what do creationists have to say about the dinosaurs?

Question

Where do they fit in with todays religions. Catholisism, jews mormons etc... are there any religions that admit that the dinosaurs lived... how could someone not believe that?

Dinosaurs, clearly provide evidence of an evolutionary chain. So doesn't this go against, what the major religions believe. Come on really I am serious.

Answer 1

You'll laugh, but I've heard them argue that humans genetically engineered them, and God choose not to save them because they were not his creations.

Seventh-Day Adventists buy into this, for example.

Also, I found this web page that says they were created by Satan as a practical joke. (I'm not making this up. But perhaps they are.)

http://www.pacifier.com/~dkossy/dino.html

Answer 2

creationist believe in dinosaurs. We just don't believe they went extinct 65 million years ago (or even lived that long ago). Dinosaurs are even mentioned in the bible. In the Bible, in Job 40:15-24, God describes to Job (who lived after the Flood) a great beast with which Job was familiar. This great animal, called ‘behemoth,’ is described as ‘the chief of the ways of God,’ perhaps the biggest land animal God had created. Impressively, he moved his tail like a cedar tree! Although some Bible commentaries say this may have been an elephant or hippopotamus, the description actually fits that of a dinosaur like Brachiosaurus. Elephants and hippos certainly do not have tails like cedar trees!

Actually, very few animals are singled out in the Bible for such a detailed description. Contrary to what many may think, what we know now as dinosaurs get more mention in the Scriptures than most animals! So dinosaurs—all the different kinds—must have lived alongside of people after the Flood.

Answer 3

I have my own couple theories about the dinosaurs (I am LDS.) I believe that Christ made the earth and everything with "unorganized matter"...also, I do believe there are other worlds and planets where dinosaurs could have lived on. I don't really think they lived on our earth, but where they did live, some of that "matter" was used to create this earth and their bones were part of that matter...that's just my own crazy theory.
also, I think maybe if they did live on the earth, it was a "test" period Christ was doing to test out the earth.
But, who really knows besides the Lord? It is very fascinating. I read once that during the milleniumm there will be animals of all kinds that we have never seen or even imagined. Wow!

Answer 4

The vast majority of books on dinosaurs are written from an evolutionary perspective which assumes that the dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago. The leading model for the demise of the dinosaur involves a large asteroid hitting the earth. Yet the most obvious alternative explanation is almost always ignored. Almost all fossils are the remains of creatures buried by water-borne sediment which has subsequently turned to rock. If this is due to the flood of worldwide extent, as the water flowed over all the land surfaces, animals would have been drowned and been buried by massive amounts of rapidly accumulating sediment. It is not all surprising to find a general lack of burial mixing between these very different kinds of animals due to local or ecological grouping.

Genesis 7:2 states that Noah saved two of every representative "kind" of land animal on the ark. Noah would have taken young specimens, not huge, older creatures. Dinosaurs would have emerged from the ark to inhabit an entirely different world. Instead of a warm, mild climate worldwide, they would have found a harsh climate which soon settled into an ice age. If climatic hardships did not cause the dinosaur's extinction, man's tendency to destroy probably did.

In the early 1900's on the Doheny expedition into the Grand Canyon, Indian cave drawings were found which closely resembled a duck-billed dinosaur. Legends from ancient China to ancient England have recorded descriptions of dinosaur-like creatures. The Kuku Yalanji aboriginal people have paintings which look exactly like plesiosaurs. These and other intriguing evidences seem to indicate that perhaps that age of the dinosaurs ended more recently than is commonly taught. Christians do not need to feel foolish about standing on Scripture in their understanding of the world around us. There is ample evidence to support the Biblical record. Evolution serves as the foundation basis for the religions of humanism and atheism. These world views are popular because man, instead of God, decides on rules and moral standards. Creation serves as the foundational basis for Christianity which acknowledges that all things were created by God, that we live in a fallen universe, and that it will be restored to perfection in the future.

There is a danger of becoming so indoctrinated by evolutionary thinking that we become closed to the creation alternative. As concerned parents, we need to be careful what our children are taught by making sure they are hearing all of the facts. By teaching them the evidence for creation and the fallacies of evolutionary explanations, they will be directed toward God instead of away from Him.

