"The devil put the dinosaur bones in the ground"?

Question

HAHAHAHA has anyone else heard of this

Answer 1

You'd probably enjoy this quote from Carl Sagan:

"One prominent American religion confidently predicted that the world would end in 1914. Well, 1914 has come and gone, and - whole the events of that year were certainly of some importance - the world did not, at least so far as I can see, seem to have ended. There are at least three responses that an organized religion can make in the face of such a failed and fundamental prophecy. They could have said, Oh, did we say '1914'? So sorry, we meant '2014'. A slight error in calculation. Hope you weren't inconvenienced in any way. But they did not. They could have said, 'Well, the world would have ended, except we prayed very hard and interceded with God so He spared the Earth.' But they did not. Instead, the did something much more ingenious. They announced that the world had in fact ended in 1914, and if the rest of us hadn't noticed, that was our lookout. It is astonishing in the fact of such transparent evasions that this religion has any adherents at all. But religions are tough. Either they make no contentions which are subject to disproof or they quickly redesign doctrine after disproof. The fact that religions can be so shamelessly dishonest, so contemptuous of the intelligence of their adherents, and still flourish does not speak very well for the tough-mindedness of the believers. But it does indicate, if a demonstration was needed, that near the core of the religious experience is something remarkably resistant to rational inquiry."

Dinosaurs at the time of Noah? Oh please. On the accuracy of carbon dating: http://www.actionbioscience.org/evolution/benton.html

Answer 2

Yeah, and I've also heard that the earth started about 6,000-some years ago and the whole dinosaurs-from-millions-of-years-ago bit was actually God putting bones in the ground to confuse people or add to his glory or some horses***, I didn't really pay attention.

Apparently, in the early Christian church (about 4 or 500 AD, or CE, depending on which initials you like better), there was some whacko idea that the Devil made pagans believe things a lot like Christianity before Christianity started because they were false prophets and Christianity was the only true religion. It was called diabolical confusion or something like that (look at The Jesus Mysteries--I read it in there.) The basic premise of that book was that Christianity is a Jewish version of a popular pagan mystery religion and Christians were just trying to fool people into thinking they didn't have pagan roots like all the pagan religions around them. What a crock. I mean that Christians would deny their pagan roots, not the book. The book is fascinating and I'd totally recommend it and it makes a lot of sense.

So maybe the Devil-fossil thing is like that--the Devil supposedly put dinosaur remains in the ground to fool people into believing evolution but it really has a Christian explanation. Or maybe Christians are just using the Devil as an explanation for why their religion is superior because they don't want to believe in evolution. Or paganism. Or geological evidence that is literally written in stone. I mean, I wasn't there at the beginning of the world, so I'm not 100% sure how it went down, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't 6,000 years ago and I don't think some deity (God/angels/demons/whoever) would create the earth to look like it was a lot older just to confuse people. Most confusion in the world comes from imperfect human understanding, not the world itself. Occam's Razor says that the simplest explanation is usually the correct one, so why did Christians come up with some bizarre story about devils planting evidence and carbon dating being inaccurate and the world being a mere few thousand years old? Doesn't the evidence seem a lot simpler? I wish Christians would stop trying to figure out the beginning and end of the world and concentrate on what's happening right now. Christ was a cool guy and I don't think he'd approve of a lot of the things people do as "Christians."

Answer 3

Unfortunately, yes, I have heard this. It is ridiculous. The dinosaurs died out after the Flood of Noah abouot 4000 years ago. As to carbond dating, it waas invented by men and is unreliable. Carbon dating dated a living mollusk at 65 million years old. Deat came after Adam's sin in the garden. There are some great resources for research on this matter from a Biblical perspective. I will include them on the source page.

Answer 4

There are a lot of narrow-minded Christians who still believe that dinosaurs are Satan's children. They don't understand the real meanings hidden in the book of Genesis... Get over it, and if you would like to find some decent opinions on creationism (and about dinosaurs :) ) ask an... open-minded protestant or catholic.

