I'm Catholic and I'm really confused. Did Adam & Eve come first or did the dinosaurs arrive first?

Question

Scientists have found evidence that dinosaur bones existed way before the first human bones were found. But how's that possible if the bible says that God created Adam & Eve first?

Answer 1

To the best of our scriptural and scientific knowledge, the dinosaurs came first.

The Catholic Church does not take the stories of creation in the Bible literally. Catholics believe the book of Genesis tells religious truth and not necessarily historical fact.

The religious truth is that God created everything and declared all was good.

The Church supports science in the discovery of God's creation. At this time, the theory of evolution is the most logical scientific explanation. However tomorrow someone may come up with a better idea.

As long as we believe that God started the whole thing, both the Bible and modern science can live in harmony.

Many people believe that at some point during human evolution, God reached out and gave humans a soul.

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

The Bible says that God created the dinosaurs first, actually.
If you read the first couple of chapters of Genesis, you will see that God made the land animals (this would include the dinosaurs) before He made mankind. He made humans last of all, not first. Lets look in the Bible and see for ourselves.

In fact, God made everything before He made us - the universe, our Galaxy, the Earth (Genesis 1:1-8). On the third day, the dry land appeared from the seas and he filled the land with foliage of various kinds (Gen.1:9-13). The next day, while all the greenery was growing nicely, He re-arranged the solar system and moved us to our present location on the arm of the Milky Way Galaxy, a very nice neighbourhood, with a great view and far from the nasty singularitys in the middle. An of course, He made the Moon, so we would have tides - very important for our eco-system. Gen. 1: 14-19).
The next day was very busy: God made all the water creatures, the birds, the bugs, all the land animals we know today and many that are long gone, like the dinosaurs.

God made us on the very last day of his work - the sixth day, and we were the joy of His heart, even though He knew we would break it many times over. On the seventh day, He rested, and enjoyed all that He had made. I think He must have had such a marvellously fun time doing it!

Answer 3

Religion is a human invention and has nothing to do with scientific truth. Most religions are anthropocentric. God even made us in his image. The true value of any religion is to set down a code of behaviour so people can interact socially. As an explanation of creation religion has zero value or truth. Most religions that have tangled with explaining creation have got it all wrong. According to the Bible the Koran and the Torah the earth the sun and everything was created around 4000 BC. That is the universe was created after a number of early civilization were in existence for a few thousand years. Jericho is dated at around 11,000 years ago. the cave paintings date to about 25,000 years ago. The universe was born about 10billion years ago. our sun is 5billion years old. First life on earth appears at around 4.5 billion years ago in the form of unicellular bacteria. The dinosaurs by comparison a fairly recent about 250 million years ago. The first ancestor of humans the Australopithecus appears about 5 million years ago. We are literally the new kids on the block. It is still very early to make any guess at how successful we are. Sharks have been around for 300 million years ans have crocodiles. There are bacteria that have been around for over 2 billion years. Religion never had the slightest clue about creation. Just wild guesses way off the mark. The real story of creation is by far more breath taking and amazing than any religion has come up with.

Answer 4

The earth is millions of years old. That's why scientist find that. Now in your Bible the first verse is: verse1, In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth:::.... Now in that earth age it was before the Garden of Eden, and that's when Lucifer was still a good guy, but after he fell and rebelled against God, God destroyed his world. Now in verse two it says: 2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day. So what you have is a gap between verse 1 of maybe 10 million years, and then Satan rebelled and God destroyed it, and then verse 2 says he rebuilt it and created the new creation of the Garden of Eden, and now this dispensation of time will last till the 2ND coming of Jesus. And the last dispensation will be the 1000 years in revelations! Some Christians think that God did everything in 6000 years but they don't account for the age when satan was the worship leader.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

All of the basic “kinds” of living creatures were brought into existence in the same initial creation week. Moses wrote: ”. . . in six days Jehovah made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is . . .” (Ex. 20:11). This would include the dinosaurs (“terrible lizards”), and man as well.
Jesus affirmed that mankind has existed “from the beginning of the creation” (Mk. 10:6); this certainly excludes the notion that dinosaurs became extinct millions of years before man appeared upon the planet.
Humanity was given dominion over all the lower creatures of the earth (Gen. 1:26). There is no reason to exclude dinosaurs from the scope

Dinosaurs could have fit in the ark if they were younger and smaller. But they might not have survived in a post-Flood world with different environmental conditions.
The process of the extinction of some animals still continues.

Answer 7

I'm not sure where you got your religious education but most Catholics learned long ago not to take Genesis too literally. In Genesis 1, all the plants and animals were made before humans. In Genesis 2, humans were made first. They're two different stories, each designed to explain a different truth. Neither one was designed to present "history". (How would any human know how the world developed before people?) That's not what the stories are for.

Genesis did not include dinosaurs because the writers didn't know about them and wouldn't know how to explain them if they did. They didn't write about American Indians either. They only could and did write about people and things they understood.

To answer your first question, the dinosaurs came, and went, long before humans first appeared.

Answer 8

Well friend im not catholic... but perhaps i can help.....
There is no timeline on the garden of eden.... The Bible tells us that Adam and Eve were the first humans.... (it dosnt say the only).... it also shows that God created the animals and creatures before he created man......
Since there is no timeline for the garden.... and since Adam was created to be eternal (until he turned from God and disobeyed him allowing sin into his life and he began to age and die).... it is possible that Adam and Eve were in the garden during the time of the dinasours.... we have no way of knowing...... also possible that Man as we know man to be wasnt created until after the age of the dinasours.

God bless you ...... good question

Answer 9

As a Roman Catholic, I advise: forget your concern. No aspect of our faith commits us to denying the obvious fact of evolution or to a literalistic reading of Genesis. My suggestion would be to read the four Gospels often to really get acquainted ever more intimately with Our Lird Jesus Christ. If you do that, Genesis 1 will pale into insignificance.

Answer 10

the creation story is generally regarded as a mythical story to help people of that time explain something that could not be explained any other way. There are countless other creation stories that came long before the bible or christianity was even a distant thought. this just happened to be the story that christians latched onto.