Are they mentioned in the Bible? On which day did God sit down and make a T-Rex and all the rest that he was going to wipe out of existence eventually? Doesn't their exsistence disprove Creationism? What are all these giant bones we keep digging up?
Fairly sure they weren't in the Garden of Eden..
2007-01-30 10:17:35 · 30 answers · asked by Mr. Fox 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Either Satan put them there to confuse us.
Or God deliberately made them look old for some reason.
Or the scientists are lying and they don't exist.
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PS... I also believe in the Tooth Fairy, Bigfoot, The Easter Bunny, The Loch Ness Monster, and Santa Clause.
2007-01-30 10:23:36 · answer #1 · answered by hottie 2 · 6⤊ 5⤋
Malone's excellent book, Search for the Truth.
Is this a scene from the blockbuster movie, Jurassic Park? It could be, but it isn't. This description, which perfectly fits an Apatosaurus, is a paraphrased description taken from one of the oldest books of the Bible, Job 40:15-24. If dinosaurs have been extinct for 65 million years, how could a writer of the Bible have accurately described the appearance, food, and habitat of this creature?
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.
2007-01-30 11:44:35 · answer #2 · answered by Freedom 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Creationism doesn't have anything to do with The Bible, specifically. It is merely an alternative theory of how life and the world came about that states that a creator (not necessarily the Judaeo-Christian God) must have had a hand in the creation of the universe.
Question for atheists, "Where did the single point of energy said to have caused the big bang come from?" There is no need for this bickering. Believe what you want to believe, and leave everyone else alone.
2007-01-30 10:30:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Followers of the 'book' always quote their 'book' to show whatever they feel appropriate at the time. This, as well as being annoying, makes discussion with these people a fruitless task, leading nowhere and without any useful purpose. A lot like discussing philosophy with a new born. So while those with an enquiring mind will accept that t-Rex, et. al. existed, the followers of the 'book' will always refer you to their imaginary friend who 'wrote' the 'book'.
2007-01-30 10:44:36 · answer #4 · answered by wolfe_tone43 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
God created the Dinosaurs for what purpose we do not know,a natural disaster wiped out most life on earth at some point,it does not seem likely that man existed along side dinosaurs no human remains dating back 70 million yrs plus have ever been found,I guess that God must have created us after the extinction of the dinosaurs.
2007-01-30 10:29:29 · answer #5 · answered by Sentinel 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
why aint dinosaurs mentioned in the bible? its the word of god so i hear. why didnt jesus ever meet a brontosaurs? how come moses never bothered to plague egypt with a herd of dinosuars? the bible aint true. go to science enjoy its beauty there is no magic invisible fellow in the sky
2007-01-30 11:04:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
They are mentioned in the bible, read Job 40-41. No, dinosaurs does not disprove creationism and it definitely doesn't disprove the bible.
2007-01-30 10:32:48 · answer #7 · answered by A follower of Christ 4 · 2⤊ 3⤋
The standard Creationist answer is that the dinosaurs all died in the Flood and their bones were buried by the sediments left behind as the Flood receded. There are various explanations as to why they weren't mentioned in the Bible, most along the lines of 'God decided it wasn't important to include mention of creatures which He knew wouldn't be around later.'
Jehovah's Witnesses claim that Satan put the dinosaur bones there to deceive the faithful and lead them astray. (Why Jehovah allowed this is never explained.)
2007-01-30 10:25:45 · answer #8 · answered by dukefenton 7 · 7⤊ 3⤋
dont be such a moron the bible was written in the days when humans were ignorant to the existance of dinosaurs.
To be fair they were ignorant of a lot of things they made up a God to worship did they not.
2007-01-30 20:32:34 · answer #9 · answered by reevesy314 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
u just only mentioned it from bible,but not from others such as quran. in quran it mentioned that many powerful creatures before mankind had been destroyed.
beside those many creatures/lives spread in the space.
2007-01-30 14:37:47 · answer #10 · answered by Difi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pretty sure they were created on day 6 with the rest of the land animals.
They would have been in the Ark - probably as very young creatures.
In the book of Job a dinosaur is mentioned.
Remember the word 'dinosaur' is a relatively new word.
If you are interested in learning more go to www.answersingenesis.org to find out more
2007-01-30 10:27:13 · answer #11 · answered by Valerie C 2 · 2⤊ 5⤋