So are you actually claiming that mythical creatures (animals which never actually existed) were never depicted alongside real ones in medieval art? Seriously?
Have you any formal study of art history?
Consult the peer-reviewed literature. Also, this is another Peaceful Forum topic you may find to be informative. (There is a search feature in the upper right of the PS webpages.) The Ta Prohm stegosaur is a great example of pareidolia. Indeed, until recent decades nobody saw “bony plates” in the temple engraving. They compared them to other engravings nearby and recognized them as large leaves over the animal. Meanwhile, paleontologists have noted that no stegosaurus had such plates in the arrangement depicted in the engraving. Yes, this popular YEC trope was discredited long ago and many of my YEC associates consider it an embarrassing argument for recent dinosaurs.
I have no objection to the descendants of dinosaurs living even today. We call them birds. We also see ancient Ginko trees surviving as modern day Ginko trees. And alligators have rightly been called “living fossils”. Some “living fossils” have been recognized for a long time now while others have probably yet to be discovered. (I doubt that the spectacular discovery of modern day coelacanth species will never be repeated for some other ancient taxa.)
Another logic fallacy. When your protasis is false, your apodosis is baseless. That’s how logic works.
False. If something exists in the fossil record, it existed in reality. (Yes, I intentionally included the ellipsis because reading the entire sentence in context did nothing to make your statement more logically valid.)
I used to preach and teach on “creation science” topics. So everything you are describing is well known to me because I used to diligently promote many of these same ideas. I had assumed that what I had been taught by people like John Whitcomb Jr. (whom I knew from my early career in Christian academia) was well evidenced. Indeed, it was my personal investigation of The Genesis Flood (1962, Henry Morris & John Whitcomb Jr.) footnotes which began my trek out of the young earth mindset.
Not at all. If you would like to start a thread based on any of those popular “101 Evidences for a Young Earth” lists from YEC websites, I would be happy to go through those most flagrant fallacies one by one.
I already provided two such popular examples. Both the history of Niagara Falls and the Mississippi delta sediments are entirely consistent with an old earth. So your rebuttal is glaringly invalid.
Newsflash: Coelacanthiformes are an entire taxonomic order of chordates. That is why they were “easily recognizable by scientists when they were caught!”
I assume that the trained biologists on this forum chuckled a bit when they read your “were they not?” challenge. A taxonomic order is not just a species or two! (Please look up Coelacanthiformes before commenting on them further. Learn the basics.)
No. It was because nobody had published any sighting of a modern day coelacanth it was entirely reasonable for scientists to assume that no coelacanth species had survived. What is your point?
This is the history of the progress of science. Hypotheses are regularly falsified as new data is compiled. If you are playing the popular trope that “Because scientists didn’t know something until a later discovery, science therefore can’t be trusted”, I’d refer you to some commonly assigned first year college science readings, such as Isaac Asimov’s “The Relativity of Wrong.”
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