DINOSAURS ON THE ARK?

Dinosaur eggs, such as those unearthed in the Gobi Desert in the 1920s, grew no larger than six inches to one foot in length. Here, then, we have an answer to the puzzle of how dinosaurs could fit on the Ark. First of all, most of them were small; and secondly, all were born small. Some of them before the Flood were able to reach huge proportions because of the congenial climate, but all of them were born small.

Of course the Ark was also a very big boat. Genesis chapter 6 gives the dimensions of the Ark, and these dimensions are equal to the capacity of a 500-car train. Since the Ark was so large, even some larger dinosaurs were no doubt quite comfortable on the Ark.

The Biblical record states in Genesis chapter 7 that God brought at least two of every land-dwelling creature onto the Ark, so we know that dinosaurs were on the Ark. The Flood came and the dinosaurs that were on the Ark survived, but the world itself was changed by the Flood. It was not the congenial place it had been before the Flood, and it was not able to support life as well. Even after sin first came into the creation the world was possibly not affected very much, but with the Flood the old order passed away.

Before the Flood there were no storms, but after the Flood storms became a fact of life. The Flood itself was so destructive that all land-dwellers were destroyed as the Bible states in Genesis 7:8-9, but all the animals on the Ark survived, because God watched over them (Genesis 8:1). What a contrast with the gentle pre-Flood world, a world with no storms and with a gentle watering cycle as Genesis chapter 2 describes.

These detrimental changes away from a friendly climate with an equitable and gentle water supply and plenty of food for all, toward today's world with harsher climate and scarcities of food, made life harder for all creatures, but especially the big dinosaurs. The dinosaurs on the Ark survived the Flood, but after the Flood they began to die off, an indirect result of man's sin against God in the garden of Eden.