so religions say the world is 6000yrs old. does that mean that they dont believe in dinosaurs?

Question

no offense this just bugs me

Answer 1

They believe men and dinosaurs coexisted, which of course is totally absurd.

Answer 2

Oh! I heard an answer that is different--not that I necesarily
believe it. There was a world before our present world without people, but something like our present world. Who owned it
and how it got destroyed, I couldn,t tell you,but I heard that one before some of these movies came out about dinosaurs. According to the Bible the earth was "void and without form".
Does that mean there was no material left from the previous
world? Who knows how many worlds before this world God
created? Lot of Christians don't believe that one. Does God have
to tell us everything? You get some wierd answers so you might
as well throw this one in the pile.

Answer 3

I'm a Christian. I have no idea how old the world is and frankly I don't really care, but I do believe in dinosaurs. What else could Behemoth and leviathan be? And why couldn't man and dinosaur have coexisted? 70% of dinosaurs were herbivores so there was a good chance of at least not getting eaten by a dinosaur.

Answer 4

Actually, you are completely wrong. There are only some Christians that hold the Young Earth position. Most Christians are either Evolutionists or Old Earth Creationists. Furthermore, "religions" in general do not hold that position. Some believe in the eternal distruction and reincarnation of the world, others do not mention it at all. To say that it is a "religious" position is to attempt to extrapolate one specific position to encompass a wide range of beliefs.

Answer 5

The Bible says man is 6000 yrs old. Man was created last. You can't take seven days litterally because man created the concept of time. To God, a day could have been 500 million years. This is how evolution and creationism can co-exist. The order of creationism in the Bible (which was written thousands of years before the idea of evolution was expressed) follows the order of evolution from nothing to man. It is possible that human like beings co-existed with the dinosaurs, but I don't believe that today's human did.

Answer 6

Man has been on earth a little over 6000 years. The earth itself may be billions of years old.
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 creatures.” 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 1:21 ( So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good." ) New KJV
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 Jehovah 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.
Some of the older translations of the Bible at times use the word “dragons” to translate the Hebrew tan·ni·nim′ (“sea creatures, ). (Ps. 74:13--" Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters. 148:7-- " Praise the LORD from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps" Isa. 27:1-- "In that day Jehovah with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the swift serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent; and he will slay the monster that is in the sea." Am. Standard Version
The term “dragon” (Greek, dra′kon) is found in the Christian Greek Scriptures. Dinosaurs were the giants of the animal kingdom, a remarkable testimony to God’s power of creation. Only our Creator knows why the dinosaurs disappeared from the earth.

Answer 7

Bugs me too.

I actually had one idiot when I was a kid, tell me that "Dinosaur bones are put in the earth by Satan to fool mankind into not believing in god."

She was a friend of mine though we grew apart later.

When she said that to me, I looked at her and actually said "You can't really be that stupid".

She looked embarrassed and let it go at that.

I honestly have yet to find out if most Christians actually believe that massive lie or not. I'm hoping not. Then again... anything is possible when it comes to human thought process. Apparently most people have a difficult time thinking for themselves and have to rely on a 2000 year old book to tell them what's right and wrong.

Answer 8

Dinosaurs were creatures that existed before the great flood. They didn't make it onto the ark, and so were all killed. In the sediment created by the flood, and the workings of the weight of the water, the bones of some were tuned into stone, and so became fossils...

or so I've heard it said, in one of my science/theology classes at a fundamentalist christian high school.

I personally think most of the fossils were created during the terraforming of this world, before the mothership arrived.

Answer 9

Those who believe the world is 6000 years old would have a difficult time explaining the existence of dinosaurs.

Answer 10

you can't generalize this as a widely held belief. What is a 'day' to God? We see examples where weeks/months meant years/centuries. I believe there were dinosaurs, and that they are old. I just ask for the continuous unbroken transitory lifeform trail we are supposed to have. We have the ape, monkey, bones of odd shaped humans, not millions of them though, and alot disproved as human or a transitory form. Where are their remains or presence, I should say...since we still have all the stages in between?....they can't all have died out due to survival/resistance.

Answer 11

If you included Islam then I would correct you, Islam doesn't say specific date. So Islam doesn't have to fight against any established fact.

Moreover, the theory of Big Bang is accepted in Islam. So it is also accepted that the Big Bang happened 13.7 billion years ago. Islam states that if Big Bang is true, then it was entirely done by God, the Almighty.