Dinosuars ruled the world?

Question

So that puts the theory of God creating earth outta the window. We have fossils of Dinosaurs as proof - religious idiots have a book.

Answer 1

Didn't you know god put the fossils there to test your faith?

I kid you not, I have heard that from a christian fundementalist, along with the idea that Dinosaurs lived until the flood!

Answer 2

The story of Adam and Eve is just a parable. It doesn't mean God couldn't have created the Dinosaurs. If you are so caught up in science then if matter cannot be created or destroyed where did everything come from? The Big Bang was a collection of gases exploding, fine, but where did the gas come from?

Answer 3

Unfortunately, this doesn't solve the problem. Bible-believing Christians accept the existence of dinosaurs and their fossils and believe they are mentioned in the Bible as behemoth and leviathan.

Besides this, not all Christians understand the Bible as referring to a literal six-day creation around six thousand years ago. They often interpret the creation stories (there are at least two in Genesis) as poetic or as referring to six geological ages before humans appeared, because although it mentions days, it also says that a thousand years in God's sight is "but a moment".

Different Christians have different attitudes to the Bible. However, i have to admit that quite a few Christians are actually closet creationists - they aren't public about not believing in evolution but in fact are often privately sceptical about it.

I personally think evolution can be used as an allegory encouraging humility and see creationism as anti-Christian.

Answer 4

Perhaps the bible is not covering the whole history of the planet, but only the pieces that are relevant to human's learning about God.
It would have to be a much bigger book if it were to talk about everything that has ever lived on the Earth.

Answer 5

"Religious idiots" is a great example of how objections to creationism are ultimately subjective and emotional in nature—not logically rational.

We have no problem explaining dinosaurs within a biblical framework: http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/dinosaurs.asp

Answer 6

Why did we never think of that? What would we do without your intense wisdom? You can spot dinosaurs but can you spot sarcasm? W A N K E R!

Answer 7

It would be a profound misunderstanding to think like this, and especially to condemn the truth of scriptures. Its would be a sign of sheer lacks of understanding to believe, for instance, that trees rule the forest, or lions rule in savannas, or crocs rule marshes and alligators lakes, or that champs rule the tops of trees, because these beings are not elemented by nature to do anything more than what the governance of mother nature permits them to do. Whereas to rule in most human sense would be to be able to alter the state of things in an environment at will, or with a definitive purpose, that none of the animal species is capable of, or has ever been. Then it is not merely the matters of bulk, awful shape, or powerful predatory traits of certain creatures that makes them as significant as human beings in the grand design of all things big and small, the expression of an essence in creation that endows human nature an critical intelligence and an imposing will to imposture and improve on the ways of general nature.

Human nature is significantly different from the nature enjoyed by all other things living, the general nature, that it has a potential to deviate from or disagree with. Human beings are content with what they naturally have, or what is given to them by nature. We would always try to improve upon all things natural. And we would always try to excel each other in a bid to seek better and better states living: to better safeguard our interest in food, shelter, sex and comfort. This necessitates the need and recognition for hierarchal structures, so that challenges could be met, offences could be thwarted and processes for desired development are carried out at will, so that we are either dominant or we know who is, that we are free from impeding influence of all other things in existence.

But the story of human nature does not end here as it goes much further when we take into account the higher human needs: needs for esteem for instance that we derive out of our liking for finer things in life, and our need for self-actualisation, our need to be able to sacrifice the fruit of our efforts, our will and even our life for purpose higher in view.

Answer 8

I believe in dinosaurs.

Answer 9

Sure, but they way they governed it was inept and that's what eventually led to their destruction.

Answer 10

Avondrow - do you have proof of this?

GET A GRIP!