Is it true that  "God created dinosaur bones, but not real dinosaurs!" to test our faith?
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They will say anything to deny reality. \n\nReality has this nasty habit of turning biblical literalism into bogus malarky, and that is not tolerable to the YEC/fundie set.
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I wrote an article related to this... I hope you will take the time to really read it because it covers all the questions that you are asking. I wrote this paper not to accuse others... but to defend my faith in light of statements people ask concerning my faith in light of what I have learned from science. \n\n"Biblical Creationism: Fact or Myth? \nScientific Evidences for Skeptics to Ponder"\n\nDo you know what life is? I believe it's like a science experiment. We're here to find out why we are here. Unless you know a better reason, I'd say, it is to be skeptical and figure things out. \n\nIn case you didn't know; "skeptic" is a Greek word that means "to examine". We need to examine all the evidence and make up our minds what the truth is. I think that a lot of people get college degrees but devote themselves to one particular school of thought. They follow those thoughts without question and enjoy the mutual companionship of their closed group of peers. Most never realize that their grand theories are founded on mere presuppositions that have little to do with the facts.\n\nI think that a lot of people would believe in God right now if He personally appeared to them. If God appeared to anyone, in any form, it would be enough to convince them it was really Him! But then we wouldn't have a choice; no opportunity to grasp love's concepts. God does not want to force us to follow Him; just be willing to make that choice for ourselves!\n\nThink about it; all the ancient religions taught that the universe had no beginning,... but one. Some taught that gods came out of sort of a watery substance and that the earth was made through great upheavals and violence between the gods. A religion is worthless unless it is grounded in scientific facts! If there is such a religion today, then we better find out what the truth is in all this!\n\nI believe the God of the Bible is the most logical explanation for our universe as we know it today. Consider these next few statements of rational logic. First, there has to be a cause for every effect. The universe had to come from something. There is no natural explanation for how the sun, moon, and stars could come from nothing! Therefore, for every effect, there has to be a cause! This Cause has to come from outside the universe; outside of nature. In other words;...supernatural. When I state "supernatural" I mean; a limitless being outside of time and space. Think about it! The only religion that ever stated otherwise was the biblical concept of Genesis! God always existed, but the universe did not!\n\nSecond, the Cause must be independent of it's effect. It can not be required to depend it's existence upon the universe. For nothing can change from a state of nothingness.\n\nThird, the Cause must be infinitely powerful! If it were limited, it would have to be confined by some other thing. It can not be limited by nothing and if it were limited, it would not be independent any longer. The effect can not be greater than the cause. The Cause has to be greater than the effect! It has to be greater than all the forces of the universe combined!\n\nFourth, the first Cause must be eternal. The creator must exist outside of time. The God of the Bible stated this in Exodus 3:14 and John 8:58. All the other religions honored harvest gods, war gods, moon gods, sun gods, animal-headed gods, fertility gods and goddesses. In fact, most of these gods were restricted to time as well as location. (1)\n\nFifth, the first Cause must be spiritual. Only an entity outside the universe could have created it. It must be beyond the physical elements. John 4:24 states that God is Spirit.\n\nSixth, the first Cause must be all-knowing. The creator created the universe. Albert Einstein wrote, "The harmony of natural law... reveals and intelligence of such superiority that compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an
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No. This is because Dinosaurs died out around 65 Million years ago. The bible refers to events in the last few thousand years. According to fundementalist christians the world was created 4000 years ago. The are even building a museum in America which shows Dinosaurs living side by side with humans. THIS IS NOT CORRECT AND IS INSANE TO BELIEVE. There was a programme on the BBC on this museum a few days ago which showed one of those big horned dinosaurs with a sadlle on which gave me a good laugh! I think their reason for the Dinosaurs not surviving the flood was that they couldn't fit on the ark, which also gave me a good laugh ;)
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Actually, all that stuff is too confusing for the average Joe to consider. I think it actually takes more faith to believe all that stuff than it does to believe in creation. Of course, that's just MY take on the whole matter. It's almost like believing a junk yard blew up one day, then came back together to form a cadillac. It's just too much to believe for me. <*)))><
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Re.:  Dinosaurs \n\n\nI believe that God created upon this earth PRIOR TO Genesis 1:1-31, 2:1-3.\n\nI believe God destroyed all prior creation (Gen.1:2) to bring forth man created in God's likeness (Gen.1:26), with an UNBROKEN lineage beginning with Adam.\n\n\n\nPat (ndbpsa ©)
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No one knows if dinosaurs existed, what we know is that fossils of dinosaur bones exist.  The sensible explanation is that dinosaurs did exist and their bones became fossils, but why do you care about what is sensible?  According to the bible the earth was created in 6 days, that is wrong to.  The only time the bible is right is by accident.  Snakes use to talk in the bible.  You have to admit the bible leaves a lot out.  Like if Adam and Eve had 2 sons, and no daughters, where did Cain and Abel's wives come from?
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I'm not hearing your prayers?  Actually I do hear them, I just think they're petty, so I ignore them.  I've decided to test you faith, I'd like to hear your explanation of why I created dinosaurs?
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People unable or too lazy to think for themselves believe the nonsense that is written in the Bible.  They would have you believe that there have never been dinosaurs because Noah didn't take any into the Ark.\nAs to Adam and Eve, did they pass on the tale of their origins so that it could be written down thousands of years later when man finally learned to write?  Pardon my chuckle.