Answer 5

There are 3 heaven and earth ages, same heaven and earth but different ages.

II Pet.3:5-7 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: 6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: 7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
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THE WORLD THAT THEN WAS
Gen.1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

To that earth age the world that then was, belongs all fossils and remains. Scientific estimates or guesses; universe or heavens 20 billion years old, earth 4.6 billion years old, moon 200 to 300 million years younger than earth, dinosaur extinction 65 million years ago, Ice Age 2.5 million years ago.
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BEING OVERFLOWED WITH WATER PERISHED
Gen.1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.

AND THE EARTH WAS
The word “was” (hayah) in Hebrew, was not distinguished by the Revisers, that is the verb “to be” from “to become”. The same Hebrew word “hayah” is translated “became” in Gen.2:7.
AND THE EARTH BECAME

WITHOUT FORM H8414 tohu (to'-hoo) From an unused root meaning to lie waste; a desolation (of surface), that is, desert; figuratively a worthless thing; adverbially in vain: - confusion, empty place, without form, nothing, (thing of) nought, vain, vanity, waste, wilderness.

VOID H922 bohu (bo'-hoo) From an unused root (meaning to be empty); a vacuity, that is, (superficially) an undistinguishable ruin: - emptiness, void.
AND THE EARTH BECAME DESOLATE AND EMPTY
Earth was not created that way but became desolate and empty due to Satan’s rebellion. A global overflowing of water, but not Noah’s deluge. Darkness was upon the (face) of the deep, in other words the whole earth.
Into this we can read; dinosaur extinction, destruction of Atlantis, breakup of Gondwana Land, and the Ice Age.
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BUT THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH WHICH ARE NOW
Gen.1:2 And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Gen.1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

About 63 A.D. Peter writes, the heavens and the earth which are now. The heaven and earth age we are in now, today.
BY THE SAME WORD ARE KEPT IN STORE
RESERVED UNTO FIRE
AGAINST THE DAY OF JUDGMENT
AND PERDITION OF UNGODLY MEN
PERDITION G684 apoleia (ap-o'-li-a) From a presumed derivative of G622; ruin or loss (physical, spiritual or eternal): - damnable (-nation), destruction, die, perdition, X perish, pernicious ways, waste.
Some will perish eternally and not see the third heaven and earth age.

Answer 6

Earth was a planet made for life or to live. (some Bible verse says that I don't remember it now).
Even before the creation of this present world there had been another world in this planet.
God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind...
Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life...
And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
This is the clue that once God had made all these things millions of years before.

But the case of man it was different. he framed man for the first time out of dust. The bible says God made man from the dust (particles) of earth.

Bible never says, there were no living things on the earth before the world with man as the dominant.

Dinosaurs might had been here long back may be in the previous worlds and up to the Flood of Noah period.

Answer 7

This is actually true. They believe that they (dinos) were around at the beginning of time (little over 6thous. yrs ago) and were only around for exactly 1000 years because it was supposedly the time Mr. Satan ran the earth.....and of course we all know how much satan loved dinosaurs. Religion is what's wrong with the planet. be an atheist, know the real and be well, Jack

Answer 8

As to creation, the earth is billions in time, the oldest animal 19,942 years ago.

God was preparing the earth for habitation, it took thousands of years, so 6072 from Adam in Eden is just the age of the world LOST with the promise of Salvation, not only for man and eaarth, but heavens and the angels. Rev.20:1-6,12,13 will end 49,000 years.

Answer 9

Well now what's wrong with dinosaurs? (I'm mormon.) God created every creature in the air, on the land, and the sea. I don't recall Him ever giving a list of what He created.

Answer 10

How could someone not believe that ...
Closed minds. Religious indoctrination as children. Weak intellect. Refusal to accept that they may be (are!) so wrong and foolish. Fear of being cast into the eternal fire if they so much as think logically. Why can't they BEGIN to THINK logically? Same answers.

Because they are so stupid.

atheism - the only logical choice.