i was told that dinosaurs conflict with religion for some reason- is this true and why?

Answer 1

It does conflict because there is no evidence at all that humans and dinosaurs walked the earth at the same time. There are some faulty suggestions like some foot prints that didn't turn out true, and there is something about some paintings in walls; problem with the paintings is that we also have dragon paintings, but that doesn't make them real.

The bible does not talk about dinosaurs at all. Christians often cite some obscure reference in job to a "monster" that "must be" a dinosaur, but that's faulty logic since it could have been any number of animals fitting the description.

Answer 2

No conflict at all considering the flood and that the Bible says it was a very different world before the flood. There is evidence that man walked with the dinosaurs (see my links). Briefly God only saved some of the animals on the Ark - knowing which ones would survive the climate change. Everything was much bigger before the flood - plants, animals and humans. Ever heard of giant dragonflys that are talked about in evolution or the large amount of plants that are talked about that are 10 times the size of todays plants and animals? They existed before the flood and sustained the Dinosaurs. Even if the dinosaurs existed today they would not survive, the air is thinner and there is no food source for these giant creatures. The big flying dinosaur the terodactyl and huge mosquitoes would be unable to fly in todays thin air so the Bibles explaination of the preflood world clearly gives a viable explaination to the dinosaurs while evolution does not answer these questions. Keep in mind too that scientists today suffer from the 'flat world' syndrome. If they find something that does not fit within their evolutionary theory they don't know what to do with it so they disregard it or even ridicule it. They ignore scientific evidence by labeling it religous - sort of the exact opposite of what 'scientists' did in the dark ages. In other words we are on the same road but now in the other ditch. Truth is in the middle and only comes from the creator, not from man on a speck of dust surrounded by billions of billions of billions of unknown unexplored galaxies (not stars - galaxies!).

Answer 3

Only if you believe in fairy tales. There is no reason religion and the dinosaur can't get along. The scientists that are knowlegable will tell you that carbon dating, the thing they use to see how old something is, is totally inaccurate when it relates to anything that has been in or under water for any period of time. When you think of the flood that covered the Earth, water is what you have which if you try to date anything before that you have bogus readings. So we know they lived and the main question would be when they died. That is a given as there were none on the ark. Nobody that is alive today was there to see it all so the only real good witness is God. All the scientists are doing is putting forth guess and conjecture as to what happened as they don't really know any more than you or I do but what God tells us and He does not tell us everything but only what we need to know for our salvation. So no conflict as far as I can see.

Answer 4

No. Actually the Genesis account confirms where the dinosaurs would have appeared. Because the creation days were not mere 24 hour days, they cover a span of time that would allow for the dinosaurs to have appeared on the "fifth day" of creation. Here's further information provided in the July 15, 1973 Watchtower:

Questions from Readers

• When did God create dinosaurs, and when did they become extinct?—U.S.A.

The Bible does not provide specific answers to this question. 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.

Answer 5

Well unfortunately, most Christians do not tend to move along side with the modern Scientific discoveries.. The leaders of Church are trying to mislead the public as they have been doing for the past 2000 years. When They discovered the Earth was round, the Church had a problem so they did when BF found the lightning arrester... well as time goes by, they will again find some excuse to say that Dino's are OK and was a god's creation... The sad thing is that after all these misleading, still people tend to believe in the Bible and have faith in church - I still don't understand the rational behind it - after all we are not in the 21st century.... all religious myths have been thrown to the dust bin...

Answer 6

No dinosaurs do not conflict with religion. They sure never conflicted like some people on this site do. For the most part, dinosaurs are large reptiles that no longer inhabit the earth, and I don't see any conflict with that. I figure they were hanging out when Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden.

Answer 7

i dont think it conflicts with "religion" and the Bible is not a finished book of books. So we may never know the answer to the dinosaurs and religion or the Bible in its entirety. I do question man and dinosaurs and ohter living animals living together though.

Answer 8

Dinosaurs don't conflict with religion, per se. They conflict with the interpretation of the Bible where everything in the Universe was magically created exactly like it is today. This narrow-minded viewpoint can't allow for the timeframe of biological evolution so it is rejected by fanatics as anti-religious propaganda (which is wholly untrue).

Answer 9

Not really. There is no reason why they couldn't have been here pre-creation, since the earth was here pre-creation (meaning prior to the 7 day creation week described in Genesis). Or perhaps they were here all the way up to the flood. Here's two articles about how dinosaurs fit in with biblical creation.

http://www.creationism.org/topbar/dinosaurs.htm
http://www.icr.org/home/resources/resources_tracts_scientificcaseagainstevolution/

Answer 10

Depends on your religious interpretation. If you think the earth is only 6000 years old, then a fossil record dating back before that is a contradiction. So you have to insist that the science is wrong and humans and dinos existed at the same time within the last 6000 years. The other argumant I've heard to explain such fossils is god's experiments. Question is, why would an omnipotent god need to experiment?