For Christians, I'm thinking that the dinosaurs were here during the bible times...?

Question

I'm thinking that they were on the other side of the world cause the world was divided. What do you all think about that? Or what is your view on this topic?

Answer 1

God created everything in 6 days, therefore he created "dinosaurs" and man in the same 6 days. They walked the earth together. Here is a section of a much larger article on dinosaurs and the Bible.

The question is often asked, “If dinosaurs are so important, why doesn’t the Bible mention them?” There are several ways to respond to such an inquiry. First, the word “dinosaur” wasn’t invented until 1842, while the Bible was translated into English much earlier. One hardly would expect to find a word in a book which preceded the word’s invention by several centuries! Second, it should be noted that numerous organisms are not mentioned by name in the Bible, yet such an omission does not cast doubt on their creation or existence. The Bible does not mention cats, kangaroos, or bacteria. Yet, just like the things that are mentioned by name, it is obvious that these things were created by God. While the Bible speaks accurately on all topics with which it deals, it was not intended to be a taxonomy textbook. The purpose of the book of Genesis, for example, was not to catalog every organism that ever lived, but to present a broad yet accurate summary of historical events which actually occurred during the creation week. Third, while the word “dinosaur(s)” is not mentioned in the Bible, there is compelling evidence that dinosaurs, and dinosaur-like creatures, are described, directly or indirectly, in God’s Word. Among the passages which may be considered are Job 40:15-24 and Job 41:1-34.

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 2

What about dinosaurs? Did men and dinosaurs ever live together? Why doesn't the Bible talk about dinosaurs?
RESPONSE: While the word "dinosaur" is a relatively new word, there seems to be evidence in many places around the world that men and these creatures have co-existed. In the Bible, when God is responding to Job, in Job 40 and 41, we see two creatures described, the 'behemoth' and the 'leviathan.' Both are described as extremely large animals and seem reminiscent of descriptions of a dinosaur and a giant sea creature. Although Bible notes in many modern translations suggest these animals might be a hippo, a crocodile, an elephant, or other known animals, the Biblical descriptions defy those identifications.
http://www.rae.org/pteroets.html
The Bible and Pterosaurs: Archaeological and Linguistic Studies of Jurassic Animals that Lived Recently
The Chinese histories and legends abound with dinosaurs. But they are not called "dinosaurs." They are called "dragons." The dragon is one of the twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac. What is interesting is that all the other eleven are commonly known animals and there is no hint of 'mythology' involved with their identities. It seems as if the dragon was just a commonly known at one time. The pictures are often fantastical, but so are their stylized pictures of horses and other animals. I checked the web for accessible information on this. I was able to find a few things that were not having to do with video games, sculptures, movies, items for sale, and such. The following links may be of interest. There are more. If you have access to books, you might want to check the epic of Beowulf, in which he battles a monster. If you have access to a good book on the history of art, you may be able to see some dragons and sea monsters painted on ancient Roman pottery. The legends abound all over the world. They do not seem to be connected to each other, but each telling of its own place. We have the story of St. George and the Dragon; there is the reference regarding Alexander the Great of his army disturbing some giant monster in a cave on their way to India. The American Indian thunderbird may very well be one of the ancient flying reptiles. An excellent essay by Lourella Rouster is "The Footprints of Dragons," at http://rae.org/dragons.html
A couple of pages which chronicle a bit the possible existence of monsters in Europe are dragon myths from Austria http://www.strangescience.net/stdino2.htm page includes two paintings of dragons from the seventeenth century that are quite interesting!
Doug Sharp, whose webpage "Revolution Against Evolution" has Rouster's essay, also carries the following: http://rae.org/tuba.html
The Rhamphorhynchoid Pterosaur -- Scaphognathus crassirostris: A "Living Fossil" Until the 17th Century All in all, then, there is reason to doubt the evolutionist timeline that says dinosaurs -- or the dragons -- died out before man ever arrived. There is simply too much evidence in stone, art, writing, and legend which contradicts that idea.

Answer 3

Adam named ALL the animals (dinos too I'm betting). In my History class, it was propossed that the flood might have been what wipped them out. Carbon aging can only go back about 5,000-6,000 years by the way, the rest is just a big guess. I know in the book of Job God talked to Job about beasts that are called leviathan and behemoth. That's right the lake monster, leviathan, in Job 41:1. Behemoth is in Job 40:15 and fits the dino description big ole tail and all. God even mentions unicorns in Job 39:9. But they may not have been the horsy kind we think of, gotta watch the description. So even if you don't believe the Bible, you know that there were dinos at some time of the Bible characters.

Answer 4

Man and dinosaurs never lived at the same time. By the time that men appeared on earth, dinosaurs had been extinct for millions of years. This has been proven with the help of fossil.

Answer 5

The word dinosour was only coined in 1841. It is *possible* that some of the dinosaurs species were in fact living fossils, in those days, and were the cause of various cultures having stories of dragons. It would not have been the first time that living fossils have been found.

Answer 6

I think you would be off by a few million years. The dinosaurs were on Earth quite a long time--by the Earth's 'clock,' not the universal one--before humans evolved in east Africa. But fascinating creatures, weren't they?

Answer 7

Up through the flood. There was a canopy in the sky that blocked out the harmful rays of the sun. When the flood of noah fame happened that came down. The atmosphere couldn't support the largeness of dinosaurs.

There is a really good website that talks about that www.drdino.com

Here is one specific article
http://www.drdino.com/articles.php?spec=37

Answer 8

Some people think that dinosaurs are mentioned in the Bible, such as in Job when a great beast or behemoth is mentioned, depending on your translation. I don't' think there's any reason why they'd be on the other side of the world.

Answer 9

Dinosaurs were around 65 million years ago, the bible was written 2000 years ago.

Answer 10

http://www.apologeticspress.org/articles/2704

There could be evidence of them in the Bible.

Job 40:15-24; Job 41:1-34

Exodus 20:11 God made ALL that's in the heaven, earth, and sea.
Genesis 2:1 Creation is declared by God to be finished.

http://www.apologeticspress.org/articles/2018

Gap Theory debunked
http://www.apologeticspress.org/articles/442