How do people that believe in Creationism explain dinosaurs and ancient fossils?

Answer 1

I'm not the best Bible scholar, but I'll see what I can do.

The most common explanation it the Great Flood. Now the Bible place the Flood at the time of humans, and various archeological sources do cite a massive flood (I can't quite remember the year).

Based on the archeological record, sometime after the Earth gained its present conditions (water, oxygen), there was a sudden abundance of life. The facts do NOT support the popular "cell to jellyfish to fish to amphibian to reptile to bird to mammal" chain. Instead, it becomes apparent that new life forms would somehow appear with no predecessors. So at the time of the dinosaurs, you [hypothetically] have thousands of animal species. This is where the Flood comes in. I personally believe Noah's Ark to be a metaphor, but whatever. The end result is that there was a cataclysmic event that killed thousands of animal species, ergo the Flood.

The reason that the Flood is specifically cited as the reason for dinosaurs' extinction is that a few thousand years after the period of the Flood, fossils stopped forming. For example, there are thousands to millions of bones from the Cretaceous period left in the ground somewhere. Yet there are no passenger pigeon, dodo, or American bison fossils. In fact, the bodies of these animals decomposed completely. A meteor striking the ocean could have caused massive tidal waves, which would change the condition of the soil, possibly making the ground suitable for fossil formation.

There were obvioiusly dinosaurs, trilobites, etc. at some point in history. But all that signifies is that they lived, and then they died unnaturally.

Answer 2

Dinosaurs were created by God on the fifth day of creation.When I say day I mean 24 hours, a literal day.
Dinosaurs died out in the flood and that is where all the other ancient fossils came from

Answer 3

Dinosaurs existed and still do. They lived for so many years (like all other life) before the flood. After the flood, the lifespan of all living creatures is no longer as long as it used to be. This is because the expanse of water that used to be between the earth and the sky is no longer there. This is where all the water came from that caused the flood. People used to live hundreds of years and so did animals. Dinosaurs are the only creature to continue to grow throughout their entire life. That is why they used to be so huge. Now, they don't grow so big because they don't live as long. We have dinosaurs today, they just aren't as big. They are the lizards, iquanas and such that we have today. Also, the reason people can say the earth is hundreds of thousands, or millions of years old when it actually isn't is because when the flood happened, the pressure of all the water on the earth caused the earth to age.

This is not a joke and I am not making this up. We studied this in our bible class.

Answer 4

The first question you need to ask is:

How do you determine age of an object?

If you are using Carbon Dating, have you not considered the fact that carbon dating could be flawed??

When God created the earth, and everything in it, in 6 24-hour days. When God created man, he did not create him as an infant nor a child. He was created as a man. So, how old was he?? How old did he "appear" to be??. Adam was, based on time, only seconds old, but based on physical appearance, could have been 20 years old.

Now, how do we date a tree?? Every school child will tell you that we count the rings. So, did God only create saplings or seeds? No, He created full grown trees. While they were only a few seconds old, the number of rings could have indicated that the tree was actually 100 years old.

So, what is the physical age versus the time age of the materials that are used to date fossils and such??

There is quite a bit of evidence that points to a "young earth". See the source below, read it and see if it changes your view on the age of the earth.

Answer 5

God put the fossils there to play with us. He wanted palentologists to have something fun to do, so he burried all those bones and they just seem really old. Despite all the evidence to the contrary, the earth is only 6,000 years old, blah, blah, blah.

Education is obviously a waste of time and science should be thrown out of classrooms because it disputes the True Word Of God as inspired into the Bible. Who cares that medical science has us living longer and healthier, or that now we can cross continents in hours, science is EVIL.

Lol.

Answer 6

Not saying this is what they believe, it's just a funny quote from a sitcom, no one take it out of context:

"Ann's uncle tried to convince George Michael to come inside so they could talk, and he could tell George Michael about how the Jews planted fossils in the ground in 1931. George Michael was scared."

-Ron Howard, narrator for Arrested Development

Answer 7

The only religion I've seen try to explain it is the Jehovah's Witnesses. They take a free hand and interpret the 6 creative days that it took God to create the earth in Genesis to be 6 periods of time with variable length. They believe one of god's days could equate to millions of human days. Sorta like 7 dog years equals 1 human year. Only their 7 is really n possible years. Don't you just love the new math? In my opinion it's quite inane.

Answer 8

Try reading the Genesis Record my Henry Morris for starters. That will really explain the biblical facts to you. Then read some David CC Watson. Not to be confused with David Watson the preacher and teacher.

Answer 9

They believe that dinosaurs existed alongside humans a mere few thousand years ago (despite ridiculously overwhelming proof to the contrary). Kinda like the Flintstones.
In fact, some of these bible-thumping nut jobs just opened a "museum" with animatronic exhibits depicting humans and dinosaurs co-existing.
The sheer stupidity of people never ceases to amaze me.

Answer 10

Its a bit of a fly in the ointment case.

Apparently, during the flood, fossil sank to the bottom and were imbedded in sediment at very specific intervals that make it appear as if creatures evolved. Transitional fossils must have had very specific densities that enabled the less developed species to sink deeper than the more complex creatures.

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