2006-07-20 03:48:31 · 16 answers · asked by The Don 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Cos they were already extinct by then and people had no idea that they existed?
2006-07-20 03:51:59 · answer #1 · answered by Forest_aude 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dinosaurs first appeared approximately 230 million years ago. At the end of the Cretaceous period 65 million years ago, dinosaurs suffered a catastrophic extinction. The Bible only took place a few thousand years ago. Back then, they did not have the technology to find dinosaur fossils and they new nothing of them. Therefore there would be no mention of dinosaurs and if there were, they were probably just known by different names..
2006-07-20 04:00:11 · answer #2 · answered by Meg S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For your information the Bible does mention dinosaurs just not using the MODERN term "Dinosaur". Behemoth, Leviathan and Dragon - are mentioned and apparently existed up a little past the Genesis accounts of history. SOME dinosaurs survived the flood - mostly the aquatic ones - and somehow a flying dragon species as well.
2006-07-20 05:11:53 · answer #3 · answered by Victor ious 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Supposedly, the bible says the earth is only "about" 2000 years old. Dinosaurs were on the earth long before man, millions of years ago...
2006-07-20 03:52:42 · answer #4 · answered by ray of sunshine 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they hadn't been discovered yet. Which is ironic since the bible is supposed to be divinely inspired. And god is supposed to have "created" everything and anything on earth. That would include dinosaurs.
So, why wouldn't his "divinely" inspired manifesto include them?
The answer is simple; there is no god.
The bible was written by men. Designed to frighten the sheep with stories of some childish boogey man in order to keep them in the church and more importantly, to keep the collection plate full.
2006-07-20 03:56:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because Man wrote the word of God, and at that time, there was no knowladge of the dinosaur fossils found deep within the earth.
And besides, why write about somthing that has already happened and doesn't really matter in man's development?
2006-07-20 04:00:21 · answer #6 · answered by Benjamin 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible shouldn't be taken literally, it's not absolute truth...also certain churches have control over what goes in the Bible and what goes out. It's been reinterpreted thousands of times, nobody knows what the original Bible really said.
2006-07-20 03:53:15 · answer #7 · answered by James P 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are references to Behemoths in Job and Leviathans elsewhere. The general thought is that they went extinct shortly after the flood.
Here's some good info from a creationist point of view.
http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/dinosaurs.asp
2006-07-20 03:56:31 · answer #8 · answered by bobm709 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How 'bout they were called by another name? Does the Bible mention the names of the Oceans? Horses, anacondas, the Alps, etc., etc.?
2006-07-20 03:56:25 · answer #9 · answered by Mr.Wise 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You ever heard of Lake Lockness in Scotland ?
2006-07-20 04:38:18 · answer #10 · answered by the ant ! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because the stories of how the earth was created where just that, stories meant to explain something bigger, not everything in the bible is fact, but meant to explain something to minds that cant truly comprehend.....
2006-07-20 03:54:08 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