How come God didn't create dinosaur in 7 days?
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Shhh!  You'll upset the Christian Fundamentalists. :)
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In the first place, god did not create the world in 7 days -- or any other period of time.  The universe is 13.7 billion years old; the earth is about 4.5 billion years old.
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This is a question that seems to come up a lot, but I love it anyway!\nIf the Bible is really God's word, then there is no problem at all with a literal 6 day creation story. (If you try to change that, then you have death before Adam sinned, and Eve could not be the mother of all living, etc ... disbelieving a literal 6 day creation will make you throw out more of the rest of the Bible than you get to keep.)\nI agree with the perspective that God could have created the earth with the appearance of age, created stars with light-years of light coming from them already, etc... I mean, if God can create everything, He can create it however he likes. (Side note on the age of the earth, did you know that according to evolution the earth is ageing millions of years per year? - Ask that one sometime!)\n\nBack when Darwin introduced the theory of Evolution to modern history (the idea goes back WAY before Darwin, but that's another story), he stated that for his theory to work, there must be evidence, and speculated on what it COULD look like - None exists today. Christians really dropped the ball on this one, and let this "theory" become equivalent to "science" (science must be observable and repeatable).\n\nIs there PROOF for creation? No (again, scientific proof must be observable and repeatable), there is not PROOF, but there is a lot more reasonable evidence that there is for creation.\n\nRegarding dinosours, the Bible actually speaks of them (and dragons) in the book of Job.\nSome remote cultures (The Congo, the Amazon, etc.) have recent (20th Century) stories of dinosaurs still living.\n\nThere's a lot more, but I don't want to get too long on you, so check out the link below for TONS more info, on this subject.
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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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The bible states that God created man (humanity, all the races) on the 6th day. Male and female. He blessed them and told them to multiply and fill the earth. Then, on the 7th day, He rested. Later.... in what many Christians today call 8th day creation.... God planted a garden but, saw there was no man to till the earth so, He made Adam, the first farmer. God brought to Adam many animals and Adam named them. These were the domestic animals we use today on farms and as beasts of burden. Wild aimals had been previously created on day 5. \n\nWhen Cain killed Abel, Cain went to the land of Nod were he took a wife. He married a female who was a 6th day creation human. \n\nLater, Adam and Eve had many children. One child, Seth, was to be the ancestor of Noah, who was the ancestor of David. From this lineage came Mary, mother of God. The reason for the lineage breakdown (the begatting) is to let us all know Christ's (for want of a better word) pedigree.
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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.
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The bible's description of "the six days" is not intended to imply 24 hour earth days but instead 6 epoch of times in which fundamentally significant elements were created. It is interesting to note that when the six "days" are reflected against the generally well accepted theories on evolution of the universe and ultimately earth, the six epochs relate quite well to the process of "first there was light" (perhaps big bag), ..., "firmament" (as in the early life on earth), ..., to eventually human creation. Disosaurs, I believe, are grouped in to the "day" in which floura, fauna and animals were created. I hope this helped in some way.
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One could say the universe was created in 7 days.  A day is one rotation of the world.  How is it that God created some of these things when there was no globe in which to register this amount of time.  The bible also says that 1000 years are not even a day to god.  If god was the only one around then time was mostly on his own watch, most likely that is.  So no I don't believe the whole 7 days thing.\n\nI like biblical literalist.  I wonder if the first guy believes the sun rotates around the world as it states in the bible.
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6 Billion years old. The Bible says that to God a day is a thousand years and a thousand years is a day, which basically means that God does not follow our time table, so the 7 days that it took God to create the Heavens and the Earth could have been millions of years.
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We're living in strange times. We can explore the outer reaches of our solar system, create machines that will scan inside our bodies and yet there is still this strong acceptance that the world was created in 7 days - I find it a bizarre, compelling contradiction.\nI think, as with many things, it's a case of dogma overshadowing reason. I think that maybe people don't want to know about evolution so they just don't bother to research it. But it fascinates me how somehting like this can prove to be such a huge threat to religious belief.
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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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Dinosaur is a word that was created after the King James Version of the Bible...There are references to dragons in Job and Isiah and a few other places.  Which should not be that big of a surprise because even in the Chinese calender there is a dragon. Which you can rule as mythology or whatever....but its not random to just throw a dragon in there with a rat, pig, and other common animals.
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The Bible speaks of 6 creative days.  It does not say that the days lasted 24 hours.  A day can indicate a period of time (in Noah's day, for example).  The Bible also says that a 1000 years is a day to God.  On the seventh day he rested from his creative works.  We are still in the seventh day of rest.  (we see this seventh day is longer than 24 hours, and longer than a 1000 years)  Scientific evidence supports that the earth is 4 billion years old.
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There are many theories on that one.  It might be that Adam and Eve were created along with the dinosaurs, and they could have lived in the Garden of Eden for millions if not billions of years before they took the fruit, with animals evolving around them.  Or, the entire process of creation took billions of years, and the 7 days is just a symbol of time, and not an actual space of time, in which case it took the earth several billion years to be created, along with everyone and everything on it.
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As it seems this question has raised yet another debate, I'd like to add my 2cents. As the father of paleoboy, and a Christian, I believe I have raised my son well. Because I have not fallen into the ignorance, as I will call it, of pre-empting God. Evolution is merely a theory, man should  not be assumed to be included in this factor. In fact, there exists more questions  of man's progress than proof of any evolution. \nThe animals however, and lower life, could have been designed by God in many numerous ways. Who are we to question the means, or claim to know as to how God works? He works, as we know, in mysterious ways! Could he not have in fact, by design, created species that could evolve and adapt to earth changes, if for no other reason, to allow clues behind for the event of man to discover, to weed out those that would choose to use this information, to disprove His existence?\nTo claim we have all the answers to the mysteries of God is to fall into ignorance as Christians. I back up my son's answer, as an open, unquestioning mind as to the works of God. Paleontology is a science, based on evidence, and a great deal of theory, which is always subject to change with newly discovered evidence.
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I asked too, and was told he has always been present, which scares me and answer a lot of questions.  I guess he was around forever.  He was the one who created everything like, dinosaurs, etc. So I guess he got better along the way and created man and we have been here every since.  WOW!  I never thought of it that way.  Still confused, I am on a mission know.  To be honest I don't think we are going to get a straight answer because that will prove the true existence and challenge everything that we believe.  Imagine what would become of the world if we found out this was all a farce to keep most of us straight.  It is because of religion that we are doing okay today, of course man has rules. laws, and regulations for the ones who are non-believer's and the slackers. That would open up another Pandora's Box.  WOW!
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Bible says God created animals. But not as they are NOW. Nowhere does it even elude to the fact that animals would never evolve, mutate or branch off. Creationists dont believe that animals, and humans have not changed, or even evolved with time. Nature would do that, animals would adapt as habitats changed. Thats just common sense.\n\nDinosaur bones. Not Satan. Who is to say that Donsaurs did not walk the earth? I dont believe God created the world in 6 days, but that it was an example, a metaphore if you will. Gods time is not our time, and Dinosaurs could have been created, and extinct before Adam even came to be.