did dinosaurs roam the earth before or after the bible?  if before, doesn't that mean God didn't create earth?  if after, wouldn't it be mentioned anywhere in the bible about such a creation?
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i don't understand why some atheists think that the existence of dinosaurs is some huge earth shattering knock against the bible.  yeah they existed.  do you have a point you are trying to make?\n\nedit: dude, you think penn and teller are funny?  what's next, pimping carrot top?
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I think they were killed in the flood, but have you ever read (I think) in Job about the leviathan?  Sounds so much like a brontesaurus or dipladucas doesn't it?  People try to say it's a croc, but it's  nothing like a crocodile.  Also Psalms 74 says He lopped off the heads (plural) of leviathan, and made mincemeat of the dragon.  I'm not trying to make people believe anything, it's just one of the things I wonder.
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Technically speaking, should 'God' exist, which logically is unlikely, and this deity created the planet, surely it's within its rights to destroy whatever it has created.\n\nAccording to popular Western religion, God created the earth in a similar way to, say, Leonardo da Vinci creating one of his paintings. It's known that da Vinci painted over a number of his works to create the more famous pieces we see today and nobody complains about that. If we are in fact the creations of some 'higher being' then God is perfectly within its rights to dispose of us, the dinosaurs and whatever else it may choose to create. However, since there is no evidence for or against the deity theory, the conundrum is largely a hypothetical and ultimately useless one.\n\nNevertheless, since we regard ourselves as sentient beings and the destruction of life is regarded as genocide, this would seem to indicate that God is indeed guilty. But only from our point of view.\n\nReally am gonna have to stop expressing my opinions on the internet!
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According to the Biblical story..yes, Dino's lived first. Adam was created on the sixth (last) day of creation...meaning that animals and such were created before man.
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The Book of Genesis deals with the fact that God created the earth. It was written in a manner that could be understood by primitive wandering cultures. Now we can say that the Bible is wrong about creation or that science does not have it right as far as creation is concerned. I don't agree with either point. I believe the best way to look at this is God created everything. How God did this, is still a mystery to we humans that are His  one of His creations.\n\nEvolution is a theory that is still listed as unproven. This means that Evolution is our best guess at this time with the evidence we now have of how our world and the life within it came into being and now exists. It does not mean that it is the way it happened. As with the Bible we have to live in faith.
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ask a christian or a muslim then you would know that no dinosaur was more than 6000 years old :D\nother than that i don't really know :-<
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We know that evolution exists. Science can prove it. We also know that modern man was created by God, the Bible proves that! So what about all those creatures that existed on the Earth for hundreds of thousands of years? Of course they evolved. And some of them very much resemble modern man. But God said He created us in His image. Maybe not necessarily physically, God doesn't have a body! But the difference between us and those creatures is indeed that "missing link" that cannot be "found". The link is God. The difference is that we (modern man) were created with a free will. No other creatures have ever had that. \n\nIf you read Genesis 1:1 you see that God created the heaven and earth. But something very drastic happened probably over a very long period of time between verse one and two because we see in verse two that the earth was without form, and void...\nNow what does God create that is without form and void? Nothing! Everything God creates is perfect.\nSo what happened and how many years passed between verse one and verse two? Science tells us that, there's no mystery. Creatures of all kinds evolved, the popular idea is something hit the earth and tilted it on it's axis. That triggered all kinds of weather changes, ice ages countered by global warming (without benefit of fossil fuels I might add), dinosaurs lived and died off. Primitive man-like creatures became dominant. It's all there!\n\nSo yes, you can believe in God and understand that creatures indeed evolved. But modern man, with all of his uniqueness, was created by God.\n\nNow concerning your lack of passion for your faith... read Acts Chapter 2 in the New Testament a couple of times and see if that piques your interest. I'll guarantee you have never been taught that in the catholic church. You need to ask yourself why. It is clear by the scriptures that Jesus intends that everyone with a love for the truth receive the gift of the Holy Ghost just as described in Acts 2. Read it again! It still happens just that way. It's still real. I see it every week. I see the power of the Spirit being used through ordinary people like you and me. Ordinary people like Jesus and the disciples were. Jesus didn't come and die so that we would have to seek everything we needed through a priest. He came that we could boldy go directly to Him with our needs. That is scripture! You need forgiveness? You need to ask Jesus, not another man. You need compassion and love? Ask Jesus, don't ask another man. Do you want to understand exactly what He has for you in this life and the next? You need to ask Him, not some portly old fellow in a black robe. Ask God directly. Go boldly to the throne and tell Him you need to know more. You will be amazed what you will experience if you are sincere and have enough character!