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are painted on the walls of the Salt Lake and Manti Temples?
Which species were painted on the walls of the other older Temples? Those that have now been remodeled with the Holiday Inn decor?

Does having dinosaurs painted on the walls of the Temple tell us LDS, Inc believes these animals really lived and/or were around when Adam was on the earth?

Manti has an apatosaurus (often called brontosaurus) and a pterodactyl on the back wall of the creation room. Maybe a few others - it's been a while. I don't believe SL has any.

The painting of dinosaurs was pretty much at the discretion of the artist (Minerva Teichert), and has no strong bearing on Mormon doctrine. Even if one wanted to pin some sort of strict doctrinal interpretation on her murals, it would need to be acknowledged that they are in the creation room and not the garden room. Unfortunately, I doubt such things would pass correlation nowadays in any case.

I thought there was a photo of the creation room on the web, but I can't locate it.

I understand there are two different Temple movies to avoid this kind of thing; they didn't want members to confuse the "representation" with the "Doctrine". Likewise, the painting is probably meant to represent "creation as interpreted by the artist", and not "The Creation". (And as a point of trivia, a previous Temple film used borrowed animation from Disney's Fantasia to show the lava flows during creation.)

City of Enoch ?

Since there was no death prior to the Fall, and there is no record of Dinosaurs post Flood, then most likely the critters lived in the time of Adam, Seth, Enoch, and Noah.

Gazelam wrote:
City of Enoch ?

Since there was no death prior to the Fall, and there is no record of Dinosaurs post Flood, then most likely the critters lived in the time of Adam, Seth, Enoch, and Noah.

Wow, these guys are much older than we thought! Had to wait hundreds of millions of years for late blooming Modern Man to hit the scene. Maybe visiting the In-Laws in Nod (Tennessee?), flying off on a city sized space ship or even hammering out a steel infrastructure for that Ark took a great deal of time.

But where are the cureloms and cumoms?

Are they in the fields, breakfasting neas and sheum?
Or are they tethered with ziff chains?

Gazelam wrote:
City of Enoch ?

Since there was no death prior to the Fall, and there is no record of Dinosaurs post Flood, then most likely the critters lived in the time of Adam, Seth, Enoch, and Noah.

1. Shiiiiit yeah, Dinotopia!

2. Jesus H. Christ, you are out of your damned mind. Take a geology course or something, nitwit.

Hey Gaz,

I'm calling you out. Your photo is a fake!!


This is the oldest living dinasaur known to man (or at least, to children).

This one sings and dances too (and has his own agent). Although folklore would argue that he is simply a shaved and dyed Sasquatch, his dung matches fossilized specimens of his close cousin the T-rex from the plezoic period.

What are we going to do with you, Gaz??

rant OFFFF!