Creationists: Do you believe God created dinosaurs, and if so, why?

Question

I know that creationists believe that God created all living things. I am curious as to what you make of the dinosaurs. Do you believe that God created dinosaurs? If so, why do you think that God destroyed the dinosaurs, and later created Man? I am an evolutionist, but I am respectful of others' beliefs. I would like to know what your beliefs are concerning this. Thanks!

Answer 1

this ought to be good

talk about lame answers

Answer 2

Gid created every thing at the same time.I beleive that pre flood life was great animals could grow to their full betential due to an thick layer of water that surrounded the inner atmospher. when god made the flood happen around 4400 BC, the waters of the deep and the water above came flowing alover the earth. After the flood thedesnisty of the atmospher canged dramaticly, less h20 less cardondioxide.Made animals and plants grow much smaller and not to full growth potential, that is why their are no trees on the earth older than 5000 years old.

the dinosaurs wouldent have fit on Noahs boat anyway because God knew the much larger animals would die from the change in atmospher.

Answer 3

I'm not the brightest bulb in the box, so take my opinion with a grain of sand and/or salt.

God can very well have created all things differently then we see them today, except, in my view, man.

Sadly, creatures become extinct.

Evolution as the sole theory for life doesn't add up, in my view. It can't have been the first cause. I still don't believe anyone has developed a rational explanation for the origins of our understanding 'good' and 'evil'. Evolution certainly doesn't do it.

In short, there is so much that we don't know about the matter of things, to conclude that evolution explains away creation at this point is premature, at a minimum.

Answer 4

I think you are getting confused as to what evolution is. You are describing creation. Evolution is Darwin's theory that we evolved from subspecies to where we are today. Creation is the belief that we were conceived from Adam and Eve, ergo made by God. It was also scientifically believed that dinosaurs were destroyed from extinction by the ice age.

Answer 5

Secular books would tell you that the first discovery of what were later called “dinosaurs” was around 1677 when Dr. Robert Plot found huge bones that were thought to belong to a giant elephant or a giant human. Then in 1822, Gideon Mantell and his wife found some Iguanodon teeth. But that was really when dinosaurs were rediscovered. Adam discovered the dinosaurs when he named the kinds of land animals God had created on the sixth day of Creation.

Take a look at Genesis 1:24-31. 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.

And yes, these were literal 24 hour days. “And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day” (Genesis 1:31). Exodus 20:11 also makes it clear, “For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day and made it holy.” That’s where the seven day week came from.

Besides that, there wasn’t death, disease, and suffering before Adam’s sin in chapter 3, when God cursed the earth. But, we find fossilized dinosaurs with cancer, tumors, diseases, defects, and we also find them along with fossilized thorns and thistles.

You may ask, “But what about Genesis 1:30?” It says, “...to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to everything that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food.”

Yes, all the dinosaurs were vegetarians at first, before Adam’s sin. We see that people and animals only ate plants, not other animals. The carnivorous part of the present “food chain” didn’t exist. There were no animals to rip you apart in this “very good” creation—lions, bears, crocodiles, T. Rex, and Velociraptor ate squash for dinner.

But what about those sharp teeth? After Adam’s sin in Genesis 3, God changed the serpent (I think as a visual reminder to us that Satan is still out there). He changed childbirth, the ground, and brought in physical death to man. It could also be at that time He changed the animals (that had previously only eaten plants): creatures given teeth and claws designed to rend flesh, venom to paralyze, mouths to suck blood, coils to constrict, expandable jaws to swallow prey, etc.

God could have changed them after the fall, but the fact is, there are many sharp toothed animals living today that are vegetarians like the giant panda, the fruit bat, and some apes and bears are totally vegetarians. They have those big carnivorous looking teeth and yet they are plant eaters. And there are some plants that require sharp teeth to eat—can you imagine trying to bite into a coconut? Some evolutionists say the panda evolved sharp teeth so it could eat bamboo.

And then, look at Genesis 6:18-20 about Noah and the animals. It doesn’t say two of every kind except dinosaurs. Now, keep in mind that God brought the animals to Noah; it says they will “come to you”; he didn’t have to go out and catch them.

