So, how does Christianity explain the dinosaurs?

[AIWGuru]

Originally posted by: XZeroII
It is commonly believed that the dinosaurs were killed off by the flood. I dont' remember the details but the air thinned out after the flood and huge animals could no longer breathe properly and died off. Some people even claim to have evidence, but like most other things in this world, there is no hard proof on way or the other.

Uh, that's B.S.
Dinosaurs were killed by a meteor strike.
There is a layer of dust which can clearly be observed when you take a cross section at around the same time millions of years ago. This is from a huge, huge dust cloud which went into the atmosphere along with tons of volcanic ash from tectonic instability (from impact) This blocked out the sun for a long time, killing off the dinosaurs. There IS proof to support this theory.

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

Originally posted by: OOBradm
SO, within the first 7 days, god created the heavens and the earth and man. What about the dinosaurs? Is this a flaw?

they couldn't fit on the ark and therefore were wiped out in the mighty flood.

 

[kranky]

Originally posted by: SampSon
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Some interesting little page someone posted in a channel.

When I got to the comment "The Bible is strangely silent on such devastating impacts as Meteor Crater in Arizona", that's when I quit. What kind of nonsensical comment is that? If the guy wants to make a case, that isn't the way to do it.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

The Bible doesn't list every single fvcking animal that god made. That would be ridiculous. Just because you don't find the word "dinosaur" or any kind of reference to it, doesn't mean it's not in there.

If that were the case, there would only be a few dozen animals on earth. Good grief you nitpicking idiots...

If you want to know something about the Bible, FVCKING READ IT.

 

[Insane3D]

Originally posted by: FFMCobalt
The Bible doesn't list every single fvcking animal that god made. That would be ridiculous. Just because you don't find the word "dinosaur" or any kind of reference to it, doesn't mean it's not in there.

If that were the case, there would only be a few dozen animals on earth. Good grief you nitpicking idiots...

If you want to know something about the Bible, FVCKING READ IT.

/cry river

Little sensitive about religion are you? I believe the OP was asking a valid question. However, you so eloquently just made the end all, be all argument so we can stop now right? Is that what they tell you in church?

Pastor/Priest : If you want to know about the fvcking bible, just FVCKING READ IT. Good grief you fvcking nitpicking morons. :|

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: glen
This drives me crazy.
VERY VERY few Christians take Genesis literally.
Most Christians in the world, about half, are Catholic.
John Paul, himself will tell you evolution is correct.
You really have to dig to find folks who take Genesis literallly.
You got to be kidding me.
Every book in the world contains allagories, metaphors, etc...
And Everyone in the world knows this.
How many people do you really think believe the 7 day stuff?
That is like me asking how Chinese people explain dinosaurs, after all, their creation myth is a 7 day event also.

This is probably one of the most intelligent posts in this thread.

 

[ViperXX]

Dinosaurs did exist. The question is, what is one day in God's time compared to one day in our time?

 

[Brutuskend]

Here's a question.

There are animals alive today that didn't live when the dinosaurs lived right.

Where did THEY come from, if god was finished after day 6?

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: FFMCobalt
The Bible doesn't list every single fvcking animal that god made. That would be ridiculous. Just because you don't find the word "dinosaur" or any kind of reference to it, doesn't mean it's not in there.

If that were the case, there would only be a few dozen animals on earth. Good grief you nitpicking idiots...

If you want to know something about the Bible, FVCKING READ IT.

Exactly.

That is also why you don't take the Bible as a literal textbook.

They're stories. Stories designed to teach values, lessons and morals. Nothing more.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: Brutuskend
Here's a question.

There are animals alive today that didn't live when the dinosaurs lived right.

Where did THEY come from, if god was finished after day 6?

Blasphemy!!!!!!!111one

 

[glen]

The Important part of the Bible is the New Testament.
Christ is always telling well-known parables, but he puts a ?twist? on them.
You have to read the Old Testament to know what the original parable is, so you can see how he changes it. BUT BOTH ARE PARABELS.
The Baby Jesus cries when people take it literally.
How fvcking stupid would someone have to be to think when Christ says fig tree, or vineyard, that he really means a literal plant.
OMG!
Even 2000 years ago people knew what was a parable, and was wasn?t.
Have people gotten dumber over the last 2,000 years?
No.
But, if you look, you can always find someone with a weird take on things, like they think aliens made crop circles, or they saw Bigfoot.
There are 2 billion Christians in the world, some of them have to be nuts.
That does not mean they all are.
And you would be a fool to think all 2, billion read the Bible and take it the same way.

