I want to ask a question about dinosaurs.?

Question

Where did the dinosaurs come from? Scientist tell us that dinosaurs evolved from small lizards 200 million years ago. If that's true, where are the intermidiate fossils? How come we don't see in the fossil record the transition from small lizards to 10 ton behemoths. Take triceratops. We see a dinosaur with three horns, large bony plates, and plates running down its spine. Where are all the links leading up to this dinosaur. How come we see no dinosaurs before 165 millions years ago, and then all of a sudden, they appeared. And they all appeared with no evidence of evolution.

Could it be that maybe the Bible is correct, that God created the dinosaurs after their kind with no evolution taking place. And maybe the 165 million years ago was really 6,000 years ago, on day six of creation week?

Moises 3702.........You're right about one thing, dinosaurs, like all other animals died during Noah's Flood. But, Noah took two of every kind of animal on the Ark. That would have included the dinosaurs.
As for the word day. The hebrew word for day(yom) was used 2301 times in the Old Testament. Everytime the word yom was modified by a number, such as first day or seond day, or by the phrase morning and evening, it always meant a 24 hr. day.

Answer 1

Good grief...

Go study how fossilization occurs. It's an EXTREMELY RARE phenomenon. We are extremely fortunate to have the fossils we do have. And, there are hundreds of transitional fossils in museums all over the world.

Have you ever actually VISITED a museum, and ASKED to see a transitional fossil, or are you just blabbering nonsense to try and make a pathetically weak point?

There is NO SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE to support a young earth, and copious evidence to prove an ancient earth.

Get thee to a high school science classroom. Fast!

Answer 2

Are you for real??? There are a huge abundance of intermediate forms. Even school kids know about Diapsids and Archosaurs (NOT modern lizards) being the ancestors of the dinosaurs. Why don't you look up Proterosuchus, Protorosaurus and Marasuchus for a start.

And, by the way, the majority of dinosaurs were dog sized. And Triceratops lived at the end of the time of dinosaurs. Geez, look up Protoceratops.

The sad thing is it's not even worth my time answering this 'question'. You don't care. Any old lie will do for you and your evil childish cronies won't it.

Answer 3

You're absolutely right! You've got some good links to real science already, so I will give you a few thoughts for pondering.

Dinosaurs were reptilian. Reptiles grow until they die (unless you put them in a controlled environment like an aquarium). If you look at the ages of people in the old testament, you see that they lived hundreds of years longer than they do now. If you look at the timeline when they started dying sooner, you will notice that it goes down dramatically starting with Noah (remember what happened in his time?) So maybe the world environment changed with the flood. Because if people were living that long before, why not dinosaurs? And vice versa.

Also, the "behemoth" described in Job is obviously a dinosaur. Yes, it was after the flood, but did you ever consider that Noah could have taken dinosaurs with him into the ark? They didn't have to be full grown! They could have been (and probably were) babies, to save room. I don't know about your bible, but mine has a footnote about the behemoth that says it's "probably an elephant". If you read the verse, note what Job says about its tail being "like a cedar." Cedars grow to be HUGE. That's why Solomon used them for his temple. I don't know about you, but I've seen what an elephant's tail looks like and the term "cedar" certainly does NOT come to mind!

And you are right, there are no evolutionary links between creatures. And why would one creature want to evolve into something else anyway? Ok, I want to be able to fly, that would be neat. How do I do that? Let's say humans have no choice but to learn how to fly in order to survive. Do we jump off a cliff and hope we don't go ker-splat? How do we "evolve" that ability?

And by the way, for anybody that thinks the "days" of creation were really "years" and God just used the term "day" loosely, read the first little bit of Genesis. Note that God created plants before he created the sun! He created light before that, but the sun was created AFTER plantlife! Think about it - how long would plants have survived without the heat of the sun? Maybe when God says I did it like this, you shouldn't say, well, maybe I'll listen to the people who say he doesn't exist and believe it could have happened differently! If you believe in God, do you really think he's not capable of doing what he said he did?

And maybe the reason we don't read about "dinosaurs" in the bible is because the term wasn't invented until fairly recently! Ya think?

Answer 4

Ah but you have a point! And did you know that some scientists have found evidence that people walked along side the dinosaurs. And if you think about it, creationism would have to mean that people were here the same time the dinosaurs were. And all that crud about finding some random billion year old rock is just dumb. How the heck can you figure out that something is billions of years old? Tell me which do you think requires more imagination, monkeys that speak English, or everything being just as they should be from the very beginning.

Answer 5

(First, dinosaurs lived 240-65 million years ago (even within your own question the numbers are wrong). Second, Read Peter's letters when the first generation of Christians were wondering why Jesus hadn't returned yet. He makes a statement that to God a thousand years is like a day and a day is like a thousand years. Peter is saying our way of keeping time is not he same as God's. Third, if you need to recognize different literary forms like poetry, history, hyperbole (or are you walking around with your eye plucked out and your hand cut off so you can enter heaven rather than hell intact).

Answer 6

Now dear! Did Moses say a word about dinosaurs? Did God?? NO NO and no one else either! But there is proof of their existence many many many years before the Bible was even thought of! You all just can't stand there being life before 6000 years ago! And maybe, the neanderthals were Adam & Eve right??? NO!!!!! So if God created them, why were they not even mentioned by your God... Just a question....

Answer 7

So, you've studied the fossil record? Hmm, for some reason you don't seem like the type that really has checked his facts, let alone studied the subject.

If you are really interested in finding out some about how dinosaurs came about (including some of those pesky intermediate forms), try the attached link...

Answer 8

Behemot is not a dinosaur The book of Job was written 900 years after the flood, and you know they died in the flood.

By the way where in the bible said that the term "day" are always 24 hours because in the bible it has different length of time.

Answer 9

Yeah, maybe dinosaurs lived 6,000 years ago, "on day six of creation week."

Or, maybe you're just a moron.

Can't some of you Christians out there speak up against this kind of crap? They make you ALL look stupid.

Answer 10

I'm sure you're going to get a lot of comments on this, but you are right, there is no fossil record showing the evolution of animals to dinosaurs. In fact, there's no proof that evolution in the macro sense ever took place.

Evolution is not science. It's never been observed. It can't be tested in the laboratory. Evolution is a religion, taken on faith. Since I already have a religion, I don't need the religion of evolution.