Creationists, if the world was created 36,000 years ago (or whatever) how do you explain dinosaurs?
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I was taught that most dinosaurs died out in the flood, but there are references to massive creatures such as the Leviathan and Behemoth in Job that could have been dinosaurs.\n\nI wonder why every culture has tales of "dragons". One idea is that this is so because the early humans had contact with dinosaurs which are also "great lizards" and then some properties like breathing fire got added in the thousands of years that these legends have been around.\n\nAccording to some theories, the Loch Ness monster is a dinosaur.
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I happen to agree that evolution may not be the way god chose to create the world. There must be an intelligent designer - the more I learn science the more I see that must be true. I've watched dr dinos vids and as a scientist I see a lot of cool stuff, but also a bunch of flaws - I loved his work on dinosaurs though.\nThe only scientific evidence for evolution that really leaves me hanging is radioisotope degradation (I can see around C14, but what about the others)\nAnyone want to explain a way around that...I'd be interested!
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This is a direct quote from the website (see below)\nBackground\nGeologists believe that a super-continent composed of all of the present day continents existed on the planet\n200 million years ago (at the same time dinosaurs were on earth). Geologists call this super-continent\nPangaea. Because there was only one continent, there was only one ocean called Tethys.
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If you look through time, God only existed from th time when humans got themselves educated, to a certain degree, they worshipped anything like the sun rising, water in a stream, etc. Before that with the earth being around for over 4 1/2 billion years did the dinosaurs believe in God?
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Darwins initial theory of evolution has some truth to it, the part of adaptation is essentially true.. the part of making something out of nothing and having it evolve is false .. only the Creator can do that.. as far at the earth being billions of years old.. that is also false... dinosaurs existed with man.. if you read Job it tells you that the giant animals were in existence and not all dinosaurs were giants.. there is a lot of information out there to research concerning your question.. the first book I would suggest is the Bible... it will essentially answer all of the above question.. if that doesn't satisfy you I would suggest checking in a Christian bookstore on evolution.. Darwin had some good ideas, but his predecessors ran with it in the wrong direction.
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Check out the source below, there are great animations there as well as the following information:\n\nThe origin of the Earth\nThe age of the Earth was once, and still is, a matter great debate. In 1650 Archbishop Ussher used the Bible to calculate that the Earth was created in 4004BC. Later on in the mid-nineteenth century Charles Darwin believed that the Earth must be extremely old because he recognised that natural selection and evolution required vast amounts of time. \n\nIt wasn't until the discovery of radioactivity that scientists began to put a timescale on the history of the Earth. Rocks often contain heavy radioactive elements which decay over long periods of time, the decay is unaffected by the physical and chemical conditions and different elements decay at different rates (These rates are slow and half-lifes of several hundred million years are not uncommon)\n\nThroughout this century the race has been on to discover the oldest rocks in the world. The oldest volcanic rock found so far has been dated at 3.75 billion years old, but this is not the whole story. Meteorites created at the same time as the Earth hit us all the time, radioactive dating shows that they are about 4.55 billion years old.\n\nTHE EARLY ATMOSPHERE\n\nThe present composition of the atmosphere is: 21% OXYGEN \n 78% NITROGEN \n 0.04% CARBON DIOXIDE \n ~0.9% ARGON \n\nThe atmosphere wasn't like this when the Earth was created over 4½ billion years ago.\n\nTHE FIRST BILLION YEARS\n\nThe Earth's surface was originally molten, as it cooled the volcanoes belched out massive amounts of CARBON DIOXIDE, STEAM, AMMONIA and METHANE. There was NO OXYGEN. The STEAM condensed to form water which then produced shallow seas. \n\nEvidence points to bacteria flourishing  3.8 billion years ago so this means that life got under way about 700 million years after the Earth was created. Such early forms of life existed in the shallow oceans close to thermal vents, these vents were a source of heat and minerals. \n\nTHE NEXT BILLION YEARS\n\nThese primitive life forms then took the next evolutionary step and started to PHOTOSYNTHESISE (using sunlight to convert carbon dioxide and water to food energy and oxygen). This was an important turning point in Earth history because the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was being converted to oxygen. \n\nThese green plants went on producing oxygen (and removing the CO2).  \nMost of the carbon from the carbon dioxide in the air became locked up in sedimentary rocks as carbonates and fossil fuels. Carbon dioxide also dissolved into the oceans. \nThe ammonia and methane in the atmosphere reacted with the oxygen.  \nNitrogen gas was released, partly from the reaction between ammonia and oxygen, but mainly from living organisms such as denitrifying bacteria. (remember that nitrogen is a very unreactive gas and it has built up slowly).  \n\nTHE LAST 2½ BILLION YEARS OR SO\n\nAs soon as the oxygen was produced by photosynthesis it was taken out again by reacting with other elements (such as iron).This continued until about 2.1 billion years ago when the concentration of oxygen increased markedly. As oxygen levels built up and then . . . . . . \n\nThe ozone layer was formed which started to filter out harmful ultraviolet rays. This allowed the evolution of new living organisms in the shallow seas.
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Not explicitly. But many Christians take the liberty to give a compatible meaning to the Creation story. When God made the animals of the earth in one day...some say that that includes dinosaurs and that one day in "God's time" is symbolic for a period of time that's extraordinarly long in human terms.\n\nThen again, I've also heard people who dismiss the whole dinosaur discovery thing as something the devil planted in the ground to shake people's faith.
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1.  Dinosaurs laid eggs millions of years ago.\n2.  Chickens weren't around millions of years ago.\n3.  Therefore, eggs came first.\n4.  Later, egg-laying birds evolved into chickens.
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Christians suppose themselves to be so humble, but they are confident to tell you exactly what the second most powerful supernatural being, who wants to trick us, wouldn't do.  You all ought to say "I don't know."  \n\nI think the existance of dinosaurs definitely threatens the veracity of Genesis, and the supposed 6000 year age of Earth.
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The Earth is 4,570,000,000 years old, approximately; though many Creationists think it to be only 6000 "without proof otherwise" they are wrong: we have proven it using gravitational measurements of other planets, measurements of solar brightness over time, radioactive dating, continental drift, and many other factors. If you want to  force religion on people, don't do it in a SCIENCE forum! You will only cause heated debates and great offense from both sides.
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The theory that Satan put the dinosaur bones on this earth to confuse people and make them doubt god and what the bible says. \n\nConsidering there are modern day descendants of dinosaurs still roaming the earth.
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The egg from a Dinosaur\n50.000.000.000 years b.c
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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
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The Earth was formed around 4.57 billion (4.57×109)[1] years ago
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Of course Evolution makes NO sense. Let me ask you, Are u a believer in Macro evolution or lets say Micro evolution. You evolutionists are ALWAYS chaniging the story. Evolutionist: The earth beith 6 Billion years old. \nOther evolutionist: No no idiot the earth is 600 billion years old. (Btw the earth is closer to 6000 years old ;)\n\nPoint proven thanx for reading.
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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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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!