Disclaimer
I do not agree with any evolutionary beliefs expressed in some of the links given below, However, I do recognize and respect the freedom and right of all to express their beliefs. I want to point out though that evolution is a religion because it is an entirely man-made concept.  There was no direct communication or inspiration from Yahuweh to influence man to compose the theory of evolution. Men made-up the theory of evolution as they went along based upon their imaginations [often vain] and their interpretations [often faulty] of what they discovered. Many times they went so far as to lie and invent things to bridge gaps in their theories so as to not appear ignorant and lose their research grant money and book deals.  For one to believe in evolution, one must invest a great deal of faith because much of evolution cannot be proven.

The sum is quite uncomplicated:

human faith   
+  man-made ideas
________________
mere religion

  Spirit inspiration
 + Spirit instilled faith
___________________
    Spiritual Truths.

Thus, based on the fact that the evolution theory is man-made and requires humanly acquired faith in order to believe it, qualifies it as a religion. 

As an aside, many modern discoveries are actually demolishing the evolution theory.

Articles

Dinosaurs In The Bible
Roy Thompson

Note: I'm  certain that Roy Thompson is incorrect in writing that Behemoth and Leviathan were one and the same creature.  They weren't.  The Scriptures clearly teach that one was a gargantuan land animal, while the other was an enormous sea creature.

Leviathan

Links Pertinent To This Page

The Christian Geology Ministry

The Omniological Society

Answers In Genesis Ministries

Co-existence of Men and dinos!

Jesus, Dinosaurs and More

Here is a link to a mega site of not only antediluvian information, but a lot of Christian material as well. 

There are,  some  who call the first world-wide flood of Gen. 1:2, "Lucifer's Flood." This is simply an old error that resulted from a warped concept of other parts of Scripture. See the articles posted on this page. It would be most appropriate to call it simply, The First Flood.

Another thing I'd like to mention, is the probability that no deserts existed prior to the flood of Noah. The earth evidently was a very lush place over it's entire surface, with numerous fens (swamps).  Proof of this is found in the vast oil fields found under deserts and in the polar regions.  Many  trees and other verdant plants grew in the deep soft mud and water of those fens, like the cypress found in today's swamps. These trees must have been a favorite source of food for dinosaurs like Apatosaurus, but the mud was too deep and soft to support its great weight.  Therefore, Yahuweh Elohim created this creature with a long neck to reach its food from the safety of solid ground, and a long, heavy, very muscular tail, with which to counterbalance the weight of that neck, and with which to defend itself.

  

 

 

Kronosaurus (Leviathan?)

I would love to get to see these truly magnificent, former creations of Yahweh Elohim, alive, well, and roaming freely eating grass, without preying upon any other living animal. What a sight that would be!

Many creatures, including several species of the dinosaurs, became carnivorous as part of the consequences that Adam's sin brought into the world. There were no predators prior to the earth being cursed.  Yes, I know that a grass eating Tyrannosaurus Rex sounds ridiculous to the natural mind, but look at Isa. 65:25.  If it is possible for a lion to eat straw; it is possible for any animal, known today as a predator.

Remember these verses:

"For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.  But be ye glad and rejoice for the duration of that which I create: for, behold, I create Yerushalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.  And I will rejoice in Yerushalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.  There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days:..." 
 

Why? The curse upon the land, the animals, and man, shall be lifted, and be no more, as the next verse states:

"And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of Yahweh and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him:" (Re 22:3)
 

Therefore:

"...the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed. And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.  They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands. They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of Yahuweh, and their offspring with them.   And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.  The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith Yahuweh."
(Isa 65:17-25)

The Gap "Theory" Is Supported By The Scriptures

It has not escaped my attention that some of the links above refute the existence of the time gap that is present between Ge 1:1 and 1:2.

Many make a big error in not believing it, because, Yahuweh does not first create chaos, and then later, sort it out and make something good of it.

Stop and think about that for a moment.

Look at this:

"In the beginning the Elohim created the heaven and the earth.  And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of the Elohim moved upon the face of the waters." (Ge 1:1-2)

 "For thus saith Yahuweh that created the heavens; Elohim himself formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am Yahuweh; and there is none else." (Isa 45:18)

Study carefully, the two verses from Genesis, and the single verse from Isaiah. Look at the Isaiah verse; it says, (and I use the original Hebrew words when referring to the Creator)

"Elohim himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited:"

Elohim does not need to make raw materials, and then make the earth from those raw materials.

