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Even if Marco Polo really did see living "dinosaurs" in China that would only create more problems for Creationists than it would solve.

First: dinosaurs are the least of it. Did historic people see also see living trilobites, and Mastidons, as well as seeing dinosaurs? There are successions upon successions of entire extinct floras and faunas in the fossil record that according to you are all still around. Well...where are all of these ecosystems and their casts of extinct creatures?

And if dinosaurs still live among us... or did live among us and only died out sometime shortly after Marco Polo's time then you have to explain why dinosaurs are so smart AFTER they die.

How do dead dinosaurs know which strata in the ground to go to after they die? They not only know not to mix their bones with human bones (or the bones of any other creatures from the Tertariary Epoch), but they even know not to mix their remains with the remains of the wrong other dinosaurs ( creatatous dinos dont mix with either triassic nor with jursasic dinos).

How do the dead dinos manage all of that?

So-called eyewitness testimony in Marco Polo's book is hearsay at best, creative storytelling more likely. Even it it were eyewitness testimony, contrary to what many Christians seem to think that is the LEAST reliable type of evidence. Ask twenty people what they saw and they usually give twenty different accounts that not infrequently contradict each other.

The evidence for evolution was so overwhelming even in Darwin's time that people all over the world slapped their hands to their forehead and said "Duh! Of course! It's so obvious!" Since then we have learned much more about the mechanisms of how evolution happens. We have tons of fossils that show a clear progression and development of features through space and time that evolution explains nicely but creationism does not. Also, even if there were no fossils at all, there is way more than sufficient evidence of other types (such as nested patterns of data in different species' DNA) where evolution can be reasonably called an observed FACT of nature. Evolution is no more or no less "just a theory" than gravity is "just a theory."

Just in the past twenty years we have found so much more evidence of evolution that I cannot take anyone seriously who claims there is no such evidence or that their opinion explains it equally well or better. We've found fossil hominids with several skeletal features perfectly intermediate between modern humans and other modern apes. We've found fish with legs just like the "Darwin fish" that mocks the Christian fish logo, exactly when and where such fossils should be found if evolution were true and radioactive dating worked. We've found whales with legs! The most recent Gallup poll shows that nearly half of adult Americans have young earth creationist viewpoints. This is insane. It is just as ridiculous and just as wrong as if half of our population were to insist the earth is really flat. It is that stupid.

Actually, as I said in an earlier post but it bears repeating: I personally think it more shameful now to deny the fact of evolution than it would have been to believe in a flat earth if you lived a few hundred years ago. With the amount of information available and technology available to share it instantaneously around the world, there really is no excuse for such ignorance. I fear for the future of our country, our species and our planet because of the large numbers of such unbelievably ignorant people.

Marco might have seen Komodo Dragons, so called. They are a kind of lizard.

ruveyn

Indeed! People now have the entire summation of mankind's knowledge at their fingertips, there is no excuse.

Scientists can recognize a primary source from a story, written by a brother's aunt's uncle's second twice removed cousin. Religious people aren't smart enough to do that.

Why the bible is considered a primary source is beyond me.

cuz they gots lots of brains!

sarc off