How do you go from there is a God to dinosaurs co-existed with man?

Answer 1

Because that's what the Bible teaches...

Take a look at Genesis 1:24ff. Here is a basic form of logic called a syllogism: T. Rex is a land animal. Land animals were made on day 6. Therefore, T. Rex was made on day 6. So, according to the Bible, dinosaurs lived beside man. Dinosaurs were made on day six of the creation week the same as man; they were beasts of the earth.

Now, turn to Job 40:15-24. Job was questioning God because of his suffering, and so God comes and challenges Job with His creation. Many people say, “Job 40 can’t be speaking of a dinosaur.” They say that, not because the description doesn’t fit, but because of their preconceived conception that man and dinosaurs didn’t live together.

The margin of the NIV says, “Possibly the hippopotamus or the elephant.” Something to keep in mind—the footnotes are not a part of the original. Well, the tail of an elephant or hippo is like a twig, not a cedar (most dogs have longer tails). Throughout the Scriptures, cedars were known for their great size and length. Nothing on earth today fits this description, but a sauropod type of dinosaur does. The largest we have found was over 120 feet long. That sounds to me like the “chief”—not a hippo.

And then in Job 41, God describes the Leviathan (Isa. 27:1 calls it the dragon in the sea). The margin of the NIV says, “Possibly the crocodile.” But the description again doesn’t fit any animal alive today. Besides, man has never had a problem catching crocodiles, even primitive tribes, but God says in Job 41 that Leviathan couldn’t be caught.

Some think this was just a mythical creature since it speaks of it breathing fire. And yes, Job is a poetic book and those could just be poetic descriptions. But not necessarily. Impossible you say? What about the electric eel that can produce enough electricity to stun a horse? If the electric eel was extinct and all we could find were its fossils, would we be able to know that it could generate electricity? Nope. What about the firefly and anglerfish that can produce light? What about the bombardier beetle that can fire a boiling mixture of chemicals at its enemies that is 212 degrees Fahrenheit? Why couldn’t God have created certain water-living reptiles that were capable of expelling hot gaseous fumes that could ignite? Most animals produce methane anyway, which is a flammable gas. Stories of fire-breathing dragons have circulated for thousands of years.

Also, keep in mind that Behemoth and Leviathan were included along with real creatures that Job knew about. Read Job sometime.

In Isa. 30:6, Isaiah speaks of flying serpents. I also find it interesting that Herodotus, the Greek Historian who lived around 450 BC wrote about flying serpents in Arabia. He talked about finding their bones and described their snake-like bodies and bat-like wings. And the Jewish historian from the first century, Josephus, wrote about Moses and the Israelites having a difficult time passing through a particular region because of the presence of flying serpents. I think they were speaking of one of the pterosaurs like the pterodactyl, pteranodon, or rhamphorhynchus.

Answer 2

QUESTION: What about dinosaurs? Did men and dinosaurs ever live together? Why doesn't the Bible talk about dinosaurs?
RESPONSE: While the word "dinosaur" is a relatively new word, there seems to be evidence in many places around the world that men and these creatures have co-existed. In the Bible, when God is responding to Job, in Job 40 and 41, we see two creatures described, the 'behemoth' and the 'leviathan.' Both are described as extremely large animals and seem reminiscent of descriptions of a dinosaur and a giant sea creature. Although Bible notes in many modern translations suggest these animals might be a hippo, a crocodile, an elephant, or other known animals, the Biblical descriptions defy those identifications.
http://www.rae.org/pteroets.html
The Bible and Pterosaurs: Archaeological and Linguistic Studies of Jurassic Animals that Lived Recently
The Chinese histories and legends abound with dinosaurs. But they are not called "dinosaurs." They are called "dragons." The dragon is one of the twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac. What is interesting is that all the other eleven are commonly known animals and there is no hint of 'mythology' involved with their identities. It seems as if the dragon was just a commonly known at one time. The pictures are often fantastical, but so are their stylized pictures of horses and other animals. I checked the web for accessible information on this. I was able to find a few things that were not having to do with video games, sculptures, movies, items for sale, and such. The following links may be of interest. There are more. If you have access to books, you might want to check the epic of Beowulf, in which he battles a monster. If you have access to a good book on the history of art, you may be able to see some dragons and sea monsters painted on ancient Roman pottery. The legends abound all over the world. They do not seem to be connected to each other, but each telling of its own place. We have the story of St. George and the Dragon; there is the reference regarding Alexander the Great of his army disturbing some giant monster in a cave on their way to India. The American Indian thunderbird may very well be one of the ancient flying reptiles. An excellent essay by Lourella Rouster is "The Footprints of Dragons," at http://rae.org/dragons.html
A couple of pages which chronicle a bit the possible existence of monsters in Europe are dragon myths from Austria http://www.strangescience.net/stdino2.htm page includes two paintings of dragons from the seventeenth century that are quite interesting!
Doug Sharp, whose webpage "Revolution Against Evolution" has Rouster's essay, also carries the following: http://rae.org/tuba.html
The Rhamphorhynchoid Pterosaur -- Scaphognathus crassirostris: A "Living Fossil" Until the 17th Century All in all, then, there is reason to doubt the evolutionist timeline that says dinosaurs -- or the dragons -- died out before man ever arrived. There is simply too much evidence in stone, art, writing, and legend which contradicts that idea.

Answer 3

Easy you go to the Glenrose Texas Dinosaur park YOU look at the strata of rock where there are fossils of Dinosaur footprints in the same strata of rock as those of HUMAN footprints. The Bible never said dinosaurs did not exist, thus you have dinosaurs and man both created by God and both on earth, so either man is older than some think, or dinosaurs were not around as far back as some think, the fossil record is after all not subject to speculation...it is set in stone! LOL

Answer 4

when god made the earth he also made a water firmament over the eart, which protected people and all living things from the harmful rays of the sun, thats why they lived so long in the bible, for hundreds of years, the potassium 40, which causes the aging process was unable to penetrate the atmosphere and therefore life spans were very long also there wasn't disease around, so people lived much longer and healthier lives, so did reptiles, a reptile grows as long as it lives, so if you have a 300 year old reptile, you can bet he's going to be gigantic. after the flood of noah, the water canopy over the earth fell onto the earth as well as underground water springs, that burst forth, causing the continental drift, now the atmosphere is getting worse and worse, all the harmful rays are entering into our planet and life only lasts for a short while, reptiles don't have the chance to grow as big as before. of course some of them became extinct, the mammoth, saber tooth, etc. but animals still go extinct today. but all the reptiles you have today, are the same kind as before only they grew to be really big.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

uhmm! see when Adam and Eve were kicked out of the garden they had to live with the dinosaurs. The end.

Answer 7

This is a fundamentalist explanation of dinosaurs and should be disregarded. Literal interpretation of the Bible is foolish, when the stories in it should be taken as allegory so you can more easily apply them to your life. Unfortunately, fundamentalist Christians do not work that way.

Answer 8

The same way as there were giants in those days and half breed angels and the same kinds of sinners that are in the world today. As it was in the days of Noah.
Then came the flood.

Answer 9

Dinosaurs existed with man? When? where?

Answer 10

who said dinosaurs coexisted with man? i've never seen that on either side of the argument. you may want to double-check your timeline there buddy.