The imaginary, chaotic forces of what unbelievers call "evolution" are not what caused all to come into being either.  Elohim created the heaven and the earth from nothing, and as Isaiah says, "He created it not in vain." The Hebrew word for vain in Genesis and Isaiah, is Tohuw.

[Heb. 8414] tohuw (to'-hoo)
from an unused root meaning to lie waste; a desolation (of surface), i.e. desert; figuratively, a worthless thing; adverbially, in vain:--confusion, empty place, without form, nothing, (thing of) nought, vain, vanity, waste, wilderness.

So, by this, we can see that Elohim did not first create a state of chaos, and then form all things out of it.  Order was first, and afterward came chaos.  

Order was disrupted upon the creation of Satan. He was a murderer and a destroyer from the beginning. He did not fall from holiness, he was created exactly as he is.

The first world was destroyed by water as indicated by the flood in Gen 1:2.  We don't know what if any terrestrial creatures  may have existed before then.  The dinosaurs though were part of the life created on the earth between  the first flood and the flood of Noah. Job 40:15 makes that clear.

It is a well known fact that men have tampered with the records of history for centuries. They do it primarily for financial or political gain, and/or perhaps to gain a desired amount of public esteem for themselves, or for someone else.  In some cases, the altering was done in order that certain individuals could escape criminal prosecution and punishment for crimes they committed, which a true accounting  of history would expose.

Learning about the way things really were in the past is an enjoyable, exciting, and eye-opening experience. When the real facts are known, such things will always be found to be compatible with the Scriptures.

Behemoth
Strong's states that this creature is a hippopotamus. That just cannot be, because the description of the tail of behemoth doesn't come close to matching that of the hippopotamus.

[Heb. 930] b@hemowth (be-hay-mohth')
in form a plural or 929, but really a singular of Egyptian derivation; a water-ox, i.e. the hippopotamus or Nile- horse:--Behemoth.

      Look at the accurate drawing of a hippopotamus now, and just try to figure out how its tail could be described in Scripture as a cedar!  When Yahuweh refers to cedar, He means the cedar trees of Lebanon (see drawing), which were very great trees. The hippo's tail  is barely a flyswatter! But Apatosaurus' tail is huge, like a big log, and there were other grass eating dinosaurs with such large tails. Therefore, in Job 40, Yahuweh describes a dinosaur, NOT a hippopotamus, and then Yahuweh goes on to inform that He made it WITH man! So dinosaurs and man did indeed exist together at the same time.

     I, for one, do not believe that dinosaurs, nor any other animal ever lived millions of years before man was created. I realize that plants, insects, fish, fowl, and land animals were all created prior to man's creation, but I do not believe that they evolved, nor did they precede him by tens of thousands, much less, millions of years. Such statements, made by evolutionists, are simply the product of  their  wild imaginations and dishonesty. Perhaps a prescription combining the effects of Ritalin and Sodium Pentathol along with a dash of RU486 would remedy their problem!

     I believe the interval could have been something like 5,000 years at maximum, but more like five 24 hour periods. Yahuweh has the freedom and ability to take as long, or as short a time as He purposes to; to do anything.

    Now, if you're still not convinced that dinosaurs and man lived and walked together, well then, you'd better see this link:

http://www.bible.ca/tracks/ryals-track.htm                      

Some trees may be said to be familiar from their literary associations. This is pre-eminently true of such trees of Holy Writ as the Cedar of Lebanon, the Olive, and the Weeping Willow.

The origin of the name Cedar is somewhat doubtful; but it is probably a Semitic word allied to the Arabic "kedre," meaning "power."

The genus Cedrus belongs to that section of the order Coniferae known as Abietinae. Like most Abietinae, its branches are given off in whorls. It is mainly distinguished from the closely-allied genus Larix, the Larches, by its leaves being evergreen, they being, as in that genus, grouped in tufts, or "fascicled." The other leading characteristics of the genus are the erect position of its cones and the deciduous character of their scales.

