How can any religion explain dinosaurs?

Question

I did say any Religion.

Answer 1

i wish they would explain this if god made man in his image whos god damn image did he make the dinosaurs in eh eh

Answer 2

Man has found evidence of dinosaur bones. God would not decieve us thefore dinosaurs exists. God created all creatures therefore God created dinosaurs God destroyed manking in the flood but Noah saved at least one pair of EVERY animal that breathed air. That includes dinosaurs. Therefore dinosaurs were on the ark. I guess they got crammed in real tight. They died out soon afterwards Some Christians belive that dinosaurs didn't exist and that scientific evidence for fossils is innaccurate Some believe they died out as the scientists say they did (these would be old-earth cretaionists) Some belive that the flood wiped them out (this is not consistent with the Bible however as per my above answer) Some will point to evidence in the book of Job to prove dinosaurs existed (there is a passage about a behemoth, or a large creature) and that sea cretures similar to pliesoaurs (Sp?) also existed alongside man. These passages take place after the flood though so would seem to support the theory that they were saved on the ark. The most logical explanation, which seems consistent with Biblical teachings, is that dinousaurs existed and they were wiped out before the flood. The measurements given for the three tiered Ark do not allow for all the animals to get on board, let alone dinosaurs too. My personal belief is that dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago.

Answer 3

Okay, I am an atheist, and hold all religions more or less in contempt, but I have to say that it is pretty easy to think of a religion that explains Dinosaurs. A God that seeded the earth with life and sat back to watch what happened, a God that created the Universe, ie, triggered Big bang, then sat back and watched what happened, A God that has a mysterious plan that involved dinosaurs for reasons we are not supposed to explain, Bronto, the God of Dinosaurs! Gia, the Earth Deity... I could go on. The point is, Religions do not need to provide GOOD explanations, that stand up to enquiry. They just need to provide an explanation acceptable to credophiles,
For example, how about a god that created Dinosaurs and then wiped them out when he killed off all of his creation except one drunkard and his family and a selection of breeding pairs, or a God that put fake Dino bones there to test our faith?
There are frightening numbers of people who do believe in just such a god!

Answer 4

Why would you need to explain dinosaurs any more than kangaroos?

Some people believe that the behemoth mentioned in the Bible is another word for a dinosaur, others believe the same about the dragons mentioned in there.

Answer 5

QUESTION: What about dinosaurs? Did men and dinosaurs ever live together? Why doesn't the Bible talk about dinosaurs?
RESPONSE: While the word "dinosaur" is a relatively new word, there seems to be evidence in many places around the world that men and these creatures have co-existed. In the Bible, when God is responding to Job, in Job 40 and 41, we see two creatures described, the 'behemoth' and the 'leviathan.' Both are described as extremely large animals and seem reminiscent of descriptions of a dinosaur and a giant sea creature. Although Bible notes in many modern translations suggest these animals might be a hippo, a crocodile, an elephant, or other known animals, the Biblical descriptions defy those identifications.
http://www.rae.org/pteroets.html
The Bible and Pterosaurs: Archaeological and Linguistic Studies of Jurassic Animals that Lived Recently
The Chinese histories and legends abound with dinosaurs. But they are not called "dinosaurs." They are called "dragons." The dragon is one of the twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac. What is interesting is that all the other eleven are commonly known animals and there is no hint of 'mythology' involved with their identities. It seems as if the dragon was just a commonly known at one time. The pictures are often fantastical, but so are their stylized pictures of horses and other animals. I checked the web for accessible information on this. I was able to find a few things that were not having to do with video games, sculptures, movies, items for sale, and such. The following links may be of interest. There are more. If you have access to books, you might want to check the epic of Beowulf, in which he battles a monster. If you have access to a good book on the history of art, you may be able to see some dragons and sea monsters painted on ancient Roman pottery. The legends abound all over the world. They do not seem to be connected to each other, but each telling of its own place. We have the story of St. George and the Dragon; there is the reference regarding Alexander the Great of his army disturbing some giant monster in a cave on their way to India. The American Indian thunderbird may very well be one of the ancient flying reptiles. An excellent essay by Lourella Rouster is "The Footprints of Dragons," at http://rae.org/dragons.html
A couple of pages which chronicle a bit the possible existence of monsters in Europe are dragon myths from Austria http://www.strangescience.net/stdino2.htm page includes two paintings of dragons from the seventeenth century that are quite interesting!
Doug Sharp, whose webpage "Revolution Against Evolution" has Rouster's essay, also carries the following: http://rae.org/tuba.html
The Rhamphorhynchoid Pterosaur -- Scaphognathus crassirostris: A "Living Fossil" Until the 17th Century All in all, then, there is reason to doubt the evolutionist timeline that says dinosaurs -- or the dragons -- died out before man ever arrived. There is simply too much evidence in stone, art, writing, and legend which contradicts that idea.

Answer 6

well since people weren't around the same time as dinosaurs and last time I checked the dinosaurs didn't have religion, though who knows, maybe that's what killed them off, a holy war. So it doesn't make sense for a religion to explain something that came before it, I know everyone likes to think of their religion as something eternal, but every religion had a beginning and its beginning was long after the dinosaurs died out.

Answer 7

Well, it's not religion's job to explain dinosaurs but there is an account of dinosaurs in the book of Job. He refers to them as "leviathan" and "behemoth". If you haven't read it, check it out. It's in the 40th and 41st chapters but you have to read it in the King James version otherwise the animals are called "hippo" and "elephant". However the description is clearly not a hippo or an elephant. Also, have you ever asked yourself why most cultures on Earth have legends of giant lizards called dragons? Perhaps man and dino once roamed the Earth together. Just a thought.

Answer 8

Dinosaurs were here before Adam and Eve were created. The earth as we now know it may have taken on a different for at the time of the dinosaurs. Adam and Eve were in the spirit world waiting to come down while the dinosaurs roamed the "earth".

Answer 9

Depends what religion you mean. I know Christians believe that the earth and everything on it was developed in six days so there is no mention of dinosaurs there, but what about Christian Science religion, do they believe in the big bang? Why not go to church and ask!

Answer 10

The First Church of the Rex Tyrannosaurus does it through hyperbole and threats of being consumed by their almighty overlord. Can't speak for all religions, though.

Answer 11

The book of Job talks about dinosaurs.