2006-11-27 14:36:53 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Explain the diffence between the religous timelines and scientifc proof of when dinosaurs existed.
2006-11-27 14:45:16 · update #1
LOL....
You are going to get fireworks for this one.
Christians don't get confused, they just rearrange evidence that doesn't fit to make it work for them. Haven't you noticed yet?
2006-11-27 14:40:17 · answer #1 · answered by the guru 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A question for the literal Creationists out there: If the dinosaurs lives alongside humans up to the point of the flood, why were't they included amongst the animals that Noah took aboard the ark?
I personally do believe that God created the universe and everything in it, but not in six days. If you follow the sequence of events required for animal life to evolve to the point where it is now, it would follow the same pattern set out in Genesis, but at a different timeline. Given that Genesis was written, what, 5 thousand years ago, would the authors or the readers of the time have been able to comprehend the millions and billions of years that creation would have taken?
No. God didn't create dinosaur fossils to confuse people. Some people just confuse themselves.
2006-11-27 14:49:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, I think man created evolution to confuse people.
Evolution says dinosaurs are 100 million years old. They use radiometric dating to come up with this number. This sounds scientific, and most people just accept that as fact. And I don't disagree that there may be radioactive materials that have a half-life of millions of years. What confuses me is this. Carbon 14 (radio-carbon) has a half life of around 5,000 years. Even the best scientists will tell you that after 75,000 - 100,000 years, you wouldn't even find a trace of carbon 14 remaining. However, the same fossils that date in the millions of years still have a significant level of carbon 14, a scientific impossibility. This is not the only problem with evolution, and dinosaur fossils, but it does point out that we are not being given answers to all the complex questions around this topic.
2006-11-27 15:03:43 · answer #3 · answered by SearchForTruth 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not at all. If you are truly interested in science, and practicing it honestly, you will find that the dinosaur fossils support the biblical record. It is not God who is confusing, but scientists and others that want ANYthing other than the bible to be true. You must do honest searching out of the truth. God has no reason to want to confuse his creation.
2006-11-27 14:40:57 · answer #4 · answered by oceansnsunsets 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The word dinosaur never appears in the bible because the NKJV was translated in 1611 and the word dinosaur wasn't invented until 1841.
Isaiah talks of a flying serpeant.
Job--Leviathian.
God didn't create fossils, the dead bodies getting trapped in sedemint layers of rock created fossils.......ya think?
2006-11-27 15:03:51 · answer #5 · answered by JaimeM 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God created dinosaurs, not just their fossils. Man is the one confused about it.
2006-11-27 14:49:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Na, He most likely made dinosaurs before He made humans. Hence, old earth creation. Dinosaurs are rather irrevelant to Christian theology as a whole.
2006-11-27 14:39:52 · answer #7 · answered by Josh 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God never confuses mankind only mankind does that when
they refuse to understand what is obvious like dinosaurs lived,
and science is not un-Godly. We are intelligent and expected to be so and act so even if we often fail, but we must just press on.
2006-11-27 14:42:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Their are other types of radiometirc dating besides C14. For example Uranium 238 has a half life of 4 and a half billion years.
2006-11-27 15:49:35 · answer #9 · answered by sidrock 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dinosaurs were around when Adam and Eve was on this earth. The Diosaurs were on Noah's Ark, and died off a few hundred years ago like the dodo bird. "Dinosaur" wasn't penned until 1845. So, no wonder they ain't mentioned in the Holy Bible as dinosaurs.
2006-11-27 14:40:52 · answer #10 · answered by tsc1976ers 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
He also made the earth round after it was flat. Changed it from being the center of the universe to it goes around the sun. God is a funny guy.
2006-11-27 14:44:05 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