How does the catholic church explain dinosours?

Question

If you live by the bible, do you believe dinosours exsisted?

Answer 1

We don't really need to explain dinosaurs because we too believe they existed. Also, you must know that real Catholics don't take the Bible literally.

Besides...
I love dinosaurs!!!

Answer 2

Yes, the Catholic Church believes that dinosaurs existed. The Bible is not a science book but a spiritual history and guide.

The Pope has said that evolution is not at odds with God's plan. So, the fact that there were dinosaurs in no way effects faith or religion.

Answer 3

The Catholic Church does not take the stories of creation in the Bible literally. Catholics believe the book of Genesis tells religious truth and not necessarily historical fact.

One of the religious truths is that God created everything and declared all was good.

Catholics can believe in the theory of evolution. Or not. The Church does not require belief in evolution.

On August 12, 1950 Pope Pius XII said in his encyclical Humani generis:

The Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid that, in conformity with the present state of human sciences and sacred theology, research and discussions, on the part of men experienced in both fields, take place with regard to the doctrine of evolution, in as far as it inquires into the origin of the human body as coming from pre-existent and living matter - for the Catholic faith obliges us to hold that souls are immediately created by God.

Here is the complete encyclical: http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/pius_xii/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xii_enc_12081950_humani-generis_en.html

The Church supports science in the discovery of God's creation. At this time, the theory of evolution is the most logical scientific explanation. However tomorrow someone may come up with a better idea.

As long as we believe that God started the whole thing, both the Bible and modern science can live in harmony.

With love in Christ.

Answer 4

"Dinosours" are a brand of hard candy from Willy Wonka Candies, a division of Nestle`. They're sour tasting and change into different colors.

Did you mean "Dinosaurs" by any chance? If so...

Catholics are not Biblical literalists. They view the Bible as a communications book, NOT a strict history book. I don't see why they have to "explain" dinosaurs any more than a paleontologist would have to "explain" the sacrament of Confirmation.

Answer 5

Many animals that once existed are not mentioned in the Bible by name. Many animals that live among us now are not mentioned by name in the Bible. The Bible did give mankind the authority to name the animals for ourselves, and were the people of the world supposed to name the dinosaurs when no one living in Biblical times were aware they ever existed?

Saber-toothed tigers. Were they mentioned in the Bible? No, but we know they existed. How about the duck-billed platypus? How about the duck-billed platypus? We know they exist because they're still around, but they are not mentioned in the Bible, right?

I could never figure out, I still don't understand, why dinosaurs are supposed to be integral when believing or disbelieving Biblical teaching. Hopefully, though, I have demonstrated that dinosaurs and the Bible are completely irrelevant.

Answer 6

I am not a Catholic.

I'm a Bible believing Christian.

And I know about all those places in the Bible where dinosaurs are discussed.

And I know that the word "dinosaur" was invented in the 1800's so it would not appear in the King James Bible which was translated in 1611. I also know that the KJV had its spelling revised in updated once in Cambridge in 1762 and again in Oxford in 1769 long before that word "dinosaur" was invented.

I also know that nearly all KJV Bibles in print in the USA today follow the Oxford 1769 version but you can find the Cambridge Edition in book stores pretty easily in the UK.

I also know that in the book of Job, two dinosaurs are described and one of them sounds just like the animal which was called "brontosaurus" when I was in grade school and high school. KJV calls this "behemoth". See Job chapter 40.

The KJV used the word "dragon" and the first link below shows you all those references.

The foot note in Job 40 suggests that behemoth might be a hippopotomus. But if you read the text it describes a tail that sways like a cedar tree.

I've seen Hippos at the San Diego Zoo and and they don't have tails like a Cedar Tree. The brontosaurus does.

Pastor Art

Answer 7

Dinosaurs lived between the time of Adam and Noah. They were destroyed in the flood with the exception of what was taken upon the Ark.

Men lived to almost 1000 years old. And so did beast. Dinosaurs are mere reptiles. And they grew the entire time they had life in them.

If an alligator was to live 1000 years old, he would grow to about the size of 200 feet. I would consider that a dinosaur.

Answer 8

I'm a Catholic. We're not a "Sola Scriptura" church insisting on absolute Biblical literalism, so you don't generally hear Catholics bickering over dinosaurs or Creationism in general. That's more of a Fundamentalist specialty. Most Catholics I know don't have a problem with scientific explanations.

Answer 9

Did you mean: dinosaurs existed?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=dinosours+exsisted&btnG=Search

Hey! Good answer, Maurice! Good answer!
Read the freakin question!

Answer 10

The Catholic Church does not even discuss dinosaurs in it's education of the Christian faith...

Peace, Love, and Blessings
Greenwood