If the earth is really 6000 yrs. old, did dinosaurs exist or not?

Question

I know they existed. This one is for Christians who don't believe in evolution.

skeeter_jen

Really? Dinos in the OT? Where?

Answer 1

I, personaly, feel that taking the begining story literaly, according to the strict fudamental way of interpreting, is not quite the way it should be. (Boy, did I just get some Christians upset with me on that)

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my pov on creation / evolution

Answer 2

I think the dinosaurs existed 6000 years ago, along with adam and eve, but in a separate part of the world, adam might have named them when they were babies, but they traveled to a different part to live since they got so big.

Carbon dating isn't accurate because of the flood, the flood washed away what is needed to date, so it looks like things are older than they really are. This is a fact, not guessing, I saw it on the history channel, the scientists agree.

I think the earth was 1 piece in the beginning, like a big island in the big ocean, but when the flood happened, the force was so powerful, it just tore up the world, thats why if you look at a globe, you can see that all the continents are like a puzzle, they fit together. and thats why they say how did certain things get from one continent to another when they didn't have any way to get across oceans at that time. It's because the world was broken up.

I think the dinosaurs must have died out somehow before the flood, since if Noah took 2 of each animal, then we would still have dinosaurs today.

Answer 3

Seems to me, that the problem here is time. Time as it was in the Bible, and time as we know it. Dinasaurs did exist in time, I just don't believe it was in the time of man, and only human history is recorded, and some of those births are left out. I do believe the Bible, but Adam lived for 930 years on earth, and was the first to die, (without murder).
How many people do we know even make it to 150? And there aren't that many 100 year olds either. Must have been good living back then? Well if the dinasaurs had lived and coexisted with humans, even before Abel's death, wouldn't it be a harder life trying to stay out of the way of a dinasaur the world's largest of creatures? Has anyone seen fossils in the same area with humans and dinasaurs together? I haven't heard of this discovery.
People lived longer in Adam's time, but they had to stay out of the way of the dinasaur who would have been competing for the food from the trees, as they were all vegatareans. It just doesn't make any sense.
Since I do believe in Creation and I also believe that dinasaurs existed, this is what I see as happening. God had made the earth, but as far as the days of the creation, they would have had to be much longer. If God created Man and destroyed him in a flood, because he was not satisfied with his creation, why could he have not placed dinosaurs here first, and destroyed them if he were not satisfied? And that old world was passed, and he then put the human here after that world was destroyed by Him.
Wouldn't an Ice Age be but a blast from his nostrils? I mean, it makes more sense than anything else I've seen on either side of the debate.

Answer 4

"scientists: 4.5 billion years old
christian scientists: 6,000 years old

i go for the 6k theory, and yes, i believe dinosaurs existed. i know teh Bible says 2 by 2, of each animal... but could u really picture bringing giant dinosaurs onto the ark to be saved? i can't.

some probably survived in the water, hence alligators"

You know what i love about this answer- the fact that A) he claims that alligators are dinosaurs (which isn't correct) or B) the alligators evolved from dinosaurs. So a young earth evolutionist? Kinda of a oxymoron.

I'm not trying to insult, just pointing out bad logic. Anyways, yeah, so I really think the earth is older than 6,000 years (like 4.2 billion or something like that) and that dinosaurs existed 65 million years ago and man came after them.

Answer 5

Although some ignorant radical Christians believe the earth to be just a few thousand years old, they are either wrong, or God lied to us.

Seriously, the earth has been around for billions of years and the dinosaurs really did exist. To believe otherwise is blindsiding yourself. There is simply too much scientific evidence to prove the age of the earth is very old.

Answer 6

yes dinosaurs did but everyone already answered that.But it has to be 5 mil.+ because the moon has been dated 4 mil. i think and it supposedly originated from the earth in its creation. I also think that the dinosaurs where here about 1 mil years ago. but that had nothing to do with the question. lol btw i got all this from scientists on t.v. and personal sources :)
some people might say that god lied to us about the age of the earth but really if you look at it or the way i think is that in G time(or god time) for him it could be millions of years for us so the 2 theories can be completely right.

Answer 7

The earth really is only about 6000 years old. And dinosaurs did exist. In fact, they were on Earth at the same time as humans. Look in your bible. They are talked about in the Old Testament.

Answer 8

Which has more proof to support it?

How much proof do you have that the world is only 6000 yrs old? One book and a lot of dogma.

How much proof do you have that dinosaurs existed? Go to any museum.

You make the call.

Answer 9

even if it's just 6000 years old (which i agree with you there), who do you think put the dino fossils in place? the aliens? yes, there were dinosaurs. there is indisputable evidence of them. the wooly mamouth that was found completely in tact, frozen in the side of a mountain, all the thousands of complete dino bones that have been excavated, yes, they existed even in a young earth, 6000 years is a lot of time.

Answer 10

The entire universe and all that is in it (sun, moon, stars, planets, Earth, angels (Genesis 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them) - including Lucifer who later became Satan- the adversary or the “Devil”, animals- including what we now call dinosaurs, and Adam and Eve) were all created by the Word of God during the 6 days of creation mentioned in Genesis chapters 1 and 2. Also see Exodus 20:11, and John 1:1-3. God did all of his creative work by the power of his Word. Job 37:5 God thundereth marvellously with his voice; great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend. The 6 “days” (Hebrew-yom) of creation mentioned in Genesis were literal solar days and not long periods of time (as some have suggested). Furthermore there was no “gap” between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2 as some have suggested. This would put the date of creation at approx. 6000 years ago assuming no ‘gaps’ in the genealogies given in the Bible (which I believe there to be none). Even if we allow for ‘gaps’ the maximum possible time frame would be perhaps 10,000 years; far to little to support the millions and billions theorized by some. This is the clear straightforward reading of the Word. One does not get the idea of millions or billions of years from the Word. These ideas are extra-Biblical in origin. We MUST grant the Holy Spirit the honor of being more learned than we are (quote unknown) and take God at His Word when He told us how He made everything. Modern man, usually out of fear of non-conformity or academic peer pressure will invent all manors of alternative theories to discount a literal 6 day recent creation. Whether one suggest uniformitarianism (billions of years of gradual processes), punctuated equilibrium (billions of years of ‘leaps’), “day-age”, “gap”, progressive creationism, theistic evolution, or out and out atheistic evolutionary theories, they all ultimately exalt man’s wisdom, and downgrade the purity of God’s perfect Word. God’s world, as He created it originally was perfect; or to use God’s own words, it was “very good”. Death, struggle for life, i.e. animals and people preying upon one another is NOT the picture one gets reading the Biblical account of creation, and the Edenic pre-sin world. These aforementioned are all repercussions of Adam and Eve’s sin. More on this will be discussed later. The answer is quite simple. The fossil record indicates death, struggle, sickness, and catastrophe. That being the case, since the Word is clear in that no death took place before Adam sinned, and since Adam was the first man, the fossil record cannot be millions or billions of years old. To believe this one MUST say that the Bible is in error when it says that no death occurred before sin entered into the world through Adam. Romans 5:12 -- Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.

Answer 11

Dinosaurs were the dominant life form for around 160 million years. Human species have only been around for at most 2.5 million years.
Thnk about it - we're the new kids on the block. What killed off the dinosaurs? What'll it take to kill US off? I remember a cartoon captioned "Why the dinosaurs are extinct", and it showed a group of dinosaurs standing around smoking cigarettes.