If Planet Earth was created in 7 days etc why arent Dinosaurs mentioned in the Bible?

Answer 1

for the same reason as llamas pandas and koalas aren't mentioned. The peoples of the Eastern end of the Mediterranean probably travelled no more than a hundred miles from their place of birth in their lifetime and so had no concept of other continents and other flora and fauna, let alone extinct species

Answer 2

Yes the Earth was created in 6 literal days (day 7 was not a day of creation, but of rest). As for dinosaurs... "there is a creature described by God in Job chapter 40 that sounds exactly like a dinosaur." (from book mentioned in source listing below) Try reading Job 40:15-19.

Answer 3

The Bible does not say the earth was created in seven days. The Bible account at Genesis 1:1 simply states "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." There is no specific time mentioned here. Beginning with verse 2, the account deals with the preparation of earth for habitation – not the creation of it.

Answer 4

In the creation, not every creature is mentioned - or the Bible would be a bit boring. The bible does mention creatures like dinosaurs - it is thought that the new earth after the flood had a really different climate, so many species died out!!! Hope this helps!

Answer 5

Same reason the ice age isn't. The Bible was written by men, and what went into it has been picked and chosen by the church.
Why is it, in certain instances quotes are used from the bible to make points, but then when a glaring disparity such as the 6 days occurs, suddenly it's not to be taken literally. Does anyone know which parts of the bible ARE to be taken literally, or can we just gloss over innaccuracies and maybe fit the bible to what we're actually trying to say ourselves.

Yes, I am a cynic, and if God is trying to test you, as well as being a jealous God as quoted in the commandments, is that the kind of God you want? Where is the love in that?

Answer 6

In ancient greece there where two explanations of time: the chronos and the kairos. The chronos is what we use on a day to day basis: the chorological passing of time in even and equal increments. The kairos is not so simple. In ancient greek, kairos means "the right or opprotune moment". In various theological lectures I have attended I have heard it explained as the lay out of when things are going to happen, regardless of how long the time is between each event. So, for example, rather than saying "I'll go to college and four years later i'll graduate, and the next year I'll get married, and 5 years after that i'll have a kid..." one would say "at the first opprotune moment i'll attend college, on the next moment i will graduate, on the next moment i will get married..."

God is in the kairos. He is infinite. As the bible tells us, he always has been, always is, and always will be. Chronos time does not work in the rhelm of the infinite, because once numbers become infintely large (or small) a defierent scale is needed, it doesn't matter if those numbers are mesures of distance, size, or time. For this reason, God is on the kairos time. When you hear people mention being on "God's time" they are talking about the perfect time and will of God as mentioned in the New Testiment, and this time is in kairos.

Because of this, when talking abour "days" in the timing of God, it is crucial to think of the "days" as moments, or actions rather than definitives chronological days. God doesn't sleep and in heaven there is no night, so what would a day be to God anyway? This is why there millions of years between periods of animals and between dinosaurs and men, because those years are chronos, whereas the "days" mentioned in the bible are kairos.

Oh, a couple more things... as people have mentioned, there are millions of creatures the bible does not mention by individual species or class, so why doesn't anyone ever ask why aren't marsupials mentioned in the bible? Or how about sea sponges?

Last thing, I promise. The bible is the LIVING word of God not the literal word of God. That's straight scripture, so all you people who follow it like a history book, feel free to argue. The bible was written by men INSPIRED by God. Even the most inspired people, when given the most amazing and perfect knowledge mess things up. The writers of the bible were mere humans, so by reading the bible as a literal work, you'll get all screwed up. It is important to comprehend the meaning behind the words, the bigger ideas, rather than the words themselves.

Answer 7

Actually, Dinosaurs are mentioned in the bible. In the book of Genesis, and Job. They however were not called Dinosaurs. The term Dinosaur did not appear until the late 1900s. In Genesis it refers to the birds of the air and the fish of the seas and the animals that lived on the land. AND the animals that moved along the ground. And in Job, one type of dinosaur is described. We would call it a stegosaurus but it was call a behemoth.

Answer 8

For the same reason Ducks and Moose aren't mentioned. The Bible wasn't meant to list off everything created. It simply states that God created the earth and everything in it. Now think about it logically. The Bible was written by human beings. If they were to sit there and list every single thing upon the earth they would still be writing and would never be able to stop! Plus, we keep finding species we thought were extinct so that just goes to show how little we know about what is really out there.

Also if you really want to consider it, if God exists (which I personally believe he/she does) and if God is timeless (meaning he/she is not constrained by our idea of time) and omnipotent, then when the world was created would our feeble human brains (that we only use apx. 10% of) be able to really comprehend God's time table? What is 7 days to God may have been 7 millenia to us. Fun question to ponder though. Thanks for asking it.

Answer 9

Just because it doesn't talk about it doesn't mean it's not there. Really, the only mention of pigs is to say "Don't eat them." Swans, hawks, kangaroos, not mentioned. They aren't mentioned in the Constitution either. What were the farmers of our constitution thinking, not writing about swans or hawks? And really, do you think the framers of the Constitution didn't know about them?

But wait, what is the serpent in Genesis 1:1, that was then told that it would go on its belly from then on? Does that mean it didn't go on its belly... that it walked upright...? What are the only known lizards to ever have walked upright? Oh yeah... dinosaurs. I even remember a very humorous anecdote in one of my children-dinosaur books when I was young, about a scientist that was trying to figure out how a particular class of dinosaur moved, since all known spices of lizard go on their stomachs, and the only way that dinosaur could have walked that way was if it's stomach was in a ditch. Then another scientist pointed out that the skeletal structure made more sense if he just allowed it to walk upright.

Answer 10

Dinosaurs not mentioned???

(Psa 74:13) Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou didst break the heads of the dragons in the waters.
(Psa 74:14) Thou didst break the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.

Apparently serpents (reptiles) used to have legs, by the verse below

Gen 3:14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

Interesting thing about reptiles...they never stop growing, until the die. If Adam and others lived so long on the Earth...how big do you suppose a reptile of the same age would be???

Gen 5:5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.

Check out this big croc born in 1970...
http://www.reptile-gardens.com/maniac.html

Answer 11

Probably wasn't mentioned in the Bible because it wasn't that big of a deal (like they never mentioned penguins, gorillas, etc)

If you read Genesis, you'll notice people lived up to 900 years before the flood. If you assume animals lived that long, too (during that time), lizards and reptiles would have lived 200-300 years (instead of 20 years or less). Most reptiles grow throughout their lifespan. If you have a 300year old alligator (or gecko or etc), it could possible grow to be pretty huge.