Answer 5

Welcome to , the web site of the Creation Evidence Museum in Glen Rose, Texas.

As you browse our pages you will receive educational information presenting scientific evidence for creation and design by a personal Creator. This scientifically chartered museum was established in July of 1984 for the purpose of research, excavation, and display of scientific evidence for creation. The Museum's team, led by its Founder and Director, Carl Baugh, Ph.D., has excavated eleven dinosaurs (Acrocanthosaurus, Stegosaurus, Allosaurus, etc.), 475 dinosaur tracks, 86 human footprints, 7 cat prints, and other fossil remains - all in Cretaceous limestone. Excavations were professionally documented along the Paluxy River and various other international locations.

Among museums this entity makes a unique contribution, demonstrating that man and dinosaur lived contemporaneously.Q: Are dinosaurs found in the Bible?



A: Yes

For a biblical study on dinosaurs in the Old Testament, I would definitely recommend using the Authorized Version (AV)/King James Version (KJV) of the Scriptures which were translated into English from the Masoretic text in 1611 [230 years before the word "dinosaur" was available!]. Using a Strong's Concordance, you will find the Hebrew word "tannin" is used 25 times, and is translated as 'dragon(s),''serpent(s),' 'monster(s)' [and, in the more modern versions, improperly as 'jackal(s)']. The key to remember is to look for Hebrew Lexicon #8577.

CREATION WEEK (~4000 B.C.)

DAY 5--[Gen.1:20-21]--Creation of marine monsters (Hebrew "tannin," includes large marine 'mammals' and 'reptiles') and winged/flying creatures (Hebrew "o(w)ph," includes all feathered and non-feathered flyers--even pterosaurs, the flying reptiles!)

DAY 6--[Gen.1:24-25]--Making of dinosaurs and other land creatures, divided among the cattle (Hebrew "behemah," includes all quadrupedal, hoofed/blunt-toed ungulates), beasts of the earth (bipedal/quadrupedal, talon-toed), and creeping things (quadrupedal/multi-legged ground crawlers).

FLOOD YEAR (~2350 B.C.)

[Gen.6:17,19-20; 7:14-15; 9:17,19]--Juvenile representatives of every terrestrial, air-breathing kind (not species), including dinosaurs and pterosaurs, were directed by God to the Ark.

Those outside the Ark would be left to be scavenged by marine predators or be buried and fossilized quickly.

POST-FLOOD PERIOD

MARINE MONSTERS--[Leviathan (Job 3:8-'mourning'; 41:1-34/Ps.74:14;104:26/ Isa.27:1); see also Lam.4:3 & Amos 9:3].

PTEROSAURS--[esp. the bioluminescent flying reptiles (Isa.14:29 & 30:6)].

DINOSAURS--[see Strong's Concordance(KJV) under "dragon(s);" also Exod. 7:9-10 (#8577, not #5175)].

The best dinosaur passage in the Bible is Job 40:15-24 where God speaks to Job concerning BEHEMOTH ["most excellent beasts"--intensive plural of


Day 6 'cattle' ("behemah")], a huge sauropod dinosaur (especially notice verses 17 &19 !!!). Don't forget to ckeck our website for dinosaur publications under "Resources" and...happy dinosaur hunting!

Source(s):

http://www.creationevidence.org/cemframe...

Answer 6

Now why would the Devil want credit for the beauty of God's Design?

Answer 7

What are you laughing about? How else can you explain fosssils of giant lizards that never walked the earth? they are obviously a trick of Satan, put there to confuse us mortals into believing that crap they call science. You know - that thing that is responsible for increased life span, space travel, medicine, motion pictures...yeah, that lie they call science....

Answer 8

Yes. Then there's the whole spiel about the existence of bananas proving the existence of God. That one's even funnier.

Behold the atheist's nightmare at the link.

Answer 9

never heard it -- it's false -- I put the dinosaur bones there -- I caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.

Answer 10

SERIOUSLY?

Man, how is this any less nutty than evolution?

Prove to me that Satan exists, my friends. Call him up and have him do a little dance for me. Then I'll believe.