Do you believe in dinosaurs?

Question

My english teacher actually tried to tell me that dinosaurs may have been in the garden of eden. He said that perhaps they were the leviathan.....this is how he explains the fossils...discuss.

Do you believe they are millions of years old....even with carbon dating and the like?

personally i believe they existed....how can you not? also the way i explain the bible is that it cannot be taken lightly. do you think God would have tried to explain the big boom and other things such as evolution to nomads and farmers and other random people of the ancient world? It would have blown their minds....this is why the creation story was well created in my opinion. Humans do not have to capacity to understand God and his true powers, so i think he may have dumbed things down a bit.......

Answer 1

Yes

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Answer 2

Yes, I believe that dinosaurs exsisted. I don't know if they were in the garden of eden, however, dinos are just reptiles, big lizards, and lizards were around then, as they are today. Leviathan is just a crocodile.

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. The book A Vanished World: The Dinosaurs of Western Canada states that “all of the 11 major kinds of dinosaurs . . . ceased to exist in the western interior at about the same time.” This, and the fact that human bones have not been found with dinosaur bones, is why most scientists conclude that the Age of Dinosaurs ended before humans came on the scene.

However, it should be noted that there are some who say that dinosaur bones and human bones are not found together because dinosaurs did not live in areas of human habitation. Such differing views demonstrate that the fossil record does not yield its secrets so easily and that no one on earth today really knows all the answers.

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.

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, LXX). 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.—Gen. 6:19, 20; 7:14.

Some of the older translations of the Bible at times use the word “dragons” to translate the Hebrew tan·ni·nim´ (“sea monsters,” NW). (Ps. 74:13; 148:7; Isa. 27:1, Authorized Version) The term “dragon” (Greek, dra´kon) is found in the Christian Greek Scriptures. It has been suggested as possible that, rather than having a purely mythical source, this expression may originally have been applied to enormous creatures such as the dinosaurs, taking on mythical tones only after these mammoth creatures had long disappeared. Interestingly, many of the mythical depictions of the “dragon” strongly resemble certain types within the family of huge reptilian creatures that includes the dinosaur.

The fossil record of the dinosaurs supports not evolution but creation.

Answer 3

of course they existed, there is an entire fossil record to show that they were walking, breathing creatures, that died out around 65 million years ago. this probably why he is an english teacher and not a biology or history teacher. there is no actual evidence that the garden of eden existed. and he says that actually leviathan was all over the world, and appeared in many different forms, wierd. anyways, he is just coming up with a bad excuse to keep believing something that is not true, it's a story, neither more nor less

Answer 4

I do not believe they existed, I know they existed. There is ample evidence to back up the claim. And get this, evidence that you can touch, see, smell and taste if you like. Sorry, fossils can't make any noises so you can really hear a fossil.

And since dinosaurs ruled the earth for millions of years, I'm sure some even hung out in the place called "garden of eden"...

Answer 5

So where are the bones of eve and adam? heh. And the leviathan is a serpent god worshipped by the Sumarians. As well, apparently the garden of eden was made on the 6th day, dinosaurs existed long before that by standard scientific age testing.

As well, it was so hot during that time, due to the earth being closer to the sun, that people would not be able to survive. The heat also resulted in very large insects, thus the dinosaurs also being able to grow to monstrous sizes.

Answer 6

It's the carbon dating that proves they are millions of years old. Yes, I believe in dinosaurs. No, I don't believe they coexisted with people in the Garden of Eden. The Bible is a religious text, not a scientific one.

Answer 7

Dinosaurs existed millions of years before humans inhabited the earth.

An english teacher should stick to teaching Steinbeck and Pearl S. Buck.

Answer 8

Believe in dinosaurs like how some people believe in god. Nah, you can't mean that! Well, dinosaurs existed millions of years ago & fossils are the evidence for them. You english teacher should stick to english not venture into science or biology or geology, fields beyond his competence.

Answer 9

It is possible that 'leviathan was at the garden of Eden.
Behemoth (?) is also mentioned in thebook of Job (chapter & verse ?), of which the description does not seem to fit a modern animal. Considering Job ((son of Isaachar Gen. 46:13, time wise) around Joseph or his son) it being around humans is biblically possible.
P.S. I would have to look into the matter deeper, but I thought leviathan was probably a 'fire breathing sea serpent'.

Answer 10

The evidence is OVERWHELMING. Yes, there were dinosaurs, and yes, they existed millions of years ago. Empirical science, based on testing, observation, and a proven scientific method shows this.

My high school chemistry teacher, a very devout LDS man, when asked by others what he thought about this, stood strongly by the evidence; although he was very religious, he understood the science and the methods, and saw them to be valid.

Answer 11

The thing is...you don't have to have "faith" to believe in dinosaurs because there is ACTUAL evidence to prove their existence. Just go to any Natural History and Science Museum. Or instead of listening to your English teacher...talk to your Science teacher about it.

God, Adam and Eve on the other hand...nothing to prove they were here.