To my young earth peeps: If Dinosaurs existed alongside man in the bible, how come we don't hear about them?
There are countless references to goats and donkeys and lions and vultures but no dinosaurs. Surely animals as awe-inspiring and titanic as Dinosaurs would have attracted a lot of attention. I mean, who's going to talk about the strength of a lion when T. rex is roaming the land? ...so why does the Bible fail to mention a single dinosaur?
@Thodsis All I know for sure is that a rack of brontosaurus ribs would always tip over Fred Flintstone's car at the fast food take-out in Bedrock. I suspect the same thing would happen to Noah's Ark.
Indeed. A whole mess of extinct animals that never got a mention. I just use dinosaurs because everyone knows what a T. rex is but maybe not a Gorgonops lol. Plus it seems even more absurd that animals as huge and charismatic as dinosaurs wouldn't have any record in the Bible if indeed it were a history.
We eat dinosaurs all the time. Birds are dinosaurs.
AI Overview Yes. Birds are literally classified as modern, avian dinosaurs.They are the direct descendants of a specific group of meat-eating dinosaurs called theropods (which also includes the Tyrannosaurus rex). While all other non-avian dinosaurs went extinct, birds evolved and survived to the present day.
The only thing we can assume if the bible is the truth is that either dinosaurs lived with Adam and eve but later disappeared maybe, or didnt went to the ark of noah
Yes. I think that we're meant to consider the Bible to be an historical record as well as a spiritual guide. So if we can't take it seriously as an historical record...why should we consider it a spiritual authority? It's just fiction...
There's more evidence for abiogenesis than for creation. We know how inorganic matter can spontaneously form organic matter. We don't know that, that is the way it happened but we know that it CAN happen.
..and what evidence do you have for creation?....Bingo: Nothing. You don't have evidence. You have ideology. You suppose that abiogenesis is impossible without a creator and use that as evidence that therefore a creator is responsible. Congratulations: you have encountered the logical fallacy known as begging the question.
@Pikachu What CAN happen? I can make a rocket and then the rocket fizzles out. Abiogenesis would be a rocket fizzling out. But God is my God, not science. Your rocket didn't even get going.
God is great. He teaches me to know things that can be known, and not be satisfied with holes when claiming to be scientific. When dealing with science I am dealing with real science that God had opened our eyes to and made real to us. Like medical science. If I am doing an autopsy I have to finish it and write a report that has the answers from start to finish. I also can't go making up the answers.
I don't think God wants us to know about what did and didn't happen billions of years ago, except letting us know that the earth was like molten lava that cooled and then water came and grass grew. It is only those who reject God who say nonlife can do that. Don't confuse your rejection of God with science. Your dud rocket comes crashing down every time.
I mean....cute little metaphor but in all those words you didn't actually say anything.
It doesn't sound like you have anything to contribute to the subject of this thread. You are content to say "god did done it for reasons" and leave it at that.
Not sure why you even entered this thread.
So just to be clear: Your answer for why there are no dinosaurs in the bible is "God must not have wanted to mention it because ineffable" ?
The word "dinosaur" is mentioned nowhere in the bible. Dinosaurs walked the earth and then went extinct about 65 million years before mankind even existed on the planet. The first humans only arrived on earth about 300,000 years ago. Do the math.
Well we wouldn't expect the word dinosaur to be mentioned since it wasn't coined until the 1840's by Richard Owen. But i think we would expect to hear some descriptions of dinosaurs if indeed they had co-existed with humans.
@Pikachu That is correct. The word "dinosaur" wasn't even invented until the 19th century, so the likelihood of seeing that word written in a bible is somewhat remote. And back to my post, keep in mind that dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years before the first human arrived on earth, so obviously God didn't create dinosaurs at the same time that He created all animals and humans simultaneously. That 65 million year time gap needs to be addressed and not just ignored to fit some Theologian's rhetoric of how he interprets the word of God in the bible.
