2007-02-09 12:51:57 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
i wish i can help you but i have never gotten straight answer from a religion person good luck
2007-02-09 12:59:24 · answer #1 · answered by mrs. smutty aka sodachix 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't know, but I'm guessing that in the 1700, the Bible was consider the only authority and anything like the concept of a dinosaur would contradict their biblical concepts.
Seems the first dino described as anything link a terrible lizard was in 1824, so no one knew of dinos as fiction or reality.
Or was your question a backhanded way to suggest the Bible and Koran are fiction? If so, not a proper forum, I would think.
2007-02-09 20:59:16 · answer #2 · answered by trilotat 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, Job 40:15-24 in the Bible mentions animals which could be dinosaurs.
2007-02-09 20:55:28 · answer #3 · answered by The Walrus 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Leviathan
is the bible word for a marine dinosaur
the giant dragon that was in the sea
Edit comment:
boo is right about Behemoth too, in Job chapter 40
the giant animal's tail is big like a cedar tree, and it can drink a whole river
2007-02-09 20:56:14 · answer #4 · answered by million$gon 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Presumably, because pre-1700 no Dinosaur bones had be found and recognised for what they were, so no one knew that they had existed.
2007-02-09 20:56:04 · answer #5 · answered by Social Science Lady 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
fiction?
there are pictographs of large lizards that look like the so named apatasaurus and tyranosaurus rex on caves in europe and in the southwest. Who drew them? they are obviously ancient drawings and obviously that would prove that they existed and that they were present at the same time as man.
As well, there are two very large creatures described in the bible Job 40: behemoth and leviathan is mentioned several times.
2007-02-09 20:58:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Didnt you ever wonder who the "Giants " and "Great Beasts"in the Bible were ? I always figured that Dino bones are the reason such traditions existed...ancient people saw/heard about such bones and made up stories about them.
2007-02-09 20:56:31 · answer #7 · answered by RedHairedTempest 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There were no archeologists in biblical times and the dinosaurs' bones were burried beneath the earth.
It wasn't until their bones were unearthed that they were introduced to popular fiction and scientific publications.
2007-02-09 20:54:59 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Because nobody knew what they were. The bible was handed down in oral tradition for centuries before it was written down. By that time, nobody knew what a dinosaur was anymore.
2007-02-09 20:54:52 · answer #9 · answered by Beardog 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
They ARE mentioned in the Bible - as behemoths.
OOP - mtl is right - leviathons, not behemoths. Sorry.
2007-02-09 20:55:55 · answer #10 · answered by They call me ... Trixie. 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