If God created Earth and Adam and Eve, where do the dinosaurs fit in the picture in the creation of earth?

Question

According to the bible, God made the earth, the plants, animals, and man. We have scientific proof in the existence of dinosaurs due to fossils. How did man and dinosaurs live together if the bible is accurate?

Okay so if dinosaurs exsisted during the reign of mankind, How did they survive against the "mean eating" dinosaurs like the
tyrannosaurus rex. Man stands about 6 ft average. Compare that to a dinosaur who stands as large as a skyscraper. This doesnt make sense to me. It says in Genesis, GOD created earth..period. So we can include "pre-" or "post" anything in the picture. The bible said he made earth, so he made it right? Ok, when did he make the dinosaurs?

To EVERYONE...the bible said.."in the beginning God created the earth"...It did NOT say that God, wiped out stuff and put dinos there!! If I repaint my car, I can't tell people that I created that car, just because I redone the car!! You Christians are contradicting yourselves!

Answer 1

Those who wrote the Genesis creation stories did not know about dinosaurs since they were long extinct. Thus, they couldn't have written about them. The creation story is a myth in that it uses symbols and metaphor, written in religious terms in order to explain how some Hebrew people believed the world came into existence. If you read Genesis chapters 1-2 carefully, you will see that there are two creation stories which emerged from similar yet quite distinct lines of thought and belief. Both stories cannot be historically true - thus, we are looking at a creation myth which has similar form and content to creation stories of surrounding cultures.

** Wow, it is interesting to see sunestaur using the words Valid and Exegesis in the same sentence. With opinions like yours, I don't know how many serious and educated exegetes would take you seriously.

Answer 2

The Genesis Account and Dinosaurs

While the radioactive dating method is innovative, it is still based on speculation and assumption. In contrast, the Bible account in the first chapter of Genesis simply states the general order of creation. It allows for possibly thousands of millions of years for the formation of the earth and many millenniums in six creative eras, or “days,” to prepare the earth for human habitation.

Some dinosaurs (and pterosaurs) may indeed have been created in the fifth era listed in Genesis, when the Bible says that God made “flying creatures” and “great sea monsters.” Perhaps other types of dinosaurs were created in the sixth epoch. The vast array of dinosaurs with their huge appetites would have been appropriate considering the abundant vegetation that evidently existed in their time.—Genesis 1:20-24.

When the dinosaurs had fulfilled their purpose, God ended their life. But the Bible is silent on how he did that or when. We can be sure that dinosaurs were created by God for a purpose, even if we do not fully understand that purpose at this time. They were no mistake, no product of evolution. That they suddenly appear in the fossil record unconnected to any fossil ancestors, and also disappear without leaving connecting fossil links, is evidence against the view that such animals gradually evolved over millions of years of time. Thus, the fossil record does not support the evolution theory. Instead, it harmonizes with the Bible’s view of creative acts of God.

Answer 3

The dinosaurs (large lizards) were created along with all the other animals at the creation. There is documentation and sites where dinosaur footprints alongside human foot can be seen. The Bible speaks of dinosaurs, referring to them as Leviathan, Behemoth, and Dragons.

Dinosaurs are simply large lizards. Given the right habitat, an iguana will grow to be over 10 feet long. There have been snakes found in the Congo over 200 feet long. Also, the natives there have described a dinosaur they call Mokele Membe that lives deep in the jungle.

At the creation of the world, the atmosphere was surrounded by a covering of water. This made the oxygen in the atmosphere richer, making the vegetation rich in nutrients, and ultimately speeding the growth of all living creatures.

Hope this helps!

Booyakasha!

