A question about science and the Bible...?

Question

I remember talking with my grandmother about dinosaurs about 6 years ago, when I was ten. I recall her telling me that, "dinosaurs existed, but they lived alongside people, and they were much smaller than what we think of dinosaurs as being." Why would somebody believe this? This would go against carbon-dating and the fossils that have been uncovered, so why would my grandmother tell me this? She said it came from the Bible.

Answer 1

Some people are willing to suspend rational thought and logic completely in order to preserve their arcane belief systems. No offense to your GrandMother, but this is the sign of a weak mind which is unable to withstand the reality of its own mortality. The fear of death has and will continue to drive some people to put their faith in all manner of legend, allegory, and pure hokum, in order to make them feel better about their limited existence.

Answer 2

I have no idea where in the Bible your grandmother could have gotten that notion. But I realize it is very easy for people to misinterpret parts of the Bible by reading into it their own ideas or manmade traditions passed onto them from childhood.

With some reservations, I believe most scientific findings are accurate (at least, until proven inaccurate by other scientists). We have actual bones to prove the size of some of the dinosaurs. Accordingly, science maintains that the dinosaurs died out approximately 65 million years ago. They also maintain that humans didn't arrive on the scene till much later. That may be so, but I still have to wonder about the stories and legends from different parts of the world concerning dragons and other large creatures.

Answer 3

There is a reference to what may have been a dinosaur in the book of Job. It's not conclusive, because the creature's name (behemouth, or begemot in Hebrew) has been translated in modern Hebrew to mean Hippo. The bible's description of the begemot, however, doesn't match the hippo.

Carbon dating (and other radiometric methods of dating) are highly imprecise and based on assumptions about the behavior of matter over time.

There are even cave paintings of dinosaurs! See the website below to see further evidence that dinosaurs may actually have lived side-by-side with man.

It doesn't have to take millions of years for something to fossilize, either. That can happen over decades, or at least centuries.

So it is possible that dinosaurs existed with people.

Answer 4

The Bible does not mention dinosaurs, or anything that could be a definite reference to them. And carbon dating has proved to be wrong too many times to be considered an accurate source to go by. I am not sure where she may have gotten this information from. But if you find out, it would still be interesting to know.

Answer 5

Some people think Job 41:1, NIV, is talking about dinosaurs. "Can you pull in the leviathan with a fishhook or tie down his tongue with a rope?” Or Job 40:15, “Look at the behemoth, which I made along with you and which feeds on grass like an ox.“ There are many other verses in the Bible about dragons that are considered references about dinosaurs, as well. Most Bible scholars suggest that the descriptions in Job are of crocodiles or of hippopotamus. Both lived in the Near East in those days. It is tempting to think that dragons are a faded memory of dinosaurs, but we cannot be sure. We can only speculate.

How did dinosaurs become extinct? Some scientists have a hard time explaining the reason they became extinct so suddenly. What happened? The answer can be found in the Bible, in the story of the world-wide flood in Genesis 7:1 – Genesis 8:1, TLB. “Finally the day came when the Lord said to Noah, "Go into the boat with all your family, for among all the people of the earth, I consider you alone to be righteous. Bring in the animals - a pair of each, except those kinds I have chosen for eating and for sacrifice: take seven pairs of each of them, and seven pairs of every kind of bird. Thus there will be every kind of life reproducing again after the flood has ended. One week from today I will begin forty days and nights of rain; and all the animals and birds and reptiles I have made will die."

Why did God not take dinosaurs into the ark? In Genesis 6:12 we find the answer. “And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.” Satan, the being who rebelled against God, cannot create, but he can change. The entrance of sin into the world allowed Satan to corrupt humans and other living creatures. Now we have leaves changed to thorns, teeth changed to poison fangs, genes changed into viruses and useful bacteria into disease producers. Satan corrupted some of the reptiles God originally created into the bizarre creatures we call dinosaurs. God chose not to save them at the time of the Flood. Perhaps God also saw that feeble post-flood humans would not be able to control such large animals. Thus, we suggest that God preserved the air-breathing, land animals, except the very large animals and the corrupted ones.

Answer 6

I heard recently that someone carbon dated a piece of plastic and found that it was over 10,000 years old. Carbon dating is completely inaccurate. Plastics were not discovered untill after WWI. I think that maybe the Dinosaurs existed a lot sooner in history than most scientist think.

Answer 7

there are bits an peices that lead us to believe that dinosaurs did co-exist. for example it talks of the leviathan (which could be interpreted in our day to be a type of dinosaur). but for the majority i dont think all the dinosaurs that we've discovered co-existed with man. after all, if god created everything in 6 days, rested on the 7, however, our days are measured by earths rotation on its axis. well on the first day god created light and dark, so a day couldnt have been measured, we simply symbolized a period of time in which god created into something more easily understood. there could have been thousands of years between each of "gods day"

Answer 8

In Bible you find very antique science and also not updated. It has wonderful thoughts and a lot of contradictions, but in the average is a wonderful book. Be cautious please.
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Answer 9

Your Grandmother was right except about the size of dinosaurs. The fossil record does not support the ridiculous theory of evolution.

Answer 10

The history as we know it has been skewed. And yes dinosaurs have lived alongside people. carbon dating is also a fabrication.