Let's assume dinosaurs ARE in the bible and they co-existed with humans. ok?

Question

Let's assume that the flood killed sinners and dinosaurs as well, that would explain the fossils, which, regardless of if you believe in evolution, fossils ARE there right?

the common thought that i got from some, pretty narrowminded christians is that the fossils (which are fact) are there because God deemed them too dangerous for us, right?

with me so far?

so ok, the flood came and killed everything; sinners and dinosaurs alike. Everything except Noah and two of every animal except for the dinosaurs and well, maybe the unicorn (it came from SOMEwhere).

My question is:

If the reason we have dinosaur bones in the ground is because of this terrible flood, then....where are the sinners bones?

Why aren't they mixed in with the dinosaurs....or ANYwhere for that matter?

i wanted to get some answers before i added this but, i sincerely beleive without a doubt in my mind that evolution exists, and that dinosaurs came first and that humans evolved from apes...

I just want to get the true christian perspective before people started telling me to go read the bible.

i said ASSUME to make christians happy.

i honestly don't believe they are. "they" being dinos in the bible

i would LOVE to see this "proof" that dinosaurs coexisted with humans...

oh and btw, i'm agnostic...sort of...maybe...i don't know really.

lets just say i'm questioning not my faith, but all that its supposed to entail.

the unicorn thing is a joke.

i asked a question about christians believeing in evolution, and they told me dinos are in the bible, God this and God that.....blah blah blah. NO FACTS.

HAHA I LOVE YOU WALLY!!!! THATS A GREAT POINT!!

i can't believe i never thought about that one....

guys...I don't believe that dinosaurs are in the bible...I'm only asking this question to see what the christian response is...

i KNOW dinosaurs existed millions and millions of years before humans...65 to be exact. I'm just trying to get them to back upo their Intelligent Design, and Creationism theories. so don't make me look like an idiot, although i can see where the confusion is.

Answer 1

You need to read/study archeology some more. The answers are in that field of study.

BTW Unicorns are fictitious, just like fairies.

I was raised Christian, but each day I doubt the theory of creation more and more.

Evolution is more plausible. The proof is in the pudding as they say!!

Answer 2

Good question. I am Christian, but I think dinosaurs where part of the 2 of every kind, Dinosaurs are in book of Job 40 (long after events in Genesis), flood is in Genesis. I think dinosaurs maybe died off like any other creature that goes extinct. So, I don't think any bones survived flood, or are so deep, none have been found. All bones I think are more current than we think. Just my opinion.

Answer 3

We do find those bones. Palentolgists call them "homo erectus" because there's lots of government funding for that. Some of them also got eaten up by all the fish in the ocean.

But by and large, we find more dinosaur bones because there were more dinosaurs than people at the time of the flood. It's simply a population question.

Answer 4

1. The purpose of the flood was not to kill the dinosaurs because they were dangerous.
2. Human bones are there. You made a mistake.

Just because there are bones in the dirt does not prove evolution-it only proves that something died-that's all. These bones don't tell us when they died, why, or whether or not they had offspring or even if they had missing links. They just tell us that something died-nothing more. All else is speculation

Answer 5

That is an excellent question. I've wondered about that before as well. If flood waters were rising quickly day by day, people would hastily move to the highest portion of land they could find, which eventually would be covered anyway, because even if they climbed a mountain, the Bible said that the Flood covered up ALL of the mountains. So we need to examine what happens to dead bodies who have drowned. I will defer to former anthropologist Aaron Elkins, and paste a portion of his site here:

A newly dead human being, or any other animal, will sink when placed in water. After the gases of decomposition build up in the chest and abdomen, however, the body will inflate, rise like a hydrogen-filled balloon, and pop to the surface, sometimes dragging with it surprisingly heavy weights that a murderer might have thought sufficient to keep it down. With the passage of time and further decomposition, however, the body cavities eventually rupture, the gas escapes, and the corpse goes down again, this time for good.
There is one notable exception: sometimes, due to air caught in the clothing, a body will stay on the surface for several hours before sinking.
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So this tells me that the dead bodies could eventually end up a long way away from where they originally died, or float in the same region, depending on wind factor. I imagine that birds of prey aided with "decomposition", to an extent that I am not aware of. I'm not even sure if it mattered that they ate portions of the bodies, in terms of where the bodies finally came to rest. So... the water receded slowly, and as more and more land surface was exposed, bones and remaining flesh stopped drifting. There were probably dead bodies scattered all over the place - over extremely vast regions. There would be some mass grave effect as valleys were uncovered, and some of those valleys turned into lakes and seas. So some of the bones were again covered with water, and probably eventually clay and whatever else the lake or sea basin was composed of. I don't know what percentage of the bones would be laying exposed or covered by the earth. That, however, is the key question.

