Hey, I totally agree with dragon_son. Dragons did and still do exist. Remember that before the great Flood in the Bible, the planet was encapsulated in a sub-stratospheric layer of ice. As a result, the planet surface atmosphere was cleaner and under hyperbaric conditions. Hyperbaric conditions create cleaner air, water and much less Gamma rays reached the earth's surface since the surface barometric pressure had to have been at least 400% of the current pressure. This caused all plants, humans and wild life to grow to insane sizes. Now dragons, or dinosaurs as the scientists would like to call them today, did in fact exist around 6000 years ago. Note, though, that I specifically mention 6000 years and not the ultimate bullshit stories of several billion years ago!
Winged dragons, for instance, were Avis derivative genetic inheritors, adapted to large scale cliffs and mountains. Of course the latter cliffs and mountains became more prominent after the flood, due to major erosion casued by the dissipation and flow of the excess water. Evolution, it seems, did in fact happen to a certain extent in terms of life adjusting to the sudden lift of pressure. The barometric release was undeniably caused due to the ice layer vanishing as it fell to Earth over a period of 40 days. For som...
Hey, I totally agree with dragon_son. Dragons did and still do exist. Remember that before the great Flood in the Bible, the planet was encapsulated in a sub-stratospheric layer of ice. As a result, the planet surface atmosphere was cleaner and under hyperbaric conditions. Hyperbaric conditions create cleaner air, water and much less Gamma rays reached the earth's surface since the surface barometric pressure had to have been at least 400% of the current pressure. This caused all plants, humans and wild life to grow to insane sizes. Now dragons, or dinosaurs as the scientists would like to call them today, did in fact exist around 6000 years ago. Note, though, that I specifically mention 6000 years and not the ultimate bullshit stories of several billion years ago!
Winged dragons, for instance, were Avis derivative genetic inheritors, adapted to large scale cliffs and mountains. Of course the latter cliffs and mountains became more prominent after the flood, due to major erosion casued by the dissipation and flow of the excess water. Evolution, it seems, did in fact happen to a certain extent in terms of life adjusting to the sudden lift of pressure. The barometric release was undeniably caused due to the ice layer vanishing as it fell to Earth over a period of 40 days. For some species of reptile, this sudden lift in hyperbaric conditions spelt certain doom. Others, however, were quite capable to adapt (true evolution). Their offspring now born under lighter atmospheric pressure obviously shrunk in sizes overall. Surface dwelling reptiles (dragons) in some cases had to revert to carnivorous feeding as they plant life was also severely depleted as a result of the lighter atmospheric pressure. This is where most of the larger dragons had gone extinct.
Yes, they were certainly NOT beasts in the spastic term, but animals like crocs & lizards. Try to believe that today still, their offspring exists, very much like Comodo Dragons, crocs, lizards. As for their scales, some indeed needed these as protection and camouflage as well as hunting tools. In terms of their day-to-day survival, certain dragons did in fact breathe fire. Perhaps not in the mythical sense, but take into consideration the chemistry behind the creation of exothermic reactions from certain chemicals burrowed under certain glands inside some of these creatures' esophagus. Upon expulsion (mostly from the beak) a mere combination of these chemicals created these exothermic reactions, reaching temperatures so high that, in sudden contact with rich oxygenated atmospheric air, in fact combusted! Today, some smaller insects (beetles) actually still have this defense and hunting mechanism!
In conclusion, dragons do exist! As for their "magical" capabilities, well that remains fiction I am sure. Remember, though, that anything that did have a logical or scientific explanation to the older populations, were automatically regarded as "magic" in those days!
I will be releasing my fictional book "The Sorce" in a couple of months. I have taken all this scientific information and wove it into a fictional story to explain the origins of dragons, wolves, birds and even the practice of magic by mages!
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