As Dinosaurs are not mentioned in the Bible does that mean they never existed...Read on?

Question

As man was created during the first 7 days and Tyrannosaurus etc is said to be hundreds of millions of years old and man is only about one million years what gives?So are scientist talking a load of rubbish? are they just entertainers.

Answer 1

the bible is not meant to be taken completely literally. i don't understand how people can say that scientists are making this up... the bible is a book that contains many great lessons, but it is not an encyclopedia.

Answer 2

Actually, science and the Bible do not contradict. The only thing contradictory to science and the Bible is the religion known as evolution.
The age of the earth is included in the Bible by figuring in the genealogical records listed in Genesis 5, 11, and13; together with the genealogy of Jesus in Matthew 1. The Bible does list time periods as generations, which we have to assume as being somewhere between 20 and 60 years, so there is a little estimation involved. This means that the earth is approximately 6-8,000 years old according to the Bible, but there is no way to stretch it to millions or billions. Those numbers are reserved for the federal deficit and Congress.
Dinosaurs are listed in the Bible; there is a pretty good description in Job 40:15-24.
I don't think science is a load of rubbish, I have taken my children to the Chicago Natural History Museum and photographed them in front of Sue (the largest tyrannosaurus rex ever discovered).
I do not dispute the speed of light or gravity or Newton's Laws of Motion or the laws of thermodynamics or any known scientific facts, evolution is simply a rubbish theory, which is disproven by many scientific facts:
1) the amount of, or lack of, cosmic dust on the moon
2) the earth is slowing down on its axis (if you reverse time mathematically and go back 6-8,000 years, earth doesn't speed up that much, but if you carry this out to millions & bilions, the earth would self-destruct due to centrifugal force.)
3) the moon is drifting away from the earth at the rate of about 2 inches a year, see above. This would also destroy the earth.
4) Niagara falls is eroding away and cannot be more than a few thousand years old.
There are many other scientific facts which support the Bible, but proof of anything conservative will NOT be allowed on the news.
I am almost 50 and I have never seen my christian conservative viewpoints subject to anything in the media except ridicule. That's OK, God didn't call us to be popular, just loving and right.

Answer 3

Behemoth is in the Bible in the Book of Job. He's just not called a dinosaur, but he is described as a dinosaur with a big heavy tail like a tree. Oh, the dragon is in there also. And the unicorn and you thought these were mythology. Giants are in the Bible and you thought they were mythology.

The Bible says in the beginning God created and within 6 days all creation was finished. The Bible timeline is roughly a little over 6000 years todate. Scientists have found footprints of man and dinosaur together so there is belief that man and dinosaur lived together. How they get the earth is 13.7 billion years old is beyond belief.

There is something terribly wrong with how the scientists figure the age of everything. The Bible has withstood the test of time and the prophets of the Bible have been accurate everytime. I only read the KJV anymore. The other bibles don't measure up to it. Archaeology confirms biblical history daily. They even use the Bible to locate old cities.

Answer 4

Wow! Great question and I know the answer!!! God created Adam, as well as the dinosaur on the 6th day of creation. Although, many individuals will differ with me, I have been led to this belief simply because death did not come about until Adam and Eve sinned. It was one of the many consequences we faced. Dinosaurs could not have died prior to this.

The bible does talk about dinosaurs, but it does not refer to them as a "dinosaur". This term came to be used in the late 1800's. They were called bohemoths and leviathans. In the book of Job chapter 41 it is described. Vikings carved them as decorations on their ships, and the native americans painted them on the walls of the canyons.

Different scientists have different theories and that is all they are,...theories. Some scientists have what I consider, a much better theory than others. I would even call it Truth! There is only one truth to it all and that can be found in God's word, the Bible. It told us that the Earth was round and suspended in air by nothing, before scientists discovered it,...It also told us that there were mountains in the oceans before we even ventured there,...

