2007-03-10 18:13:03 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Because they were around for a few million years and disappeared before that book of fiction was throw together
2007-03-10 18:24:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Why didn't the bible talk about atoms, or that the earth moves around the sun? Maybe moses got sleepy while working on it... But the creation story does break up the process of creation the very same way scientists now believe that it happened- not so much in days- but the steps are the same.
But really, about these questions concerning the bible, I always wonder if many things about our earth and universe would have been ingraspable for people back then... as it is now. Dinosaurs didn't even exist in human minds till less than 200 years ago- so it took us almost 4,000 years since the bibl was written till then to even recognize what was all around us. We've only known the age of the earth for the last 50 years... and that is still very debatable (around 500 millions years old)- and the universe... right now at 13.5 billion. All this may have been very fun for God to watch.
2007-03-11 15:46:21 · answer #2 · answered by locusfire 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The word "dinosaur" was not a part of our language until the 1800's when a famous British scientist, Dr Richard Owen, coined the name ‘Dinosauria,’ meaning ‘terrible lizard".
In the Bible, in Job 40:15-24, God describes to Job (who lived after the Flood) a great beast with which Job was familiar. This great animal, called ‘behemoth,’ is described as ‘the chief of the ways of God,’ perhaps the biggest land animal God had created. Impressively, he moved his tail like a cedar tree! Although some Bible commentaries say this may have been an elephant or hippopotamus, the description actually fits that of a dinosaur like Brachiosaurus. Elephants and hippos certainly do not have tails like cedar trees!
2007-03-10 18:45:21 · answer #3 · answered by Sister Christian 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
To my mind, it is because the Bible story does not cover the period in which they existed.
There is a theological position that the beginning verses allow for a gap of time, perhaps a very large gap, in the creation process, and dinosaurs could fit in the period.
Basically, though we just don't know.
2007-03-10 18:19:43 · answer #4 · answered by Bill 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It does, in fact, speak extensively about "leviathan" who breathes fire and causes the sea to boil, whose skin no spear shall pierce. Job 41 is a WHOLE CHAPTER talking about him, Psalms 74, verse 14 and Psalms 104 verse 26. Read up, my dear. I'm not a religious freak, but I do know what it says in there, and to ask, "Why not?", when indeed, there is, seems kindof silly.
2007-03-10 18:24:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Bible does not mention many things. Does that mean that these things did not exist? Certainly not. ☺
2007-03-10 18:21:59 · answer #6 · answered by Ashley 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Simple question to answer.
Because Noah forgot to include them in his cargo of "pairs" before the flood swept them away.
2007-03-10 18:27:22 · answer #7 · answered by pistolero 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus was eating dinosaur ribs at the last super
2007-03-10 18:19:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Because they had a brain the size of cashews and that really doesn't help you get noticed.
2007-03-10 19:23:16 · answer #9 · answered by Somebody Real 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
do you feel as if they are excluded here?
Genesis 1:24,25 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
good question by the way.....
2007-03-10 18:20:47 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