is there any possibility the whole dinosaur thing is just an elaborate hoax ?

Question

i was taught about the fossil record , the names of various dinosaurs that a lot of people do not know as adults, since 2nd and 3rd grade elementary school.

what i meant is , given the effect of these discoveries in debunking a theory about creation that has existed for ages and that has been confirmed by various holy books , given this effect of it, shouldnt more definitive proof about the veracity of these fossils be made available to the whole public ?

like microscopic sections from all the "skeletons" on display , more explanations on why these "skeletons" only emerged AFTER the INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION brought about the victory of SCIENCE over RELIGION etc etc

Answer 1

there is no such thing as this planet being millions of years old. Our galaxy is expanding if you were to un-expand it to 1 million years old, it wouldn't even exist! Also when you see people say that the thing they dig up is millions of years old, they are using a very un-reliable aging system that is only accurate when it is dated 3000 years and younger.

How stupid are people to think that just because you believe in God means that you think everything scientific is fake. Gosh, I really wish steryotypes didn't exist. And to you who said that person was probably christian. why couldn't he believe in another religion other than christianity that envolves God.

Oh yeah, the very un-reliable thing to use for dating is radiometric dating.

And YES, i am christian and I do believe that dinasours existed.

Answer 2

Dinosaur bones (and other fossilized material such as marine invertebrates, fossil mammals, etc.) were not 'first discovered' following the industrial revolution.

People have been finding fossils for thousands of years. Pretty much since mankind evolved, really.

It's just that it wasn't until real scientific investigation into the fossils took place, no one really realized what they were and what they represented. The fact that this scientific revolution and the industrial revolution took place at about the same time is not coincidence however. Amazingly enough, it was the systematic study of science that fueled the industrial revolution and the developments like steam engines and automated labour that characterized the industrial age. Strange how that happens, huh?

Before the scientific investigation of fossils, objects like dinosaur bones that were unearthed that were obviously the remains of creatures that once lived, but were wholly unlike anything alive at the time were explained as things such as Dragon Bones. Many apothecaries in China still carry fossils, sold as the bones of dragons, to be used in traditional medicine. There have been several previously unknown fossil species discovered in these shops. Who knows how many important species have been ground up over the centuries in an attempt to cure indigestion?

Other fossils, such as fossilized clams found at the top of mountains, were originally taken as evidence of the Biblical flood. If you had what were obviously marine critters at the top of the mountain, then logically, it was thought, the top of the mountain used to be underwater. However, further investigation of these sites revealed how, geologically, the entire sequence of events really happened, and were able to show that in fact, what was once ocean floor many millions of years ago was now the top of a mountain.

Even before techniques such as radiometric dating were able to put absolute dates to the ages of some of these rocks, geologists could tell that the rocks were a lot, lot older than people had originally expected. Corellation and stratigraphy showed sequences of rock layers that went back ages and ages.

So, no. There is no hoax. All it means is that the first few lines of Genesis are metaphor, and not absolutely, literally true. The world's not flat either. Deal.

Answer 3

Of course.

If God had set up the fossil record to make it look like they lived millions of years ago (between 300 and 60 million years ago) and put the earlier fossils lower down in the bedrock and altered the material to make carbon dating make it SEEM like they'd been there longer. Made it LOOK like there were evolutionary relationships when it was just a quick joke to get things set up for Adam & Eve who were created when the cavemen vanished...

Sure - anything is possible for a being with infinite power - but to make the evidence so misleading God would have to be very evil wouldnt he? Why would He only want stupid, ignorant people to believe in his factual creation story? Why would he set things up to look as if the bible was total nonsense?

God's the hoax, my friend.

Answer 4

It is possible but unlikely because i dont think that the forgien nations all got together and decided to burry billions of man made bones in the shape of the creature known as the dinosaur.It is also possible that the government wants you to believe it is a hoax to make them look powerful enough to do it.Like on september 11 people though it was a plan by the government to make America unite and cause more people to join the war and other efforts.To make people believe that 9/11 was a conspiracy would make the u.s. government look extremely powerful so nobody would mess with them.I do not think 9/11 was planned myself but the gov could try to wing it there way to make themeselves look powerful

Answer 5

God purely supplies us interior the Bible, what we would desire to be attentive to - not each and every of the sketchy info. thinking the dinosaur difficulty, as you examine the "interior the initiating" section in Genesis a million verse1, a greater advantageous rendition of that's "In A initiating". you spot, God replaced into purely restructuring the earth's floor after the dinosaurs have been killed off, interior the Genesis account. it somewhat is why technological awareness has got here upon the earth to be billions of years previous in accordance to the fossil checklist, through fact those fossil specimens come from animal existence pre-present long in the previous God made the earth nicely suited for people. If dinosaurs co-existed with people, the human species does not be around right now. God replaced into prepping the earth with the dinosaur cadavers to serve us with petroleum for our day and age. this enables technologies to exist to have the Gospel sent out to the international, for one reason. Petroleum additionally, serves to be certain the activities optimal as much as the closure of this age, regularly noted as "the tip of the international". God has set the "point" many Milena in the past and foreknew, that mankind could flow in this course. back; the Genesis account could greater good examine, "In a initiating, God created the heavens and the earth". The word "the" interior the unique Hebrew text textile is rendered greater properly "a" , as in "a initiating".

Answer 6

How do you figure that the existence of dinosaurs "debunks" the biblical account of creation? Obviously nothing can evolve until it exists, and nothing exists until it is created. God created all living things. Biological evolution is the wondrous process that He designed (who else could have??) and put into motion as a means of creating new species.
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Answer 7

Pretty darned elaborate don't you think? Bones/fossils, evidence found of them the world over...what would be the point in such a hoax? What a silly idea...

Answer 8

They existed. They died when the last Ice Age hit, but they were here in great numbers, and a large number of different species.

Answer 9

it is entirely possible, the only snag is we have no way of telling! nor indeed any way of telling if the entire universe complete with stars and fossils and our own memories was not created precisely five minutes ago either!
frankly it's all bit of a mess whichever way you look at it!

Answer 10

pfft. as if dude, aliens probably are but dinosaurs, they are digging up bones all the time. A crocodile is a dinosaur.