I'm 100% lost on this one:
Were dinosaurs before BC. or after AD.? Or in between ...or many years before?....
And!!! ..if they were before BC. how is it that it can be possible?.. I mean,... in the Bible it says that God created earth.... and humans.... so dinasours couldn't have existed before that ...right?....
and if it's after all that... does it mean that humans were around while the Dinos?....
or explain to me... i'm so LOST on this one.
2007-11-02 03:58:45 · 19 answers · asked by Lizzeth 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
you're going to get 3 answers from xians, and 1 answer from atheists...
1. dinosaurs and humans coexisted
2. dinosaurs were before humans, god wiped the slate clean and started fresh with humans
3. dinosaurs are a myth, perpetrated by the devil
atheist answer(and some free thinking xians)
Dinosaurs existed LOOOOONG before humans were ever here in any form...including a jew named Jesus...talking about MILLIONS of years ago...
bc, and ad are the difference of 1 year, 2007 years ago...bc is before christ, and ad is anno domini(in the year of the lord)
hope this helps....
2007-11-02 04:01:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
These days, a lot of scientists are starting to use BCE and CE, signifying Before Common Era and Common Era. But they are still derived from BC (Before Christ) and AD (Anno Domini - The Year of our Lord). Dinosaurs existed in BCE, prior to Jesus' life on earth.
BCE doesn't goes back to the creation of the universe which is estimated at 13-15 billion years ago. The earth was created at least 4.5 billion years ago. This was figured out with radiometric dating of rocks from the moon. Because, as you may have guessed, you can't trap a moon in earth's orbit without it being there. The oldest rocks on Earth are 3.5 billion years old due to plate techtonics.
Dinosaurs existed before humans. This was figured out based on the locations of their fossils. The way rocks erode provide us with the evidence. If you have a big mountain range, it is eroded by the weather. This is what causes landslides, and creates sand, dirt, and soil, and what not. Well, all that material slides down hill and gathers to create a flat "bed" of sediment (sort of like sand on a desert floor). When an animal dies, it is buried in that sediment. As the sediment gets deeper with all the erosion, it packs it so hard it turns to rock. Fossils usually exist in this sedimentary rock, which is where we find dinosaurs.
Now, the humans. When considering how these layers build up, we know that the layer on top is younger than the layer beneath it. After all, the sediment from erosion stays at the surface to create the new bed. The earliest traces of humans are found several layers above the oldest traces of dinosaurs. This tells you that the earliest existance of humans came much later than the last dainosaurs.
One theory of what made Dinosaurs go extinct is a meteor hiting the Yucatan in central America. There is still remanants of the impact, and a large crater on site. When this happened, it thew a large amount of ash and debris into the atmosphere, which settled all over the world. This thin layer of ash and debris, is important for you to consider because at no location in the world is there evidence of humans beneath that layer. However, at every location in the world, there is evidence of dinosaurs below that layer. Hence, using the principle we already discussed, dinosaurs existed before humans.
The book of Genesis is allegorical. It shouldn't be taken literally. After all, were Adam and Eve literate? Could they accurately write any of this story down? Most humans that existed 250,000 years ago were not literate. Most people would be surprised if anyone was literate at that time. As such, everything was told by word of mouth. And if you've ever played the game telephone, or heard a rumor, you know that as a story passes from person to person, it changes quite a bit. Until the story or rumor is way different from the original version.
That isn't to say the book of Genesis is useless. It is very valuable to the religious community. It's just not a good source for determining the history of the world.
2007-11-02 11:32:23 · answer #2 · answered by Master C 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Dinosaurs were not around when humans were, so the dinosaurs were before Christ. BC stands for 'before Christ'. The Old Testament starts with the creation story, and Jesus is in the New Testament. There were lots and lots of years between the Old Testament and the New Testament.
By the by, dinosaurs ARE mentioned in the Bible. I'm a Christian, but I do believe in evolution and science.
2007-11-02 11:03:35 · answer #3 · answered by They call me ... Trixie. 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Dinosaurs existed around 100 million years ago, man started appearing around 3 million years ago in various forms. These are hard facts. The book of Genesis was written around 3200 years ago and was not based on fact, nor does it align with what we know as facts.
"AD" and "BC" refer to the birth of Christ, from his birth on is AD, before then is BC.
Edit:
Statements like "the dinosaurs were destroyed in the flood" and "man and dinosaurs" coexisted are not supported by any of the massive amounts of evidence that we have.
2007-11-02 11:06:36 · answer #4 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Dinosaurs were before BC, BC just means Before Christ, Dinosaurs were destroyed when God flooded the earth in Noah's time, this is why the bones are all found in sediment.
2007-11-02 11:06:33 · answer #5 · answered by LaptopJesus 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Dinosaurs are clearly BC---history is well-recorded starting somewhat before the putative birth of Jesus, and doesn't mention dinosaurs anywhere.
Dinosaurs are not mentioned in the Bible, although there are a few references to gigantic creatures (Behemoth, Leviathan) that are sometimes attributed to dinosaurs.
Some will say that Noah screwed up and didn't save the poor Saurian beasties...
2007-11-02 11:05:43 · answer #6 · answered by cosmo 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
yes God created dinosaurs before man or maybe some overlap - thats not sure but it was BC - the time frame of 6 days is not an actual 6 days, it is just a time period - the dinosaurs were in that time period
remember the Bible is not meant to be a science text book - God is not going to give us all the details
2007-11-02 11:03:31 · answer #7 · answered by servant FM 5 · 5⤊ 2⤋
Dinasours were on the earth millions of years before man. The reason they are not mentioned in the Bible is because the Bible, and indeed God, were created by man who at that time would not have known about the existence of such creatures.
2007-11-02 11:03:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 3⤋
Well, here it goes... The dinos lived at B.C. God created humans and animals right? They are counted as animals. And when i watched the national geographic channel, it says there that th dino's all died when a huge something hits the earth.
2007-11-02 11:03:47 · answer #9 · answered by Lhein_07 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Read the Book of Job. Near the end is a creature called Behemoth. It translates into "beast par excellence". Behemoth is believed to have been/be a GREAT animal.
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2007-11-02 11:04:50 · answer #10 · answered by Defender of Freedom 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