If the creation story in the bible is an accurate account of how god created life on this earth why doesn't it match the fossil record? [Spirituality & Religion]

@abe182

Whether it accounts for how things began or not is not the current subject of discussion.

The question is why, if it is a true account is it not supported by the evidence in the real world?

@Pikachu were there several mass extinctions or just one? If everything was killed off why is there still life? If everything wasn't killed off why isn't there still dinosaurs? Don't say crocodiles and sharks.

@abe182

I'm going to answer these questions with the understanding that you will then show me the same courtesy of answering the one in my original post.


Several. Six, i think.


Everything wasn't killed off. Between 95 and 98% of life in the worst mass extinction but still not all.


Because dinosaurs were among those life forms that were killed off.

@Pikachu thank you for answering my questions. What may I answer for you? That the fossil record doesn't match biblical record? No it doesn't.

@abe182

My question was if the bible is a reliable description of events, why doesn't the creation account match the fossil record.

@Pikachu because it was a need to know basis is my guess. I really don't know.

@abe182

Can you elaborate on that reasoning?
The bible gives an inaccurate account of creation because it was secret? So they made a false account of it?

I'd like to hear your reasoning for this theory and upon what basis it is founded

@Pikachu the dinosaurs were completely omitted and that may be because wasn't necessary information for that day. I mean the discovery of dinosaurs is a twentieth Century things mostly.
I'm almost inclined to say the moon came into existence about the same time as man did and that would go along with the creation depiction.
As like the fossil record only gives a tiny tiny view into what happened I also believe the creation depiction is an abbreviated condensed view of what happened as well. Both are full of holes and some context missing.

@abe182


I don't think that holds water. Why is most of the information in the creation account "necessary" ?

But the creation account is not only incomplete, it is inconsistent with the evidence of the real world.For instance it states that birds were created on the fifth day and land animals on the sixth.
This is in direct contradiction of the fossil record.

@abe182

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Sure, maybe dinosaurs were omitted for hypothetical reasons. Or maybe they were omitted because they had not yet been discovered