Dinosaur Classification

Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.

(Mark 10:15) KJV

Whether or not a Biblical word translated as a kind of serpent refers to something which may have been a dinosaur is context dependent. Sometimes a snake is just a snake. Sometimes a serpent is a Sauropod.

Creation was sperogenetic, which is to say that the abiogenesis of kinds of animals and plants took place in the firmasphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere. The systematic manner in which God created is still obvious but the details of it have been obscured by the process of devolution: genetic decay over time which explains how the animals saved on Noah’s ark gave rise to the current distribution of biodiversity.

The classification of dinosaurs is traceable to their spherogenetic creation because of Noah’s flood. Whereas other groups have diverged and changed since the flood to be almost unrecognizable as their original kind, the dinosaurs were wiped out at a stage of development which was substantially similar to their created kind.

As a result, it’s clearly obvious why dinosaurs are divided into two main groups based on hip structure: one group has an atmospheric progenitor, the other has a hydrospheric progenitor.

Dinosaur classification began in 1842 when Sir Richard Owen placed Iguanodon, Megalosaurus, and Hylaeosaurus in “a distinct tribe or suborder of Saurian Reptiles, for which I would propose the name of Dinosauria.” In 1887 and 1888 Harry Seeley divided dinosaurs into the two orders Saurischia and Ornithischia, based on their hip structure. These divisions have proved remarkably enduring, even through several seismic changes in the taxonomy of dinosaurs.

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How can we be so sure that Biblical references to serpents include dragons and dinosaurs? Dinosaurs are reptiles, dragons are also reptiles, reptiles are serpents. It’s entirely possible that the Biblical word dragon refers to a dinosaur.

Hebrew Words for Serpent

English	Hebrew	Transliteration	Meaning
Adder	שְׁפִיפֹ֖ן	shephiphon	horned viper
Adder	פֶ֥תֶן	pethen (python)	translated (a venomous serpent) perhaps cobra but phonetically the word sounds like python.*
Adder	עַכְשׁ֑וּב	akshub	asp, viper
Adder	וּֽכְצִפְעֹנִ֥י	tsepha‘	adder
Asp	פְּתָנִ֖ים	pethen (python)	(a venomous serpent) perhaps cobra but phonetically the word sounds like python.*
Cockatrice	צֶ֔פַע	tsepha‘	adder (identification dubious; (‘possibly’) daboia xanthina, a venomous viper, but vipers do not lay eggs; Furrer proposes ailurophis vivex.)
Dragon	תַּנִּינִ֖ם	tannin	serpent, dragon, sea monster
Serpent	וְשָׂרָ֣ף	saraph	serpent (a flying serpent, or dragon)
Serpent	נָחָשׁ֙	nachash	a serpent
Serpent	כְּנָחָ֣שׁ	nachash	a serpent
Viper	אֶפְעֶֽה	epheh	(a kind of) viper (snake)

A Den of Dragons – Navigation

Section	Title	Scripture
1	Introduction	Jeremiah 9:11
2	Dinosaur Classification	Mark 10:15
3	Dinosaurs in Idumea	Isaiah 34:6, 13
4	Dinosaurs in Jerusalem	Jeremiah 10:22
5	Dinosaurs in Hazor	Jeremiah 49:33
6	Dinosaurs in Babylon	Jeremiah 51:37
	Salvation	Romans 10:9-10

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