The Cedars are a very small group, only three species being recognized, and these entirely confined to the Old World; but many other trees with somewhat similar wood are popularly known as Cedars in many quarters of the globe. The three true Cedars--the Deodar (Cedrus deodara) of the Himalayas and Hindu Kush, the Lebanon Cedar (C. libani), with its small-leaved variety in Cyprus, and the Mount Atlas Cedar (C. atlantica)--are so closely allied as to be by some regarded as merely geographical races of one species. As all three are now common in cultivation it will readily be noticed that at different ages each kind nearly resembles the others; and when grown from seed the Lebanon Cedar varies considerably, its branches either drooping or rising in a fastigiated manner. The main distinctions between the three are, however, that the Deodar has drooping branches and silvery foliage, the Lebanon Cedar has its branches horizontal and its mature foliage of a dark and somewhat blue green, whilst the Mount Atlas Cedar has ascending branches and needles of a more yellow shade of green.

The most striking characters of the Lebanon Cedar are the numerous large and wide-spreading horizontal branches and the broad and flattened summit of the full-grown tree. When young, one or two leading branches rise above the rest; but the mature form is known to nurserymen as "clump-headed." These points, together with the fact that the Cedar grows best in a deep soil, where its roots have access to water, are most graphically presented to us in the grand passage in the Book of Ezekiel, the most striking of the many Biblical allusions to this tree:--

"Behold the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of a high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs. The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high, with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of the field. Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters. . . . Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches, for his root was by great waters . . . nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty."

The rich brown bark of the gradually tapering stem becomes deeply scored with age, and contrasts well with the level layers of dark foliage. Though the tree seldom exceeds eighty feet in height, its massive branches often spread from thirty to fifty feet on all sides, the lower ones resting upon the ground, though not rooting in it, thus forming a broad-based pyramid densely clothed with leaves. The horizontal lines of its upper boughs give it, in common with the Stone Pine, an architectural character harmonizing with the columns and straight copings of classical buildings. This was noticed by Martin, who is fond of introducing the Cedar into his pictures, particularly into those of the terrace-gardens of Babylon and Nineveh.

The dwarf shoots that bear the tufted leaves continue to do so each spring for several years with hardly any lengthening, and ultimately terminate either in a pollen-bearing catkin or a cone. The leaves are straight, nearly cylindrical, but tapering towards their points, and about an inch long, and they remain two years on the tree. On falling, they do not decay for several years, so that a layer of leaf-mould has been observed half-an-inch in depth under a plantation fifteen years old, whilst that under the Cedars on Mount Lebanon is a foot thick.

The Cedar grows rapidly, making annual rings from an eighth to half an inch across; but its wood is spongy, very apt to shrink and warp, and by no means durable. It is of a reddish color and less resinous than that of the Larch.

In its mountain home, however, the Cedar grows more slowly and forms a better wood, so that there seems no sufficient reason for doubting that the wood used for Solomon's Temple and palace was that of this tree. It is more doubtful, however, whether Virgil and other classical writers are alluding to the wood of what we now call the Cedar when they speak of it as being incorruptible, and therefore used for statues of the gods. The Romans certainly believed in the preservative character of the resin which exudes from wounds in the Cedar, and which they called "Cedria." This was used to protect papyri from the attacks of worms, and is stated to have preserved the books of Numa uninjured in his tomb for five centuries after his death.

The tree seldom flowers until it is 25 to 30 years old; and it is characteristic that both inflorescences turn upwards. The reddish catkins are about two inches long, but the cones, after fertilization, become four or five inches in length. When young and green these latter have a pinkish or plum-colored bloom, which however, they soon lose, becoming a rich brown. The scales of the cone are very broad and tough, though thin, and each of them bears two broadly-winged seeds. Resin exudes from the cones, and after some years the scales fall away from the axis. Squirrels are fond of the seeds, but the Cedar is singularly free from the attacks either of insects or of fungal diseases.

The Cedars on Mount Lebanon have been frequently visited by travelers since the middle of the sixteenth century. Lamartine writes of them:--

"These trees are the most renowned natural monuments in the world: religion, poetry, and history have all equally celebrated them. The Arabs of all sects entertain a traditional veneration for them. They attribute to them not only a vegetative power, which enables them to live eternally, but also an intelligence, which causes them to manifest signs of wisdom and foresight similar to those of instinct and reason in man. They are said to understand the changes of the seasons; they stir their vast branches as if they were limbs; they spread out or contract their boughs, inclining them towards heaven or towards earth, according as the snow prepares to fall or to melt."

