If dinosaurs lived in complete harmony with modern Homo sapiens then why didn't Noah take any on the Arc?

Question

Were they just too big and fat so Noah in his infinite drunken wisdom thought they might sink the boat or were they all evil homosexuals who god had seen fit to destroy by sending the flood?

According to the Creation Museum they did coexist. For the record I am an archaeologist I'm just trying to figure out how christians can believe in this complete bull.

Answer 1

But Noah did have them on the Ark!


You know the little problem of how did all the animals get back to where they needed to be? Kangaroos in Australia, lemurs in Madagascar etc. Also the problem of food. Why did not all the prey become extinct when the predators got hungry?

The answer to both of these problems is the dinosaurs!

The dinosaurs were on the ark, and were then used as transportation and as a food source until the ecosystem returned to normal.

That is why we find dinosaur bones everywhere!





And yes, I am being sarcastic.

Answer 2

Noah didn't take any animals on an "arc". He did take animals onto an "ark". An "arc" is a curved path, or a spark of electricity. If you are going to try to impress us by your being an archeologist (i.e.educated) then you should know the difference between simple three-letter words. Let me assume this was just a simple typing error, and not that you didn't know better.

If you are an archeologist, then I suppose you know about the following:

In Montrose County, Colorado (USA); in Natural Bridges National Park (Utah, USA); and in the Grand canyon there are ancient rock drawings (petroglyphs) that show dinosaurs. In Mexico hundreds of clay figures have been found that look like dinosaurs. In Peru, Inca burial stones have been found that have pictures of donosaurs on them. In an ancient Cambodian temple, there are carvings of dinosaurs. Evidence such as this exists all over the world. Much of this art shows known dinosaurs in great detail!

If dinosaurs never lived with men, then how did these ancient men know what they looked like?

If these drawings and sculptures are not dinosaurs, then WHAT ARE THEY and why do they look just like known dinosaurs?

See the links below for some examples (including photos) of this ancient art!

There is much more evidence! Too much to list it all here!

As for Noah taking dinosaurs on the ark, there are several possibilities.

If he did take them on the ark, and I believe he did, the size problem would not necessarily be an issue. First, not all dinosaurs were large. Secondly, the Bible does not say that the animals taken on the ark were fully grown. Noah could have taken very young animals. A baby t-rex would have not been nearly as large as a fully grown one.

Answer 3

The Bible claims that reptiles were also taken on the Ark. Dinosaurs fit into this catagory.
Additionaly, there is evidence of Dinosaurs existing for a breif period after the flood. The book of Job, which most theologians agree was written during the Ice Age, has two references to animals that may have been dinosaruars- the Levithan (probably a plesiosuar) and the Behemoth (probably a Brontosaurus).

Answer 4

The bible doesn't really mention dinosaurs specifically. Noah did take some lions and tigers and bears on the ark though. Elephants and tigers, maybe a few hyenas too. They all got along apparently. The cows made it, no doubt, they weren't eaten. Ditto the birds.
Animals had no fear of man before the flood. Gen 9:2 The fear and dread of you will fall upon all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air, upon every creature that moves along the ground, and upon all the fish of the sea; they are given into your hands. 3 Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.

Answer 5

Dinosaurs were extinct millions of years before Noah built the Ark.

Addition: One of God's days is equal to 1000 years. The world was made in 6 thousand years.

Noah did NOT take any dinosaurs on the Ark because there weren't any. As an archaeologist, you should be able to comprehend the difference between 65 millions years and approximately 6 thousand years ago. Geez. Pops

Answer 6

He did not have to take full grown adults.

Young ones would take up less room, eat less and would be more durable in rough seas.

There are still dinosaurs today. They found one in the Indian Ocean a few years ago. There are the lake monsters.

If the alligator and crocodile were not common and some one found one today, they would thing that a dinosaur had managed to survive all these millions of years.

Answer 7

The "behemoth" was most likely the wooly mammoth, which still lived 10,000 years ago, not too long to have been lost from the oral history but long enough to be called the time of Noah. The flood, BTW, or similar stories of a world-wide flood exist in nearly every culture of the world because it is also the oral history of the end of the last ice age 10,000 years ago.

Answer 8

Noah's Arc was real but the story was insanely exaggerated, there's scientific proof against it. If you belive that homo sapiens existed at the time of dinosaurs is to say you believe in evolution. You should just be atheist. It's way easier than caring about all that tripe.

Answer 9

Who says he didn't?? Where does it say he took "adult" or full grown animals?? There is nothing to say he didn't take baby or infant animals.

The passage containing the most serious implications in this matter, however, is Exodus 20:11. By announcing: “For in six days Jehovah made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is...,” the Bible makes it clear that the entirety of God’s earthly creation was brought into existence during those six days. The apostle John added that “all things were made by Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made” (John 1:3). If God created the Earth, the heavens, the seas, and everything in them in six days, what does that omit? It omits absolutely nothing! Add to that the statements found in Genesis 1:31 and 2:1, and the case is strengthened considerably. In Genesis 1:31, as He surveyed everything He had made, God proclaimed it “very good”—the Hebrew phrase representing completion and perfection. In Genesis 2:1, He then stated that the creation was “finished,” indicating an action once and for all completed, not continuing into the future.

The information thus presented may be summarized as follows: (a) God created everything in six days; (b) that creation was complete and perfect; and (c) the creation was finished. The implications of this teaching are clear. According to the Genesis record, no animals were created before day five, at which time God created sea-dwelling creatures and birds (Genesis 1:20-23). On day six (Genesis 1:24-25), God created the “creeping things” and “beasts of the earth”—descriptions that certainly would include dinosaurs. Since man likewise was created on day six (Genesis 1:26-27), the inescapable conclusion is that men and dinosaurs lived on the Earth as contemporaries.

Answer 10

Who said they lived in HARMONY with humans?
The only dinosaurs I know of that got on the Ark were those birds. Guess God evolved them down for the occasion.