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so many of those answers just make me want to cry!\nthe bible does not mention dinosaurs so they did not exist?!?!?\nlets just ignore facts and all those fossils!\n\nIt is insanity!
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Haven't you ever heard of the Churchosaurus Rex? Big creature with a bible tail, used it to bible thump non-believing dinosaurs. I heard those ankylosaurus were a hard dinosaur to crack. Probably ended up in tar pit hell. \n\nI kid, I kid!
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So much info out there about your question.  Get a hold of a book by Ken Ham.......Dinosaurs and the Bible.  \n(creation scientists believe that dinosaurs were called dragons before the word dinosaur was invented in the 1800s.........)Dragons are mentioned in the Bible. It's very interesting.
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Yes, God is real, and no, we didn't come from monkeys, the earth isn't millions of years old, the earth didn't come about by a big boom. And yes it is called faith, but God will also prove himself. He has many times, it wasn't by chance that more people were supposed to die in 9/11, and didn't. So many people got  caught in traffic that day it wasn't even funny. Some say "well look at who all died", yes, but look who all were saved. I'm no optimist but I know God is real, he created Adam from the dirt, you try creating a human by science! And if we evolved from "monkeys" then wouldn't you think there would be no monkeys today? Or either people would STILL be coming from monkeys?? Yes God is real and NO ONE can convince me otherwise, and I hope the same for you who asked this question.
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Technically dinosaurs were not even known to have exist until the first evidence was discovered in either the 18th or 19th century. In the book of Genesis note: not to be interepted literally!! It states ( after the life in the sea,animals on land) Sorry I can't quote exactly however; look at all the animals that exist. The Bible would be a LONG book!
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yes I do. There is scientific evidence that we evolved from primates. I don't believe one man pointed his finger *boom* man was created. There was life before Christ, what makes anyone think it was Christ Himself that put the life here afterwords? \nBible thumpers are going to be all over me for this, but why should I believe a book? For all anyone knows, a really drunk author could have written the bible. I mean look at Scientology.. someone invented that religon. Completely made it up! And look at all of the followers. \nIf I was alive 2000 years ago and wrote a book about worshipping grasshoppers, would we all be praying to the 'almighty hopping insect'? \nSadly, no one will know if there is a God or not untill it is our time to go. \nI don't think we have to praise Him in order to go somewhere nice after death. As long as we are good people and live our life to the fullest, we will be happy in death.\n\nAnd 1 more thing: how come we can dig up fossils from dinosaurs (BC), but nothing to back up anything the bible says (AD)?
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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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Pictures are not "proof" nor are words written by humans in a book called the Bible. \n\nPeople have made pictures of many things which were not real - like the Star Trek television series which you mentioned. To many of us they are all stories meant to entertain or to educate - but they are not necessarily "documentary" in nature. \n\nAs far as I'm concerned you can believe whatever it is that you wish, but please do not be offended if the rest of the world doesn't decide to remain rooted in ignorance with you. \n\nThe images of the "feathered serpent" which you refer to, are just as probable to be something as subjective as an artists' conception of a kind of giant snake called an Anaconda. It could have been something that the artist heard about second hand from a traveller. It may have been a composite creature like the sphinx. If it was a description of an Anaconda it would have seemed a terrifyingly powerful and godlike being, just as the Jaguar and other totemic spirit creatures were often viewed in the context of being gods or at least superior to humans, by certain Central American cultures of antiquity. \n\nThese things need not have been part of the daily life of the people who carved it - they were just as likely to have been images which were symbolic of religious ideals and concepts or metaphores - Doesn't your own religion use "parables" to teach certain ideas? \n\nThe entire body of evidence resulting from paleontology, geology and other sciences and the quite consistent technology by which fossils and other forensic evidence are used to determine the dates when the earth was once inhabited by creatures which are now extinct, is not going to be invalidated simply because -you- personally find it to difficult to understand. \n\nWhether -you- believe it or not, really doesn't matter. The evidence fits the theory - in fact the theories are refined and improved a bit more each time a new discovery is made, as thousands of tiny observed details are added to the body of knowlege we call a science. In fact, some of the discoveries were made based on predictions that fit the climatic records that we have independently aquired from geological records produced from independent studies that were conducted elsewhere on the earth. The discoveries from physics and mathematics that help us to date these things, also helps us to predict where the finds should be - so unless there is some secret global conspiracy of all scientists and those who accept reason instead of faith, to falsify the evidence just so we can fool -you- It seems like we are the ones who might be genuinely seeking the truth here.\n\nIn fact it seems pretty likely that the real truth is that the Bible just isn't a comprehensive reference text to all knowledge about everything in the objective world. Especially when it comes to determining the history of the planet. I'm not saying the Bible doesn't have a purpose or value just that it's not as accurate or useful source of data when it comes to details about earths prehistory as observing the rate at which alluvial sediments of certain sizes and granularity and porousity are deposited and calculating from that how long it would take to pile up millions of tons of soil and sand and clays and turn them into the natural formations where we have dicovered the dinosaur bones. \n\nI'm sorry if you cannot understand why this seems more real to me than your religion - but your limits are not my problem - so why should I or anyone else care what you think or say on the subject?
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both are right.. in science studies, they only proved that dinosaurs came first. but in the bible, we cant question it bec its gods words