Why everyone seems to think God should have mentioned Dinosaurs?

Question

Why should have God said something in the Bible about a extint group of species that existed milions of years before man?

And why the problem seems to be with dinosaurs specificaly? I mean, in therms of paleonthology i think unicelular beins like foraminifera's fossils are much more important in therms of studies that try to discover how was the enviroment millions of years ago. So, should God have mentioned Dinosaurs only because they are cooler?

Why exactly it is a big set back for Religion if He did not in fact mentioned dinosaurs for anyone and we had to figure that out for ourselves?

Paz de Cristo

There are a LOT of questions here mentioning dinosaurs and the Bible, look it up people, a lot

Danny - Why should God put that kind of information on the Bible, it is NOT a science book!

Anthea H - Great answer, everyone should read your answer

Answer 1

I think they do it just to be unkind and to make fun of Christians. I've seen a good many questions. They also do it to discredit God. The goal is to make us look like fools.
The people who do this take delight in ridiculing people who have different beliefs.

I have even seen questions about why things about atomic theory are not in the Bible.
It's sad to me that they are so concerned about making fun of Christians.

There are only a few who do this, but they ask the same questions over and over.

Answer 2

The first chapter of the Bible gives partial details of some vital steps that God took to prepare the earth for human enjoyment. The chapter does not give every detail; as we read it, we should not be put off if it omits particulars that ancient readers could not have comprehended anyway. For example, in writing that chapter, Moses did not report the function of microscopic algae or bacteria. Such forms of life first came into human view after the invention of the microscope, in the 16th century. Nor did Moses specifically report on dinosaurs, whose existence was deduced from fossils in the 19th century. Instead, Moses was inspired to use words that could be understood by people of his day—but words that were accurate in all they said about earth’s creation.

According to the Genesis account, animals were created during the fifth and sixth creative periods or ‘days.’ If the Hebrew expression translated “great sea monsters” [Hebrew, tan·ni·nim′] includes dinosaurs, which often inhabited swampy, watery areas, this would mean that dinosaurs were created on the fifth “day.” (Gen. 1:21) We do not know whether they continued to exist until man was created (toward the close of the sixth “day”). At the very latest it seems likely that they must have disappeared off the earth at the time of the flood of Noah’s day. Dinosaurs were reptiles, and some kinds of dinosaurs bear strong resemblance structurally and otherwise to lizards (sauros is, in fact, the Greek word for “lizard”; saura in Leviticus 11:29, LXX). Not all types of dinosaurs were of such gigantic size. Hence, even if they had survived till the Flood, this would not have required taking pairs of the mammoth varieties into the ark. Other smaller members of the particular family or “kind” to which these belonged would have sufficed to fulfill the divine command.—Gen. 6:19, 20; 7:14.

Some of the older translations of the Bible at times use the word “dragons” to translate the Hebrew tan·ni·nim′ (“sea monsters,” NW). (Ps. 74:13; 148:7; Isa. 27:1, Authorized Version) The term “dragon” (Greek, dra′kon) is found in the Christian Greek Scriptures. It has been suggested as possible that, rather than having a purely mythical source, this expression may originally have been applied to enormous creatures such as the dinosaurs, taking on mythical tones only after these mammoth creatures had long disappeared. Interestingly, many of the mythical depictions of the “dragon” strongly resemble certain types within the family of huge reptilian creatures that includes the dinosaur.

Answer 3

It is exactly what you just said about the millions of years that makes it such a problem for the creationists. If they want their 6,000 year old earth and 6 day creation, then where are the dinosaurs indeed.
Ken Ham claims that man and dinosaurs lived together and that Tyranosaurus was a vegetarian that played with the cave kids. The bible should have at least some referrences to these creatures then. Even if they were to common to be worthy of special mention they should be recorded somehow.
Maybe a few of their bones found mixed with ancient human bones or something.

Forget about the Paluxy Creek mantracks, they are an aknowledged fraud.

Answer 4

The Bible does mention dinosaurs, but in the Bible they are not called 'Dinosaurs' because that word was not invented until the 1800s, they are called by the names they were known by in Biblical times:

Leviathan
Behemoth
Dragon
Unicorn and so on

There are also cave paintings and fossil footprints which suggest that man and 'dinosaurs' existed at the same time, otherwise how could ancient man have known about them?

Answer 5

it shows the is no god if the was he would of told them about the dinosaurs but thay only think the earth is 6000yrs old and the binosaurs were around 65million yrs ago way before the christian god was invented by man with that christian fairy tale and the bedrock theam park thay have got in kentucky with the flintstones is a joke the christians say god is the writer of the bible he can time travel so he can tell them to put the dinosaurs in the bible

Answer 6

Two schools of thought attempt to answer this question in a sensible manner from two totally different approaches. From a religious point of view. God established the laws of physics. Those laws govern everything that happens on this earth. When mankind sinned, it set in motion events unfriendly to our environment. The weather patterns changed, food became more scarce. Any dinosaurs that survived that were certain to drown in the flood. That doesn't mean that God wanted them to drown, there just wasn't a place for them in a world that was about to have a population explosion. God didn't intend to drown all the other people in a flood, but the evil was so bad he had to eliminate the people to eliminate the evil that came with them. So I wouldn't go so far as to say God doesn't like dinosaurs, they were just victims of circumstances. Scientific viewpoint. Everything on earth follows laws of Physics. Even the weather. It is widely believed amongst scientists that two large meteorites struck the earth and caused a huge cloud of dust and debris that caused a world wide cooling. There is a massive crater in Siberia that was caused by one and the second is in Mexico. The dust clouds from that collision blocked the sunlight and caused vegetation to die off quite dramatically. Large plant eating dinosaurs could not find enough to eat and died. The meat eating dinosaurs were dependent on the large veggie dinos for food. They were too large and slow to catch the smaller creatures and so they too died off. Only the smaller creatures that were fast enough to outrun them or duck into holes were able to survive. Plus they didn't depend on vast amounts of food. So one theory says they drowned in a world wide flood, the other says they starved after a massive meteor collision. Either way God loved them enough to create them in the first place.

Answer 7

The point is not that dinosaurs were cooler, but that if the bible is the word of god then god should have known about the dinosaurs, and even the unicellular beings you speak of. If god is all-knowing then he should have mentioned them. He didn't which proves that the bible was man-made. And if you remember when Galileo tried to prove that the earth revolved around the sun and not the other way around, it was seen as blasphemy. Again, if god is all knowing, his followers would of already known that the earth revolves around the sun, but they didn't.

Answer 8

The word dinosaur wasn't used until the 1800s. The Bible mentions other creatures that lived before. It doesn't mention dinosaurs cause the words was never used until the 1800's....oh you ignorant people will never learn.

Answer 9

I think he did in Job
I fail to see any point to the argument as the bible is about god and man . No body deigns dinosaurs existed

Answer 10

apparently for some people, the bible is supposed to be a full and accurate account of the history of the earth, no other books required. dinosaurs as you say, are cool and extinct, so one might expect them to be in there if the bible is what it's supposed to be. we can probably agree that that position is silly but unaccountably there are those who try to defend it... come to think of it attacking it seems hardly worth it either.