Do Christians really believe that Dinosaurs and people existed at the same time?

Question

and what about all the evidence to the contrary

Answer 1

They do not bother themselves with evidence – at least not in the same way as people who believe that knowledge can be obtained through the study of empirical data. Christians who claim the Bible represents inerrant truth are forced to deny everything that contradicts the folk tales and mythological beliefs of the historically obscure Semitic tribes of illiterate goat herders that are foundation of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.

Regarding your question about those who claim temporal contemporaneity for humans and dinosaurs, you at least have to respect how hard people have to work to remain at that level of ignorance. Those who claim a recent age (thousands and not billions of years) for the earth must have to be on guard every waking moment to make certain they do not accidentally become exposed to some accurate information.

Answer 2

Biblical theory on dinosaurs, no. If the age of the fossils could be examined, (there continues to be no baseline to substantiate) then they predate the Bible. Now the Bible does state that God sent forth existence to refill the Earth Genesis1:28. by fact that there is not any written account for the era, that's assumed,(i'm a physics Prof) there develop into existence types earlier than God claiming the Earth and rebuilding it. Scientists on the instant have theory that worldwide devastation killed the dinosaurs. If it did take place and the Earth grew to develop right into a desolate tract, then the Bible is right in that interpretation. The age of the Universe and the Earth is unknown. we will not in any respect comprehend. it truly is impossible for the traditional guy or woman to comprehend. have self assurance me I even have debated many human beings. the human beings of the "Bible era" ought to no longer have existed with dinosaurs. Scientists additionally say there develop into an Atlantis and are in seek of it by fact they have self assurance there develop right into a prior civilization. who's to declare we've been the 1st? sure i'm a Christian complete heartedly. I additionally sense that it truly is probable we at the instant are not the only human like species in this universe. we are probable no longer the 1st and could no longer be the final. yet it rather is my theory and a superb form of I even have talked to, Atheists and Christians alike, frequently come away with slightly greater attitude then whilst they started.

Answer 3

when it comes to dinosaurs... there are basically 2 types of christians

1 that believes in a young earth (6,000 or so years old)
& the other that believes that dinosaurs were created before humankind...

if you are to read about why the young earth christians believe what they believe, you might be surprised to see that they also have evidence that may suggest that humans & some dinosaurs actually existed at the same time...

but as i have said not all christians believe in a young earth

Answer 4

It's a really interesting question.
In America there are a lot of christians who go with the hypothesis of the scientific evidence over the Bible (with the idea that the Bible is great but you can't argue wtih science).

The general trend among the Evangelical Christians in the US however is a concern that the Bible isn't minimised so where it appears to say one thing then it should be taken at face value and all other truth is seen throught this. This isn't as crazy as it sounds and sort of makes sense if you understand the influence of thinkers like Karl Barth who wrote that the incarnated (Divine/human) Jesus is the only way we know God, and if God created and sustains everything then all truth must be seen in relation to him. So if the only way we can know God is through the incarnated Jesus, and the only reliable record we have of him (that he promised to inspire) is the Bible then it makes sense that you would want to make everything else fit around the Bible. If you believed that you can know God only through a Book, I guess you'd hold it in pretty high regard aswell.

Evangelical Christians in the UK vary a lot more than the US but there are a lot who would suggest that the Bible itself doesn't try to put itself forward as a science text book and you're actually minimising its value by trying to use it as that. For example, if you look a bit deeper, you'll see that the Hebrew text of the creation account that all English Bibles are translated from, is written using all the classic marks of Hebrew poetry and so should be read within this genre.
Most evangelical christians (in the UK as well as the US) would believe that God can work outside of the natural laws of physics... that's sort of the point in him being God! So things like the miracles of Jesus (as they are written in narative style rather than poetry or parable/teaching styles) are to be taken at face value - and God can still heal miraculously today.

Hope this is helpful - its a real shame that a lot of people miss out on getting to know God themselves because they find something like this that puts them off.

Answer 5

I am a christian and I do not know if humans existed with dinosaurs. I do not believe they did because they PROBABLY were seperated by many years. But it is one of those things that is hard to prove. A negative that is. There is no evidence that they did exist together but, that is NOT evidence they did not.

Answer 6

I don't believe it, and I'm a Christian.
I've actually heard an interesting theory. Supposedly, God made this earth from pieces of other worlds. Adam came from another world. So it could be possible that dinosaurs never actually existed on this earth, that their remains came from another world. That could be possible.
I haven't decided if I believe that, or where dinosaurs fit into the timeline of the world. But I think if they did exist on this planet, it woulda been before people. If the dinosaurs supposedly died because of a giant meteor, wouldn't you think that people would too?

Answer 7

That's the general consensus. It's in the book of Job there is a description of a huge beast of some kind. It's thought to be a dinosaur but no one really knows. The reason they choose to believe that is because it would help the theory that world is only about six thousand years old or so.

Answer 8

evidence has been found that man and dinosaur existed at the same time. There are still dinosaurs roaming. Loch ness is just a dinosaur, a fishing boat found the remains of a dead prehistoric dinosaur, angler fish, etc.

Answer 9

No all of them, but I do think that it's possible.

I believe that the story in genesis tells us of a pre Adam world that was destroyed, possibly having to do with the fall of Satan. Before then it was a meeting place of intelligent creatures ( or city in the Hebrew).

If you look up the Gap thoery of Genesis 1:1 - 1:2 you will have a bit of why I believe it.

Answer 10

they have "scientists" trying to prove it constantly. And when they fail, they cling to things like the Loch Ness monster, and even witnesses saying there are pterodactyls in New Guinea (I didn't believe it either until i googled it after seeing it on here yesterday). And yet they won't believe in aliens, who have WAY more eyewitnesses than either supposed living dinosaurs.