That was the year that the word "dinosaur" was first made up and used.
Before this they were usually called dragons (on land), serpents (in the sea) or monsters.
In the Bible they are called dragons, Leviatan, Behemoth and maybe unicorn.
2006-11-24 01:13:28 · 15 answers · asked by tim 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
good, conversation-starting, evangelism-leading question!!!
2006-11-24 01:45:48 · answer #1 · answered by happy pilgrim 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, a unicorn is a horse with a single horn [uni-corn] growing out of it's forehead and is usually depicted as a white horse.
Behemoth was a great big, fat, ugly, powerful herbivorous creature..
Leviathan, in the Bible, was a large aquatic monster.
In Jewish belief, Behemoth is the primal unconquerable monster of the land, as Leviathan is the primal monster of the waters of the sea and Ziz the primordial monster of the sky.
The dragons, serpents and monsters, again, were different.
Because they were all imaginary creatures.
Guess you need to learn a bit more about them.
Of course, the word "dinosaur" was coined in 1841 by scientists to denote the "big lizard".
2006-11-24 09:26:45 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The word may not have been used, but I think that something existed. After all, there are too many simular myths in various cultures of giant animals and lizards to just think that dinosaurs never existed. Look at the mysteries we have today. What is seen in Loch Ness? Is that a throw-back to dinosaurs as we know them, or is it the biblical Leviatan?
2006-11-24 09:16:37 · answer #3 · answered by sister steph 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Did you know there is only one complete tyrannysaurus rex, and 6 incomplete... most skeletons of dinosaurs are incomplete and are 'filled' with manufactured 'bones' to make the skeleton look complete.
Did you know that scientists still don't know how dinosaurs were able to sustain their massive size, with the earth the size it is now?
They also think there were many many more species of oceanic dinosaurs that were amphibious and have no lasting fossil evidence. We'll just have to imagine what they probably looked like.
Anyone feel like swimming in the ocean now???
2006-11-24 09:24:24 · answer #4 · answered by Chanel #5 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I didn't even think about that. It's funny how human knowledge and "facts" change. Most of our knowledge is relative, not absolute. I heard that many children in the 19th century were taught that the moon was a reflection of the earth. I wonder what stuff we are learning in school is just malarkey?
2006-11-24 09:16:56 · answer #5 · answered by sixgun 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I sure did know that there were no dinosaurs here before 1841, at least not shortly before 1841. Did you know that there were none here after 1841 ?
2006-11-24 09:18:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes,this information is indeed interesting. so this is another prime example of the same beings being referred to by different names. makes one wonder how many other beings have had the same thing happen.
2006-11-24 09:20:36 · answer #7 · answered by Marvin R 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There were dinosaurs, just with a different name you mean?
2006-11-24 09:21:32 · answer #8 · answered by Claire O 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did YOU know renaming something does not change the nature of the thing?
2006-11-24 09:24:06 · answer #9 · answered by IndyT- For Da Ben Dan 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Thats cool knowledge. Where did you research this at.
2006-11-24 09:17:54 · answer #10 · answered by iwant_u2_wantme2000 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very Good. Whatever name they are called they were created on the 6th day of creation along with man. (Adam)
2006-11-24 09:21:23 · answer #11 · answered by Penny Mae 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