Dinosaurs?

Question

I have heard some creationists say that dinosaurs never existed. How could you possibly believe that with all the facts we have?

I understand that people have faith, but allowing your faith to blind you from truth seems rather foolish to me.

Answer 1

I am a Christian and a Biology teacher. Many people have a hard time with this in that no dinosaurs are mentioned in the bible. For them there is only one kind of truth. For me there are many kinds of truth. I know that the earth travels in an elipical orbit around the sun as it spins on its axis. I also acribe to the notion that all year long, the sun has been coming up in the east.

The people you mentioned tend to rely on the chapter in Genesis inwhich the world was created in 6 days. They tend to forget the verse that says one day with God is as a thousand years. And a thousand years is as one day. There are places in the universe where time is distorted like that. But these people tend to very concrete and have problems reconciling that which is known with that which is unknown or conflicts with their perception of the world.

Answer 2

You are correct.

God didn't allow us to develop reasoning and wisdom and intellect and curiosity to throw it away to blindly follow a book written by men (despite how inspired they were). To do so would be an insult to His creation.

Its hard to find the balance. I believe in God as a creator. I believe in evolution because the evidence is there. You have the hard core scientists who ridicule God. You have the hardcore religious that ridicule science. I understand that God does not fit into the idea of science as far as the scientific method is concerned and I guess that's where my faith comes it. But I don't let it blind me. God didn't allow me to exist to be blind, to not give my all to understanding what He has allowed to exist.. Thankfully, most of the scientists I know are Christian Catholic like me (or Christian Protestant).

I really think the problem is one group cannot let the other be and vice versa (though it is the religious that usually fans the flames of argument). We all need to learn to let one another find their own way. If there was only one way to understand a God then He wouldn't have allowed such differences in people to develop.

Answer 3

Well, Mr. Tuff, hang around here for a while and you will see a lot of people coming onto these biology questions with preposterous ideas just like that.

It's about believing instead of thinking.

Join us in fighting back against people who want to accept the bible as literal truth and believe the earth is only 6000 years old.