Now I have pasted some text from "The Straight Dope", a website that I've never been on before, but looks interesting (Penny Colman wrote "Corpses, Coffins, and Crypts: A History of Burial" (1997), and she and her book are the source that "The Straight Dope" uses:

Left outside in warm or hot weather, an adult corpse typically becomes a skeleton in two to four weeks. Burying an adult corpse without a coffin in a shallow grave, one or two feet deep, will stretch out the process to a few months or a year. An adult corpse without a coffin buried six feet deep will usually take five to ten years to turn into a skeleton. In places such as Scotland and the North Sea Island of Amrum, where graves were reused, bodies that were buried in wooden coffins were typically left undisturbed for twenty to thirty years before a new corpse was buried in the same grave.

She notes that even the bones will disappear eventually, but how long will that take? We're still finding remains in graves from Neolithic cultures (at least 6,000 years ago), so by all estimates, it might take a very long time indeed. Modern graves that are opened usually contain remains of some kind.
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NOW here is more info fossils, pasted from the "Earth and Sky" website. It is a portion of an interview with Kay Behrensmeyer, who is a paleoecologist at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC.

More thoughts on fossils and bones

Fossilization doesn't take a long time -- and the chance of making it into the record are better the quicker it occurs.

Dr. Behrensmeyer: We don't dig them up, but we can still see the little parts that are still poking out of the ground. It's all been a great lesson in how fast things can disintegrate, but also the value of quick burial. And we've tracked the mineralization that's occurring there. We've actually collected bones each time that we go back and the bones are in the laboratory here. I've had a geochemist working on the minerals that are forming in the bones, in periods of as little as 12 years. So fossilization doesn't have to be a slow process.

But basically the lesson I've learned, if you're not buried and beginning to mineralize after a few tens of years, your chances of surviving into the long term fossil record are pretty slim, at least if you're a vertebrate.

There are lots of fossils out there!

Some fossils are striking: whole bodies are preserved with the hair and stomach contents. Mostly the remains are pretty fragmentary. But there are many of them! The deep sea floor is covered with fossils of very tiny organisms that are complete.

Fossils are actually relatively common if you know where to look. Tyrannosaur fossils are not common, but the teeth of rodents that lived in the ice ages are actually pretty common. It depends on the type of organism and whether you want a museum quality specimen or something for research. There's plenty for the research paleontologist!

Answer 6

Because Dinosaurs Were NOT destroyed in the time of Noah. If you read the book of Genises, You can see that before God made Adam and Eve and the paradise for that matter, Earth was just a planet with CREATURES and Beast and blah blah blah. My point is that Dinosaurs existed BEFORE humans existed.

Answer 7

Some people believe that the dinosaurs were on the ark too. Baby dinosaurs, obviously, because big dinosaurs thundering around would be hazardous.
That's why there are no human fossils with dino fossils.



That and the fact they coexisted millenia apart......

Answer 8

Actually I heard somewhere they found proof that dinosaurs coexisted with people. As for the fossils, I never got into that so I don't know.

Answer 9

Dinosaurs. . . . . maybe one bit jesus and a Trex stepped on God's apple tree in the garden of Eden and god was like **** you dinosaurs, screw all of yous and called together a few huge dinosaur bashes and buried them all. then the flood came later, killed the sinners, noah and the animals on the ark got off and were like damn it we have nothing to eat. . . so they ate all the bodies of the sinners. Peace.

Answer 10

Dinosaurs existed millions of years before humans did.

Answer 11

Wow...I never thought of that. True!

Are dinosaurs in the bible? Where?