any purposes of man, generally
speaking. In general, this would be the large reptiles and mammals that roam the earth in an untamed
or wild form.

Did Humans Live with Dinosaurs?

Evolutionary scientists say that sixty-five million years ago, a giant asteroid entered the earth’s
atmosphere and crashed into the surface, destroying the dinosaurs and the majority of species in
existence at that time. How do they know this actually happened, and is this mass extinction story
supported at all by the Bible? Did God create dinosaurs on day 6, then create man to live with them at
the same time? Is there any evidence that dinosaurs and man lived together at the same time?

According to Bible chronology, dinosaurs were created on day 6 and existed during the time of Noah’s
Flood because we find millions of dinosaur fossils today that were formed when conditions were right
during the global Flood. Just like thousands of other animals have gone extinct since the Flood, so
dinosaurs became extinct after the flood. It is obvious that the climatic conditions preceding the Flood
were very much different than those after the flood. Evidently, large reptiles could not survive the
changes in temperature and other environmental alterations post Flood.

Let’s look at some evidence that both man and dinosaurs existed at the same time. What do we find
in the fossil record?

• 95% of all fossils are shallow marine organisms, such as corals and shellfish.
• ~95% of the remaining 5% are algae and plants.
• ~95% of the remaining 0.25% are invertebrates, including insects.

The remaining 0.0125% are vertebrates, mostly fish. (95% of land vertebrates consist of less than one
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bone, and 95% of mammal fossils are from the Ice Age after the Flood.)

26 A. Snelling, Where are all the human fossils? Creation 14(1):28–33, December, 1991; J. Morris, The Young Earth,
Master Books, Green Forest, Arkansas, 2002, 71.
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