Judging by the huge amount of oil produced and the vast amount of bones recovered, those giant creatures were here for quite a while before they vanished so, are there any ancient texts that refer to these amazing creatures?
2006-09-27 00:45:00 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Greeks knew of dinosaur bones but did'nt know what to make of them.
The ancient Chinese used the bones to "prove" that Dragons once existed.
Chrisitans on the other hand either ignore the facts, or say that the "devil" planted them in order to decieve people.
Oh and wow, papabear, I've rarely read that amount of bull sh it in one post before.
Congrats, that must be a record here on Yahoo answers!
2006-09-27 01:08:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Creation stories take place at the creation of humans. Since most people can admit that people and dinosaur didn't live at the same time it kind of makes sense that they are not mentioned. I mean when you read a history book it doesn't talk about dinosaurs it talks about human society because what you are studying is about humans. Same thing here. Knowing about dinosaurs isn't going to help lead to you ultimate salvation. If you were writing an essay and all the sudden just mention something off hand that had nothing to do with the topic you would probably lose points because you took away from the important information to throw out something unimportant.
2006-09-27 02:05:21 · answer #2 · answered by neveroutnumbered 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Have you ever seen dinosaur bones found in crude oil deposits, like the oil sands of Canada? The story that oil came from the dinosaurs is something told children.
As for when they were created, that was on the fifth day (1000 years) of creation. As for them being around for a long time, that is presumptuous, and based on radiography, which does have radical variations on estimates, and which may or may not have been affected by the lack of direct sun light on the planet up until 5000 years ago.
As for creationism, this is something that parents should be teaching their children, not something to be taught int he schools. But, nearly all churches have failed to teach the parents enough about the Bible so that they can be confident enough to teach their children. Instead, they send them to Sunday babysitter services call Sunday Schools.
2006-09-27 00:55:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The bible talks about some of these creatures. In one section it refers to an animal with a tail the size of a tree stump.... there are many descriptions of large beasts in the bible. So they don't contradict scientifically findings of these amazing creatures. The only place where things contradict, is the time span. According to the bible these creatures died out within the last 4000 years and not 60million+ years as shown by carbon dating. You asked a great question and its very important that you look into it carefully as it can call into question the validity of a religion. If your interested in the bible about these amazing creatures, ther's a paragraph somewhere in the book of Job that talks more about it. Hopefully this helps a little
2006-09-27 00:54:57 · answer #4 · answered by Mike 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We have only two confirmed reports of ancient beasts being known to our ancestors.
The Old Testament makes reference to gigantic beasts of land and sea which may be a reference to an ancient memory of Pleistocene creatures the ancestors of the Hebrews sent down through the centuries via stories.
The other are some rather curious rock paintings found near Ayers Rock in Australia. Attributed to the original aborigines, they seem to be pictures of of gigantic reptilian creatures, possibly some leftovers from the Great Extinction. The rock paintings themselves are many thousands of years old, so who knows?
The Catholic Church seems to be content with the idea that at some point in the history of earth, God went "ZAP" and a human soul was created, infused into the prevailing candidate and we call him "Adam". The mechanics of the event are of no theological significance so we ignore that part. We aren't sanguine about man's ability to understand every nitty-gritty, teeny-tiny detail about how God works. After all, no matter how technological we become, no matter how smart, we're still finite. And He, being infinite, has lots more room for smarts than we ever will.
2006-09-27 00:53:29 · answer #5 · answered by Granny Annie 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Here is a link explaining the scientific evidence for dinosaurs from a creationist point of view. This site also has tons of excellent articles on a variety of topics offering enormous amounts of scientific evidence that our earth was intelligently designed rather than underwent an evolution process.
http://www.icr.org/article/737/7/
Be Blessed and Blessed Be
2006-09-27 01:02:05 · answer #6 · answered by Celestian Vega 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I really don't think dinosaurs existed. I think man is somehow making it up. They find a bone and then they develop a whole huge dinosaur to go along with one bone - give me a break. This from the devil to add to the confusion that already exists about the Bible being real, as this may dispute it. I believe the Bible and that is that.
2006-09-27 01:14:40 · answer #7 · answered by jworks79604 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Religion can't answer for dinosaurs, nor can they explain that if Adam and Eve had three sons..Cain, Abel and Seth, how did any other people come about? The bible, and all religion, is silly fairy tales told by ignorant people because they were searching for answers to things they didn't understand. Thousands of years ago, the Greeks and Romans made up gods and goddesses for things like thunder and lightning because they couldn't explain them, but the worshipped them with the same blind faith that people now use to worship "god", "jesus", "allah" and others. Now that we know what thunder and lightning are it seems ridiculous that people would worship gods to them, just as modern christian and muslims, et. al, will seem ridiculous to those in the future.
2006-09-27 00:52:04 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Religious books are not text books that get updated.There were no dinosaurs when the world religions came into being. If you start a religion today , you will have to explain dinosaurs.
2006-09-27 00:48:47 · answer #9 · answered by Rajesh Kochhar 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a grand effort in ancient, classic and recent times has done volumes of book burning to erase our culture and past, usually in the name of christianity
all that has done is kept us stupid and slowed down evolution
but the ones on stone keep popping up at construction digs or in spelunker dives in caves
usually they steal stories from other cultures then burn the evidence so they can say "god" revealed it to them
my favorite is offering apologies 300 and 400 years ago, pardoning people they punished for saying otherwise NOW but the very current followers can't see that if they admit it now that god wasn't behind thier inquisitions and burning at the stake, then why not now too
I feel what is written now is due to evolving, previous to that it was passed down orally...the Aussie bushmen say thier legends go back to the "dreamtime" where time wasn't measured and people simply existed, about 40,000 years of 1.5 grand cycles like Egyptians speak of using their Great Year divided into 2100 year increments of 12 periods coming to about 25,000 year revolutions...other cultures as well have evidence that shows different polar norths and sunrise points to prove this
much of the oil was plant life decomposing at bottoms of lakes, etc
2006-09-27 00:58:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