\n\nUpdate 5-1-06\nI read with interest one of the answers below that demonstrates exactly what is wrong with the churches today. Sure, just ask someone (other than God). And if you don't like that answer just go ask someone else. That say's two things:\n1. The "authotities" in the churches don't even agree on truth.\n2. People only are interested in what they want to hear.\n\nThat's what I meant when I said God will show you the truth if you seek it from Him with a true desire to know. Why ask another man who has no clue anyway? We are talking about something as important as the salvation of your soul. Why wouldn't you go directly to the source if the source asked, indeed pleaded with you, to do so?\nAnd Paul absolutely did not encourage people to believe whichever way was best for them. He wrote to the Ephesians in Ep. 4:5 that there is "One Lord, one faith, one baptism". You see this repeated throughout the New Testament. There are not many paths to God, there is one.  Please, read the scriptures for yourself. You do not need someone to interpret the Bible for you. Let God show you
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Yes, the story of the dinosaurs is told by the Life Carriers, the higher beings intrusted with life development on new spheres.\n\nhttp://www.urantia.org/papers/toc.html\n\nIn our universe the administration of these affairs is overseen by Christ, the Creator Son of God who founded our universe. If you read the New Testament carefully, you will see that Christ created our universe: Hebrews Ch 1, vs 2-3, and other places. Gabriel, the highest and first created being in our universe, The Bright Morning Star, is the Chief Executive and right hand to Christ.  He is assisted by the Melchizedeks, one of whom taught Abraham:  Hebrews, Chapter 7 (Machiventa Melchizedek, no earthly parents).\n\nMortals are not created perfect, rather they are created with the capacity to evolve to perfection.  \n\nBoth planets and universes can evolve to ages of Light and Life, when few people die from crime, war, disasters, and aging.  Rather, most are translated to the next higher sphere for which they have qualified.\n\nAt the Center of the Total Reality there is one pattern universe containing one billion perfect and diverse worlds.\n\nBut the surrounding superuniverses (seven of them) are intended to evolve to perfection.  Each superuniverse is administered by three Ancients of Days, the oldest beings of historical record with respect to the time and space creations.  They are not ascendant mortals, rather were here long before any of the lowest planets were started.  \n\nThe Ancients of Days are of a type called Supreme Trinity Origin beings, flawless, and having authority with respect to the superuniverse like the Supreme Court has with respect to the USA.  However, they act as administrators more than judges, and have a huge staff to assist the execution of superuniverse affairs.  Periodic planetary judgment falls under their purview, thus one is mentioned in the Book of Daniel.\n\nEach superuniverse encompasses 100,000 local universes, each founded by a Creator Son of God, like unto Christ in Divine Endowments.\n\nI was about to write more, but the Spirit said, I will test my children, to see if they are diligent.\n\nTherefore I can only give a url for those humble enough to seek further light.\n\nhttp://www.urantia.org/papers/toc.html
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Dinosaurs are mentioned in the Bible, I will tell you where but first before Noah’s flood people live to be very old for example: From Genesis\n“{5:21} And Enoch lived sixty and five years and begat\nMethuselah: {5:22} And Enoch walked with God after he\nbegat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and\ndaughters: {5:23} And all the days of Enoch were three\nhundred sixty and five years: {5:24} And Enoch walked\nwith God: and he [was] not; for God took him. {5:25} And\nMethuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and\nbegat Lamech: {5:26} And Methuselah lived after he begat\nLamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons\nand daughters: {5:27} And all the days of Methuselah were\nnine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.\n\nSo you see life spans were very long, now let’s look at animals of today such as the Gila monster, alligators and crocodiles. They all grow as long as they live, the alligator can live to be 80 years old and grow up to 35 feet long. Now lets think how big they would be if they lived 800 years, they would be lets say a “terrible lizard” wow imagine that, that’s exactly what the word dinosaur means. After Noah’s flood God says man time will be three score and ten years, 70 years.\nNo let me show you the dinosaur in the Bible God is speaking to Job.\nJob 40:15 “Look now at the behemoth, which I made along with you; He eats grass like an ox.\n40:16 See how his strength is in his hips and his power is in his stomach muscles.\n40:17 He moves his tail like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are tightly knit.\n40:18 His bones are like beams of bronze, his ribs like bars of iron.\n\nSome foot notes in Bibles say that the behemoth is an alligator but I don’t know of an alligator that eats grass, other versions say it’s a hippopotamus but have you ever seen a picture of a hippopotamus it has a very small tail and couldn’t be mistaken for a cedar.\nOther Bibles say that is “A large animal, exact identity unknown.” To me there is no doubt that what God is describing is a dinosaur.
