Archaeology and Paleontology

Most people think that archaeology has to do with finding dinosaur bones. This tends to be brought on by several celluloid masterpieces, which show dinosaurs and people co-habitating. These include The Flintstones, 1 Million Years B.C., Caveman, The Land that Time Forgot, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and others.

Another reason people believe that people lived at the same time as dinosaurs, is that they have a difficulty with scale. Modern humans have lived on this planet for 60,000 to 100,000 years, which at first glance goes back a long way in time. Jurassic period dinosaurs, which includes everyone's favorite, the T-Rex, dates to 270,000,000 years ago. Like looking out and understanding the distance of the nearest star, the scale is almost unfathomable.

Some modern Christians attempt to squeeze all time into about 6,000 years, because of a calculation of all the years added up in people's lives in the bible. There is a man in Kentucky with a $25,000,000 museem which shows Adam and Eve being thrust out of the Garden of Eden by T-Rex himself. Screwing millions of years into such a tiny span has caused hardship to these Christians, and it makes explaining the Grand Canyon difficult. Recently, a book was put out on how the Grand Canyon was caused by the Biblical flood. Some biblical scholars indicate that the behemoth, mentioned in the bible was a dinosaur. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Canyon:_A_Different_View

There have been numerous other claims attempting to tie dinosaurs to humans living in the same time and space, including the Ica Stones of Peru, and figurines made by native groups in Mexico. Both of those claims have proven to be false. I have heard that dinosaurs were put here by Satan to tempt us away from the Christian way.

The reality is that geologists have a fairly good idea on much of the Earth's age.