What do you think of the group of Christians who say that dinosaurs and man existed at the same time?

Question

I personally think these are the same people who watch the "Flintstones" as if it was a documentary.

Answer 1

What really amazes me is that many groups present such an idea as if it were a viable alternative, as if there were evidence that it might be true.
Quite the contrary -- it isn't even a matter of "belief" at all. There is overwhelming scientific evidence that dinosaurs (who, in various incarnations lived and died out millions of years before anything like modern humans appeared on earth) and humans (who evolved into the form we consider "modern" humans about 100,000 years ago) never came anywhere close to being on the earth at the same time. That's doesn't require "believing" or not in anything, just a rational observation of the facts.
The same groups that claim to believe the earth is some 6,000-odd years old (just because the bible's timeline can sort of be worked out backwards to a date around there) are on an equally unsound footing. There is NO scientific evidence (despite many attempts to find some) that supports an earth that young, and TONS of scientific evidence (across all scientific disciplines -- geology, cosmology, astronomy, biology, acheaology, etc.) that put the earth's age at about 4.5 billion years.
The fact that a "lot" of peple believe something doesn't make it right. :) Facts and evidence do.

Answer 2

Actually there is some scientific evidence for such a thing. First, in Texas there was a human hand found in the ribcage of a dinosaur predator about 18 years ago I think. It was in a place called Dinosaur Valley. You can even go there today and see it. That is a very strong case for them existing at the same time. According to the claimed geological column, humans and dinosaurs have been discovered in the same layers of rock. While I find there to be a lot of trouble when coming to theory of the geological column, it is still a fairly reasonable assumption that they existed at the same time.

Third, there is historical accounts of dinosaurs in the Bible. Job 39-40 speak of two in specific. The leviathan and the behemoth. The leviathan actually was said to spit sparks from its mouth, much like a creature today called the bombadeer beetle, except it spits them from its butt, so we do know that it's possible for creatures to have this feature. Incidentally, Job is the oldest recorded text in the Bible, which would place it far before the accounts of Moses in authorship.

Not only that, but there are accounts of dragons in virtually every ancient culture, and the dimensions on many of these dragons is remarkably similar to what we see in many dinosaur skeletons.

There are many people, Christian and non-Christian, that believe in a great flood that covered the earth. There are fossils of sea life found on every location on earth, so it is safe to say that at least at one point, there was water covering the whole planet. With that theory is something called the water canopy theory, and is used to explain the continental drift. Before that flood, this theory states, there was a "bubble" of water and ice around the earth which would have done a few things. First, it would have drasticly diffused radiation coming into the atmosphere. Second, it would have caused a much more universal climate accross the planet. Third, due to that radiation reduction, it is very likely that creatures would live for a much longer period of time. This would account for many ancient cultures which claimed that people used to live several hundred years. It also would account for the supposed neanderthal man. Via a study recently conducted at (I think) Michigan State, if a person lived for 400+ years, they would look much like a neanderthal man due to the fact that the human body never stops changing shape until death. But that's another matter.

Reptiles do not stop growing until they die. That's a simple fact. They just keep getting bigger and bigger. Let's say that an iguana kept growing, and instead of living a maximum of 25 years, they lived a maximum of 100 years. At 25 years they are about 9 feet long. At a hundred years, assuming they were not in a place that would restrict growth, they would easily be reaching up to 36 feet in length. That sounds an awful lot like a dinosaur size to me. Through genetic decomposition, natural selection, etc, even Christians won't decline the minor changes in species. With or without evolution, it's not a far throw to believe that our lizards today, are really not that different from dinosaurs back then.

The theory that humans and dinosaurs existed at the same time is a very old one, and has been gaining popularity in the last 15 years or so. So I wouldn't discount it too quickly.

Answer 3

I watched a series by a Dr. Wilder and there was a clip in there where a fossilized dinosaur footprint had right next to it in the same fossil, a fully developed home-sapien foot print. The poto could have been doctored, who's to say, but this scientist posed a very good theory. What if the earth had at one time been encircled by layer of water, like the shell of an egg, this water filtered radiation and gave the earth a lower gravity, higher oxygen levels and a more constant temperature. This would explain why dinosaurs chest cavities house lungs that are too small for their size. The theory suggests a cataclysmic event where a meteorite punctured this water and caused it to fail and fall to the earth. Freezing in the upper atmosphere it would fall like a slush and encase living creatures instantly in ice. The pursuant dust cloud from the impact would have caused the ice age. The Bible talks about people living 1000 years, maybe that was possible in this filtered, oxygen rich environment, it would explain the flood which is not unique to the bible, several other people groups mention the flood.

Answer 4

i think of maximum, even creationists renowned there is sufficient evidence of dinosaurs contemporary. What some reject is the timeline that scientists have regularly occurring. some creationists even attempt to argue that dinosaurs have been on the ark with Noah with the intention to maintain a literal interpretation of the flood tale and save a timeline that coincides with their interpretation of the Bible. of course the dinosaur subject is in elementary terms a small component to the improbability of the full Noah tale: loading each and each of the animals pondering some could could shuttle hundreds of thousands of miles, how and the place did they get each and each of the food, water vapor could have been so extreme in air if finished international flooded you may no longer be waiting to breath, etc.... Many christians different than literalists believe we could continuously the two see distinctive the thoughts allegorically or that a liberal interpretation is needed fairly than attempting to work out the Bible as concrete fact.

Answer 5

It's an opinion, and they're entitled to it. (Maybe dinosaurs drowned in the Flood; they were too big for the ark!)

The way I see it, the "days" described in Genesis 1 were actually periods of time. Animals and humans were created on the same "day", but perhaps some animals died out before the later part of the "day" when humans were created.

Some also think that dinsaurs were part of an earlier creation which happened, and disappeared, between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2.

Answer 6

Those Christians believe in what they only want as truth despite scientific reasoning – It's very disappointing. They even say cave drawings have dinosaurs in them, but you know, cave men had the drawing capacity of a six year old. As for this human footprint business, it's just another wild assumption like the face on Mars or Loch Ness.

Answer 7

It's grasping at straws. We know that dinosaurs existed (or you could take the 'Intelligent' Design approach and say that some superior being put them there to make us THINK they existed... sigh) and have evidence to prove that.

We know that evolution exists and is continuing to take place, and have evidence to prove that.

We know that outer-space exists, and that planets exist, and have evidence to prove this...

... but because the Bible doesn't say it, or that it doesn't fit in with the time as laid out in the Bible... then the evidence is wrong... as the Bible is the end-all be-all document describing Earth. It's infallible.

I find it very disconcerting that people who follow that philosphy are blind to the truth, and cannot advance their faith or beliefs.

Granted, these are the same people who, if Jesus was to arrive AGAIN on our lowly planet, would lock him up and throw away the key thinking he was a loon.

Answer 8

dinosaurs died before man and woman existed. they where never on earth together. I do miss the Flintstones on TV. I loved that show

Answer 9

Why do you feel the need to cast insults and discredit your own question?

There is indeed physical evidence of hominids existing during times of the dinosaurs.

Whether these were humans is debatable.
Whether dating methodologies are accurate is debatable.

Whether a human or something like it stepped in a dinosaurs track while the track was still moist is a matter of fact.

Answer 10

http://www.bible.ca/tracks/tracks.htm

Taylor Trail

A series of 14 human footprints with at least 134 dinosaur tracks in the bed of the Paluxy River, near Glen Rose, Texas.