how many people believe dinosaurs co-existed with human beings?

Question

a particular person has just come to me with this evidence of dinosaurs in the bible...

Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death Psalm 44:19 11:55 AM

Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters

The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, [and] rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen. 11:55 AM

And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, [shall be] grass with reeds and rushes. 11:56 AM

And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.


i intend on posting this in the science section as well...just to get an "educated" opinion...

Answer 1

'Tutto e possible' (Anything is possible)
I've never heard those verses as being used for evidence of dinosaurs...JC's answer goes to show the Buy-bull is open to interpretation.
I've heard the Book of Job references of 'leviathan' and 'behemoth' as references, though. Leviathan can not be a large crocodile/alligator b/c it also says something about it swimming in the sea. Since there are no other mentions in any other writing of a Leviathan, no one's sure.
Behemoth was used after that in some literary works to mean a hippo-type creature but I'm pretty sure that was the first ever found and the description does fit for a hippo.
The tracks of a human & dinosaur in Glen Rose were found to be false. I looked it up a few months ago so I can't remember the website, but it was a newspaper article I 'Googled' so it wasn't some obscure page.
Edit: Oh. I forgot to add-I was watching some show on the History channel about Greek myth monsters...and another one about dino's in general and 'they've' decided that the ancients came across these skeletons and came up with creatures that would fit-that's where the ideas for gryphons and cyclops came about...maybe that's where they came up with 'Leviathan' and 'Behemoth'.

Answer 2

No...I'm guessing that either:

1.) Dragons were real during that time (that'd be awesome)

2.) They were talking about something else. like the Leviathan was probably a hippo.

3.) It's just a book...and during that time, there were plenty of dragon stories going around.

4.) There are some stories that there are dinosaurs actually still living, the Loch Ness Monster of Scotland, the Mokele-mbembe of Africa, and various other such herbivores living in New Guinea and South America.

This is by no means saying I believe that dinosaurs co-existed with man...but I do at least think that there is a possibility that there are dinosaurs still living in the more remote places on this planet. Hope this helps!

Answer 3

there is huge archaeological info in comparison. there is a few archaeological info because of the fact of this people or hominid-kind creatures did certainly co-exist alongside with dinosaurs, although this is vastly outweighed by potential of info to the choice. i've got faith that various the info is actual. i might desire to be unsuitable. So might desire to all and sundry else...it would desire to be that basically about all of dinosaurs did certainly die off sixty 5 million years in the past, yet some remained. there have been human footprints chanced on alongside dinosaur footprints in a lava mattress in Asia. there became into an alleged sea creature pulled out of the sea by potential of Japaneese fishermen approximately 30 years in the past, it became into photographed and placed lower back interior the sea, and a countrywide stamp became into issued quickly thereafter commemerating the form. yet, as I suggested, the overpowering majority of the info factors in the direction of the thought people and dinosaurs have by no potential existed area-by potential of-area on earth.

Answer 4

1st, despite you acquaintance's assertion, this is no evidence for dinosaurs whatsoever. Just one counterexample: the Komodo Dragon. The translation of this Hebrew word as "dragon" is, of course, by *no* means uniquely valid.

Psa 44:19 "jackals" in 6 versions, "dragons" in 1.

Psa 74:13
"dragons" in 4 versions
"sea serpents" in 1
"sea-god's" in 1
"sea monsters" in 2

Isa 43:20 "dragons" in 1 version, "jackals" in 9

Isa 35:7 "dragons" in 1 version, "jackals" in 8

Jer 51:37 "dragons" in 1 version, "jackals" in 8

"Dragons", of course, appears most often in the King James Version, and the scholarship of translation has progressed significantly in the last 400 years.

It should be noted that, equally, this is no evidence that dinosaurs did *not* co-exist with human beings, nor is there *any* evidence that dinosaurs did *not* co-exist.

From a purely scientific point of view, we cannot state with any certainty that dinosaurs did not co-exist with humans. The only claim that we can make is that we have no *evidence* of such a thing.

