If the beginning of time was with God, adam and eve, then when did the dinosaurs happen?
2007-12-15 14:08:50 · 11 answers · asked by aznguyy 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Dinosaurs were there. Humans, the flood, an ice age, all killed them off.
2007-12-15 14:13:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
At the time of the writing of the Bible, people simply knew nothing about where they came from. They did not know the history of the Earth, they did not know about life before themselves. The bible doesn't mention dinosaurs because the writers did not know they even existed. The Book of Job mentions large scaly creatures but does not specifically mention the word "Dinosaur".
The Book of Genesis' creation story is an attempt by the writer(s) to explain in layman's terms where we came from. How would the Big Bang Theory, evolution, and other scientific and celestial concepts be explained to people when those who wrote the Bible did not even know about it themselves?
It is only the last few hundred years or so (maybe a bit longer) that we as a species have had the technology and the means to discover things of our past that was previously unknown or rejected by Governments and religious leaders.
2007-12-15 22:25:21 · answer #2 · answered by Locutus69_98 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
After Adam and Eve but before the San Francisco Gaints win the World Series.
2007-12-15 22:13:19 · answer #3 · answered by zclifton2 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The two creation myths with adam and eve are parables, like a lot of things in the bible, to show a few things:
1) Humanity is God's highest creation. (The text of one of the narratives is done in a poetic crescendo, with man being at the top).
2) God's intention is for humans to have dominance over all other animals. (The text of the other story starts with man, and focuses on his dominance and naming of all animals.)
3) Original Sin, to be eventually redeemed by Christ.
4) The role of marriage. (The part about Eve being established as a complimentary-but-subservient partner to Adam).
...and other minor themes that people who study the Bible debate occasionally.
(Note that I'm atheist -- I don't believe any of this stuff, but it's one of the few interpretations that doesn't make someone look like a fool ignorant of most of science and biology, and is actually based on the history of the text.)
2007-12-15 22:33:18 · answer #4 · answered by Michael 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dinosaurs lived before the flood. At the flood, the atmosphere lost much of its oxygen, and dinosaurs could not breathe. The only dinosaurs still living are the deep water ones, Loch ness monster, and Lake Champlain monster. (Maybe) See Kent Hovind
2007-12-15 22:14:01 · answer #5 · answered by hasse_john 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
During the 1st earth age (dispensation of time). You can read about Three World Ages at the source below.
2007-12-15 22:18:29 · answer #6 · answered by David G 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think time has a beginning, although when this statement is viewed with clarity the scope of it is nerve-shatteringly huge.
Still, if time didn't have a beginning then i suppose...
oh my... *giggles*.
I like it when i see things in a new perspective...
2007-12-15 22:15:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Right there in Genesis 1.
2007-12-15 22:12:11 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
god (allah) is always living, created everything, and all of these 250million years ago dinasours, go to google and type in miracles of allah realize that most of the miracles have allah's name on them in arabic, looks like this اÙÙÙ =C(_I_)
2007-12-15 22:14:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
In the fifth day of creation.
2007-12-15 22:14:01 · answer #10 · answered by EZnetown 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