Originally posted by sugarcookie1
Since the fossils of dinosaurs were not found until the 1800s, this 800 year old carving seems to imply that the Stegosaurus still lived around that
time. If true, this would totally contradict the theory of evolution which states that the dinosaurs went extinct 60 million years ago. Creationists
believe man and dinosaur were both created in the first week of creation and co existed for some time, perhaps up to more recently than imagined . So
it would easily be possible that people could have seen a live Stegosaurus and made this image as a result.
Since the evolutionists could never accept this, they have put forth alternative theories about this carving - That it is a hedgehog or water buffalo
in front of a bush, or is a chameleon, or that the ridges were added later on, or that the whole carving is recent, or that the King in 1191 A.D. had
dinosaur fossils. These theories are possible but have good arguments against them.
However it is true that the head of this creature is larger and with horns unlike the known Stegosaurus.
Ehhhhhh no, it won't contradict evolution, evolution is about how life changes in time, is not about how and why dinosaurs went extinct, that was a
meteorite fault, a celestial body, astronomy, you know, a field that don't have a relationship with biology that is another different field.
Even if we found a dinosaur alive today it wont contradict anything about evolution, nothing at all, the only thing books would need to change is
something like "most dinosaur went extinct 60 millions years ago but some species remain alive until today", that's all, a foot note.