This question reminds me of a question once asked here by a timid little boy; he thought he was going to turn the world upside down. He said, “What do we answer to the question of the dinosaurs?!”
So I told him, “We don’t answer anything. What do you answer to the giraffes?”
What is the difference between a dinosaur and a giraffe? There are plenty of animals that went extinct. So the dinosaurs also went extinct.
“Oh, but the fossils; they’re so old!”
Who said fossils are old? Don’t you know that we have found fossils of modern men, fossils as recent as 300 years old. I explained here already once that in the Museum of Natural History in London, you have a fossil of a Guadalupe Indian that’s no more than 300 years old. Fossils are not old; it’s only because evolutionists need great time periods – otherwise how could such a fantasy be realized that from a germ should develop a man? – you must have untold eons of time for it to happen. So because they needed so much time, they manufactured a theory of time. But there isn’t the slightest indication anywhere that there was such time.
And therefore in Noach’s time, before the Mabul, there certainly were dinosaurs and probably none of them survived the Mabul. And so a dinosaur is just as significant to us as the passenger pigeon which also went into extinction.
Now, what do we say to the rifts on Mars? What do you say to the rifts in the Sahara Desert? Whatever you’ll say there, you’ll say here. It could be that the rifts in the Sahara Desert were created in the beginning of the world – Hakadosh Baruch Hu didn’t make the world as smooth as a billiard ball; He certainly made the world with ups and downs, with hollows and with mountains and so on. It’s necessary for the control of climate and for various other reasons. So the same thing on Mars; Hakadosh Baruch Hu made rifts on Mars. And if you’ll say the rift in the Sahara Desert came after Creation by means of some upheaval so there was an upheaval on Mars too.
So what’s the problem? Just because someone says “Boo!” without any explanation at all, immediately the person who has no emunah is frightened out of his wits. Say “Boo!” back to him! TAPE # 60 (April 1974)
