Did man and dinosaurs exist at the same time?

Question

And if they didnt, how does that fit into the christian belief that everything was created on the 6th day?

Answer 1

Contrary to popular opinion, Reptiles are not directly related to dinosaurs. Birds are the most direct descendants of the Dinosaurs. So the answer is, in fact, yes. However, the dinosaurs species that you refer to from the cretaceous period were extinct long before homo sapiens evolved.

Answer 2

The Bible does not provide specific answers to this question. According to the Genesis account, animals were created during the fifth and sixth creative periods or ‘days.’ If the Hebrew expression translated “great sea monsters” [Hebrew, tan·ni·nim′] includes dinosaurs, which often inhabited swampy, watery areas, this would mean that dinosaurs were created on the fifth “day.” (Gen. 1:21) We do not know whether they continued to exist until man was created (toward the close of the sixth “day”). At the very latest it seems likely that they must have disappeared off the earth at the time of the flood of Noah’s day. Dinosaurs were reptiles, and some kinds of dinosaurs bear strong resemblance structurally and otherwise to lizards (sauros is, in fact, the Greek word for “lizard”; saura in Leviticus 11:29, LXX). Not all types of dinosaurs were of such gigantic size. Hence, even if they had survived till the Flood, this would not have required taking pairs of the mammoth varieties into the ark. Other smaller members of the particular family or “kind” to which these belonged would have sufficed to fulfill the divine command.—Gen. 6:19, 20; 7:14.
Some of the older translations of the Bible at times use the word “dragons” to translate the Hebrew tan·ni·nim′ (“sea monsters,” NW). (Ps. 74:13; 148:7; Isa. 27:1, Authorized Version) The term “dragon” (Greek, dra′kon) is found in the Christian Greek Scriptures. It has been suggested as possible that, rather than having a purely mythical source, this expression may originally have been applied to enormous creatures such as the dinosaurs, taking on mythical tones only after these mammoth creatures had long disappeared. Interestingly, many of the mythical depictions of the “dragon” strongly resemble certain types within the family of huge reptilian creatures that includes the dinosaur.

Answer 3

Only in "Dinotopia". First, the belief you refer to is NOT a Christian belief, it comes from the Jewish Scriptures, which Christians seem to overlook were not written by Christians.

BTW, everything was NOT created on the 6th day. How about reading the Bible before you pose your question.

Answer 4

No...

And the answer to your question is...

It DOESN'T fit into their belief...

The fossil record of dinosaur bones millions of years old deeply disturbs Christians who interpret The Bible literally because for some strange reason...the Hebrew people wandering around the deserts thousands of years ago knew nothing about the Earth Sciences, and so naturally failed to include any "true" historical facts about the age of the Earth (Billions of years old) in their story of "Genesis" and all the rest...

Answer 5

no, humans have only been around for 3 million years or less. Dinosaurs went extinct well before that. Creationists are morons to think that the earth was created with a set number of species and has been steadily declining since the dawn of time about 6000 years ago. with the shear number of extinct species we know about the world would have been completely covered by animals.

Answer 6

We have nothing telling us how long a day was when God created the earth. Maybe it was more like this:

1 day in heaven = 1,000 years on earth. How do we know? We don't. But since you are asking, *man could have lived with dinosaurs*. Why not?, the great flood could have wiped them all out.

Answer 7

Ask a cryptozoologist!

Creation as depicted in Genesis was a process spread over 6 days.

Ignore the Young Earth Creationists and read Francis S. Collins book The Language of God instead.

Answer 8

No.
The belief that everything was created on the sixth day is not a Christian belief. It was rejected by the ancient church in many commentaries, and didn't really gain any prominance until after the Bible was translated into English (and untrained, uneducated peasants got a hold of it). Even today, theistic evolution is religious dogma for over half of all Christians, evolution is taught in the majority of Christian private schools, and it is accepted by the majority of Christians.

Answer 9

Only in the cartoon The Flintstones.

Genesis disproves Genesis. Cain found a wife in Nod.

Answer 10

No they didn't - and there is a hell of a lot of evidence to PROOVE that, which in turn proves that not everything was created on the 6th day.