2007-07-20 12:19:11 · 22 answers · asked by bthat 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
no. the Bible starts at about 5,ooo years ago the dinosaurs died out around 65 million years ago. there is no need for the Bible to mention them.
2007-07-20 12:27:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
in Job 40:15-24, God describes to Job (who lived after the Flood) a great beast with which Job was familiar. This great animal, called ‘behemoth,’ is described as ‘the chief of the ways of God,’ perhaps the biggest land animal God had created. Impressively, he moved his tail like a cedar tree! Although some Bible commentaries say this may have been an elephant or hippopotamus, the description actually fits that of a dinosaur like Brachiosaurus. Elephants and hippos certainly do not have tails like cedar trees!
2007-07-20 19:26:19 · answer #2 · answered by Michael M 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the bible describes a couple of creatures in such a way that some scholars believe the writers may have been describing dinosaurs. behemoth is said to be the mightiest of all God’s creatures, a giant whose tail is likened to a cedar tree [job 40:15]. some scholars have tried to identify behemoth as either an elephant or a hippopotamus. others point out that elephants and hippopotamuses have very thin tails, nothing comparable to a cedar tree. dinosaurs like the brachiosaurus and the diplodocus on the other had huge tails which one could easily compare to a cedar tree.
2007-07-20 19:22:04 · answer #3 · answered by Silver 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No. The writers of the Bible didn't know what dinosaurs were. The concept of extinct species didn't exist back then even. When the ancient Greeks and Romans found fossils, they thought they belonged to giants and other creatures, not dinosaurs.
2007-07-20 19:21:55 · answer #4 · answered by Mrs. Pears 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Considering the word "dinosaur" didn't come into existence until the 1800s, no. Hmmm. Wonder what people called dinosaurs before the word was invented? Maybe--dragons?
2007-07-20 19:23:40 · answer #5 · answered by Sykopup 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. Rhinos or hippos possibly are, but the word simply means "large beast", so we have no idea which.
Thanks a lot for the clear description, authors >.<
Michael, give me a break, The astoundingly obvious thing about a brachiosaur is the very long neck, and would not have been absent from the description.
2007-07-20 19:27:35 · answer #6 · answered by Diminati 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't say "dinosaur" since that word didn't exist. It does mention something about a beast stalking away, with giant legs the size of oak trees...or something like that.
But as someone said above, its kind of manipulating the text.
2007-07-20 19:22:11 · answer #7 · answered by sariff 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It amazes me that these people think dinosaurs co-existed with humans.
A Behemoth is an elephant.
2007-07-20 19:25:38 · answer #8 · answered by Shawn B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the book of Job chapter 40
2007-07-20 19:20:51 · answer #9 · answered by tebone0315 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
No , but Dinosaurs do carry Bibles.
2007-07-20 19:22:17 · answer #10 · answered by ED SNOW 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