Young-Earth Creationist models often interpret dragon legends as representing late-surviving dinosaurs, with literature, art, and modern sightings testifying to this idea. While various responses to these clams exist in a number of places, no single source has attempted to catalog them. Additionally, these claims usually involve a wide number of fields – paleontology, geology, biology, zoology, phylogeny, anthropology, cryptozoology, anomalistics, genetics, history, etc. So, we decided to starat working on the concept of a concise, unified “field” that looks specifically at these claims under the name Paleodragonology (paleo- since it involves dinosaurs, and –dragonology to denote the interpretation of dragons as late-surviving dinosaurs).
We hope that it can serve as a convenient resource for anyone looking for information on Young-Earth models of human/dinosaur coexistence, and at the time of writing (Summer 2024) we hope to have version one of Paleodragonology live sometime in early 2025. The project is divided into eleven primary sections – seven deal with claims categorized into the historical period in which they are from or took place, while the other three deal with (1.) general claims that can’t be placed in one time or another or are philosophical, (2.) claims that dinosaurs are documented in the Bible, and (3.) examples of YEC claims of late surviving animals that aren’t dinosaurs.
General Notes – Provides an introduction to the young-Earth interpretations of dragon mythology as documentation of late-surviving dinosaurs.
Biblical History – Does the Bible describe dinosaurs living with human beings?
Ancient History – Ancient Near East, Ancient Egypt, Ancient China, etc. (5000 BCE – 800 BCE)
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE – 500 CE)
Early Middle Ages (500 CE – 1000 CE)
High Middle Ages (1000 CE – 1300 CE)
Late Middle Ages (1300 CE – 1500 CE)
Early Modern Period (1500 CE – 1800 CE)
Modernity (1800 CE – 1945 CE)
Contemporary History (1945 CE – Present)
Non-Dinosaur Examples – While Paleodragonology‘s primary focus is late-surviving dinosaurs, YEC models often incorporate other allegedly late surviving organisms in order to discredit evolution, from Elsasmotherium in the Near East to Australopithecines in the modern day.
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