Since we now know that dinosaurs could swim, does this mean they survived the flood in the bible?

Question

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070524/wl_afp/sciencepalaeontologydinosaurs_070524145513
If so, then why didn't the bible mention this?

good point, Acid_Zebra. I forgot to mention that these are land dinos I'm discussing.

Regius, where do I repeat the same questions? This news article is dated today. Perhaps your research is flawed.

Answer 1

Well OBVIOUSLY God would have smitten the surviving ones. Perhaps with an asteroid.

Answer 2

As I am sure you are aware, the Bible also did not mention nuclear medicine, DNA or computronics. This does not invalidate it any more than failing to use the word "dinosaur." Furthermore, dinosaurs are lizards, which are known to grow as long as they live. The fact is that most fossils are between the size of a horse or a chicken, and that doesn't make for excitement, so most people are unaware of it. Since Noah was charged with repopulating the earth, wouldn't it make sense for God to have sent the young in the prime of their lives? They would survive longer and produce more offspring than the aged, large dino would.

I have noticed that you seem intent on repeating your same questions over and over again, and this has likely been asnwered for you before. Why not take time to address this specific rebuttal?

Answer 3

What happened, you see, is that God sucked all the dinosaurs (which all appeared in a miraculous incident of instant creation) up into heaven for a small time. Then when the waters cleared, God sent them back down, but far away from Noah's family. We know this must have happened because we know that the earth is only a few thousand years old, and we know that Noah's flood must have occurred during the time dinosaurs existed on the earth.

Now what makes that so hard to believe?

Answer 4

I have always wondered why there is no mention of dino in the bible as well. Wouldn't you think that the most magnificent looking creatures to walk the earth would have at least been mentioned in the bible, or some other text from that time. Wake up people!!

Answer 5

The flood in Genesis is an oral tradition of a collected memory of a massive flood that occurred around 6,500 B.C. This flood occurred as glaciers receded and the Mediterranean Sea flooded into the previously fresh water Black Sea. The obvious reason that dinosaurs did not survive is because they were already extinct.

Answer 6

No. It clearly states in the Bible that the flood killed ALL of creation that was not in the ark. It did not spare the ones that could swim.

Genesis 7:1-4 says:

"The LORD then said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. Take with you seven of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and two of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, and also seven of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth. Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made."

Answer 7

They had to swim. Noah couldn't fit dinos on the ark! The bible doesn't mention it because the dinos developed a little inferiority complex about not being on the ark.

Answer 8

The cronological events in the bible date Adam and Eve 6000 years ago which means the great flood in Noah's days happened about 4000 years ago. Dinosaurs lived and died millions of years ago. Get your thoughts together.

Answer 9

The dinasaurs had disappeared off the earth millions of years before the flood in the Bible.

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Answer 10

There are Christian websites that try to explain dinosaurs in the Bible. Many of them do a really good job. They do it better than I can.

Answer 11

The bible writer have no clue about Dino's , and the dumb bible is written and written again to adjust the dumb fairy tale bu||s||it. Its a total flop.