Dinosaur Pathologies
Creationists have said that dinosaurs did not live before the fall of Adam and Eve. They claim that signs of cancer, arthritis, and other diseases discovered by paleopathologists prove this.
These pictures show the many broken bones that healed as well as tooth marks.
This is absolutely false, because before the Flood there were giants, and people lived hundreds of years, and there was greater variety, and kinds of living things due to the better environmental conditions caused by greater atmospheric pressure, increased oxygen, and carbon dioxide, before the Flood; without the effects of radiation, soil depletion, and pollution like today.
In my research for my book Mysteries of History Revealed Part 1, I believe that before the Flood there were fewer diseases. To prove this I decided to research dinosaur pathologies, predicting that they would show that they were healthier than living things today.
I found I was right. A paper written by a paleopathologist said that he was a recent graduate and was presenting a lecture on dinosaur pathologies. He was shocked that he could not find any examples of cancer, or arthritis to illustrate his talk. He concluded that dinosaurs had many broken bones from falls and fights, but no diseases. He did find 2 or 3 examples of possible arthritis. And he said all the claims he had heard about cancer turned out to be misidentified natural structures.
He concluded that dinosaurs were healthier than people living today!
Now some television creation scientists came along and contradicted these conclusions.
So I did some research. It looked up dinosaur pathologies and went down the long list of dinosaurs discovered so far to have pathologies.
You can see this list in the link below. All pathologies were caused by violent mating, fighting, and falls. There was not one case of disease, except for infection of a wound, and possible rare birth defects:
Wikipedia concludes with this statement:
Molnar's 2001 review found that most theropod pathologies reported in the scientific literature had not or could not be attributed to a specific cause. Most pathologies preserved in theropod fossils are the remains of injuries, even taking into consideration gaps in paleontology's knowledge of most pathologies' causes, but some provide evidence of infections or congenital deformities. Injuries found on theropod dinosaur bones tended to be fractures, pits, and punctures, often likely originating with bites. Damage left by infections tended to be concentrated in relatively small areas.
However, there was one dinosaur discovered with what they think is septic arthritis in 2016 in a common Hadrosaur. But it is very rare and could be a mistake like claims in the past that cancer was common due to misidentification of unfamiliar structures.
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