Consider the huge herd of migrating animals found recently in Ethiopia. Literally thousands of large animals, including hundreds (if not thousands) of elephants, wholly unknown to science prior to their discovery *this year*. If such an enormous population of large animals can completely escape the notice of science, it is not impossible that a population of dinosaurs exists even today! *Certainly*, it is possible that dinosaurs could have survived into the Pleistocene. The fact that we have discovered no fossils from such a recent epoch is hardly conclusive evidence that *no* dinosaurs survived until that epoch.

Consider also the Coelacanth, which was considered extinct by scientists until the previous century! Certainly, to claim that a small population of dinosaurs *could* have been present 10,000 years ago does not challenge the *scientific* mind.

Conclusion: I have no beliefs on the matter. I realize that dinosaurs *may* have been extinct prior to the "arrival" of humanity, and I realize that dinosaurs may *not* have been extinct at that time. Why be concerned over something so certainly uncertain?

Jim, http://www.jimpettis.com/wheel/

Answer 5

Can you prove that lizards crocs snakes and turtles and other reptiles are not just small dinosaurs?

I didn't think so.

Dinosaurs STILL co-exist today with people, it's just that millions of years type evolutionists can't classify reptiles as part of dinosaurs, even though the fossil record says reptiles existed in the much the same form as they do today and HAVE NOT EVOLVED.

Every dinosaur was a reptile. Explain then, why crocs and alligators (that are quite large) and other reptiles that are smaller never left this earth--if climate change (the meteorite theory) killed many other dinosaurs the same size and larger but missed large and 100s of kinds of jungle snakes, salamanders, lizards, crocs, alligators and turtles and tort.?

Case closed. Dinosaurs (known as reptiles today) STILL EXIST, just not most of their kind, and they are a huge blow to meteorite theories wiping out all dinosaurs. I can walk over to the pet store and pet one or get a pet turtle.

Turtles by the way have both armor (that large dinos had, and BEAKS--which supposedly indicate that dinos turned into birds, according to evolutionists). I've yet to see any indication that turtles have feathers though or are even remotely connected to birds.

Answer 6

References like that in the Bible are typically one of a few different things:

1) Throwbacks from the creative license taken during the production of the original King James back in the 1600's;

2) References to fantasy creatures from the religions of other cultures; or

3) Alternate words for creatures we know exist today (Leviathan=giant crocodile, Behemoth=Elephant or Hippo...).

EDIT:
Posting this on the science section will not get you an educated opinion, it will get you laughed at. And are you suggesting that none of us are educated?

Answer 7

Love, the first of our kind did not find a place on Earth until 60 million years after the dinosaurs went the way of all species, including, more than a little bit in the future, we human primates, and that is extinct.

Answer 8

Psalm 44: 19 Reads: For you have crushed us in the place of jackals, And you cover us ove with deep shadows. 20 If we hav forgotten the name of our God, Or we spread out our palms to a strange god, 21 Will nor God himself search this out? For he is aware of the secrets of the heart. 22 But for your sake we have been killed all day long; We have been accounted as sheep for the slaugtering. 23 Do arouse yourself. Why do you keep sleeping Jehovah? Do awake. Do not keep casting off forever.. No mention of dragons, not in the NWT or KJ's but, did find in in the KJ's edition, printed in 1611, From my veiwpoint that's pretty outdated, and also shows some of the inconsistenties of the original KJ's versions.

Answer 9

erm, I'm not really seeing any ref to dinosaurs in the passages you've shown (only dragons, which are mythical creatures, which have never existed, let alone existed at the same time as us)

But from what I've read about dinosaurs, they were alive a long time before homosapiens, so no I don't believe we have ever co-existed with dinosaurs, same planet but we came much later....
(modern humans date back around 100,000 years I think)

Answer 10

Dinosaurs existed millions of years before man did.
The Bible verses you posted are not making reference to dinosaurs. Those particular verses are in reference to satan, and whoever told you it was in reference to dinosaurs either didn't understand what they were reading, or they were just looking for a way to debunk science.