It's older than Hollywood. Early attempts to rationalize geological time with Genesis located dinosaurs in a pre-Adamic world of eternal darkness. Really inter

It's older than Hollywood. Early attempts to rationalize geological time with Genesis located dinosaurs in a pre-Adamic world of eternal darkness. Really interesting article about this: Terrible lizards and the wrath of God: How 19th century Christianity and Romanticism affected visual representations of dinosaurs and our perceptions of the ancient world: https://web.archive.org/web/20200905194215/https://web.stanford.edu/group/journal/cgi-bin/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Peterson_Hum_2012.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20200905194215/https://web.stanf...