How do biblical theologians explain the existence of dinosaur fossils?
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These fossils are from when the flood took place. The water and the sudden pressure perfectly conserved these pieces of bone. We believe in dinosaurs just not evolution. Watch the videw "Answers from Genesis" this guy is excellent teacher
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No the word "dinosaur" is not in the bible. Neither is kangaroo, or hippopotamus. But, check out Job 40:15-18\n15  Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox. \n16  Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly. \n17  He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together. \n18  His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.\n\nSounds like a dinosaur to me.
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There is a story in the bible (forgive me b/c I forget which book it is in) but it talks about why God created different languages & why he set apart different people. It talks about race & how it was not something that was created but something that the world & the environment around us has evolved.  That is why people closer to the equater have darker skin & those farther away have lighter skin, etc.. It explains all of that so keep reading.. You'll get there.. Oh yeah & dinosaurs are in the bible as well.. Trust me..
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Adapted from Dinosaurs: The Very Latest Information and Hands-On Activities From the Museum of the Rockies, by Liza Charlesworth and Bonnie Sachatello-Sawyer. A Scholastic Professional Book.\n\nWay back in 1676, Robert Plot, the curator of an English museum, described and drew a thigh bone that he believed belonged to a giant man. Although that fossil disappeared without a trace, the surviving illustration suggests that it may well have been part of a "Megalosaurus." Later, in 1822, large teeth discovered in England by Mary Ann Mantell and her husband, Gideon, were thought to be the remains of a huge and extinct iguana. It wasn't until 1841 that British scientist Richard Owen came to realize that such fossils were distinct from the teeth or bones of any living creature. The ancient animals were so different, in fact, that they deserved their own name. So Owen dubbed the group "Dinosauria," which means "terrible lizards."\n\nAcross the ocean in North America, dinosaur tracks were studied in the Connecticut Valley, beginning in the 1830's. They were believed to belong to enormous ravens, freed from Noah's Ark after the Great Flood. At that time, paleontology was long on deduction and short on evidence. This was remedied when two wealthy and competitive American scientists, Othniel Marsh and Edward Cope, raced to excavate fossils in the Rocky Mountain region. In the late 1800's, their separate teams, armed against Native Americans and each other, dug up tons of bones from several sites. All in all, Marsh and Cope's rivalry — known as the Bone Wars — uncovered 136 new species. And their respective fossil displays generated excitement for dinosaurs the world over.\n\nIn the 1900's, enthusiasm for dinosaurs grew steadily, attracting the attention of the scientific community. Institutions such as the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and the American Museum of Natural History assembled dig teams, which uncovered many rich bone beds in North America (as did their counterparts overseas). New sites in Utah revealed several different species, including "Camarasaurus," "Apatosaurus," and "Stegosaurus;" "Tyrannosaurus rex" remains were found in Montana and baby Coelosaurs in New Mexico.\n\nIn recent decades, dinosaur research continues, but the emphasis has shifted from finding and classifying these animals to analyzing and reconstructing their lives and habitats. In the late 1960's, Robert Bakker proposed that these ancient creatures may well have been as agile and energetic as warm-blooded animals. In the mid 1970's, Peter Dodson, along with James Farlow, hypothesized that they used their horns to attract the attention of females, as well as for fighting. And in the late 1970's, Jack Horner made history by identifying some of the first dinosaurs nests and eggs in North America. These important "Maiasaura" fossils helped to determine that some species nested in colonies and cared for their young.\n\nIn the past few years, several paleontologists, including Ken Carpenter, Phil Currie, and William Coombs, have identified juvenile dinosaurs that were previously thought to be adults; and David Weishampel has theorized that some dinosaurs probably used their crests and nasal passages to create sound. Each day, scientists working all over the world, in the field and in research labs, help to redefine the meaning of the world "dinosaur."
