.......in the first place? What was the reason for their existence since there were so many millions of them...... They had their own food chain, how long was the earth around before this do you think? And why did God not meantion them in elaborate detail in the "bible" since there were so many of them, millions, assumingly lying dead all around when they were all suddenly struck dead only about 6-10 thousand years ago????
my goodness.......
2006-12-30 11:26:43 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Rational folks know that they lived and ruled the earth 65 million years ago.
2006-12-30 11:29:44 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There are a few flaws in the 'logic' in the asker's question/comment. Dinosaurs did not 'decide' to be extinct. Dinosaurs is a word from the 1800's. The Bible does mention them after the flood, terms Behemoth (Job) a leviation (Job and I currently believe Proverbs).
By best accounts I currently understand the earth is dated at about 5767 years old (Jewish calendar; which begins with creation). Be aware of a major point though regarding that.
The sun, moon, and stars were created on day 4; but there was light before that. (Where did light come from on day 1, 2,and 3). Those 3 days may not have been 24 hours each.
2006-12-30 20:03:31 · answer #2 · answered by jefferyspringer57@sbcglobal.net 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dinosaurs were extinct long before the flood, your timeline is inaccurate.
The dinosaurs were killed as a result of a six-mile long asteroid that hit the Eartn in the Yucatan Peninsula 65 million years ago. It was traveliing 1,000 times faster than a bullet. The results were world wide fires and temperatures of over 500 degrees on the Earth's surface. 50 -75% of the Earth's living species were wiped out.
The flood was roughly 5,000 years ago. The Bible was written millions of years after the flood - so there would be no mention of them.
The whole literalist case for 6,000 years is something different - I am a Christian and I believe the Earth is 2 billion years old, and that does not demean God's creativity in the least. I beleive there were dinosaurs millions of years ago too - the fact that they existed and the age of the Earth can be proven.... If a day to God is thousands of years he is still amazing.
Who is God to you?
2006-12-30 19:48:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I think the answer would lie in whether you believe in creationism or evolutionism.
I believe in evolutionism so I don't think that God created the world 7000 years ago. I believe that the world is millions of years old and that dinasours went through extinction because of a catastrophic event and that we all evolved from something.
If your a creationist, there are two schools of thought,
one is that God placed the dinasour bones here as a test of faith. The other is that our idea of "time" is different then Gods. For example our one million years could be Gods one day!
2006-12-30 19:50:08 · answer #4 · answered by bastcat8 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You don't understand the bible. The bible was not written to be a history book, even though it is historically correct..It was written so that you and I could understand what God was doing on earth with us and so we could have a loving relationship with Him as our Heavenly Father.
The bible was never written to explain dinosaurs and other things that happened on the earth.
2006-12-30 19:30:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
They didn't decide to become extinct, a 250-mile-long meteor slamming down onto your planet, annihilating you and your entire race and your many biological cousins 65 million years before I write this is hardly what I would call a choice.
2006-12-30 19:32:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Easy on the punctuation, Turbo, you're giving my eyes an epileptic fit.
Why do dinosaurs, or anything for that matter, need a reason to have existed? Is the fact that they existed not enough for you, you need a reason?
2006-12-30 19:29:08 · answer #7 · answered by godlessinaz 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Okay, I'm going to die lauging because I'm picturing dinosaurs debating and "deciding" to become extinct, maybe toking on a joint. SNORT!
You're assuming that the "creationists" are the only form of thinking on this planet. Expand your mind AND your vocab hon. The answer is in science.
2006-12-30 19:30:35 · answer #8 · answered by vinslave 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
well theres your proof the bible is false after all. dinosaurs lived millions of years ago for reasons i do not know but they all died off due to astroids and other things i am sure but you stated that they died thousands of years ago hmm how can that happen since humans have been here for about 25,000 years ago and dinosaurs where not here at that time anyways.
2006-12-30 19:32:27 · answer #9 · answered by Gazriel The God 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Their existence had a meaning.
Not all of them became extinct. Some had evolved.
Those which learned to fly and control their body temperature are still all around us. (What a lesson!).
We call them birds, and we eat some of them.
2006-12-30 19:33:18 · answer #10 · answered by PragmaticAlien 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