Christians help please- My friend and I had a debate he believes in dinosaurs existed first?

Question

Tell me your thoughts on creation? Were we here when God first created the dinosaurs? Is carbon data true is the earth millions of years old. I think the earth is far less?? look how far advanced wev'e come just in 10yrs.

Answer 1

In the Bible there are places where it talks about people encountering dinasaur-like creatures.

The earth is not millions of years old. If that was the case the oceans would be pure salt, the earth would be covered in lunar dust, etc. Too many scientific problems with the earth being millions of years old.

Answer 2

I believe that God created the dinosaurs. And the dinosaurs were created before people as per Genesis. There's no mention of dinosaurs with sheep, cows, etc. because by the time people were around, the dinosaurs were extinct. The days in which God took to create the world are not literal days as we understand it. A day to God is like thousands or millions of years to us.

Answer 3

Creation/evolution totally confuses me. I have so many questions. Dinosaurs were animals so should have been created when all the others were created don't you think? You don't hear about dinosaurs living side by side with sheep, cows, giraffes, etc. however so where were the other animals God created and where were the dinosaurs. Where were we all this time? Supposedly man didn't live when the dinos did. Maybe we did but not in that area? My thoughts are that it is too mind boggling to think about.

Answer 4

This is a debate that has me shaking my head, but for a reason you may not have
realized: I am a Christian student/teacher of the manuscripts.
This is what the manuscripts say, pretty clearly, as to what happened in Creation:
First of all, three Earth ages are taught by
Peter (2peter, chapter 3 in your regular Bible). We are in the second of the Earth Ages. The Bible does NOT SAY the Earth is 6000 years old; in fact, it states that this
Earth is eons in age, and that there was an entire Earth age before this one we live in now. Not a different Earth, not a different terrafirma, just a new AGE.
It was in the FIRST Earth age, where Satan rebelled and caused a third of our people (call them Angels or Stars or whatever you wish, we were all already created souls then, all of us) to rebell and follow him.
There was a great war; a third of our people followed Satan as I said, then there was many of our people who stayed neutral and didn't really care as long as it didn't affect them; then a final group stayed loyally on the side of God, and Satan was defeated. At that point, God could have just destroyed Satan and all those that followed him, but quite frankly, God was not all too happy with those who stayed neutral, either.
So instead of destroying all those souls, God decided to form a plan that was fair to all, and that would provide an opportunity for the redemption of all of them.
According to Scripture, we were all present, and we all agreed to the plan.
This is the plan:
God would destroy that first earth age, and bring in a second earth age, where each soul would come thru one time, born of woman, to make an ultimate decision of who they would choose to follow: Satan or Christ. In order that the plan work, two things had to hold true:
First, each soul must have the freewill to
make choices WITHOUT THE INTERFERENCE OF GOD IN THE INDIVIDUAL LIFE (this is the answer to those who ask "why does God allow bad things to happen to good people?" - its because he promised not to interfere)
And Second, we needed a comparitor. There isn't much use in getting to choose between good and good - so Satan, although already condemned to perish, is still around and thats why - God is using him as our comparitor.

In the Book of Job, God asks Job if he knows where he was back when all the sons of God laughed with joy in one accord; we were all living right here on planet Earth, which God states was created not in a void condition, but to be inhabited always. God does not create something destroyed and leave it there.
No, when you read in Genesis 1:1 that in the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth, it does not say when; only "in the Beginning". Folks believe that those following verses are the description of that first Creation; its not, its far from it.
What you are reading is a description of the rejuvinating of the Earth to ready it for the second Earth age, the flesh age.

Obviously, the dinosaurs had to go, because a giant foot would more than likely disrupt Church services (i jest).
But seriously, BETWEEN those times when we ourselves inhabited this earth in the first earth age, and God rejuvinating the Earth as you read of in Genesis 1, a vast
amount of time had passed; plenty of time
for the autonomous, self-propelled system set up by God for the Earth, to do its own
thing. Of course the dinosaurs were there
first, and a myriad of other life as well.
Fossil fuels were being created. How anyone can not realize that this planet is
extremely old, I do not get: the problem is that those folks refuse to take the blinders off and see anything before that Adam and Eve period.
The Bible is being used as a pawn in this fight against Science, when there is NO CONTROVERSY between Gods Word and true Science. But man sure likes a good fight, I quess.
There is no reason a person should feel that because they are a faithful man or woman or child of God that they need to jump onto either the Science or the Religion bandwagon at all. They work beautifully together.
People are not taught the proper timelines in Scripture, and as a result you get people thinking that Satan rebelled and a third followed him now, in this flesh life. No, it
back long before Adam and Eve that the great war occured, which is called the Katabole; often it is translated in your Bible as "from the Foundation of the World", but it should be translated "since the overthrow of Satan in the Katabole".

