Amphiceolias – Lee Duigon

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Ah, science! You’d think they’d be able to keep track of a 200-foot-long dinosaur… but dream on.

Lost! 200-foot-long Dinosaur

I don’t mean to suggest that all science is bunk. Indeed, our civilization couldn’t exist without it. But like every other human endeavor, without exception, Science (with a capital S!) has its share of booshwa, fakery, and profit-seeking.

Now we can’t even be sure that Amphicoelias even existed, the bones having gone missing. How do you lose a nine-foot-long chunk of vertebrae? I mean, it’s not like losing your old bowling shoes, is it?

We celebrate the work of God’s hands, ridiculously stupendous dinosaurs and all; but the work of our hands–well, be careful of what you believe.

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Awesome and mighty are the works of your hands, O Lord!

See that tiny red dot under the dinosaur? It’s an adult human being. By comparison, the dinosaur, Amphiceolias, would have been like a walking apartment building.

So many new discoveries are being made in dinosaur paleontology these days, I can hardly keep up with them–and I do try. Now that scientists are looking in places where they haven’t looked before, in South America and Asia, they’re always finding new ones. And one of the themes of those discoveries is “bigger and bigger and bigger!”

These animals, as living things, are virtually unimaginable. There’s just nothing like them anymore. What would it be like, to see one? The earth must have shaken when they walked. And how much did they have to eat, to support such bulk? When I was a boy, the Brontosaurus was acclaimed the biggest dinosaur. But these new ones would have made one of those look like a baby.

Just contemplating these animals ought to make us feel humble. There may even have been creatures that were bigger, much bigger, than these that take our breath away. Was there, after all, no limit to how big they could grow? What must their world have been like?

Awesome and mighty are His works.