If God created the earth and man by the 7th day, what about dinosaurs? Who created them if science says they?

Question

existed before man. Yet if science is right where do we come from?

Answer 1

When did God create dinosaurs, and when did they become extinct?

The Bible does not provide specific answers to this question. According to the Genesis account, animals were created during the fifth and sixth creative periods or ‘days.’ If the Hebrew expression translated “great sea monsters” [Hebrew, tan·ni·nim'] includes dinosaurs, which often inhabited swampy, watery areas, this would mean that dinosaurs were created on the fifth “day.” (Gen. 1:21) We do not know whether they continued to exist until man was created (toward the close of the sixth “day”). At the very latest it seems likely that they must have disappeared off the earth at the time of the flood of Noah’s day. Dinosaurs were reptiles, and some kinds of dinosaurs bear strong resemblance structurally and otherwise to lizards (sauros is, in fact, the Greek word for “lizard”; saura in Leviticus 11:29 . Not all types of dinosaurs were of such gigantic size. Hence, even if they had survived till the Flood, this would not have required taking pairs of the mammoth varieties into the ark. Other smaller members of the particular family or “kind” to which these belonged would have sufficed to fulfill the divine command.

While the radioactive dating method is innovative, it is still based on speculation and assumption. In contrast, the Bible account in the first chapter of Genesis simply states the general order of creation. It allows for possibly thousands of millions of years for the formation of the earth and many millenniums in six creative eras, or “days,” to prepare the earth for human habitation.

Some dinosaurs (and pterosaurs) may indeed have been created in the fifth era listed in Genesis, when the Bible says that God made “flying creatures” and “great sea monsters.” Perhaps other types of dinosaurs were created in the sixth epoch. The vast array of dinosaurs with their huge appetites would have been appropriate considering the abundant vegetation that evidently existed in their time.—Genesis 1:20-24.

When the dinosaurs had fulfilled their purpose, God ended their life. But the Bible is silent on how he did that or when. We can be sure that dinosaurs were created by Jehovah for a purpose, even if we do not fully understand that purpose at this time. They were no mistake, no product of evolution. That they suddenly appear in the fossil record unconnected to any fossil ancestors, and also disappear without leaving connecting fossil links, is evidence against the view that such animals gradually evolved over millions of years of time. Thus, the fossil record does not support the evolution theory. Instead, it harmonizes with the Bible’s view of creative acts of God.

When Did They Live?

Dinosaurs played a dominant role in life on earth during their age. But then they came to an end. The rock layers containing human fossils consistently occur above those layers containing dinosaur fossils. Because of this, scientists generally conclude that humans came on the earthly scene later.

In this regard the book Palaeontology, by James Scott, states: “Even the earliest species of Homo sapiens (man) lived long after the disappearance of the dinosaurs . . . After tilting (through earth movement) has been allowed for, rocks containing fossil men consistently occur above those preserving the bones of the great dinosaur reptiles and it follows that the latter belong to an earlier age than the human remains.”

Answer 2

Here is something to think about. Personally I do not have a clue as to how long a single day was when God created the earth.
For all we know 1 day could equal a million or more of our years. Now wouldn't that make some sort of sense then God would of created the earth and it's surroundings in 6 million years plus. By using this formula the dinosaurs would exist, the scientist would be correct when they say how old the earth is. Now can't we just get along.

Answer 3

All other creatures were created before man, which is what science tells us as well. The bible doesn't say that dinosaurs didn't exist. It mentions the animals as beasts of the field, so dinosaurs very well may be included in there. And when the bible speaks of days, don't think of that literally. There is no reason why God would interpret a day as we do, because since God is immortal, he has no reason to count a day as the rising and settin of the sun. He existed before the sun, why would he then feel the need to dictate his plans around it? Thats like you have an ant farm in your room and every time you turn the light switch on and off they think its a day. But maybe you're just going in your room to get a pair of socks and then you leave again. just because its a day to them doesnt mean its a day to you. So in your world 7 days pass, but in their world 50 days have passed cuz u happened to turn the light on 50 times in those 7 days. Do you get it? So anyway, 7 days to God could be 300 billion years to us.

Answer 4

man was made on the sixth day. And he was made in God's image. This means that Adam and Eve and their children were extremely intelligent beings. It's my philosophy that they had gene splicing down to an art for and "created" dinosaurs themselves. That's one of the reasons God sent the flood and destroyed the dinosaurs along with all the knowledge of the generations before. Certainly the eight people who were saved on the boat didn't have very much of the knowledge of the millions on earth before them. In fact it was probably those people who first inhabited caves.

Answer 5

you're utilising the word "Christian" whilst i think of you mean fundamentalist, evangelical Protestants, that are actual an exceedingly small volume of Christians. Catholics are over one million/2 of the international's Christians and Orthodox over 1 / 4 and the mainline denominations are distinctive something leaving your fundamentalists with very few human beings. they're a modern addition to the Christian international (1950's) and that i'd relish it in case you will look extra into those isssues earlier throwing us all in at the same time to arguments maximum Christians do no longer attempt to make. maximum folk of Christians (and the Jews who wrote this fantasy) have not got self belief it to be a historic rfile or a scientific rfile yet in basic terms a non secular rfile that describes our relationship with God, the place we slot interior the international and what life would have been like with out sin. The snake represents the forces of evil tempting us, the backyard represents humanity and nature coexisting completely and God strolling interior the backyard represents a time whilst He became into on the brink of humanity. i think Genesis is actual yet no longer interior the experience you assert. Augustine warned us to no longer take what's non secular language as literal language and that i think of that's what you and the fundamentalists are doing to this rfile and it takes the soul out of it. to boot, you never heard that the word day in Genesis has additionally been translated as age. as a result the animals would have had tens of millions of years to evolve earlier guy got here approximately leaving extinct species like the dinosaur around. The Pope actual mentioned that evolution is extra desirable than an thought meaning it fairly is likely the tactic God used to create the distinctive animal scecies and humanity.

Answer 6

God created dinosaurs. It suppossedly describes one in the book of job. Plus there is actually a strong possibility that they existed with man. Scientists only have theories.

Answer 7

Well, according to the Biblical record God created all of the other living creatures before He created man.

Answer 8

According to Science, Barney the Dinosaur created Man so He (Barney) would have short midgets to sing and dance with.

Answer 9

God created Dinosaurs too... (411th time this was asked today... they just keep getting smarter and smater)

Answer 10

while adam and eve where in the garden of eden. the dinosuars were on the earth.