Dragons instead of Dinosaurs

I remember after watching the Nye-Ham debate earlier this year seeing a bunch of articles about the creation museum. Regardless of what you believe or where you stand on creationism vs evolution one thing in the museum made undeniable sense. It said that the reason the word dinosaur was not in the bible is because the word didn't exist. They go on to hypothesize that when the Bible mentions dragons, it may be talking about what we know of as dinosaurs.

The word dinosaur wasn't coined until 1842. I'm wondering what would it take for the word dragon to be adopted by science instead of dinosaur to categorize giant reptilian creatures? I know that science classes would be allot more fun if we got to study Dragons.
 
Its easy enough to link dinosaurs to dragons....seeing as "the dragon bones" used by Chinese "doctors" and such for centuries were dinosaur bones, but i doubt they'd ever just keep the term, seeing as it isn't a scientific name and had being used for centuries prior. Plus dinosaur describe them alot better than simply draco's
 
I remember after watching the Nye-Ham debate earlier this year seeing a bunch of articles about the creation museum. Regardless of what you believe or where you stand on creationism vs evolution one thing in the museum made undeniable sense. It said that the reason the word dinosaur was not in the bible is because the word didn't exist. They go on to hypothesize that when the Bible mentions dragons, it may be talking about what we know of as dinosaurs.

The word dinosaur wasn't coined until 1842. I'm wondering what would it take for the word dragon to be adopted by science instead of dinosaur to categorize giant reptilian creatures? I know that science classes would be allot more fun if we got to study Dragons.
Awe, I got sad because I was thinking of replacing the historical dinosaurs with dragons, which would be fuckin' awesome. :D Either way, dragons make everything better. Everything.
 
The word dinosaur wasn't coined until 1842. I'm wondering what would it take for the word dragon to be adopted by science instead of dinosaur to categorize giant reptilian creatures? I know that science classes would be allot more fun if we got to study Dragons.

For starters you'd have to prevent the name "Dragon" (Draco) from being given first to a different animal in Biology. IOTL Linnaeus used it for the gliding lizards of SE Asia in 1758.
 
For starters you'd have to prevent the name "Dragon" (Draco) from being given first to a different animal in Biology. IOTL Linnaeus used it for the gliding lizards of SE Asia in 1758.

Maybe have dinosaurs discovered by the scientific community before or around 1750? There's probably a simpler way to fulfill IchBinDieKaiser's idea, but I love the idea of discovering dinosaurs in the 18th Century.
 
Dinosaur means Terrible Lizard/Reptile. They can't name them just Draco because Linné used that already for something else like Tocmocho said, but they could have gone a middleway naming them Dinodraco. That translates "Terror-Dragon" and might be shortened over time to just Dragon.
That would surely have a great impact on pop culture.
 
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