Secular books would tell you that the first discovery of what were later called “dinosaurs” was around 1677 when Dr. Robert Plot found huge bones that were thought to belong to a giant elephant or a giant human. Then in 1822, Gideon Mantell and his wife found some Iguanodon teeth. But that was really when dinosaurs were rediscovered. Adam discovered the dinosaurs when he named the kinds of land animals God had created on the sixth day of Creation.
Take a look at Gen. 1:24-27. Here is a basic form of logic called a syllogism: T. Rex is a land animal. Land animals were made on day 6. Therefore, T. Rex was made on day 6. So, according to the Bible, dinosaurs lived beside man. Dinosaurs were made on day six of the creation week the same as man; they were beasts of the earth.
And yes, these were literal 24 hour days (“And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day”). Ex. 20:11 also makes it clear, “For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day and made it holy.” That’s where the seven day week came from. Besides that, there wasn’t death, disease, and suffering before Adam’s sin in chapter 3, when God cursed the earth. But, we find fossilized dinosaurs with cancer, tumors, diseases, defects, and we also find them along with fossilized thorns and thistles.
You are going to have a hard time trying to fit millions of years into the creation week with the gap or day-age theory, and still be consistent with Scripture.
An article in the January 1993 National Geographic boldly proclaimed: “No human being has ever seen a live dinosaur.” Now, does he know that, or does he think that? There is no way for anyone to know that unless they had at least talked to everyone who has ever lived.
If dinosaurs lived with man, you would expect to find legends of dinosaurs in history. Why don’t we read stories about men fighting dinosaurs or dinosaurs eating people’s cows and stuff like that?
Well, most people are unaware that the word “dinosaur” was not coined until the 1840s by Sir. Richard Owen (who was a Creationist by the way). So, if these creatures lived alongside humans prior to that time, they were not called dinosaurs. So what were they called? Dragons. Most cultures throughout the world possess ancient stories about dragons and sea monsters that closely resemble what we today would call dinosaurs. Dragon stories have been handed down for generations in most civilizations.
No doubt many of these stories have been exaggerated through the years, but that doesn’t mean they didn’t have their original basis in fact. I believe many of the dragon legends are simply distorted versions of dinosaur encounters. As Paul Taylor has said, “Most of the dragon legends are full of exaggeration, magic and marvelous deeds. But this is not true of all of them. Many stories seem rather believable.” It is true that many of them are mythical or legendary but it is also true that most legends are based on some truth. It cannot be an accident that so many separate peoples of the world tell such stories.
The same can be deduced from the 250+ different flood stories from around the world. Flood legends in many cultures that have never even heard of the Bible, and yet many of them are very similar to the account in Genesis. Why? Because everyone is descended from Noah. Some of the details have been distorted from thousands of years of telling and retelling, but it is based in fact. I believe the same is true of the dragon legends.
There are hundreds of these types of legends. Evolutionists just say that it’s coincidence that many of them sound like dinosaurs. World Book Encyclopedia says: “The dragons of legend are strangely like actual creatures that have lived in the past. They are much like the great reptiles [dinosaurs] which inhabited the earth long before man was supposed to have appeared on earth.”
2007-03-17 10:58:20
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answered by Questioner 7
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i imagine different christians have different theories. There are christians who definitely believe that dinosaurs lived in the time of guy and they were on the ark. i imagine a tyrannosaurus ought to have eaten all the different animals if that were actual. it really is a daft concept. so some distance as evolution is in touch maximum christians deny it because it conflicts with adam and eve. For me, i believe in god yet I actually believe in clinical actuality. all of it suits at the same time we in simple terms don't have each of the products. many people will argue for one area or the different or perhaps as they could't clarify it logically they in simple terms say it really is no longer actual or they make up their personal beliefs.
2016-11-26 00:43:06
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answered by Anonymous
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Bacteria was here first. Dinosaurs came much later...and Adam and Eve never came at all.
2007-03-16 12:13:37
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answered by The Wired 4
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dinosaurs- Fossil Evidence
Adam and Eve- The Bible
You choose.
2007-03-16 12:13:15
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answered by Skeptic123 5
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Once you show me your Adam and Eve's remains, and the gate to Eden, we can compare the carbon dating on the oldest dinosaurs to your mythological remains.
Until then, hide behind your myths if it makes you feel better.
2007-03-16 12:14:43
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answered by Anonymous
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Dinosaurs were here millions of years ago.
Adam arrived only 6032 years ago.
The math is simple, even for us Christians.
The Dinosaurs came first.
2007-03-16 12:30:28
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answered by Here I Am 7
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Dinosaurs, the show.
I like the one where the baby gets sick and goes Exorcist like.
2007-03-16 12:14:21
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answered by FaceFullofFashion 6
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Dinosaurs one of many of god's little experiments
2007-03-16 12:19:30
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answered by Ivan S 6
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the dinosaurs by 65million years
2007-03-16 12:13:18
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answer #9
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answered by Anonymous
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on the 6th day, animals were created
24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
This would include dinosaurs
Then God made man
26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [b] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
and there you have it.
2007-03-16 12:16:27
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answered by Anonymous
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