 

[Brutuskend]

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: Brutuskend
Here's a question.

There are animals alive today that didn't live when the dinosaurs lived right.

Where did THEY come from, if god was finished after day 6?

Blasphemy!!!!!!!111one

That's OK, I already KNOW I'm going to hell.

Posting bad jokes is the 8th deadly sin. They just ran out of room when they were writing them down!

 

[Chadder007]

http://www.christiananswers.net/dinosaurs/j-where1.html

 

[Brutuskend]

Originally posted by: Chadder007
http://www.christiananswers.net/dinosaurs/j-where1.html

Because HANK said so!

 

[ShotgunSteven]

My boss is one of those people that takes the Bible 100% literally. King James Bible only though, as it's "the most literal translation." He was listening to some guy on the radio that actually took it more literally than him though, and said, "That guy's reading too much into the Bible."

He also says that the local University had a complete fossil record in their basement, which they're keeping hidden because it would prove Creationism.

I have also heard that the original word used for "day" in the "seven days" could mean periods of time much longer than twenty-four hours.

 

[JackBurton]

Originally posted by: glen
The Important part of the Bible is the New Testament.
Christ is always telling well-known parables, but he puts a ?twist? on them.
You have to read the Old Testament to know what the original parable is, so you can see how he changes it. BUT BOTH ARE PARABELS.
The Baby Jesus cries when people take it literally.
How fvcking stupid would someone have to be to think when Christ says fig tree, or vineyard, that he really means a literal plant.
OMG!
Even 2000 years ago people knew what was a parable, and was wasn?t.
Have people gotten dumber over the last 2,000 years?
No.
But, if you look, you can always find someone with a weird take on things, like they think aliens made crop circles, or they saw Bigfoot.
There are 2 billion Christians in the world, some of them have to be nuts.
That does not mean they all are.
And you would be a fool to think all 2, billion read the Bible and take it the same way.

Yeah, I know what you mean about those "weird" people. There are even people that congregate every Sunday to talk to an invisible magic man in the sky. And then pretend to drink his blood. Talk about WEIRD!

 

[Chadder007]

Quotes:

"Look at the behemoth, which I made along with you and which feed on grass like an ox. What strength he has in his loins, what power in the muscles of his belly! His tail sways like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are close-knit. His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like rods of iron. He ranks first among the works of God..."

The book of Job is very old, written after the worldwide flood of Noah's time and probably about 2,000 years before Jesus was born. Here God describes a great king of the land animals like some of the biggest dinosaurs, the Diplodocus and Apatosaurus. It was a gigantic plant-eater with great muscles and very strong bones. The long Diplodocus had leg bones so strong that he could have held three others on his back.
The behemoth were not afraid. They did not need to be; they were huge. Behemoth tails were so long and strong that God compared them to cedars--one of the largest and most spectacular trees of the ancient world.

After all the behemoth had died out, many people forgot about them. Dinosaurs were extinct and the fossil skeletons that are in museums today did not begin to be put together until about 150 years ago. Today, some people have mistakenly guessed that the behemoth mentioned in the Bible might be an elephant or a hippopotamus. But those animals do not have tails like the thick, tall trunks of cedar trees!

 

[Eli]

There are as many different religions as there are people. When you realize that, you'll hopefully realize that none of it even matters. It's up to you whether you live your life to its fullest, or not.

So get busy folks.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: Chadder007
"Look at the behemoth, which I made along with you and which feed on grass like an ox. What strength he has in his loins, what power in the muscles of his belly! His tail sways like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are close-knit. His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like rods of iron. He ranks first among the works of God..."

The book of Job is very old, written after the worldwide flood of Noah's time and probably about 2,000 years before Jesus was born. Here God describes a great king of the land animals like some of the biggest dinosaurs, the Diplodocus and Apatosaurus. It was a gigantic plant-eater with great muscles and very strong bones. The long Diplodocus had leg bones so strong that he could have held three others on his back.
The behemoth were not afraid. They did not need to be; they were huge. Behemoth tails were so long and strong that God compared them to cedars--one of the largest and most spectacular trees of the ancient world.

