we all know this,but here is my question?

Question

we all know that humans evolved through billions of years of evolution.animals evolved much the same way as humans.there is proof all over this world.we have fossils that carbon date back years and years.we as humans can not deny this.
my question is.........if this is proven and a fact,how come the bible does not mention any of this?the bible says God created man in an image of Hisself.then He created woman from the mans rib.then so on and so on.this is written.how come it is not written in the bible that there was dinosaurs and cavemen?do christians just try to make us believe this,because they refuse the dinosaur theory and the big bang?
this is a serious question.i am not putting the bible or God down.i am just curious as to what other people think.and to see if other people agree with me.
thanx for ur input.

wow.......i really did not expect to get so many answers on here.the majority of them are great answers,but of course there will allways be the few that are not.i really do appreciate the time and the thoughts that people have shared with me.i see others point of view on this subject.i never really thought about the time the bible was written as compared to the time of the dinosaurs.

Answer 1

You have many assumptions my friend. Were you around billions of years ago to see a big bang, to see life created from nothing, or to see an ape turn into a man? You are going off of what you are being told by others, who are going off of what they are being told by others.

I will address these each in part. First big bang - the theory is that a matter that it in the universe was condensed into this small little spec. No one knows how the spec came to be or where the matter came from, but there it was, and then it exploded, but no one knows why or where the energy came from to create that explosion. From that explosion we have the ordered universe. Science uses this to explain the world. I have a test for you, take a bunch of stuff, all different kinds, put it into a jar and blow it up until you get some sort of order. You may have to do this for ever to get the kind of order we find in the universe. Explosions don't create order. Order indicates design, design indicates designer.

Life coming from non-life - if indeed life came from non-life this is incredible and has lasting effects. First sciences has NEVER EVER observed this. Its the only way they take the supernature out of life coming into being, but we have never seen life from non-life and furthermore there is actually a law of biogenetics which says that only life produces life. But lets say it were true, that means you and me and every other living thing are nothing more than rearranged molecules. Our feelings and beliefs in morals are completely subjective. We would have no grounds for moral standards because morals are not a part of the universe, they aren't tangable, so we would be forced to let societies govern morals and then we couldn't even say things like the Holocaust was wrong because that society thought they were doing a good thing. When taken to its logical end you come to absurdities that you would never actually believe in.

Ape to man - the fossil record is not evidence for evolution. They are just fossils, many scientists seem them different ways. Its how you interpret that evidence. There is a mound of compelling evidence that Noah's flood was true. If water had filled the whole earth and destroyed everything then you would expect to see millions of dead things laid down in rock layer all over the earth, and that is what we see. It doesn't take thousands of years for things to fossilize.

I thought just as you did only two years ago, and a friend was kind enough to press me on it and challenge me to look at how the other side sees the evidence. I recommend you do the same, check out www.answersingenesis.org if you are so confident that your side is true.

God Bless

Answer 2

The Bible does not reveal all things from history, though it does cover many things. For example, there is no information about Jesus between the age of 12 to when He was 30 and starting His ministry.

There is a possible reference in Job 40:15-24 to dinosaurs, called behemoth. I think that many on here mistakenly believe that Christians totally disbelieve and deny evolution.We may reject parts of it, but not necessarily all aspects of it. The "big bang" expanding universe could very well be how it was created by God.

To many of us, science is mankind trying to explain and understand the things of God. Many of us are open minded, and I sure that some reading this are open minded enough to realize this as true.

Answer 3

It is only through science that we know about evolution. The people who wrote the Bible lived in a society devoid of science. They thought the world was a flat disk and that the sky was a dome with a few thousand tiny stars embedded in it. They thought that rain came from a reservoir somewhere above the dome, hence the reason you can read about God opening "the floodgates of heaven." They thought you could reach the sky if you built a tall enough tower, hence we have the story of the tower of Babel. They believed such things because this is how the world looked to them. They would have had no clue about evolution, the knowledge of which requires sophisticated technology and observational abilities, combined with an understanding of the modern scientific process. Any bones of dinosaurs would have led to myths about monsters, giants, dragons, gryphons, etc. People in biblical times were clueless, and their alleged God apparently liked them that way, judging by the nonsense that's written in the Bible.

Answer 4

I've seen your question about a billion times but never so politely. Thank you.

I believe science evolves as man's knowledge evolves and I don't think any scientist would argue with that.

Christians work backward from the conclusion that if The Bible says it, it is true. Regardless of science or all the wisdom of man and things like carbon dating. We believe God does not lie, and would not give us faulty information.

The more we read and study, the more our faith is proved within our spirits and that can never change, nor do we expect it to.

Answer 5

Adam of the bible named all animals as ordained by God. Now what we read in the bible is what man has presented to us but there was much much more that is not in the bible. I learned after following the lord for a period of time of Jesus history as a little boy and how he shot marbles with the children his age. I read this in the lost book of the bible. So for real there are other things that is not recorded and taught. One must investigate for themselves the history of christianty to fulfill their own knowledge.

Answer 6

Although I hate religion with every fiber of my being, evolution has not been proven to a point where we can say it definatley 100% exists. Lets concentrate on the things we do know,
the world is about 4.5 billion years old not 5000, we know that we cannot get humans from dirt, we know it took way more than seven days to create the earth,humans are not A sexual they dont just have devine kids, we as in you I and any other person with an unbaised thirst for knowledge know these things, some however do not know these things and even go so far as to deny these things its a sad sad world.

Answer 7

My question is this. If the world's largest Christian denomination openly and officially endorses evolution, then why in the world would people generalize and claim that "Christians" don't believe in dinosaurs, cavemen or the Big Bang?
If you can answer that question, then the rest is easy.

Answer 8

This whole idea of a 'bible vs science' debate is ridiculous. There is no debate. The bible is based on science anyway, but the science it's based on is thousands of years out of date. The reason the bible doesn't mention evolution is because it hadn't been discovered when the bible was written. People assumed that they were created as they were, and they were entirely wrong. So either God lied to us, or he doesn't exist.

Answer 9

i'm not a believer but i think the bible's has the information to make mankind live forever. DInosaur or any other facts that isn't mention in it has no relevance to its purpose. it isn't a book of science or facts. its a book of life. whether its contents is true or not it helps life go in its way.

Answer 10

We "all" don't know this. Only a handful of wishful thinkers. Evolution is fantasy. Big Bang? Just out of the clear blue this happens. If this were proven then all would believe but we all know this is not true.