2007-03-27 08:24:10 · 20 answers · asked by NONAME 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
wrong time period buddy. They didnt exist at the time of Noah
2007-03-27 08:27:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Look at Genesis 6:18-20 about Noah and the animals. It doesn’t say two of every kind except dinosaurs. Now, keep in mind that God brought the animals to Noah; it says they will “come to you”; he didn’t have to go out and catch them.
The response that often comes from the skeptic is: “Noah couldn’t have fit all those animals in the ark—especially the dinosaurs!” And you ask them, “How many animals had to go in the ark?” “I don’t know.” “Well, how big was the ark?” “I don’t know.” So, you don’t believe an unknown amount of animals could have fit in an unknown sized ark?
First of all, Genesis 6:20 states that representative kinds of birds and land animals boarded the Ark, not all the different species and subspecies. People say, “But there were over 600 names for dinosaurs.” Yes, and there are many names for the different types of dogs in the world, but all the dog “species” came from only one original dog kind—one Genesis kind. There were many different Ceratopsia dinosaurs that probably all came from one Genesis kind. Many creationists believe there were fewer than 50 distinct kinds of dinosaurs that had to be on the Ark.
Second, you also need to remember that the ark didn’t look like those cutsie Sunday School pictures. The ark was 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet tall (and that’s using a small cubit measurement; it could have been quite a bit larger). The space in the ark would have held more than 520 modern railroad boxcars, and I’ve read that shippers allocate up to 250 sheep per boxcar when moving them by train.
Third, not all dinosaurs were huge, many were as small as chickens. Some scientists say the average size of the dinosaurs was about that of a sheep or a small pony. Very few of the dinosaurs grew to extremely large sizes.
And fourth, who says that he took full grown dinosaurs on board? It would be foolish to fill up space on the ark with the oldest, biggest adults. The largest fossil dinosaur eggs found are about the size of a football. Reptiles normally grow till the day they die so the enormous dinosaurs were probably just very old. Would God want to use senior citizens to populate the new world? Their main purpose was to reproduce after the flood. I don’t think there were old adults of any of the animals on the ark.
2007-03-29 05:14:55 · answer #2 · answered by Questioner 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just needed to point out, in case some people who answered check back
Dinosaurs wasn't one species -- there were a lot of different species of dinosaur. Noah would have had to bring two pteradactyls, two T-Rexes, 2 brontosauri, and 2 each of several thousand critters, many of them a lot huger than the few hundreds of cubits allowed for the ark.
The answers were an interesting read, though.
2007-03-27 17:02:10 · answer #3 · answered by tehabwa 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Noah was commanded to bring 2 of each kind of animal onto the Ark with him. This means that, in all probability, Noah did indeed bring 2 dinosaurs onto the Ark with him. Now, a couple of things can be supposed from this: either he screwed up and brought 2 dinosaurs from different species onto the Ark with him, or he didn't screw up but the dinosaurs were not able to survive in the new environment on earth after the flood. It is more likely that the dinosaurs were not able to survive in the new environment that existed on earth after the flood. Therefore, Noah did bring 2 dinosaurs with him onto the Ark, but they were not able to survive in the post-flood earth.
2007-03-27 08:33:25 · answer #4 · answered by Me 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Noah is a myth. If he was true, he could not bring dinosaurs because dinosaurs were long dead.
2007-03-27 09:38:53 · answer #5 · answered by Mary W 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because dinosaurs existed millions of years before humans did and Noah actually didn't exist at all. Sound logical? That's because it is.
2007-03-27 08:28:16 · answer #6 · answered by A 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because as the qur'an explains some stories are simply parables, I believe that either the part of "the whole world" is a parable or the complete story is simpluy a parable as i dont see that it is feesable noah had time to travel to Australia grab himself kangaroos and marsupials and also some Llamas in South America and so on!!
2007-03-27 13:20:40 · answer #7 · answered by AlessioItalianoBismillah 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Probably because the Bible didn't say anything about dinosaurs and so God didn't know to tell Noah to collect them. That's why they died out.
2007-03-27 08:29:41 · answer #8 · answered by bandycat5 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
You may also ask how could he pack all kinds of living species (that are counted in millions) in one ship?
How big was that ship?
How could he prepare suitable conditions for all different types of species (temp., humidity, light...etc)?
How could he make sure that those species would not eat each other?
Did he bring the polar bears from the north pole and after he released him the polar bear went back again to the north pole?
2007-03-27 08:30:29 · answer #9 · answered by Mostafa Al Banna 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
He did otherwise the dinosaurs in Isaiah wouldnt be around
2007-03-27 08:29:06 · answer #10 · answered by Pastor Biker 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