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My grandmother, who is hardcore Southern Baptist, says the dinosaurs did not exist ever, that they were just bones planted by someone to support a fantasy. She also doesn't believe space exists.... I don't ask her questions anymore.
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To my knowledge the Bible doesn't mention anything about dinosaurs.  I've read about donkeys and giants, but no dinosaurs.  I figure I'll just ask Jesus about them when I get up there.
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That's a great question, esp. since creationists have tried to co-opt evolution to an extent, by saying "Oh, God just took longer than the Bible says" and other claptrap.\n\nI'm not a creationist, but am more interested in the new info on Neanderthals (I majored in Anthropology). Can you add some details to the question and give links to articles? I'd really like to read them! I'm rather behind the times regarding new discoveries, and the Discover Channel's programs about it are SO questionable! I've got to read more!(I'm serious).\n\n***********\n\nThanks---for the links! Can you believe some of the whacko ideas people have? You'd think it hadn't been 150 yrs. since Neanderthal was first found!
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Dinosaurs are not mentioned in the bible. Read this:\nhttp://www.bibleandscience.com/science/dinosaurs.htm
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A little over 200 years ago, man thought the world was flat.  Their world had "limits" for them to believe that.  At the time of Noahs flood, their world, the area they knew around them was even a smaller area.  The flood of Noah was just in the area that Noah knew and lived. I'm sure most Christians don't belive in evolution,..so WHY would one make a statement that all the races came from Noah?  Races do NOT evolve. Noah was of a TRIBE of certian people.  Noah was a decendent from Adam.  The name Adam means ruddy complected,..to see blush in the face.  Some need to reread Genesis.  On the sixth day God made both man AND woman.  He gave these peoples to fish and hunt.(the races)...Then on the seventh day God rested,...and THEN He saw He had no man to till the ground. That's when God made Adam,..for the garden.  Then God saw that Adam was alone, so God made from Adams rib a woman especially for him.  Rib means curve,...like in our Helixs curve today;..DNA. Bone of Adams bone, flesh of his flesh.\nThe flood of Noah was in the area that Noah lived,...and it was brought on because of the geber/giants, offspring of the fallen angels.God sent the flood to that area to rid it of the giants.   God shook this earth way before the flood of Noah and way before He made man flesh. Just another thought;...When Noah sent out the dove, the dove brought back an olive leaf.  IF the flood totally destroyed all the earth, then how does a olive tree grow and set forth leaves in such a short time?...  Notice too how many times seven is used?  Seven means Spiritual Perfection.
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Dinosaurs are never mentioned explicitly in the Bible, if at all. I have already seen you have been pointed to Job for Leviathan and Behemoth. That's the only potential mention in the Bible of dinosaurs.\n\nI see the creation story at the beginning of Genesis as a very quick overview - not a scientific textbook on how God made the world, but more of an overview to say "God made the universe, then he made man, then man screwed up and let's pick up with these people here." So, to me, the beginning stories - the creation and fall - are there as a quick introduction that sets the tone and the themes for, really, the entire rest of the Bible.
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I believe that science has established the continental drift, and that dinosaurs and humans never lived at the same time. As for christians believing in it well, the Bible doesn't say anything about either but if they believe the thing about dinos & human or disbelieve continental drift, then they must not pay too much attention to science or history.
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If there was a worldwide flood, there should be layers of rock that could be determined to be pre-flood, a layer laid down during the flood, and layers that are post-flood. With all the "Creation Scientists" looking for some type of evidence to support their notions that there was a global flood, not one has found anything remotely close to the sequence I stated.