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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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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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it is there just look a bit harder, the word "dinosaur" is obviosly not.\n\nhttp://www.clarifyingchristianity.com/dinos.shtml\nhttp://www.christiancourier.com/archives/dinosaurs.htm\n\nANd a great site on Dinos and Humans togeather:\nhttp://www.creationevidence.org/\nhttp://www.creationevidence.org/fa_questions/dinoman.html
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How could anyone know? That is a key indicator that the bible is BS. None of the people that made Christianity know about neanderthal etc. Now these flaws are being shown. If the bible says there were no neanderthals, then it is wrong, if it says there was, then is acknowledges evolution.
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If you're talking about the "tracks" in Paluxy river, Texas, these have been around, and been debunked, since the mid 1970's.  Even many creationist sources now recognize that the footprints are bogus.\n\nHowever, some creationist web sites and books *still* trot these out, decades after they've been debunked, as "evidence" of the co-existence of dinosaurs and humans, even though the overwhelming evidence is that they went extinct 65 *million* years before the first humans appeared.  \n\nIn other words, any source you see that brings up the Texas footprints is *not* the place you want to going for scientific information.
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What is the creationist response to feathered dinosaurs?\n\nThey stick their head in the sand and repeat over and over, "I believe the Bible, I believe the Babble."
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they called them dragons in the bible silly.\n\nand there is more proof of dinosaurs than there is of God
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medical researchers, yes.  probably quite a few.  there are also quite a few evolutionary biologists, and paleontologists who hold personal beliefs that God created the universe and life.\n\nhowever, there are very few (if any) evolutionary biologists or paleontologists who believe that a literal version of creation as laid in out the bible took place (i.e. in six days, man created from dust, woman from man's rib etc. etc.)\n\nthat literal interpretation just doesn't fit with the physical evidence that has been uncovered (and is even inconsistent with itself).\n\nas far as medical researchers, there are probably some who do believe in a literal biblical story of creation, but their professional opinion on the matter is about as relevant as an automotive mechanics.  they are certainly skilled workers in their own field, but evolution is not where their expertise lies.
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First find a bible. Next read Genesis Chapter , its only 1 page. Then explain to you grand mother that god’s creations hade an order. That the fish in the water where created, then animals on land, then man. Then explain to her that in genesis when it talks about the days god created things, it does not literally mean day by day, it is just a way to understand the time line. If she can except that point out that god created animals ( including dinosaurs) before man and that some of these animals ( including dinosaurs)  died off before the time of mans creation, and well before moses wrote the old testament. \n\nMy email is, josh_r36@yahoo.com please write me and tell me how it went.
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I read somewhere that when people found dinosuar bones, they believed them to be dragons. I guess as a way to explain them.  Not sure though
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Fundies don't like to deal with that fact. You're an intelligent and insightful person for just bringing it up. Golf clap to you, sir/ma'am.\nThe reason there's no mention of dinosaurs or other megafauna in the bible is because back in the day, people couldn't deal with the idea of "prehistory". These creatures all died out aeons ago, so only fossils were left. If someone happened across the fossilized remains of a dinosaur, or even a mammoth, they'd just call it a "giant" and be done with it. (interesting fact: that's where the cyclops myth came from. The skull of a mammoth has its eye sockets set very close together, so it looks like there's only one eye. And it's big...so there ya go. :)
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no because by any logic those dinosaur couples would not only have crowded everyone else off the ark, but would also have sunk it. since the bible never mentions that the ark sunk due to overweight brontosaurii, dinosaurs are blasphemy.\n\nyou do know that we're both going to hell for being involved with this question? if you bring the sunscreen, i'll bring the shades and Jimmy Buffet tape.
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Dinosaurs actually lived preceding bible time and their remains are a decently sized loophole of the book. Comedien Bill Hicks once referenced the topic when he offered a fictional conversation between himself and a believer in bible time. It was a one word question and read: "Dinosaurs?"\n\nBy the way, there were no Dinosaurs at the time of Noah's arc.