#PLATYPUS EVOLUTION HOW TO LEVEL UP A GOD FULL#
I just dove into the rabbit hole of evolutionary thought full on, wanting to discover what the “experts” had discovered about the past.Īs my reading material became more sophisticated, I repeatedly came across charts showing the geologic column, displaying the supposed order and timing of when Earth’s life forms appeared all within that framework of the so-called ages of earth’s geologic history. I was enraptured with this idea of there being a world long ago when dinosaurs ruled the earth! Little did I realize how this would later shape my metaphysical outlook on life or the theological implications of accepting a story where a creator was not required. Little did I realize how this would later shape my metaphysical outlook on life or the theological implications of accepting a story where a creator was not required. Usually there were various flying reptiles hovering around, but there would almost always be no mammals in sight. The books I read as a kid usually had pictures depicting a group of dinosaurs sitting in the backdrop of an exotic, tropical forest, with a volcano spewing lava in the background. Then mention a group of other mammals, and insert the dinosaurs before that (progression of life).Īs if the so-called scientific textbooks I’d perused as a child had somehow been animated into a simple plotline, this classic evolutionary portrait of dinosaurs is exactly what had been taught in our state schools here in Canada long before this series of movies appeared. Next creature mentioned? “Before the ape” . . .
As the authoritative-sounding narrator says “Same earth, but ‘long before you’” . . . Like most depictions of dinosaurs for children, it captured then, and still does now, the imaginations of many young minds and promotes and reinforces popular evolutionary concepts like “deep time” and a progression of life.įrom its opening sequence, it begins. It became quite popular and spawned a whole series of interconnected movies, a TV series, video games, soundtracks, and all sorts of toys, T-shirts, and other merchandising.
#PLATYPUS EVOLUTION HOW TO LEVEL UP A GOD MOVIE#
So started the introduction of The Land Before Time, the very popular 1988 animated children’s movie that featured a cast of cute, juvenile dinosaurs lead by “Littlefoot” (an adolescent Brontosaurus), who venture out on a long journey and must overcome several obstacles and challenges, including the vicious Tyrannosaurus rex called “Sharptooth”!