Why doesn't the bible mention anything about Dinosaurs?

Question

And no, the Job descriptions of the "Behemoth" do not count, since these are obvious descriptions of an elephant or a hippopotamus.

Also, Job 40:15 reads: 15 "Look at the behemoth, which made along with you and which feeds on grass like an ox."

We all know that dinosaurs and humans never occupied the earth at the same time, thus, ruling this scripture out as a description of a dinosaur.

Answer 1

I know that the Blackfoot indians in Alberta used to speak of the fossil dinosaurs as being the bones of "The Fathers of the Buffalo" and the Chinese over a thousand years ago were grinding up and seling Dragon teeth and Dragon Bones as medicine.
So I believe relatively primitive people recognised fossils as being from living beings. It also shows that they didn't have it quite right, but we don't either. Some of the Dinos were grazers, the Chinese figured out that they were scaly like snakes.

I suppose a bunch of desert dwellers might have noticed fossils on the tops of mountains. Shells are common, and got the idea that the world must have been flooded. Not unreasonable.
If they saw fossil bones a story would have been made up about them.
Good stories travel too. The Eastern Mediteranian has always been the center of the world where the eastern Caravans met western Sails. Prime story telling country.

Would their story have been as well researched as ours? Would they have been as astounding as ours are?
In their time I think they would have been!
I doubt if they would have been as accurate as ours but I respect that they were doing the best they could with what they had.
Our creation story is not perfect yet either. One of the features of our science is that we are constantly editing the story. Not only are we eating from the tree of knowledge but we are helping it grow by watering, fertilizing and,yes, pruning it when it needs it.
The Bible literalists are like people trying to keep some dried cuttings from the tree of knowledge as a dead flower arrangement.
Even if the ancient peoples were trying to describe and explain fossil evidence, we have figured out how it worked a bit better and we should leave the Bible explainations of how for historians of thought.
Our modern creation myths concerning *how* are stronger, but they say very little about *why* creation happened. Science deals with how, religion deals with why.
That is the reason religion speaks about the unseen.

Religion, if it was smart, would concern itself with its primary reason for being, figuring out why we should not exterminate ourselves in intertribal wars. (because science already figured out the how of that trick)

Until the religious realize this they are a threat to our survival as a species, not an aid.

Sorry about the length. Choose reality.

ps
the bible literalists have forgotten that they were being told a story and have forgotten why the story was being told. They think it is about how and about unchanging facts. The truth is stories have different meanings as the facts change. Ask a good lawyer if you don't believe me.

Answer 2

Regarding the Behemoth, and your attempting to discount a great description in God's word describing the Dinosaur known as Sauropaud.

Did you not read Job 40v17
17He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.

Have you seen any elephant and hippo tails that resembled cedar trees?
We are talking behemoth, much greater than that of the little whips of tails that flutter around on the hind end of hippos and elephants. Cedar tree - is huge..

In Job 41 we get a terrific description of T-Rex.
T-Rex was nicknamed the "Air-headed dinosaur" because of all the hallow chambers in his skull. It's possible these chambers could have held explosive chemicals.

14Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.


The bible also descibes flying Teradactyls as dragons that fly. It's all there. Man was on the earth when these creatures existed some 4-6 thousand years ago.

Gen 6v4There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

Answer 3

During the middle ages there was a supernova that was seen for months around the earth. Observers in every country in the world made note of it except for the countries in Europe ruled by the church. They said that it was evil and to notice or recognize it would get you boiled in oil so there is NOTHING written about it in the religious areas of the world. If the church did not want you to notice the dinosaur bones then you didn't. And since the bible has been re-written so many times, many things have been put in and left out depending upon which twit with a quill pen and an attitude was in charge of it at the time.

Answer 4

the bible claims that when God made the earth he put Adam and Eve straight on it, so they were there when dinosaurs should have been. some modern scientists have now calculated that they believe the bible claims the world to be just over 7000 years old.

however i do have a theory. each day God made another part of the world. when he put animals on the world he could have originally put the first organisms on here that the evolved into dinosaurs, before becoming extinct leaving the other animals. after all we do not know how long the day was classed as back then: it could have been 10 seconds, 24 hours or several million years.

but please bear in mind that is just my abstract theory with no solid evidence to go with it

Answer 5

well, before God made the world it was just this vastness. It was completely empty. He made the earth and the heavens first, and after that he made people. So, I do think that humans and dinosaurs were around at the same time. They just weren't in the exact same spot. Perhaps when Adam and Eve were in the Garden the dinosaurs roamed the Earth but when the people were kicked out the dinosaurs ceased to exsist. And if that is what happened, then the dinosaurs probably weren't mentioned, because no human ever came into contact with an alive one.

Answer 6

That is a good question. It does mention great beasts. My sister insists that a bunch of small animals just happened to fall dead at the same time in the same area and when decomposed the bones just looked like some great monster. She does not believe in dinosaurs because they are not talked about in the bible. But what is meant by great beasts?

Answer 7

I could be wrong, as I'm not a Bible Scholar, but I don't remember anything about Passenger Pigeons, Dodos, Tasmanian Wolves in the Good Book, but we believe them to have existed. I have never seen any of these, as they too were extinct prior to my life, but as they are not mentioned in the Bible, but we have photographs or drawings of them, and there have been skeletal remains found - then the Bible must be wrong. Yep - that's it - wrong. Come on - there are many things, places and events that are not mentioned in the Bible. Nowhere is there a list of all the genus and species of each animal or plant placed upon the earth.

Answer 8

they were called dragons in the early days:

Deuteronomy 32:33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.

Job 30:29 I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.

Psalms 44:19 Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

Psalms 74:13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.

Psalms 148:7 Praise the LORD from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps:

Isaiah 13:22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.

Isaiah 34:13 And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.

Isaiah 35:7 And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.

Isaiah 43:20 The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.

Jeremiah 9:11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.

Jeremiah 10:22 Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons.

Jeremiah 14:6 And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.

Jeremiah 49:33 And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a desolation for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man dwell in it.

Jeremiah 51:37 And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.

Micah 1:8 Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.

Malachi 1:3 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.

Answer 9

It does!
It says that Sampson killed a lion with the jawbone of an as*..
Everyone knows that the T-Rex was the big jerk of the dinosaur world. And the lion was that big iguana thing with a flap on its neck that looked like a lions mane.
Everyone knows that mammals didn't exist until around the time of Socrates.
;-p

Sorry for the sarcastic answer but I just woke up and I'm a little grouchy...besides I thought it was funny.

Answer 10

Are you joking me? Did you read the whole ******* bible to get that they werent there. haha. i would laugh my *** of if you did. Why the hell would they be there. They weren't living when people were living. unless you believe in that whole jurassic park thing. I have never seen all of those though. Just a part of that scene where the are knocking everything down in the kitchen & where there is that ginourmous white sattelite thing. I also recently saw the part where the guy showed the other guy he stole the eggs from the dinosaur so there pretty much all gonna die. haha funny movie. & unless there was a dinasaur version of a Jesus. why would they be in there?