This is the tradition to which Southey alludes in "Thalaba," when he says:

"Its broad round-spreading branches, when they felt
The snow, rose upward in a point to heaven,
And, standing in their strength erect,
Defied the baffled storm."

The mountain is covered with snow during a great part of the year; but on August 5th, the eve of the Feast of the Transfiguration, the Maronites from the surrounding villages have long been in the habit of visiting the mountain, and there celebrating the "Feast of Cedars" with singing and dancing, mass being celebrated on the following day at one of the stone altars which stand beneath several of the larger trees. Most of the Cedars show signs of having been frequently struck by lightning.

There are naturally many legends connected with so interesting a tree. One of the most remarkable relates that Seth, sent by Adam to Paradise for the oil of mercy, saw, from the gate of the garden which he was not permitted to enter, a leafless Cedar with branches borne high towards heaven, on which was seated a child in glittering raiment. The angel-guardian of the garden gave him three seeds from the tree, which, on his return, he placed in the mouth of his parent, who was then dead. From these seeds there sprang, on the grave of Adam in Hebron, a Cedar, a Pine, and a Cypress, which united into one gigantic tree. After being carefully protected by Abraham, Moses, and David, this tree was felled by Solomon to form a beam in the temple; but his carpenters, finding it impossible to shape it as they wished, laid it aside, and, after forming a bridge over the brook Kedron, and being thrown into the Pool of Bethesda, to which it imparted its healing virtues, it ultimately formed the wood of the Cross.

The cedar is not difficult to raise from seed, nor is it at all exacting in the matter of soil; but unfortunately, in spite of Arab tradition, it suffers great damage from the accumulation of snow on the flat fan-like expansions of its evergreen branches.
 

The relationship of the word, ' dinosaur'  to the word, 'dragon.'

I am convinced that  the words  dinosaur and dragon mean virtually the same thing. Look at this:

Main Entry: di.no.saur
Pronunciation: 'dI-n&-"sor
Function: noun
Etymology: New Latin Dinosaurus, genus name, from Greek deinos terrifying + sauros lizard -- more at DIRE
Date: 1841
1 : any of a group (Dinosauria) of extinct chiefly terrestrial carnivorous or herbivorous reptiles of the Mesozoic era
2 : any of various large extinct reptiles other than the true dinosaurs
3 : one that is impractically large, out-of-date, or obsolete
- di.no.sau.ri.an /"dI-n&-'sor-E-&n/ adjective

Main Entry: drag.on
Pronunciation: 'dra-g&n
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Old French, from Latin dracon-, draco serpent, dragon, from Greek drakOn serpent; akin to Old English torht bright, Greek derkesthai to see, look at
Date: 13th century
1 archaic : a huge serpent
2 : a mythical animal usually represented as a monstrous winged and scaly serpent or saurian with a crested head and enormous claws
3 : a violent, combative, or very strict person
4 capitalized : DRACO
5 : something or someone formidable or baneful
- drag.on.ish /-g&-nish/ adjective

Both words describe uncommonly large creatures that are absolutely terrifying to look at. I believe that the association of dragons solely to  fairy tales, can be safely disposed of.

The Definition In Strong's

The Greek Dictionary of New Testament Words, in Strong's Exhaustive Concordance defines dragon thus:

[Grk. 1404] drakon (drak'-own)
probably from an alternate form of derkomai (to look); a fabulous kind of serpent (perhaps as supposed to fascinate):--dragon.

Whether you call it a dragon or a dinosaur, either word describes fierce [in the case of Leviathan], or relatively docile [in the case of Behemoth], creatures of great size, which lived on the earth prior to the flood of Noah.  That flood is what killed the dinosaurs/dragons; not some  huge meteor striking the earth, nor radiation from a supernova, or any of the other silly hypotheses (BIG GUESSES) from those of the foolish Darwinian persuasion. The Word of Yahuweh is the only truly completely trustworthy authority on the subject of what is mistakenly called "prehistoric times."  There actually were no prehistoric times, the Scriptures are THE historic record of ALL the eons! They simply do not record everything in minute detail, and rightly so.