Does anyone *honestly* believe that fossils were "planted" by satan to test people?

Question

No, really, I want to know who, if anyone, honestly believes this.
And if you do, how do you explain it? If Satan "planted" these marvellously preserved bones of dinosaurs, to confuse us and to distract us from god, why then wouldn't god simply erase them? As if they had never been?
Is satan then, more powerful than god? Can satan make something that god cannot un-do?
Isn't it FAR more likely that these two fictional characters exist only in a book of bronze-age jewish mythology?
And that dinosaurs, as we all know, were real and continue to reveal the facts about life millions of years ago?
Yes, that certainly does make more sense now doesn't it?

Answer 1

couple points, from my understanding of christian mythology,

1. No living creature died until after the sin of Adam and Eve,

2. Because of the flood in the days of Noah, the water changed the age of fossills. We see fundamentalist Christians asking about radiation bombardment changing the readings in carbon dating, etc.

3. After the flood of Noah lifespans shortened.

So, im surprised no one has said this. Its their mythology its not mine.

Answer 2

No, I don't

What I am about to share are not entire Biblical. However, we must know that Bible is not the book to answer all question to begin with.

When we come to the Creation, almost every other day, God says good. Coming to day 6, he says very good. Because he created man.

But on the second day, when the spirit of the Lord move over the water, it was void, and no mentioned of good.

I believe the theory that earth was created way before the other creation on the Day 2 to Day 6. Meaning, there is a great gap between Day one and Day two.

This is called Gap Theory.

The theologian believe, when satan was cast down, he created havoc on earth, and thus there are mess all around and void. Probably satan and his devil had damaged the creation, and when the Spirit of God move over the water, he never say it was good.

The other creation was actually re-creation. And the previous one was already destroy. Thus becoming fossils.

However, in Job, the Book which is older than Genesis, did record some strange huge creature in I think 39 and 42 chapters. Many scholars believe it could be dino.

Whatever it is, I will not give credit to satan of any creation. He is only good for destruction.

Answer 3

There are many people who would much rather cling to the primitive, irrational beliefs in which they were indoctrinated rather than believe the reality right in front of their eyes. Evolution is a fact demonstrated by the process of natural selection which is still going on today. Species all over the world continue to adapt as the conditions of their environment change. Nonetheless, many, even in an allegedly modern country like the US, would much rather believe the stories created by men thousands of years ago at a time when they didn't even know the earth was a planet that orbited the sun.

Answer 4

There are some ignorant and proud folks on this planet. I suppose it is possible that some do. Satan's greatest tool is deception. The Bible says he may appear as an angel of light (knowledge). If some one could believe in millions of years without questioning how those dates are calculated-then I suppose that some people could believe just about anything. I hope you are not stupid enough to believe that scientist actually use radio-metric dating methods to tell how old fossils are.

Answer 5

I certainly hope not.

I love the story about this little old lady anthropologist. She started translating ancient Greek travelogues which had been overlooked as ancient fluff reading. These travelogues are just like ours - where to go and what to see. The thing that is so cool is she compared all of the sites in the Greek travelogues with current archeological sites. Just think, in ancient Greece, people went to see Cyclops skeletons and Amazon bones - in reality, they are mastodon and wholly rhino bones.

If you give this some thought - pretty interesting development.

Answer 6

This is the only explanation for the fossil record that satisfies me. Too bad his disciple "Johnny Appleseed" accidentally placed false clues in the ground that turned into a living, edible record of how the minions of Satan place non-native historical clues in the ground to fool the non-believers.

Answer 7

No. Fossils were not planted by satan. They were the results of dinos generally dying in some catastrophic condition. Of course I am a creationist as well, and these two do not contradict each other.

http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/dinosaurs.asp

Answer 8

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Answer 9

I do not believe the devil planted fossils. That is ridiculous.

The God-crowd might believe that God left the fossils there to test his believers. To see who the true people are. I don't know. I don't believe in a Christian God.

Answer 10

No... of course not. That is ridiculous. Satan is not the creator... God is. So, dinosaur fossils had to have been planted by God, to fool us. (Tricky rascal, ain't he? Kind of reminds me of Bugs Bunny.)

Answer 11

more likely that these two fictional characters exist only in a book of bronze-age jewish mythology