Why in Genesis is there no mention of dinosaurs?

Answer 1

This is the bit that makes me laugh about creationism, or the blind idiocy of those that think Darwin's theory of evolution is just a crackpot idea that doesn't stand close to the idea of a supreme creator making the universe in seven days.
The reason for this is that dinosaurs were not known of at the point in which the bible, or the components of it, were collected together with the gospels, (i think sometime around AD60-80, but could be wrong). Dinosaur fossils were probably discovered before the 1800's, but it wasn't until the 1800's that the significance of such large remains were realised, in terms of what had happened on the planet and the timescales they happened in. An age for the earth had been calculated using the bible, and in 2003 it was (according to this method) 4004 years old. Archaeologists back in the 1800's had to contend with the blind arrogance of church bred and funded scholars telling them that the finds of dinosaur remains were fake or had to appear, live and die in these 4004 years, without ever once being recorded by man. It didn't go down well.

Answer 2

Actually, it has to do with this HUGE legal problem that was going on when they wrote the bible. See, the dinosaurs were supposed to have a chapter all to themselves but then the lawyers representing the bug and sea community showed up and demanded that if dinosaurs were to have a section devoted to them then they should at least have a shared section. But then the people who were writing the Bible thought this was just not going to work cause it was just getting to be TOO heavy and it wouldn't sell well as a paperback. They even messed around with the idea of scraping off a few chapters off the new testament but then the Christian Community really got upset and they never even thought of touching the Old Testament cause the Jew Community would get mad and we all know how good their lawyers are... so at the end, they decided not to include anything about any dinosaurs. But the book still needed a scary part, so they came up with a great way to end the book and they called it the Apocalypse

Answer 3

Because dinosaurs roamed the earth long before any humans did. I believe that the book of Genesis is full of representational stories, and never really happened. But that's just me. If you don't believe that, then maybe you can think that God forgot to add dinosaurs into the Bible, or that they drowned in the flood. Or that God planted the bones so humans would have yet another job profession. Whatever.

Answer 4

Not in genesis, but there are mentions of Behemoths, leviathans not sure if my spelling is right.. that discribe dinosaurs. Job, Psams and could other mention in the bible.

Do a google search for dinosaurs in the bible.. and youll find the passages

I find it interesting that scientits so easily deny that dinosaurs and humans were around at the same time. but the Bible is a pretty accurate historical reference even if you dont believe in God. also there are ancient Cave paintings that depict dinosaurs with humans, and they found foot prints along side with dinosaur prints within the same layer of sedimentary rock. All these are not substantial proof of corse but it does raise the possibility

Answer 5

It is estimated in an approximate fashion that the old testament was cobbled together by various learned men
5000+2000 years ago (7000 years in total).As dinosaurs existed 65 million years ago,and no hominid fossils (let alone mankind ) date back more than relatively few million years.It is a demonstration of the fact that not all Genesis is true,(or any other religious book) merely a fabrication to hold control over less powerful people unable to reason their existence.

Answer 6

It's not like anywhere do they specifically list all of the animals. They also don't mention dodo birds, but I don't see anyone complaining. The Bible is a book about God and Jesus and examples of his faithful and not so faithful followers. It's a guide for life. There is a little history to it, but it's not meant to be a science book. If God didn't mention Dinosaurs, then it wasn't necessary. Just like the many that think that Mary Magdelane was Jesus' wife - if the bible doesn't mention it, then it wasn't important, or as important as what the Bible is trying to say. It is not the point.

Answer 7

They don't mention them in Genesis, however, the behemoth that's described in Job resembles a brontosaurus, with a tail that "sways like a cedar". the leviathan was probably some kind of ocean dinosaur. This suggests that they were still alive when Job lived. Also, there are cave drawings of dinosaurs that indicate men lived at the same time as dinosaurs.

Answer 8

Well, in the Good News bible -
Genesis 1-21 So God created the great sea-monsters.....". That's as close as it gets, marine dinosaurs.

But God also creates birds in the same verse & as birds post-date dinosaurs by a chunk of change, that's problematic.

But as it's 323 pages from Genesis to Revalation in the GN bible & creation is pretty much covered on page 1, I guess they might have missed the odd million years or so, here or there, between creating the universe & creating man - don't you think ?

Answer 9

When the bible was written over a thousand years ago by man, he did not know that dinosaurs even existed. If the bible was written today Adam and Eve probably would have had a pet dinosaur.

Answer 10

There is no mention of dinosaurs in a book about Victorian railways I am currently reading and the morning's paper carried no mention either.
Were they on the news tonight?
Entertaining the crowd at Anfield at half-time?
Does one sit on your local council?
Of course not.
I know for a fact they are holed up in a cave in Turdistan, plotting world domino nation.
Those of us sympathetic to the cause will be rewarded and the poor deluded fools will be devoured in the first wave.
Rave on my scaly beauties!