Did dinosaurs exist when Adam and Eve were created?

Question

Did dinosaurs exist thriught any of the times the bible was written? Were they on the ark?

Answer 1

Yes, they were created with the rest of the animals.

Were dinosaurs on Noah’s Ark?
Were dinosaurs even around then?

The story we have all heard from movies, television, newspapers, and most magazines and textbooks is that dinosaurs “ruled the Earth” for 140 million years, died out 65 million years ago, and therefore weren’t around when Noah and company set sail on the Ark around 4,300 years ago.

However, the Bible gives a completely different view of Earth (and therefore, dinosaur) history. As God’s written Word to us, we can trust it to tell the truth about the past. (For more information about the reliability of Scripture, see Q&A: Bible.)

Although the Bible does not tell us exactly how long ago it was that God made the world and its creatures, we can make a good estimate of the age of the universe by carefully studying the whole counsel of Scripture:

1. God made everything in six days, and rested on the seventh. (By the way, this is the basis for our seven day week—Exodus 20:8–11). Leading Hebrew scholars indicate that, based on the grammatical structure of Genesis 1, these “days” were normal-length, and did not represent long periods of time (see Q&A: Genesis).

2. We are told God created the first man and woman—Adam and Eve—on Day 6, along with the land animals (which would have included dinosaurs).

3. The Bible records the genealogies from Adam to Christ. From the ages given in these lists (and accepting that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came to Earth around 2,000 years ago), we can conclude that the universe is only a few thousand years old (perhaps just 6,000), and not millions of years old (see also The earth: how old does it look? especially under Jesus and the age of the world). Thus, dinosaurs lived within the past few thousand years.

So, were dinosaurs on the Ark?

In Genesis 6:19–20, the Bible says that two of every sort of land vertebrate (seven of the “clean” animals) were brought by God to the Ark. Therefore, dinosaurs (land vertebrates) were represented on the Ark.
How did those huge dinosaurs fit on the Ark?

Although there are about 668 names of dinosaurs, there are perhaps only 55 different “kinds” of dinosaurs. Furthermore, not all dinosaurs were huge like the Brachiosaurus, and even those dinosaurs on the Ark were probably “teenagers” or young adults.

Creationist researcher John Woodmorappe has calculated that Noah had on board with him representatives from about 8,000 animal genera (including some now-extinct animals), or around 16,000 individual animals. When you realize that horses, zebras, and donkeys are probably descended from the horse-like “kind”, Noah did not have to carry two sets of each such animal. Also, dogs, wolves, and coyotes are probably from a single canine “kind”, so hundreds of different dogs were not needed.

According to Genesis 6:15, the Ark measured 300 x 50 x 30 cubits, which is about 460 x 75 x 44 feet, with a volume of about 1.52 million cubic feet. Researchers have shown that this is the equivalent volume of 522 standard railroad stock cars (US), each of which can hold 240 sheep. By the way, only 11% of all land animals are larger than a sheep.

Without getting into all the math, the 16,000-plus animals would have occupied much less than half the space in the Ark (even allowing them some moving-around space).
Conclusion

The Bible is reliable in all areas, including its account of the Ark (and the worldwide catastrophic Flood). A Christian doesn’t have to have a blind faith to believe that there really was an Ark. What the Bible says about the Ark can even be measured and tested today.

Answer 2

Wasn't the Garden of Eden supposed to be a paradise? But what kind of paradise would it be if you constantly had to look over your shoulder to avoid getting chomped by a T-rex?

The story of Noah's ark is one of the clearest proofs yet of how full of sh** the bible is. To hold 2 of every wild animal (& I believe 7 of every domesticated animal), the ark would have needed to be at least a couple miles long, half a mile wide & hundreds of feet high. A boat that big could not have been made out of wood, it would've splintered to pieces under its own weight & required the wood from every last tree for a couple hundred miles around. You would've needed a crew in the hundreds (if not thousands) to tend to all the animals, including feeding them (whoops, need more cargo space for food!), getting rid of all the excrement, keeping the carnivores from eating other animals (what _would_ they eat?), etc. etc. Also in a completely flooded world, how would freshwater species survive? And land vegetation? After the flood, how would species spread out again all around the world in such a short time? You generally need about 1,000 breeding pairs of animals to maintain a species; how did all the animals survive with just one breeding pair each? Does god condone inbreeding? And what DID happen to the dinosaurs? The young-Earth creationists say they existed alongside man, so they must've gotten taken aboard the ark, unless Noah disobeyed god's command. How did Noah ever find room for 2 brontosauruses, 2 ultrasauruses, etc?

For most of us, it's just an urban legend that we only use 10% of our brains. But I think 10% may be generous in describing bible literalists....

Answer 3

Yes God created all the animals.on the 5th day. However, Noah was a lousy carpenter and all the dinosaurs fell through a hole in the ark. Luckily, a couple of hippos were available to plug the hole so the rest of the animals were safe.

Answer 4

Yes they did, Adam and Eve were not simply "created" they did not just pop out of the middle of nowhere. Adam and Eve were the first homo sapiens to exist but this is because they were the first to have evolved from a different species.. one which later became extinct. The idea of creation comes from the idea of evolution. To evolve into something new, is to create a new object. In a sense, god is our explanation for evolution from times before the humans.

Answer 5

Yes dinosaurs existed in the bible.Read Job 40. It speaks about the Behemoth

Answer 6

dinosaurs are described in the book of Job chapters 40-42> its all in the bible! Yet, I believe that the dinosaurs were destroyed by the flood> peace.

Answer 7

That is a very good question. I have been asked that a few times. There was no mention of them on the ark. In the book of JOB there is some mention

Answer 8

Before humans, dinosaurs were God's favorite pet. Then they started sinning, and God became angry and smited them.

They all died.

Then God created men because he wanted a new toy.

Later though, God became angry at men because they started sinning like they were dino's or something. God tried killing them all but one of the critters just wouldn't die. Apparently he clung to some driftwood with the rest of his family.

When the planet dried out (where did all of that water go anyways?!) noah and his family moved to israel and took to incest with a religious fervor never before seen. Some of their more mentally inept offspring mutated into arabs. God started loving the arabs since they were more willing to die for him than anybody else. As a reward for their good service he even promised to give each arab 70 virgins for every christian he killed.

This made things tough on noah and his descendants were weren't arab, because they had to create alot of virgins for these guys and they were already pretty worn out from all of the incest they had been doing up to this point.

But anyways, to get to the point, yes dino's existed. Haven't you ever seen the flintstones? That's based on biblical text and science.

Answer 9

i don't know if they were on the ark or not, but i do know that they did exist when adam and eve were created.
God Bless

Answer 10

Job 40:15...and no they weren't on the Ark...