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I'll bet you never knew that Beowulf disproves evolution, did you?

Why, then, do so many literature critics say that Beowulf is fiction? It is because they do not believe that dinosaur creatures lived at the same time men lived. Their evolutionary worldview says that dinosaurs lived long ages before men evolved on the earth. Therefore, in their minds, this all must be fiction. But with a Biblical worldview, we can see that dinosaurs entered the ark with Noah—land species at least—and they lived on the earth again after the Flood. But the post-Flood earth was not so hospitable to large creatures and they eventually became almost extinct.

The unknown poet was a remarkable writer. He wrote with power and vivid descriptions. He wrote in pagan times, before missionaries reached the people. God and the devil are mentioned, and Adam and Cain. These pagans knew some of that ancient history, but they knew nothing of Christ or of New Testament teachings. Pagans valued human strength, vengeance, boasting, and treasure gained by plunder. The poem extols all of these and not Christian virtues.

May I draw your attention to the last paragraph, and it's startling twists of logic? This segment came from a section 'proving' that Beowulf was not a product of Christian England, but an authentic survival of pagan denmark.
1) the pagan Danes in 495 are highly unlikely to have know anything of Judaeo-Christian mythology, but if they did it's far more likely to have been 'something of Christ or New Testament teachings', since if they had bumped into a Romano-Christian at any time, he would've been a Christian. Mind you the chances of that are pretty slim- Denmark is a good long way north of the scary pagan Germanic groups the Romans dealt with.
2) the Beowulf poem, if I remember Melanies lectures correctly, mentions Christ. So that shoots that argument right down anyway ;)