Let me tell you about Sue. She was a really big girl! HUGE, in fact. To say that she weighed a ton is an understatement. Sue could display a vicious temper and would take a bite out of you if she could. Despite this, someone once paid $5,000 just to get to know her better and to discover all that could be known about her. Was this person crazy?!?
No, this person was a part of Black Hills Institute of Geological Research. A team led by paleontologist Susan Hendrickson, Sue was discovered on this day in 1990, in the Cheyenne River Reservation of South Dakota. While exploring, she saw “three huge bones jutting out of a cliff near Faith, South Dakota. They turn out to be part of the largest-ever Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever discovered, a … specimen dubbed Sue, after its discoverer. Amazingly, Sue’s skeleton was over 90 percent complete, and the bones were extremely well-preserved.”1
The Black Hills Institute paid $5,000 to the landowner in order to study and excavate the bones. Two-years later, the government interjected themselves, claiming this was federal land, making Sue property of the United States government. It was found that the owner of the land illegally purchased the property from the Cheyenne River Sioux tribe. “In October 1997, Chicago’s Field Museum purchased Sue at public auction at Sotheby’s in New York City for $8.36 million, financed in part by the McDonald’s and Disney corporations.”2 Today, you can visit Sue at the Field Museum and see her size for yourself – “13 feet high at the hips and 42 feet long from head to toe, with a 2,000-pound skull and 58 teeth.”3
To see this massive T.rex in person is clouded by two things. First, the “experts” say that she is over 65 million years old. Second, she is prehistoric. Third, the speculation as to why the dinosaurs went extinct is fanciful but not Biblical.
“The genealogies of Genesis 5 and 11 tell us that the time from Adam to Abraham was about 2,000 years. Several verses in the Old and New Testaments show that Abraham lived about 2,000 years before Christ. So Creation Week was literally about 6,000 years ago.”4 However, theologians have muddied the water by trying to appease scientists by saying that creation week was really eons, thus making way for evolutionary theories.
Seems to me that God was quite clear. Knowing the foolish wisdom of man and that
man couldn’t accept Genesis 1 and 2, God gave a crystal-clear explanation of what He meant in the first two chapter of Genesis by inspiring the writing of Exodus 20:8-11. “Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. (9) Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: (10) But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: (11) For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.” Seven 24-hour days is clearly taught and understood by any sane, rational person reading these verses.
Second, pre-historic is a phrase needing erased from our thinking. God started history. There is nothing before Him. The history of the Earth is described in Genesis. Jesus affirmed history’s starting point in Mark 10:6. “But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.” That also affirms there were only two genders – a topic raging in our nation.
Finally, what caused the extinction of the dinosaur? Why don’t we have them roaming the earth today? Speaking about Sue, “scientists have a new guess about what caused its death: a single-celled parasite called Trichomonas.”5 This diagnosis was suggested based on the perfectly formed holes in Sue’s jaw. Most likely, she would not have been able to eat. Disease and death would have been present.
What the scientists fail to realize is that disease and death did not come prehistoric. They didn’t appear until Genesis 3 – AFTER history began; AFTER creation week; AFTER the sinful fall of man; AFTER God’s curse upon all things. As to the extinction of the dinosaurs, the best we can determine is that “after Noah’s flood, around 4,300 years ago, the remnant of the land animals, including dinosaurs, came off the ark and lived in the present world, along with people. Because of sin, the judgments of the curse in Eden and the flood of Noah’s day have greatly changed earth over the past 
6,000 years. Post-flood climatic change, lack of food, disease, and man’s activities caused many types of animals to become extinct. The dinosaurs, like many other creatures, died out.”6
Sue has a story to tell. If we listen carefully, we hear the Biblical account. Sue reminds us of the truth of Romans 1:20, “For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse.”
1https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/skeleton-of-tyrannosaurus-rex-discovered
2Ibid.
3Ibid.
4https://answersingenesis.org/days-of-creation/explain-a-young-earth-in-five-easy-steps/
5https://answersingenesis.org/dinosaurs/bones/ailing-t-rex/
6https://answersingenesis.org/dinosaurs/
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