After all the behemoth had died out, many people forgot about them. Dinosaurs were extinct and the fossil skeletons that are in museums today did not begin to be put together until about 150 years ago. Today, some people have mistakenly guessed that the behemoth mentioned in the Bible might be an elephant or a hippopotamus. But those animals do not have tails like the thick, tall trunks of cedar trees!

Do you have the reference for that? I was trying to find that the other day, and want to be able to find it again in the future.

 

[waggy]

well i believe the 7 day thing. but considering its God we are talking about im sure he can stretch a "day" into a billion years. Whats a day when you are end all be all?

 

[Kadarin]

The problem is that the Bible was written during a time when people didn't know about dinosaurs, and as such religious people now either conveniently ignore their presence, or they have to go thorugh convoluted reasoning to explain them.

People will always refuse to let facts get in the way of their beliefs.

 

[Chadder007]

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteve

Originally posted by: Chadder007
"Look at the behemoth, which I made along with you and which feed on grass like an ox. What strength he has in his loins, what power in the muscles of his belly! His tail sways like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are close-knit. His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like rods of iron. He ranks first among the works of God..."

The book of Job is very old, written after the worldwide flood of Noah's time and probably about 2,000 years before Jesus was born. Here God describes a great king of the land animals like some of the biggest dinosaurs, the Diplodocus and Apatosaurus. It was a gigantic plant-eater with great muscles and very strong bones. The long Diplodocus had leg bones so strong that he could have held three others on his back.
The behemoth were not afraid. They did not need to be; they were huge. Behemoth tails were so long and strong that God compared them to cedars--one of the largest and most spectacular trees of the ancient world.

After all the behemoth had died out, many people forgot about them. Dinosaurs were extinct and the fossil skeletons that are in museums today did not begin to be put together until about 150 years ago. Today, some people have mistakenly guessed that the behemoth mentioned in the Bible might be an elephant or a hippopotamus. But those animals do not have tails like the thick, tall trunks of cedar trees!

Do you have the reference for that? I was trying to find that the other day, and want to be able to find it again in the future.

http://www.christiananswers.net/dinosaurs/j-where2.html
http://www.christiananswers.net/dinosaurs/j-site4.html

 

[xEDIT409]

Originally posted by: Amorphus
the bible does mention large levathian lizards... mind you, it also doesn't mention koalas, but it doesn't mean the bible is any less true because it does not specifically address koalas. the flood could've easily just killed off all the dinosaurs, and at the same time caused the conditions necessary for fossilization (you know, burying under sediment, etc.)

On a side note,

the Leviathan is also a Guardian Force/Summon in many, if not all, of the games in the Final Fantasy series.

He's cool. He does good damage.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: xEDIT409

Originally posted by: Amorphus
the bible does mention large levathian lizards... mind you, it also doesn't mention koalas, but it doesn't mean the bible is any less true because it does not specifically address koalas. the flood could've easily just killed off all the dinosaurs, and at the same time caused the conditions necessary for fossilization (you know, burying under sediment, etc.)

On a side note,

the Leviathan is also a Guardian Force/Summon in many, if not all, of the games in the Final Fantasy series.

He's cool. He does good damage.

yeah. he has some cool graphics also!

 

[fredtam]

If god ever did tell man about creation it was at a time when it couldn't be written down. It would have to be passed down orally and a lot of things would be lost and added. Also the understanding of the events by man would be limited and would have to be explained simply. He couldn't explain it in terms of physics because it wouldn't be understood. The Bible mentions "dragons" in many passages. Its possible that a few dinasour species remained in existance at the dawn of man. Fossils are fluke in that the odds of bones being fossilized is slim and finding ones that date to that era would be hard. Another possibility is they were added in to the folklore by people who had come across fossils of the giant animals. As far as the seven days God's day is not based on the revolution of the earth (there were days before the earth's/ sun's creation) and may actually be millions/ billions of years. Evolution is not disputed by the bible. It simply says that God created all animals. It doesn't say they won't change with the enviroment.