Why did GOD Create Dinosaurs--why did they die out--where is Mankind in all of this?

Question

Mankind: not necessarily starting with Adam 6,000 Years ago.
GOD is able to put Mankind on the Earth at anytime--the Bible dosen't say Adam was the first man on the Earth.

Answer 1

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Discovering ‘The Great Reptiles’ of the Past

WHEN you stand on the edge of the Red Deer River valley, just south of the town of Drumheller in Alberta, Canada, you stand on the edge of two different worlds. At eye level, in every direction, are the endless wheat fields of the Alberta prairies. But looking down the cliffs into the dry and barren valley, visitors can imagine another world far removed from their own—the world of the dinosaurs.

In this valley, with its steep canyons of multicolored sedimentary rock layers, hundreds of dinosaur bones have been unearthed. Some people in this area call the barren canyon “the badlands.” But visitors, young and old alike, are filled with astonishment as they view the fossil legacy of some of the most amazing animals that ever lived on earth.

Discovering Dinosaurs

Before 1824, dinosaurs were unknown to man. In that year the bones of several kinds of fossilized reptiles were unearthed in England. British paleontologist Richard Owen called these animals Dinosauria, from the two Greek words deinos and sauros, meaning “terrible lizard.” The name remains in common use to this day, although while dinosaurs are reptiles, they are not lizards.

Since 1824, dinosaur fossils have been found on every continent. The fossil record, left in layers of sedimentary, or water-laid, rock, indicates that there was an extraordinary abundance and variety of dinosaur types at a time in earth’s history called the Age of Dinosaurs. Some made their home on land, while others lived in swamps. Some perhaps even lived in water, much like the present-day hippopotamus.

Large quantities of dinosaur remains—including such nonskeletal evidence as tracks—have been unearthed in the Great Central Plain of North America. The prairies of central Alberta have yielded many dinosaur remains, including nearly 500 complete skeletons. In the 1920’s, expeditions discovered dinosaur bones in the Gobi Desert of central Asia. In the 1940’s a Soviet expedition in Mongolia discovered a dinosaur skeleton some 40 feet [12 m] in length.

In 1986 Argentine scientists discovered the fossils of a plant-eating dinosaur in Antarctica. Until then, Antarctica had been the only major land area where dinosaur fossils had not been found. Just before that, an American researcher found dinosaur bones on the North Slope of Alaska. Throughout the last hundred years, deposits of dinosaur bones have been uncovered in so many places that it has become apparent that dinosaurs were widespread in the remote past.

When Did They Live?

Dinosaurs played a dominant role in life on earth during their age. But then they came to an end. The rock layers containing human fossils consistently occur above those layers containing dinosaur fossils. Because of this, scientists generally conclude that humans came on the earthly scene later.

In this regard the book Palaeontology, by James Scott, states: “Even the earliest species of Homo sapiens (man) lived long after the disappearance of the dinosaurs . . . After tilting (through earth movement) has been allowed for, rocks containing fossil men consistently occur above those preserving the bones of the great dinosaur reptiles and it follows that the latter belong to an earlier age than the human remains.”

In the Red Deer River valley, there is a layer of sedimentary rock that contains dinosaur bones. Just above this, there is a purplish-brown layer that follows the contour of the hillside. On top of the purplish-brown layer is a layer of brownish siltstone containing fossils of subtropical ferns, indicating a hot climate. Above this, there are several layers of coal. Farther up the hillside are coarser-grained layers of earth. There are no dinosaur bones in any of the higher layers.

The book A Vanished World: The Dinosaurs of Western Canada states that “all of the 11 major kinds of dinosaurs . . . ceased to exist in the western interior at about the same time.” This, and the fact that human bones have not been found with dinosaur bones, is why most scientists conclude that the Age of Dinosaurs ended before humans came on the scene.

However, it should be noted that there are some who say that dinosaur bones and human bones are not found together because dinosaurs did not live in areas of human habitation. Such differing views demonstrate that the fossil record does not yield its secrets so easily and that no one on earth today really knows all the answers.

Answer 2

My personal opinion is:
God made the earth. Then God made the animals. He had a whole lot of earth growing perfectly, producing to the max.
He had to create animals with a healthy appetite for plants. Then he had to create other animals to eat these when they died.
Remember even if the dinosaurs were on the earth with Adam and Eve and their children they were in subjection to man.
Adam and Eve may have had pets of them and rode them. But since the first pair were reproducing and mankind was growing on the earth God didn't need the huge animals any more. The early humans were farmers since eating of flesh was not yet permitted. Eventually the dinosaurs drowned in the flood.

Answer 3

I think you have to look at the Bible for some of your answers, remember in some of the books people were 743 years old, so maybe the way people counted "time" wasn't too accurate.

As far as the dinos, well i was a freshman in high school and asked my physical science teacher if it took millions of years to create the earth how do you explain the God thing, and his answer was "What is a day to God? What is a year to God?". It was the first time I received an answer that made sense to me, and if you really sit and think about it you'll "get it" just like I did that day in high school.

Answer 4

That's three questions -
The first one has no answer which makes any sense;
The second one is answerable by searching the palaeontology areas of the Internet;
The answer to the third one is 'nowhere'. Homo sapiens didn't develop for some years after the dinosaurs left.

Adam was an experiment by a minor Godform calling itself Yarweh, or one of several other variations. All it achieved was Hebrews.

Answer 5

Dinosaurs may have been God playing with creation. I would of if I had the power.lol

Dinosaurs could have been placed to create faith by giving scientists something to talk about away from creation and silly evolution.

God does not operate in worldly fact by what is seen, He builds fact in the heart of every true believer that earnestly seeks him through their walk in Christ.

Genesis says that God created Adam and He was the first creation of man, and Eve was created from Adam.

Answer 6

I think He created dinosaurs as any creature he cared about and created. He gave them their time and ended it just as surely as people's time will end one day. It's like giving everybody their fifteen minutes of fame. I agree with you that mankind did not start with Adam, but He did decide when/how man was going to evolve.

Answer 7

He created dinosaurs to fertilize the earth and set in motion the key evolutions(birds, mammals, etc.) to prepare for Humanity's arrival. And Adam was born about 60,000+ years ago.

Answer 8

Dinosaurs lived on earth until 65 million years ago. It is assumed that they died out when a comet hit the earth. Man did not appear on earth until about half a million years ago.

Answer 9

After the flood, when there were few left man would have hunted them for food, once full grown could you imagine how much meat would be on a dinosaur bone? Plus with the new atmosphere others would have simply gotten smaller, some may not have gotten big enough to reproduce after a while...

Answer 10

Dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago, long before we evolved to homo sapiens - in fact, with dinosaurs around, we might not have been able to pull it off.

My conclusion is obvious. But hey, maybe there was a Jesusaur, and the dinasaurs were actually RAPTURED? or maybe RAPTORED?