A slab of marble in the Cathedral of St. Ambrose in Vigevano, Italy, appears to contain a cross-section of the skull of a dinosaur:
“The rock contains what appears to be a horizontal section of a dinosaur’s skull. The image looks like a CT scan, and clearly shows the cranium, the nasal cavities, and numerous teeth,” Andrea Tintori, the University of Milan paleontologist who spotted the fossil near the altar, told Discovery News.
Measuring about 30 cm (11.8 inches), the skull was cut in sections as slabs of the marble-like rock were used to build the Cathedral between 1532 and 1660.
Link via Geekosystem | Photo: Andrea Tintori, University of Milan
As for the bible and dinosaurs, there are a couple of other mentions (That could just as easily describe some other modern day animals), but if dinosaurs and man co-existed and if the bible is a complete history of man on this planet up until about a couple of thousand years ago then the book should be filled with dinosaur references. However, it is not. Dinosaurs would have made a very huge impact on the lives of humans. The predators, the ones we would have hunted, the scavengers, the ones that would have been domesticated, the use of dino droppings as fertilizer, the use of dinosaur parts in various rituals, the stealing of eggs, the raising of dinosaurs, and tons of other things that would have happened if dinos and humans coexisted are not described in the bible. The bible spends a lot of time describing a lot of other mundane things. However, it does not describe any real human/dinosaur interaction. There is no way around it, the bible does not describe a world at any point where humans and dinosaurs coexisted.
But using that logic, the Bible doesn't describe a world where kangaroos and humans existed at the same time. Therefore, kangaroos did not exist in Biblical times.
Do they actually find dinosaurs regularly in marble? It seems s little far-fetched.
I doubt many of the people featured in the Bible, or its writers, ever went to Australia to see these kangaroos.
@corpse
That's kind of my point. The Bible is not meant to be a zoological compendium. Simply because an animal is not mentioned in the Bible, doesn't mean it can't have existed during Biblical times. We require stronger proof than that to disprove someone with the "dinosaurs were mentioned in Job" delusion.
good use of ur +1 sword of internetting, sir.