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approaching 36 feet in length. That is the equivalent of six 6' tall men lined up end to end. It is also
more than three times the length of the largest wingspan of any bird alive today. The Wandering
Albatross is the current record holder and can have wings as long as 11 feet 6 inches.

Quetzalcoatlus Size Comparison

Fossil records from all across the world indicate that there existed a tremendous variety of great
creatures in large numbers. New species are being discovered all the time, and the vast majority of
fossils likely reside in places that man cannot readily access, such as buried beneath the sea floor.

Back in the 1990s I was teaching a Sunday School class of youth. I brought with me a variety of
small plastic models of dinosaurs and set them on display in front of the students. I asked them
where in Bible history they would place the dinosaurs. Other than speculation that the behemoth and
leviathan that God described in the book of Job were some form of dinosaur, there is no Biblical
mention of any such creatures existing on this present earth. If such animals had existed concurrently
with mankind, they would have posed a very great threat. Yet there is no Scriptural account of man
having to contend with these great creatures. The Old Testament describes David slaying a lion and
a bear. The lion is frequently mentioned as among the fiercest and most deadly adversaries of man.
There is no mention of mankind having to contend with creatures as great as Pterodactyls,
Tyrannosaurs, Triceratops, and the various massive Sauropods.

An additional issue that I raised with the students in my class was that both creation scientists and
evolutionary scientists agree that there is strong evidence that the earth was once largely covered in
ice. It is estimated that much of the earth’s surface was covered in ice a mile thick. Huge glaciers
moved across the earth’s surface, scouring out valleys, moving huge stones hundreds of miles, and
leaving deep deposits of fertile soil in places like America’s Northern Midwestern states.

A few years ago I had the opportunity to visit Yosemite National Park in California. While there I
saw evidence of the massive glaciers that carved out Yosemite Valley from solid rock. I took the
following photograph as I stood atop “Glacier Point.” The name of this location points to the
evidence one can see below. Across the valley wall, one can observe the telltale signs of huge
glaciers that scarred the rock face as they moved through the valley. You can see where the glaciers
gouged the rock face in the photograph I took below.