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What Happened To The Dinosaurs?
This morning, my daughter asked me what happened to the dinosaurs. "Why did they disappear?", she asked while I was fetching her to school. Her teachers had told her that the dinosaurs disappeared millions of years ago after changing to other animals. She is six years old.

The theory of evolution is increasingly being accepted as fact and taught to children as young as preschool. It is everywhere; in movies, in cartoons, at school, and even, in music classes. Children shows such as "Go, Diego, Go!" and "Dora the Explorer" teach evolution as a fact.

I thank God that I had been blessed with the opportunity to study about apologetics, and that I had previously taught my daughter about Creation and how God made everything in six days. I reminded
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Unlike operational science, which gives us computers, electronics, medicine, and other technology to improve our lives, historical science is not reproducible nor observable. Nobody can recreate the Big Bang or the Six-Day Creation. No one has seen the evolution of ape to man, nor has anyone seen God creating Adam and …show more content…
Scientists observed that a mudflow created by the melted snow pack in the crater cut through hard basalt bedrock resulting in the Loowit Canyon more than 100 feet deep. Also, an avalanche cut through lava and ash layers, previously deposited by the first explosion, to form the Step Canyon about 600 feet deep. This modern-day catastrophic event demonstrated that a sudden release of water can cut canyons out of hard rock rapidly.

Nobody can know for sure what happened in the past unless an eyewitness was present to tell us about it. And even with an eyewitness, sometimes the truth can be distorted if the eyewitness decides to lie or if he forgets what happened. But, Christians know that we have an eyewitness that was there since the beginning. This eyewitness cannot lie (Titus 1:2), nor does he forget (Number 23:19). This eyewitness is God and His account is the

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