Answer 5

Wake up, First of all there was no such thing as a day when the earth was created, what we call a day, is a lot different to what was meant as a day then. and as no one knew what a dinosaur was until many, many years later, how could it be written in to the bible.
Man would not have been hundreds of years old, time, such as age was, at least one of the ways was by how many moons. so if someone was 100 moons old they would in our time be just over 8, 12 moons a year, so someone in the bible is 500 years old, more likey 500 moons they would be around 41. 5 years old

Answer 6

Dinosaurs aren't mentioned in any literary work prior to around 1842. The Bible was written over a period of 2000 years beginning with Moses and ending with John around the first century AD, which was almost 1800 years before the term "dinosaur" came to existence.
The book of Job describes a creature called Behemoth, which displays characteristics commensurate with many of the larger sauropods. Also, the same Biblical book describes a sea creature called Leviathan which resembles our understanding of pleisosaurs.

The Chinese have dug up dinosaur bones for centuries and called them dragons. Dragons are prevalent in every society and in every culture on earth. Artistic renderings and descriptive writings give them striking resemblances to those creatures we call dinosaurs today. The rub is that those artists and writers described these creatures while they were still alive, and not in a mythological or fictional context.

Dinosaur bones today are "dated" using a circuitious logic.
The scientist asks, "What rock strata was this new bone taken out of?" And then they conclude what time period the dinosaur came from. When asked, "How old is this rock?" they get their answer from what is commonly found in that rock.

Now, some will argue that, no, dinosaurs are actually dated using carbon dating (or other radiometric forms of dating).
Trouble with that is that, in order for us to rely on radiometric dating, we have to make a big leap of faith and believe that the rate of decay for those materials uses the same formula over time and that it doesn't change due to outside factors.
In other words, the rate of decay of uranium-lead or potassium-argon is ASSUMED to be constant, but we have no real reason to actually know this. Uranium-lead decay hasn't been observed a hundred, much less a thousand or four thousand years ago. How do we know for sure that the decay rate is truly known for all time periods. Science requires observation, and that hasn't been observed.

On another note, some have argued that the word "day" in Genesis may not mean a 24 hour period. The hebrew word that is used is the same used in many other subsequent passages which clearly mean a sunset to sunrise (read: a 24 hour) period. The only reason to change the meaning of the word "day" in Genesis, would be to try to justify the "scientific" theory of the earth's age from a Biblical context, which is a silly thing to attempt.

Bottom line: Genesis and evolution can't both be right. Genesis says man was created, not evolved from apes. Both can't be right. And if Genesis is wrong, that makes God a liar because Jesus stated that the old testament was truth.
So, it all boils down to whether you believe what Jesus said or not.

Personally, it takes me more faith to believe that the entire universe came into existence by accident, that all life spontaneously evolved over billions of years (which, by the way, has never been reproduced in the laboratory even when we can make ideal conditions for such to happen), than it does for me to believe that an all powerful being just created it by fiat. Macroevolution, cosmic evolution and other forms of evolution require a lot of blind faith to believe in, particularly when you don't understand the "science" behind them.

Answer 7

I think Dinosaurs ARE mentioned in the Bible , they just used different names in the Bible , remember , Alligators are Dinosaurs since they have remained virtually unchanged for about 100 Million Years !

Answer 8

The term dinosaur has only been around since 1842. There is no way the term dinosaur would be found in any writings before 1842. The book of Job descibes a creature that certainly appears to be a Dinosaur.

Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox. Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly. He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.
His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron. He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him. Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play. He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens. The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about. Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth. Job 40:15-23

Sounds like a brotosaurus to me.

Answer 9

The 7 day's in the Bible are more like hundreds of millions of years instead of Days. So scientist are looking at the Bible and the untold story's as well.

There are millions of story's left out of the Bible because they did not want to give people back them the wrong Idea. The the story of the first Nunez.

Answer 10

The dinosaurs and the last of the prehistoric eras were drowned by the worldwide flood already in progress mentioned in the opening few sentences of the first day of creation. The Bible does not count the billions of years of prehistoric eras. It starts recording eras of time on Earth starting with the modern eras of evolution ending in the era that the modern human emerged on Earth. God did not mean 24 hour days as His time frame in the first seven days of creation. The dinosaurs were long extinct by the time of the second flood of the Bible, Noah's flood. Noah only had modern species of animals on his ark. There is a whole lot more I could explain on this subject but not right now.