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Prolific creationist author Michael Oard is known for his extensive literature research and cautious but thorough reports. His new book on dinosaurs achieves more than its title suggests, and does so in a surprisingly readable format. Not only does it present dinosaur challenges and mysteries, but solves them—or at least presents a solution that best fits the facts. Dinosaur Challenges covers the basics about dinosaurs, including their setting in biblical history, how they challenge evolution, and it even summarizes scientific and biblical evidence for a young world. But like no other book on the subject, this one tackles the tough questions raised by paleontologists who see no way to fit the facts into a Flood model.

Each chapter is not only thorough in its presentation of dinosaur fossil-related facts, finds, and trends, but is smooth and even enjoyable to read. Dozens of peer-reviewed references bolster each chapter’s contents, but this book does not read like a dry scientific crust. It keeps the science but adds readability.

Like no other book on the subject, this one tackles the tough questions raised by paleontologists who see no way to fit the facts into a Flood model.

And its readability is very important, since that draws readers in to Oard’s thorough and relevant analysis. In Dinosaur Challenges and Mysteries, Oard investigates the fossil findings most difficult for Flood geology to explain. This book does not run through the dinosaur name exhibits, nor does it major on the enormous depth and breadth of historical data on dragons. Oard’s book focuses on fossils.

Objections to young-earth creation and Flood geology

Specifically, Oard wrote this book to answer objections to young-earth creation and Flood geology that certain dinosaur discoveries appear to pose. For example, some layers contain thousands of dinosaur egg fossils, and critics maintain that so many eggs would have required years to deposit in normal life settings, so that the idea that all these strata were deposited in a single year of Noah’s Flood must be a fairy tale. You’ll have to read the book to learn Oard’s specific solution, but as readers of Journal of Creation might suspect, it has to do with the poor assumption of ‘normal life settings’. Oard cites a Bible skeptic named Morton, who wrote,

“Features like these, termite nests, dinosaur tracks, cicada burrows and channels are not easily explained by the YECs. They don’t show their followers this type of data, and they have not explained it” (p. 66).

Well, now this book explains it. Another student told why he turned from Flood geology to evolution, saying,

“You can’t imagine a global flood and animals finding ground to make footprints on … that, more than anything, any other experience in my life, really shook me to the core” (p. 68).

Oard’s hypothesis tackles this very phenomenon and clearly explains how and when dinosaurs could have made footprints and even places littered with footprints called ‘megatracks’.

In reality,

“Although the biblical accounts in Genesis are routinely ridiculed, the actual evidence suggests that the Flood can solve many, if not all, these standard evolutionary puzzles” (p. 61).

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