Are Dinosaurs Anti-Christian?

Question

It doesn't make sense to me. The Bible says Earth is only 6,000 years old. Is Paleontology just an attack on God?

Answer 1

Paleontology is scientific investigation.
The biggest lie of Christianity is that science is out to disprove the bible. Scientist have no such goal in mind. The goal of science is to investigate evidence. So far the results of that investigation is that the biblical creation story is wrong.

Answer 2

The Bible does make mention of creatures that fit the idea of Dinosaurs. The word "dinosaurs" was not invented until the late 1800s, so you will not find it in the King James or other translations made before that time.

Job descripts two such creatures, the Behemoth and the Leviathan. He speaks of them as creatures that were familiar and still alive at the time he lived. (Note that many Bible scholars believe the book of Job happened before the time of Noah's flood).

Christians believe that such creatures existed. That in the time before the flood, when the human population was much much smaller then today, much of the world could have been populated with such creatures. Much like the buffalo herds that once covered most of the plains of the US.

The Bible teaches that there were several worldwide disasters that caused mass extinction of animals, major changes in climate, and total altered the face of the earth. Among those are the initial sin of man, the Great Flood of Noah, and the Dividing of the Continents in the day of Perez.

These disasters could easily have created the layers of dirt that cover the earth, burying animals, creating fossils, and causing the extinction of many of species such as the majority of the dinosaurs. Not that they are not the only species to have disappeared. There are plants, mammals, fish, birds, insects, and others also found in the fossil records that simple disappear from history. If evolution is true, no single event (such as a meteor striking the earth) could have caused these extinctions such evolution says these creatures did not exist together. Only the Bible model of multiple disasters makes sense.

No science, including Paleontology is an attack on God. Rather it is an attempt to understand how he works. But, like anything, it could be misused as an attack on God. As anyone noticed that science has changed over the last 2000 years time and time again. But the Bible still read the same.

Answer 3

12. All things were made by Him (see John 1:3), including dinosaurs. Why then did the dinosaur disappear? The answer may be in Job 40:15–24. In this passage, God speaks about a great creature called "behemoth." Some commentators think this was a hippopotamus. However, the hippo’s tail isn’t like a large tree, but a small twig. Following are the characteristics of this huge animal: It was the largest of all the creatures God made; was plant-eating (herbivorous); had its strength in its hips and a tail like a large tree. It had very strong bones, lived among the trees, drank massive amounts of water, and was not disturbed by a raging river. He appears impervious to attack because his nose could pierce through snares, but Scripture says, "He that made him can make his sword to approach unto him." In other words, God caused this, the largest of all the creatures He had made, to become extinct.

Answer 4

There is plenty of evidence AGAINST EVOLUTION:.
First, the 'Cambrian explosion'...... the millions of fossil types in Cambrian rock (oldest fossil bearing rocks) appear suddenly and fully formed and without any previous forms...IOW, there are no transitional forms.

Most well educated evolutionary palentologists, when forced to, will admit it, but very unwillingly, and even then they always want to seem to make new excuses for it. Usually they just don't say anything about it and hope noone finds out. Most paleontologists know this quite well about the fossil record, especially concerning dinosaurs. It is the general public like yoruslf that remains ignorant of it.

The thing to remember is that evolution is still just a theory - a hypothesis, a speculation, an unproven assumption.

According to Scripture NOTHING evolved but everything was created "AFTER THEIR KIND"....which is directly consistent with the fossil record.

"From the beginning of the Creation God made them male and female..."-- Jesus (Mk. 10:6)

Scripture says God SPOKE all things into existence with His Word:
" By the Word of the Lord were the heavens created, and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth.... For HE SPAKE AND IT WAS DONE; HE COMMANDED AND IT STOOD FAST". (psalm 33:6-9)

Answer 5

Dinosaurs ARE biblical. As far as chronology JOB is the actual oldest book in the Bible. In that book are references to BEHEMOTH animals that were more than likely primitive descriptions of dinosaurs. The only thing that is OFF is MANS timetable of the world being billions of years old. If that were the case then the depth of dust on the moon would be MUCH deeper than it is rather than the couple of inches it actually was when man landed on it. Science says that the dust should have been FEETS deep in there theory of the universe being BILLIONS of years old. So it is possible to know that dinosaurs existed. Just do not put your trust in MANS timetable of how old the earth is! Hope this helps!!!

Answer 6

The bible says nothing about the age of the Earth. A group of idiots who try to interpret the bible say that the Earth is that many years old.

Answer 7

What? Paleontologists aren't out to attack God. They are just making discoveries of bone and fossils so we can learn from them and found out what the Earth was like before we were here. If a certain religious group is offended by that it was not their intention.

Answer 8

You really think we have KEPT the same calender for 2000 years,
or does in make sense that times change, math changes, calculated hours and months change.

So taking all this into consideration, it makes sense the math would be off.

even a misfgigure on one variable, could cause 3000 years of mis-calculations

Answer 9

yes, dinosaurs and cavemen aka neanderthals can not fit into the bible, therefore the bible is wrong! the bible also dosen't mention any other planets or galaxies so I would consider them anti-bible as well. Logicly the bible is illogical.

Answer 10

It must be Wednesday. We went through this last Wednesday.

No, dinosaurs are not anti-christian. Because it doesn't make sense to you doesn't make it any less real.