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"Cattle" is a word that speaks of animals that can be tamed and domesticated for man's use. He
includes all animals that man can tame, domesticate, and use.

And then, the second category is creeping things. And, of course, snakes and lizards immediately
come to mind, but it probably stretches beyond that. Anything that creeps or crawls on the ground
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, snakes, 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 that
are generally not tamed. We think immediately of lions, giraffes, elephants, rhinos, hippos, tigers, and
animals like that that are not domesticated for any purposes of man. These would generally 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 happened, and is this mass extinction story supported
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 six 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, dinosaurs became extinct after the Flood. Obviously, the climatic conditions preceding the
Flood were very different from 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 simultaneously. 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 bone, and 95% of mammal fossils
are from the Ice Age after the Flood.) xxvi

To the left is a picture of a dinosaur footprint found in Glen Rose,
Texas, which was stepped on by a human footprint shortly thereafter.
If they did not exist at the same time, how could the footprints be
found together?

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