2007-04-10 21:48:58 · 11 answers · asked by starlight 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Jewish rabbis believe that one "day" in the first week of creation does not mean our human kind of day. It could mean millions of years! That being said...
I don't think the dinosaurs existed at the time of Adam and Eve. My opinion is that they come in at the part when G-d created the fish and birds (day 5), since science proves that they evolved from fish or some kind of smaller organism.
*Science can be wrong, though. (heck- people thought the world was flat and that the universe revolved around the earth.)
2007-04-11 00:06:15 · answer #1 · answered by Gavriella B 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Some religious nutters, creationists, are vehemently opposed to the notion that dinosaurs exist. They prefer to follow the teachings of the Bible, where the story of Adam battling the Giant Space Octopus, defeating him and creating humans from his remains is much more widely accepted. Even the world-famous dinosaur skeletons, discovered in the basement of the British Museum, have yet to convince the religious world otherwise.
Scientists and Priests are due to settle this debate once and for all with a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors in the Wembley Stadium at some time yet to be announced. Gates will open at 7:30. Tickets are £5 each. Bring your own beer.
2007-04-10 21:56:00 · answer #2 · answered by Katey 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
In my opnion, humans of any kind did not come into existance until AFTER the dinosaurs.
I will leave it to those who think it's worthy to dedicate a life either preaching or fighting a book that could have been altered at any time during history (because the winners write history, remember this) because no ORIGINAL copy of the bible that I know, that was written by the Lord Jesus, exists. Honestly, I'm more concerned about NOW and the problems humantiy faces today.
2007-04-11 07:45:56 · answer #3 · answered by sakira_starwolf 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
~Okay, we will ignore carbon dating and science in general. Based on the bible, the possibility of dinosaurs having existed at all is non-existent. Check the size of brachiosaurus, then measure the Arc. Or did the dinosaurs just disappear sometime between Eden and Noah and is that why there is no mention of them in the bible? Shouldn't such a cataclysmic extermination be worthy of some note? And why did just the dinosaurs die off and not mankind? But since the bible fails to account for Asia, Europe, Australia and the Western Hemisphere either, so I guess the bible is inaccurate and incomplete and a lousy historical reference for anything other than Jewish folklore and legend.
"Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything."
-Robert A. Heinlein
2007-04-10 22:08:25 · answer #4 · answered by Oscar Himpflewitz 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Personally, I think the Bible creation story is largely mythical. Put into a context that early people could understand.
Creation and Evolution are not mutually exclusive concepts. I think it's more plausible that God used the natural laws of the world as it is, including evolution in order to create the universe. He's timeless, billions of years mean nothing to him. So he tweaks things along the way to get what he wants, and eventually you have man. But you try explaining to a Stone Age, or even early Iron Age person the theory of evolution and the time involved. They would have no frame of reference or anyway to understand that. So you say it was six days, instead of 60 million years. That way you get he point across, and they can understand it.
Just my personal idea.
2007-04-11 10:12:09 · answer #5 · answered by rohak1212 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes !!!!...In fact I have heard from a very reliable source that Adam had a pet dinasour. He named him Dino. After debating for a long time with his long time friend Barney they decided to keep this fact from the rest of the world. There thinking was thet there will be some very feeble minded people in the future that wont be able to handle the fact that the world and everything in it was just an after thought of the great KAZOOOOO!!!
LONG LIVE FREDDY FLINTSTONE...(aka ..ADAM).
2007-04-11 10:18:55 · answer #6 · answered by dewhatulike 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No they did not. Dinosaurs existed millions of years before man appeared on earth. Adam and Eve are merely one of many creation myths and not in any way historical persons.
2007-04-10 22:58:33 · answer #7 · answered by rdenig_male 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In my opinion, The Garden of Eden is a parable designed to teach us about temptation and the consequences of not resisting it. In other words it teaches us the importance of self control.
2007-04-10 23:23:38 · answer #8 · answered by Michael 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Dinosaurs are actually the "dragons" told about in folklore, not-so-folklorish. They once existed, but the knights slew them into extinction.
Scientists just have the dates wrong. They existed during medieval times, and the knights slew them. Why are dragons told about in stories from Europe through China? Because they once existed. Their fossils as we know them today are supposedly from thousands of years ago, but not true!
2007-04-10 21:58:17 · answer #9 · answered by perfectlybaked 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
What difference does it make what my OPINION is? Is there any scientific evidence to that effect? If so, that would answer your question, NOT someone's OPINION!!
Chow!!
2007-04-11 07:12:38 · answer #10 · answered by No one 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