If The Bible indeed reflects the beginning of time, why does it make no mention of the dinosaurs?

Answer 1

There weren't any dinosaurs and the earth is flat and the center of the universe.

Answer 2

First, the emphasis of the Bible is human history, specifically history in the middle east where the Hebrew people and all the other groups discussed in the Bible lived. The Bible does not mention Aztecs, Incas, or whatever ancestor of these groups lived in the Americas at the time. In fact, it doesn't mention the Americas at all. They just weren't part of the story and neither were dinosaurs.

Second, having said all that, dinosaurs are mentioned in the bible. The word dinosaur did not exist until 1841 so the Bible would not use this word. Here are several places where the Bible could be referring to dinosaurs, note the use of the word dragon. Think about the description of dragons and you will have something very similar, if not identical, to a dinosaur.

Deuteronomy 32:33 their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.

Job 30:29 I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.

Psalms 44:19 Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

Psalms 74:13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.

Psalms 148:7 Praise the LORD from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps:

Isaiah 13:22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.

Isaiah 34:13 And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.

Isaiah 35:7 And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.

Isaiah 43:20 The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.

Jeremiah 9:11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.

Jeremiah 10:22 Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons.

Jeremiah 14:6 And the wild did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.

Jeremiah 49:33 And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a desolation for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man dwell in it.

Jeremiah 51:37 And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.

Micah 1:8 Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and : I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.

Malachi 1:3 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness

Answer 3

Okay, will try as best I can. To begin with, there's no such thing as time. It doesnt exist. It's a concept, a measurement, a calculation or a term used to describe the end result of a calculation or predicting or measuring. Like the watch on your wrist. A spinning ruler, no more no less, geared to explain where you are along your journey from birth to death. It may bind us in this world and flesh but not the creator. He IS the beginning and the end. Time cannot bind him. Here's an analogy to ponder. I could drop a penny and mathematically tell you all you would like to know about that penny and it's journey to the floor and what happens when it hit the floor. Calculating the weight, speed, gravity, air mass, and " time" it took to fall, statistics, ratios, molecular details to fully discover all possibilities and facts of that trip, studying the details to provide a very deep understanding its molecular quantum mechanics. Would you like to know how many atoms are in that penny? I'm sure we could get an answer to that exactly. (+/- some small error factor)
We created that penny from what GOD gave us dominion over in this earth. Now the important part:
GOD knows where each and every particle is at all times and holds it all together by his love, here on the earth - throughout this cosmos - in all of what we perceive to be outer space. He created my sensations and the ability for me to have a thought in my head. He could snap his fingers and * poof * we're gone - all of it. But, he gave his word not to destroy us again - and that's why we continue on.
In all of our imagining and wondering, calculations by the most brilliant minds, we will never be able to comprehend his knowledge. Now, back to "why does it make no mention of the dinosaurs". The Bible states he created the earth and everything in heaven in 6 days. But again, time does not bind him the way it does us. 1 day could have equaled billions of years or a fraction of a second. The animals Adam was naming could have been the dinosaurs.

Answer 4

Just because they aren't mentioned doesn't mean they never existed. There are a lot of animals that aren't mentioned specifically in Genesis.

If you are using this as an argument to disprove the Bible & the idea of creation, I find it takes a lot more faith to believe that all of the complex life forms that we can observe today, evolved from the same primordial soup or slime, and that one animal somehow turned into another, than it does to simply believe that God created it. After all, where did the slime come from? Nothing comes from nothing. Matter is not eternal, nor does it spontaneously generate.

The dinosaurs existed ... God created them along with all of the other land animals on Day 6. They died in the climate change that followed the flood.

Answer 5

There ARE dinosaurs mentioned in the Bible. The word "dinosaur" was invented in 1842, prior to that, and throughout history, they were referred to as dragons.

Behemoth and leviathan are only two examples of dinosaurs mentioned in the bible. There are others, like the "unicorn", which is described as having great strength and impossible to tame. Most, if not all, mammals can be tamed, even the very largest, like elephants. Repiles, on the other hand, cannot be tamed.

For more information, download the free video entitled "Dinosaurs and the Bible" at http://www.drdino.com/downloads.php

Answer 6

It does.

Job 40:15 references a behemoth, mammoth probably.

In Isaiah 27:1, Psalm 104:26, Psalm 74:14 and Job 41:1 there is reference to leviathan, a great serpent.

Google these or "dinosaurs in the bible"...

Answer 7

Because the bible is a creation story. Anyone who believes in creation stories dont believe in evolution. Dinosaurs are part of evolution. The bible and God are just lame excuses for anything humans cant understand. So they came up with stupid stories instead of investigating what the real answer could be.

Answer 8

It reflects the beginning of creation. Time was already there. There's lots of concrete things the bible doesn't touch on. You need to read it. Dinosaurs wre not at the beginning of time.

Answer 9

How do you know it does not? The word 'Dinosaur' was coined by scientists who discovered the old bones & fossils of those giant creatures, so for all you know, what we know as dinosaurs COULD have been mentioned in the Old Testement & we do not even know what it is exactly.

The Book of Genesis mentions "giants"living before the time of the flood. Could those giants have been the dinosaurs?

Answer 10

You never heard of Leviathan?

Excerpts from the Bible:

[ 41:1-8 is numbered 40:25-32 in Hebrew texts.] "Can you pull in the leviathan [ Possibly the crocodile] with a fishhook or tie down its tongue with a rope?



Job 41:12 TNIV • Read this chapter
"I will not fail to speak of Leviathan's limbs, its strength and its graceful form.



Psalm 74:14 TNIV • Read this chapter
It was you who crushed the heads of Leviathan and gave it as food to the creatures of the desert.

Answer 11

The "Leviathin" mentioned in the book of Job is probably a dinosaur. The bible refers to it as a fire breathing dragon. Did you know that it is chemically and physiologically possible to have a fire breathing dragon? Two chemicals or substances stored in separate cavities in the skull that are neutral until mixed during a snort of air.