ICR also questions the accuracy of radioactive mineral aging determinations and says human and dinosaur footprints have been found in the same formations at times.

Quoting the Bible, it also says that death had not entered the world until after Adam's sin (Romans 5:12) and yet the fossil record shows sudden death on a worldwide scale. ICR maintains that the fossil record does not contain a long and graduated evolution of life but rather a rapid extinction of life as a result of God's judgment when "the world that then was, being overflowed with water perished" (2 Peter 3:6).

There is no official statement on dinosaurs by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the predominant Utah religion. But Joseph Smith, the church's first prophet, once said the world and Earth are not synonymous. He said: "This Earth was organized or formed out of other planets which were broken up and remodeled and made into one on which we live. The elements are eternal" (from Discourses of the Prophet Joseph Smith).

Also, the Book of Mormon mentions "cureloms and cumons," creatures unknown to modern times, that were well-known to the Jaredite race (Ether 9:19) and considered valuable to man, like the elephant.

For more information on the Institute for Creation Research, go online to www.icr.org or call 1-649-448-0900. A separate Web site, www.clarifyingchristianity.com also promotes dinosaurs as being in the Bible.

For more information on Calvary Chapel of Salt Lake, call 264-9999 or go online to www.calvaryslc.org. Davis said tonight's event will last 90 minutes to two hours and includes a video presentation. It is designed for all age groups, and seating for about 600 people will be available.

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