Young Earth Creation Science Argument Index
D122: Australian Aboriginal art proves that dinosaurs existed with man
Edited by Greg Neyman
Argument:
Numerous young earth creationists claim
that artwork of Australian aboriginees portrays dinosaurs, thus this proves
that man and dinosaurs lived together (the painting in question shows an
apparent plesiosaur)
Source: Rebecca Driver, Answers In Genesis Website article,
Response:
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Rock art painted by primitive peoples cannot be taken seriously for scientific proof. The drawings are probably nothing more than an fictional beast imagined by the artist
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Another possibility is that the artist was drawing a creature which he found as a fossil. Thus, if he found a fossil plesiosaur, he added flesh to it to portray what it might have looked like
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Even if the artist painted a picture of a plesiosaur that he witnessed, it does not prove that dinosaurs and man lived together, because plesiosaurs are not dinosaurs (see D32)
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