Just wondering about God and creation?

Question

How does religion explain the once existence of dinosaurs?
This is a serious question i once asked a priest and he basically just walked off in a huff. Does anyone who is religious have an answer?

Suzi b that was the most inventive scenario i have ever heard. It does not seem impossible - thanks for the laugh Suzi b - Hey send that to the Vatican i'm sure it would make an interesting conversation piece.

Answer 1

If you go to the "Creation Museum," you see displays with dinosaurs wearing saddles. That's a nice visual on just how insane Christian fundie zealots are willing to go in support of "Young Earth."

Dinosaurs lived millions of years before anything close to a human appeared on the planet and came up with the idea of "god" as a being he could petition to provide favorable conditions.

Answer 2

Religion doesn't address these things, for religion's purpose is not to explain the existence of creatures but of humans. Many theologians believe in the Gap Theory, which basically states that there was an unspecified amount of time between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2
"1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth and the earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep and the spirit of God moved upon the waters.

2 And God said, let there be light, and there was light...."

Many believe that this supposed period between the times related explains the expulsion of Lucifer from Heaven and the existence of a fossil record on earth. Personally, I don't, but by not believing this I am at a loss when it comes to these fossils, but I still put my faith in God because I can imagine ways in which there would be both all the evidences of evolution that scientists so love and God still be right and accurate in His account of creation and the world no more than 10,000 years old, not the least of which is that God put these things in place so that there would be something to choose between. All of our lives come down to making a choice to serve God or not, so if there was nothing else to choose to believe, we'd really not have a choice but to believe what was.

Answer 3

The bible doesn't say anything about Dinosaurs... It doesn't say that they were there or that they were not there. It alludes that they may have been there.

Anyway, the existence of Dinos has no bearing on the truths of scripture.

Mankind was in the Garden. It doesn't say how long and truthfully the length of time isn't important. They were there and the bible skips from creation saga, to Adam naming the animals to a time later when mankind fell. As a background, the plates were moving, glaciers were forming, Dino's were coming and going.

So, the question you are asking is really one about time. If the Earth was created in 6 days, and God rested on the 7th and 40 days later God created women and 1 month after that man fell, then how do dino's make sense? You are right, they wouldn't.

But the time is irrelavent.... The bible doesn't specify time. Science tells us that the Earth is 4 billion years old. Well the bible doesn't disagree with that number. It doesn't agree with it either. IT ALLUDES to the possibility by not specifying a time.

Answer 4

Nonbelivers will glom onto anything, big or small, to discredit the Bible and God.

Because the Bible does not talk of these creatures does not mean a thing. It does not talk of the formation of the moon, the sun, Mars or any planets. Apparently, it is not important that we know it. The Bible does not tell us the story of each person or act that took place either. Does that mean no one else existed except those who are mentioned? Of course not. Nothing took place except the events told? Of course not.

Some people believe that God created everything in 7 24hour days. But we are told that a day is "like a 1000 years to God." That 1000 years is not literal either (365, 24 hour days). Jesus has tried to tell us that some things are not as we know them to be as human beings. We do not have to capacity to understand everything.

In fact, we are told that people will try to use intellect to explain everything, but our intellect is not sufficient. It will be hard for them to understand God because they are trying to do it with their own abilities, and we do not have enough information or intellegence. Also, that if we knew everything God knows, we could not contain it all. (I guess our heads would explode.)

Instead of focusing on tid bits of 'oops it's not in the Bible, so this disproves everything'; focus on all the truths that came to fruition as predicted/told in the Bible.

Bottom line? One either believes or does not. It has always been that way and will alway be that way. Gof said that too.

Answer 5

Well not really but sort of, before I go on realize that my faith goes back farther than 6000 years and believes in eternity, that things were created before this world was, not your typical Christian belief but then again I'm not a typical Christian. It is my belief that the elements are eternal and that God obeys the laws of physics, the reason for miracles being that he actually knows them all and not the primitive understanding that we have. Well one of those laws is that matter in neither created nor destroyed, hence when he created this world it was with matter already in existence, i.e. it could have contained the bones when He brought it together. But I can find no scriptural proof that this is the reason, it is just my conjecture. To be honest I do not know why the bones are there or where they come from, and this is where faith has to come in, I believe because I have had witness from Him that He exisits and I will wait patiently until He reveals all truth, then I can ask about the dinosaurs. That is an answer from my religious side and not my scientific side, but sometimes the scientific side just needs to be content to wait.

Answer 6

In Genesis the Bible talks about beasts roaming the land. Which probably means dinosaurs. the way dinosaurs became extinct is the flood (Noah's Ark).

Yet there is no proof that dinosaurs are extinct only because Noah was told by Gos to take 2 of everything which would include dinosaurs.

Also scientists found dinosaur fossils with some flesh still inside and flesh will turn to dust preserved in a fossil or not after probably about 100 years.

Always Chris

Answer 7

I think that when Adam and Eve ate the apple of knowledge, the dinosaur bones were suddenly buried in the earth for human to find. Why God did this, I have no idea, but it's the only possible answer I can come up with.

but going with the Eastern idea of creation (that there is none, nor a Big Bang.), I think that when God was younger, He liked to play with dinosaurs, just like us humans. And the earth was His rec-room.

Answer 8

There are PLENTY of answers out there, you have to take the time to find them for yourself. Thoughtful, extremely intelligent christians are out there aplenty and they do have something to say. Don't confuse what some protestants claim about a "young earth" this is a heavily debatable issue and the Roman Catholic church has officially stated there is no conflict between evolution and religious belief.

Try this article:
http://catholiceducation.org/articles/apologetics/ap0002.html

And more here concerning religion and science:
http://www.catholiceducation.org/directory/Core_Subjects/Science/

Answer 9

The God who created God also made the dinosaurs.
I mean, someone must have created God.
God is too complex to have just evolved from a single cell.
And when God was created, the earth was flat and most of the dinosaurs walked off the edge.

Answer 10

Good one. You won't get a rational answer though - since that would contradict the story of creation only taking 7 days and therefore put a big dent in how real the stories in the bible are.
Since man wrote the bible, and dinosaurs were not on earth at the same time as man, they didn't know about them. This explains why they aren't in the bible!