The Worlds Scientists who find fossils etc on a dig, should not be argued with, they should be celebrated; Why? Because each and every time they find a mammoth bone that dates back 30 or 50 thousand years ago, they are finding something that completely aligns with Gods Word: that this Earth is tremendously old, and not only that, but guess what: SO ARE WE.

Didn't really mean to be so wordy; your friend is right: the dinos were here before
you read Genesis 1:2.

Answer 5

The Earth is 4.5 billion years old.

Life is at least 3 billion years old. No one knows the exact amount because for a long, long time cellular and precellular life left no fossil trace.

The dinosaurs had a long reign of about 80 million years. They went extinct 65 million years ago, leaving only the birds as their progeny.

The human and chimpanzee lines split several million years ago, but the hominid line continued to develop and homo sapiens arrived only 250 thousand years ago or so.

Answer 6

In reality, the dinosaurs existed long before humans appeared. That's just a fact, and it can be supported by fossilized evidence. And what do you mean about how far we've come in 10 years? Yeah, we've invented a lot of things, but in an evolutionary sense, humans haven't physically changed in that amount of time, or in 100 times that amount of time.
You think the earth is far less old than science says? Why do you think that? Have you done scientific studies?
BTW, you gotta love someone who's Catholic and can't even spell the name of her religion correctly.

Answer 7

No offense, but you are truely brainwashed if you think that the earth is far less then millions of years....the earth is way older then millions...(4.6 billion, that's right BILLION years old). I took geology classes in college, and there were a bunch of bible thumpers who kept interrupting class to argue about this, it is SCIENTIFIC fact that the earth is 4.6 billion years old. As for man and Dinosaurs living together why is there no fossil evidence of this? There were no humans when Dinosaurs existed. As for our advancement, what advancement in the last 10 years? we still have idiots thinking earth is 6000 years old.. and refuse to listen to scientific facts, and instead rely on what some priest said in the 1500's to argue with facts that can be proven. (Carbon dating to my knowledge is fairly accurate within a few thousand years so thats more reliable then what someone calculate from a book written by man, not god.

Answer 8

He believes that dinos were on earth before humans because he has learned what scientific human beings have discovered. You believe what you believe based on what you learned in Sunday school. Which do you think has more authority in the area of science, scientists or Sunday school teachers?

Take a look at it this way: What if a archaeologist tried to tell you what moral code you should live your life by? Would you listen to him? Does it even make sense that he would be addressing something he has no expertise in? Of course not.

Answer 9

The Bible does say God created animals (that would include dinosaurs) before mankind.

As for how long before, we really don't know. I don't think it was the intent of the Bible to explain things like that. Is an exact timeline really important?

Many people believe that God created the earth and all life in 6 days. I personally (I've been a Christian for almost 20 years, and I work in science) believe that God did all of his work in 6 days (or 6 phases or periods of time, something like that), but it took longer for it to actually HAPPEN. God used his authority to "order" the earth to produce life. I think the earth obeyed his command. So I believe that God gave the commands in a short period of time, but we don't know how long it took the earth to carry out the commands.

you should do an in-depth study (including reading it in the Hebrew) of the first 5 or so chapters of Genesis. Pray and ask God questions, then form an opinion on what you're debating. :-)

Answer 10

Does it not say that God created the heavens and earth. Then the animals, fowl and every living thing. He was lonely, so he created man. Man was created after the animals and fowl and every living thing. That would mean the dinosaurs were created before man. If Christians choose to ignore the fact they did exist or that dinosaurs roamed the earth, then I cannot understand where they get the idea. I personally support the belief that dinosaurs were here before man.

Answer 11

G-d created Dinosaurs first obviously. The scientist are right about the earth, Adam and Eve only came later, Genesis makes that clear.