If god created the world in 6-7 days then when did the dinosaurs live?

Question

I am not christian I'm a wiccan but have always wanted to know the answer to this question.. and no I'm not discriminating or making fun of this faith I just really want to know.

Answer 1

Many Jews, Christians, and Muslims take stories and make them literal. The Bible is nothing more than Aesop's Fables.

Be good.

Answer 2

Its a good quesiton.

The one thing that Godly Christians are supposed to develop is faith. I don't know why- truthfully? I'd rather KNOW GOD than take what is said about him on faith.

The only thing I can come up with, is theres either an explaination we don't know about or they were planted there on purpose.

Theres another answer, but I'm not good at puzzles so work with me here ok? Everything in the Creation Story in Genesis is accounted for by a mix of evolution and sub atomic theory. Now, suppose that God created the universe and everything like it says- and for some reason he created the dinasaurs, but he wanted people. Since he knew all things, and people needed gasoline and diesel oil he created dinasaurs then wiped them out on purpose, knowing that they would be turned into fossel fuels for humans in the future. Thats my guess

Answer 3

Well, I believe that when God created the world, he also made dinosaurs. And then there was about 1500 years until the Great Flood wiped out life as people knew it (and killed most of the dinosaurs). Then after the flood, it was increasingly hard for the dinosaures to survive due to the change in climate and population of animals and a number of more reasons. So that's why there aren't huge lizzards crawling all over everything today. I donno if that at all answered your question...

Answer 4

Unless you're a fundamentalist, the story of creation as told in Genesis is symbolic. Each "day" is referring to a period of time, rather than an actual 24-hour span. Fundamentalists try to get around this idea by claiming that dinosaurs actually lived, but they were much smaller and lived during the time of man. They claim the "behemoth" mentioned in the story of Noah's Ark was actually a dinosaur, while in reality, the description of a behemoth given fits several African plains creatures.

Answer 5

Look up the Hebrew word tannin
The Bible is clear. The ancestors of every animal that ever lived were created during Creation Week. Each basic animal type was created "after his kind" and all subsequent individual animals, including dinosaurs, descended from these created categories.
On Day Five (Genesis 1:20-23) God created marine life and flying animals, but animals such as the plesiosaur and flying reptiles weren't dinosaurs. However, the Bible does mention "great whales" (v. 21) literally "great sea monsters" or "great dragons." Such terms bring up images of beasts reminiscent of modern re-constructions of dinosaurs and giant marine reptiles.
Day Six saw land animals created (vs. 24-31). Since dinosaurs were land creatures of a variety of sizes and habits, they would be included among the various "kinds" of "living creatures": the "cattle" or domesticated animals; the "creeping things" or small animals; and the "beasts of the earth", the large animals. They were of necessity air-breathing and land-dwelling.
At first, everything was "very good" (v. 31), but soon sin entered, resulting in the curse (Genesis 3) and, eventually, Noah's Flood (Genesis 6-9). Noah was told to take on board the Ark two of each kind of created animal "in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land" (7:22), including, no doubt, dinosaurs.
Outside the Ark, marine creatures died by the trillions, but at least some of them survived to continue those "kinds" after the flood, and thus at least some marine "dragons" survived. Sailors have ever since, even up to the present, reported "dragons" at sea. It may be that some are still alive.
The land and flying dinosaurs could only have survived on the Ark, only to disembark at the end of the flood into a strange and hostile world. We can surmise that the environmental conditions, with the sparse vegetation, the destruction of the pre-flood water canopy, and the temperature extremes during the ensuing Ice Age would have caused many animal types to become extinct, a process which continues today. Evidently the dinosaurs just didn't make it!
But there is good evidence that they survived at least for awhile. God's description of the large "behemoth" in Job 40:15-24 sounds remarkably like a large sauropod. And the description of "leviathan" (Job 41) seems to imply the kind of huge, fearsome beast reported in many "dragon legends" from every continent around the globe.
In fact, "dragon legends" are best understood as the faded and/or embellished memories of real human encounters with dragons. Sober historians from Herodotus to Marco Polo to Alexander the Great and many others appear to be relating such encounters, and their descriptions of these beasts sound like dinosaurs. Likewise, American-Indian stories of the "thunderbird" sound like a giant flying reptile, and some of their cave drawings resemble dinosaurs.
The barest possibility exists that some land dinosaurs could still be alive, as reported by certain rain-forest inhabitants, but more likely they are all extinct.
There is much we don't know about dinosaurs, but the evidence fits the Biblical model well. Evolutionists, however, have difficulty explaining away dragon legends, cave drawings, and even modern "sightings." Furthermore, they can't explain either their demise or their evolution. The "just-so" stories they tell are inferior when compared to a reconstruction of the past based on the Bible.