Answer 4

Dinosaurs are indeed difficult to explain. But one thing is sure... no man was around during the 6 'days' it took to create the world. Considering the number of translations we've gone through (God's word to Moses, Moses writing it down in some ancient language, the word finally being recorded in Hebrew in the earliest of bibles, and finally the Hebrew being translated into English), it is very likely that the way we think of a 'day' now has no correlation to what God considered a day during creation. Since he was in control of the whole picture, why wouldn't he go ahead and run a 50 million year cycle during that last 'day' just to make the world look like it had been around for more than 24 hours. Considering that God could do it however he'd want, it is not unlikely that he did some fast-tracked evolution. In support of this theory, God has often done things throughout the scriptures that tested man's faith against logic. It has long been his way of testing us. Creating a world that appears to be 100 million years old makes us rely on faith. Can you imagine if scientists discovered in 1907 that the world was really 6000 years old, and it could be proven that it was created in 6 days? It would take no faith to beleive in God then, would it... that would defeat the whole purpose of faith.

Answer 5

You have to picture this... there is water above the ground covering everything (the atmosphere is water)(this is illustrated in Genesis). Recent studies have shown that this setting would create in increase in oxygen and pressure and would allow for miraculous growth. These studies have been conducted in i think what is called a "hyperbaric chamber". Somehow, with increased pressure and oxygen, animals can heal at rapid rates and live much longer (which would explain the extreme age of OT people). Dinosaurs are lizards and lizards never stop growing. Fossils show what can happen to lizards when they are grown in this environment. To prove the size of people and animals, Genesis 6:4 says "There were giants on the earth in those days...".

I know this may sound far fetched, but look into this hyperbaric chamber thing. In China, they've grown a cherry tree to almost 3 times its normal size.

Answer 6

Creation via evolution does not exist, some thing are not able to come from not anything. Species are not able to emerge as an extra species, virus are not able to emerge as micro organism, fish are not able to emerge as reptiles. However there are alterations that do take situation in organisms, reminiscent of viruses which might emerge as extra proof against antibiotics, this doesn't difference the kind of virus it's. There are different types of difference that may take situation in animals as good, reminiscent of whilst the meals provide turns into much less the animal might emerge as smaller, or if an animal injures its leg it'll free weight considering the fact that it is probably not in a position to aid its weight on its last legs. There's extra examples but it surely does not difference the kind of animal, would now not all of this be via Intelligent layout? By the why lucy is a fraud, it kind of feels as a few evolutionist declare to have made a discovery approximately a few lacking hyperlink, there fellow evolutionist will comply with up their stories and realize simply how fake they fairly are and lucy isn't any exception! Funny how whilst a few evolutionists so referred to as reputations are at the line or their investment runs out they invent a giant discovery to get extra offers and take a look at to hold their possess self authoritative brilliance from being challenged or uncovered. Money and vigor is what they search. Yes the visible comes from the unseen, the complexity of the atom and its smaller elements could not have occurred via threat.

Answer 7

This is how creationists disprove the Bible. The Bible traces the Earth back to about 4200 BC and that's it. Religious zealots claim that dinosaurs are sciences creation to undermine religion and are false. We each must make up our own minds as to what we believe to be true. Do you believe dinosaurs walked the Earth millions of years ago? Or do you believe the Earth was created 6000 years ago?

Answer 8

Time.
Generations.
The Generation that GOD Created the Dino's may have been different then when HE Created Human Beings.
Read Ecclesiastes, chapter one.
A Million Years between Generations would completely Erase it from Memory, unless somebody dug in a Rock Quarry, a Stone broke open and something that Looks like a Spark-Plug fell out.
But you won't hear that kinda stuff in the Media much.

Answer 9

"giant lizards" aka dinosaurs are mentioned in the book of jOb chapters 40-42. Yet, the biblical creation story shouldn't be taken as science, but a religious story of man's origins. God's 7 "day" creation, could have been millions and millions of years in our time frame with evolution happening, dinosaurs living, etc>

Answer 10

Aren't dinosaurs animals? God created them with all the other creatures on the fifth day (He created man (Adam) on the sixth day). Oh yeah, according to the Bible, God made more than what you listed. He is creator of all there is, all there was, and all there will ever be. :)