The remains of Wooly Mammoths and Mastodons, once thought to be extinct some 20,000 years ago, have been found in glaciers, frozen, and have been carbon dated to only a few thousands years. There has been speculation that a very few may still exist in remote areas of Siberia, though, of course, none have been found.

All these questions come from a misunderstanding that the chronology described in Genesis, popularly attributed to an Anglican bishop named Usher as his ‘chronology’, gives the age of the Earth as about 6,000 years. However, many of the terms used are allegorical, and don’t commit to that timeline.

So-called “Neanderthals” would, if attired and groomed like us, be practically indistinguishable from so-called Homo Sapiens Sapiens. Indeed, it’s believed that they didn’t ‘die out’, they were merely subsumed into the larger human family.

How about this: With God there is no time. Time is only appointed to man. Who knows when time began for this earth? Who knows exactly how long Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden and what went on outside the garden during that time? Who knows if the matter that God took to create this earth wasn’t “contaminated” with material from other earths that he had created before? Without revelation all of the above is pure speculation.

Great points. I have recently come across videos showing living flexible tissue and even blood cells of dinosaurs found in bones. Apparently when analyzing the internal vasculature of a bone it can be soaked in annindustry accepted and standard substance that dissolves the mineral(calcium) away exposing only the internal tissues and cells. This has been recently done on many non-fossilized dinosaur bones and they have video showing the tissues left behind.

When using a microscope they even can show blood cells still preserved in the veins and can push them back and forth with a probe on video. If left a while longer exposed to the air they begin to decay and rot as any carbon life form that dies would, making a bad smell.

This makes it impossible for these bones to be any older than 10k years at most. More likely not more than a few thousand years. In fact many ancient cultures known to be only thousands of years old have left behind paintings and moldings that have proven to be more anatomically correct and display the proper skin textures than what science previously thought and promoted as fact. Yet eventually a fossil that preserved the skin showed scales or feather etc that matched the ancient cultures descriptions as accurate. These artistic depictions also show the dinosaurs being hunted and battled against. Dinosaur is after a new name for what previously was simply called dragon. Brings new meaning the scripture that says there was giants in those days.

Carbon dating is apparently notoriously unreliable after the recorded time periods. Its dates swing wildly giving divergent results to the same exact sample from the same bone and same carcass. But apparently scientists method to deal with this is to pick the date that fits into the accepted timeframes and cast all other data, even if it’s 99% of the results that are outside the accepted timeframes, in favor of maintaining the status quo. That honestly amounts to arbitrarily picking a date.

It’s sobering to think how much trust we put in to science and accept with blind faith that they must be right and even throw prophets aside in favor of the wisdom of men just because enough fingers are pointing at us from the great and spacious building. Yet if you read the nephi account closely it is clear that only those who gave absolutely zero heed to the mockers or the taunts of the learned of the world maintained their place in the kingdom. All others eventually fell to the mocking and joined them.

It’s sad how when we begin to know a little about some things we begin to believe we know a lot about everything. I think this is why the warning from the prophets that revelation is a more dependable rod to lean upon rather than the wisdom of men, when there is a perceived conflict. Because true and accurate science will reveal the same truths we have access to via revelation according to our needs and the wisdom of the Lord.

If He evolved a chicken out of a dinosaur, that’s awesome! If He used those dinosaurs to create a reserve of fossil fuels that would power the type of technology and transportation needed to get the Gospel out to the entire world in the last days, that’s some serious planning!