Christians why do you say that dinosaurs and humans existed together?

Question

If a chapter of Job says so that cant be true as earth is only 6000years old.The evolutionary history of the primates can be traced back for some 60 million years, as one of the oldest of all surviving placental mammal groupsThere were dinosaurs at that time but no humans.Lucy which was the last common descendend of man and chimpanzee lived 3 to 3.9 million years ago the dinosaurs were extinct.The dates can be fond by Radio Carbon Dating.
I dont believe earth is 6000years old.
If you are an orthodox Christian or I hurt your feelings please visit:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_Man
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_%28Australopithecus%29

Answer 1

THEY DONT CARE TO KNOW THE TRUTH

Answer 2

Tracks of BOTH have been found together at the same level in the same river bed in an area out West. Why do you feel it is not possible? Evolution? That is just a theory. No proof to it. Why are ALL the fossils at the same level (give or take for erosion)? They only answer is the Great Flood. How else can you get sea shells on mountain tops? Just because some nut case says a bone is from a dinosaur doesn't mean it is so. Archeology is FULL of errors and frauds. Merry Christmas.

Answer 3

Nor should you believe that, and if you talk to somebody who does, you'll quickly find that they're not so sure what it is that they believe, either. I've heard various rationalizations for the facts that you mention, and those who state that the planet is about 6,000 years old will tell you that the other numbers result from the "unreliability" of carbon dating.
The motive behind this is the extreme fragility of the faiths held by many Christians, especially those who cannot accept the Bible as anything other than literal. The 6,000 figure is arrived at by adding together the ages and generations of figures presented throughout the Bible, and there are many who cannot reconcile fact and faith and so deny the former.

Answer 4

Ok - SOME Christians say this because they were told that the earth could not be any older than somewhere around 10 thousand years old or so.

People get this date by going by the bibles recorded history.

However, many Christians have changed their stance on this, and have come to the conclusion that just because Adam and Eve and recorded history started at that time... it does not mean that the earth itself did not exist before all that, and that the earth could be older than that.

Also - that dinosaurs could have existed before the creation story.

Answer 5

I love people who use wikipedia as their source. No acadmeic paper is ever written using wikipedia, becuase none of the "facts" there can ever be substantiated...

with that being said...

You ask your question on the premise that ALL christians think that dinosaurs and mankind existed together and that ALL christians accept the bible as a literal interpretive. In fact, that is not the case. Many Christians accept science as "another language" of God and that the bible has relevance in it's context. For example, was the world created in 7 days or is the word "days" used to represent some period of time?

To have a true academic conversation, you need to address your question slightly less insultingly...

Answer 6

I think you need to be more precise in your question.

The question should begin with the word "Fundamentalists..." rather than "Christians."

Catholics, Anglicans, Lutherans, Methodists, and many others have been able to understand that Genesis is not literal in a chronologican sense. However, we do know that there was a big bang, we know there was light, and the planets were formed, and the oceans developed, and that eventually life came forth. Finally, man came into being. So Genesis actually does a good job of describing the general sequence of events, which is a pretty amazing thing if you really think about it.

So you really should address your comments to the knuckle-dragging fundamentalists. Thanks.

Answer 7

1) I am an Orthodox Christian.

2) It takes a lot to "hurt my feelings". You gotta come much harder than that to even scratch the surface.

3) Since I am, in fact, an "Orthodox Christian" - and I don't say that dinosaurs and humans existed together, then your premise, based on your question being to "Christians", is false, no?

Answer 8

Dinosaurs did not live with humans... in the Creation Story, the seven day earth creation is really unrealistic for me, and I'M a Christian... But who is to say how long God's 7 days were? God's time is not our time, and our measurement of time was made by humans. I do not believe that earth was made 6,000 years ago. It's just impossible.

Answer 9

I believe that the dinosaurs did exist 60 million years ago, before humans. In the first chapter of Genesis, it says, "...and the earth was dark and void..." To me, it sounds like earth was once full of life, something happened and God renewed it, making us. So, humans and the renewal of earth were created 6000 years ago.

Answer 10

Not Christians.
Some scientists.
They found an ancient stone carvings that had pictures of dinosaurs and humans being together.
That carving was denied by majority of the scientists because if they accept it, they had to change everything that was written in the text books, all of their theories about dinosaurs.

Answer 11

That chimp was not a descendant of man. She was a chimp. she was never human. We did not evolve from apes. God created all animals first then He created man. And man was to take dominion over the animals. So man and all animals co exhisted at the same time.

Genesis 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over "EVERY CREAPETH THING THAT CREATETH UPON THE EARTH"

And than includes dinosaurs.
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