The response that often comes from the skeptic is: “Noah couldn’t have fit all those animals in the ark—especially the dinosaurs!” And you ask them, “How many animals had to go in the ark?” “I don’t know.” “Well, how big was the ark?” “I don’t know.” So, you don’t believe an unknown amount of animals could have fit in an unknown sized ark?

First of all, Genesis 6:20 states that representative kinds of birds and land animals boarded the Ark, not all the different species and subspecies. People say, “But there were over 600 names for dinosaurs.” Yes, and there are many names for the different types of dogs in the world, but all the dog “species” came from only one original dog kind—one Genesis kind. There were many different Ceratopsia dinosaurs that probably all came from one Genesis kind. Many creationists believe there were fewer than 50 distinct kinds of dinosaurs that had to be on the Ark.

Second, you also need to remember that the ark didn’t look like those cutesy Sunday School pictures. The ark was 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet tall (and that’s using a small cubit measurement; it could have been quite a bit larger). The space in the ark would have held more than 520 modern railroad boxcars, and I’ve read that shippers allocate up to 250 sheep per boxcar when moving them by train.

Third, not all dinosaurs were huge, many were as small as chickens. Some scientists say the average size of the dinosaurs was about that of a sheep or a small pony. Very few of the dinosaurs grew to extremely large sizes.

And fourth, who says that he took full grown dinosaurs on board? It would be foolish to fill up space on the ark with the oldest, biggest adults. The largest fossil dinosaur eggs found are about the size of a football. Reptiles normally grow till the day they die so the enormous dinosaurs were probably just very old. Would God want to use senior citizens to populate the new world? Their main purpose was to reproduce after the flood. I don’t think there were old adults of any of the animals on the ark.

So why did they die off? Well, many Creationists believe the flood would have drastically changed the climate of the earth (cooler temperatures, more radiation, etc.), and that there was a short ice age after the flood. Some Creationists think the dinosaurs that survived the flood where not able to cope so well in the new environment. They also believe that is the reason why man’s life-span shortened so much after the flood.

Another possibility is that dinosaurs may have become extinct for the same reason that many animals become extinct today. Why do we have endangered species programs? Extinction is the rule. Why? People killing them, lack of food, man destroying the environment, catastrophes, disease, genetic problems, and so on. I’ve read that in the last 350 years, about 400 species have disappeared and some say the number is much greater. Of course we are talking about species and not Genesis kinds.

Let’s think for a minute—countries all over the world have stories of dragon slayers. Perhaps man killed them for food, sport, or because they were a nuisance. I think we just didn’t start our endangered species programs early enough.

Answer 6

I'm an atheist, but I used to be Christian then Catholic before that. I was always taught that God did create dinosaurs. There are several mentions of "behemoths", "monsters", and "leviathans" in the Bible. So... those would be the dinosaurs, I guess.

Answer 7

Did God create dinosaurs? Yes
Why? Because he wanted to.
Why did he destroy them? If He did destroy them, He destroy because he could. How do one know God destroy them? He may have allowed them to be destroyed by some weird natural force. One does not know.

Answer 8

wait, wait! i know this one; god (or was it the devil?) created fossils to confuse man, and to make it more of a challenge to beleive in "him" he is testing man by creating something that can be carbon-dated to billions of years ago, that clever trickster, god.

hey i didn't make that up. a catholic girl (who used to shiver in her little plaid catholic skirt in the cold weather while the rest of us wore pants) told me that while we were studying dinosaurs in school, and she abstained from learning anything about it for religious reasons. made an impression on me.

Answer 9

hey mr evolutionist....you expect god to create life with saying the magical words CHING CHANG CHONG CHING HUMANS APPEAR HERE !

Well no there has to be a process....

Answer 10

I think god created dinosaurs because those wheir his first creations of living things then he saw how destructive they wheir so he destroyed them and created humans because they wheir less destructive

Answer 11

God created life from the prehistoric era until the modern era of evolution.