if god made the world in 7 days, where were the dinosaurs at?

Answer 1

God created the universe and everything in it in 6 days. He rested on the 7th. And what does that have to do with dinosaurs?

Answer 2

I think It was seven periods of time. This can be seen clearer if you look at a verse that says the whole act of creation was one time period. Gen 2:4-5 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.

See where it say :in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens. Lumped it all together there. It's just 7 divisions of the creation act. Each could have been tens of thousands of years long other could have been ten seconds.. Is the time it took really so important?

Answer 3

I pasted this from the christiananswers.net site (I hope you don't mind a copy and paste for an answer):

Dinosaur-like creatures are mentioned in the Bible. The Bible uses ancient names like "behemoth" (beh-HEE-moth) and "tannin." Behemoth means kingly, gigantic beasts. Tannin is a term which includes dragon-like animals and the great sea creatures such as whales, giant squids, and marine reptiles like the plesiosaurs (PLEE-see-oh-sors) that may have become extinct (died out).
The Bible's best description of a dinosaur-like animal is in Job chapter 40...


"Look at the behemoth, which I made along with you and which feed on grass like an ox. What strength he has in his loins, what power in the muscles of his belly! His tail sways like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are close-knit. His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like rods of iron. He ranks first among the works of God..."
-Job 40:15-19 (NIV)

The book of Job is very old, written after the worldwide flood of Noah's time and probably about 2,000 years before Jesus was born. Here God describes a great king of the land animals like some of the biggest dinosaurs, the Diplodocus and Apatosaurus. It was a gigantic plant-eater with great muscles and very strong bones. The long Diplodocus had leg bones so strong that he could have held three others on his back.
The behemoth were not afraid. They did not need to be; they were huge. Behemoth tails were so long and strong that God compared them to cedars--one of the largest and most spectacular trees of the ancient world.

After all the behemoth had died out, many people forgot about them. Dinosaurs were extinct and the fossil skeletons that are in museums today did not begin to be put together until about 150 years ago. Today, some people have mistakenly guessed that the behemoth mentioned in the Bible might be an elephant or a hippopotamus. But those animals do not have tails like the thick, tall trunks of cedar trees!

Answer 4

It has been said that God's perspective of time is different from ours. What would only take him several days to complete it would feel like much longer for a mortal. It may very well be that in God's days the dinosaurs, the caveman, and everything in between took place in evolution during his "seven days." The dinosaurs may have been an evolutional link needed to get us to the point we are today....just a thought...

Answer 5

The dinosaurs were real, therefore, the world must not have been made in 7 days.

Answer 6

Science/cosmology currently believes that the universe is about 14 billion years old. The earth is about 4 billion years old. I've heard the idea put forth that God's "day" could be billions of years, He's just on a different clock. That works okay as far as relativity theory goes . . . time is definitely relative, scientists have been trying to disprove Einstein's theory about that since the early 1900's, and they can't. But if we're talking "Bible stories" here, well, they're stories, that's all. I like the "Let there be light" line in the Bible. It is interesting to note, though, that according to quantum physics, it took about 100,000 years after the universe came into existence for photons to actually be free to radiate, to appear as light. They were too locked up in the "quark soup" of the immensely hot and incredibly dense expanding primordial plasma before then to appear as light. The traces of that light when it first broke free have been measured by satellites and is referred to as the Cosmic Background Radiation.

Answer 7

no one knows how long the 7 days lasted
the dinosaurs could have lived and died in the 7 days

Answer 8

The dinosaurs went "poof" around 65 million years ago... right about the time the last Global Killer asteroid whacked the planet. So much for the biblical literists who claim that the so-called bible states that the world was created in 3862 b.c., or whatever ourageous number they claim to back up their supreme control freak act.

Answer 9

We don't have a real clue as to exactly what amount of time it took, except through geology, astronomy and astrophysics. Best guess so far, 4 and 1/2 BILLION years.

We don't have a clue as to how He really did it, except through geology, biology, paleontology, and physical anthropology. Apparently mitochondrial DNA played some part in our development as a separate species.

To take the first 2 chapters of Genesis as literal, factual truth is to, in effect, leave your brain in the lobby and come on in.

He GAVE you that excellent brain, He GAVE you the will to use it, He GAVE you your very being. USE THEM! THINK! If only for the novelty of it, THINK!

There is forensic evidence of evolution. There is fossil evidence of dinosaurs.

Anyone who tries to tell you that God put it there or that He allowed Satan to "salt the mine" to trick you into heresy or apostasy so He can send you to Hell has been reading too much Jonathan Edwards and John Calvin. That idea of God is so barbarically evil, even I would cross a continent on my knees to avoid Him.

Fortunately, what's wrong with this picture is NOT God. It is that idiotic picture OF Him. Forget it. Tain't so. He's a FATHER. Abba, Jesus calls Him. In Aramaic, "abba" means "DADDY". Daddies don't DO that to their beloved children. Only sociopathic monsters do that to a child. And sociopathic monsters don't create, they destroy.

Answer 10

At the time god created the earth, the dinosaurs were roaming happily as the twinkling in god's eye.

God is a cyclops, ya know.