Answer 6

Probably in The second or Third day.
They were here there is no doubt.
Most religious want to do away with them.
They throw their calculations all to hell.
Let us put God in a box. If it is 7 days for me, it had to be 7 24 hour periods for Him.
Give it a rest.
Man has been here a very short time in the total time of things.
Remember he was created on the 6th. day.
The last day of creation.
God rested on the 7th.
He is still resting.
After that ordeal, He needs to rest.
Great effort.
Even you see that there is a order to things.
The water, the fire, the earth, and the wind.

Answer 7

very good question, and one that i, as a christian and scientist still fumble with.

i personally believe that the dinosaurs and probably early man, lived prior to the creation of adam. i believe that evolution to a point does occur in nature.

i have to admit that dinosaurs lived, they bred and they died. what i believe is that the asteroid that destroyed the dinosaur population was divinly directed and that man and animal were raised when the dust settled.

to an ancient, the seven days could be a literal thought, even though the length of time by our calendar was seven thousand years. remember, the thought is that God does not need to sleep, therefore a millenium could be a blink of an eye for God, when He refers to a "day", but we translate it as a literal 24hr day.

if we use the evolution process as the only method of population of the earth, then i believe that we are missing the mark. since even the evolutionist agree that a once in an eternity series of events took place more than once.

after all the time it took life to evolve on this earth, a giant asteroid ccame down and destroyed life on this earth, except for the mammals, which evolved into apes, humans, dogs, cats, etc.

what i cant get over, is the evolutionary process that hatches chickens out of lizard eggs. that was what brought me to the science of the bible.

-eagle

Answer 8

Some Christians such as myself are Old-Earth creationists. We interpret the Genesis creation "days" as indefinite periods of time that spanned over billions of years. The Hebrew word yom, translated in English as "day", can also mean an indefinite period of time as in Gen. 2:4 or the 7th creation "day". Furthermore, the Hebrew words for "morning" and "evening" can also mean "beginning" and "completion". The dinosaurs lived a long time before Adam and Eve. Dinosaurs were good for the eco-system and they give us oil. www.reasons.org

Answer 9

Between Gen 1:1 and Gen 1:2

Answer 10

I believe the dinosaurs lived after creation. The bible says that (before the great flood) that giants roamed the earth in those days. I think they were destroyed in the flood. Carbon14 dating isn't accurate. I have proof,but it would require a lot of time to explain. God let them die because there would be no place for them after the flood. I am glad he made that decision.

Answer 11

Read the Book of Job chapter 40

Ok...follow this...Job 40:15: besides you, I made Behemoth that feeds on grass like an ox.

Job 40:17: He carries his tail like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are like cables

Job40:18: His bones are like tubes of bronze; his frame is like iron rods

Job 40:20: For the produce of the mountain is brought to him, and all wild animals he makes sport.

Job 40:23: If the river grows violent, he is not disturbed; he is tranquil though the torrent surges about his mouth.

Sounds a bit like Jurassic Park, doesn't it? What other animals do we know of that have tails like a cedar tree. None. No cows, horses, hippos, nothing.

And this guy is big...really big. No other animal can contend with it. It reaches very high places for food, And flooded swift moving rivers have no effect on him.