The Dinosaur Hoax

The class Dinosauria was originally defined by Sir Richard Owen of the Royal Society and Superintendent of the British Museum Natural History Department in 1842. This was a speculative hypothesis made during the heyday of evolution, before a single dinosaur fossil had even been found.

The press worldwide got to work creating stories of these supposed long-lost animals.

In 1854, Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, during his exploration of the upper Missouri River, found proof of Owen’s theory. He mailed a few unidentified teeth to leading palaeontologist Joseph Leidy, who several years later declared them to be from an ancient extinct Trachodon dinosaur (which means rough tooth). It is impossible to reconstruct an entirely hypothetical animal based on a few teeth.

It is curious that a wide range of ancient reptile and bird-like transitional forms necessary for the blossoming theory of evolution, would be hypothesized and then conveniently discovered by teams of evolutionist archaeologists purposely out looking to find such fossils. Such fossils have supposedly existed for millions of years, but were never found by any civilization in the history of humanity until evolutionism’s renaissance in the mid-19th century!