Christians:  Does the Bible talk about dinosaurs?  If so, where and how many times?
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To my knowledge the Bible doesn't mention anything about dinosaurs.  I've read about donkeys and giants, but no dinosaurs.  I figure I'll just ask Jesus about them when I get up there.
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So Christians' proof that the Bible mentions dinosaurs is that Job is supposed to have been able to see one? So, I guess Christians believe that dinosaurs and man were hanging out together. Guess they must be really excited about the upcoming "Land of the Lost" remake. I thought it was going to be a typical summer blockbuster-type movie. I didn't realize it was a historical documentary....
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When did God create dinosaurs, and when did they become extinct?\n\nThe Bible does not provide specific answers to this question. According to the Genesis account, animals were created during the fifth and sixth creative periods or ‘days.’ If the Hebrew expression translated “great sea monsters” [Hebrew, tan·ni·nim'] includes dinosaurs, which often inhabited swampy, watery areas, this would mean that dinosaurs were created on the fifth “day.” (Gen. 1:21) We do not know whether they continued to exist until man was created (toward the close of the sixth “day”). At the very latest it seems likely that they must have disappeared off the earth at the time of the flood of Noah’s day. Dinosaurs were reptiles, and some kinds of dinosaurs bear strong resemblance structurally and otherwise to lizards (sauros is, in fact, the Greek word for “lizard”; saura in Leviticus 11:29 . Not all types of dinosaurs were of such gigantic size. Hence, even if they had survived till the Flood, this would not have required taking pairs of the mammoth varieties into the ark. Other smaller members of the particular family or “kind” to which these belonged would have sufficed to fulfill the divine command.\n\nWhile the radioactive dating method is innovative, it is still based on speculation and assumption. In contrast, the Bible account in the first chapter of Genesis simply states the general order of creation. It allows for possibly thousands of millions of years for the formation of the earth and many millenniums in six creative eras, or “days,” to prepare the earth for human habitation.\n\nSome dinosaurs (and pterosaurs) may indeed have been created in the fifth era listed in Genesis, when the Bible says that God made “flying creatures” and “great sea monsters.” Perhaps other types of dinosaurs were created in the sixth epoch. The vast array of dinosaurs with their huge appetites would have been appropriate considering the abundant vegetation that evidently existed in their time.—Genesis 1:20-24.\n\nWhen the dinosaurs had fulfilled their purpose, God ended their life. But the Bible is silent on how he did that or when. We can be sure that dinosaurs were created by Jehovah for a purpose, even if we do not fully understand that purpose at this time. They were no mistake, no product of evolution. That they suddenly appear in the fossil record unconnected to any fossil ancestors, and also disappear without leaving connecting fossil links, is evidence against the view that such animals gradually evolved over millions of years of time. Thus, the fossil record does not support the evolution theory. Instead, it harmonizes with the Bible’s view of creative acts of God.\n\nWhen Did They Live?\n\nDinosaurs played a dominant role in life on earth during their age. But then they came to an end. The rock layers containing human fossils consistently occur above those layers containing dinosaur fossils. Because of this, scientists generally conclude that humans came on the earthly scene later.\n\nIn this regard the book Palaeontology, by James Scott, states: “Even the earliest species of Homo sapiens (man) lived long after the disappearance of the dinosaurs . . . After tilting (through earth movement) has been allowed for, rocks containing fossil men consistently occur above those preserving the bones of the great dinosaur reptiles and it follows that the latter belong to an earlier age than the human remains.”
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Scientific evidence suggests that the Earth is actually around 4 billion years old.  We have shown that many fossils are more than 6000 years old by using carbon-testing and other accurate tests.  We have used geological evidence as well.  Thus, that prediction of the Bible is probably incorrect, although that doesn't mean that you should disregard the Bible.
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The bible is wrong. It was written by people who didn't know the science.\n\nMost fossils are NOT dated using carbon dating. Why not? Because it is useless for ages more than about 100,000 years. Most fossils are much, much older than that. Usually either potassium-argon, rubidium-strontium, or uranium series dating is used. These don't have the difficulties associated with carbon dating and are self-correcting in the sense that they will let you know if a sample is contaminated.\n\nThe earth is about 5 *billion* years old, which is much older than 40 million, which is much more than 12,000.
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I think they were killed in the flood, but have you ever read (I think) in Job about the leviathan?  Sounds so much like a brontesaurus or dipladucas doesn't it?  People try to say it's a croc, but it's  nothing like a crocodile.  Also Psalms 74 says He lopped off the heads (plural) of leviathan, and made mincemeat of the dragon.  I'm not trying to make people believe anything, it's just one of the things I wonder.
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Dinosaurs died 100,000,000 years ago. \nThey're gone! Get over it.
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they called them dragons in the bible silly.\n\nand there is more proof of dinosaurs than there is of God
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That's interesting that you ask if they were his pets because of this verse from the book of Job that describes some type of gigantic creature with a Hebrew word whose translation is uncertain and long before the modern term "dinosaur" came into use.\n\nHere God is talking to Job about what He can do and asking Job if he thinks that he can do the same.\n\nJob 41:1  "Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook or press down his tongue with a cord?  (2)  Can you put a rope in his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?  (3)  Will he make many pleas to you? Will he speak to you soft words?  (4)  Will he make a covenant with you to take him for your servant forever?\n\nliwyātān: I. A masculine proper noun meaning Leviathan. It describes a huge indomitable being that God created and whom only He fully comprehends and controls.\n\nA further description God gives of this animal makes it seem like a sea going fire breathing dragon.\n\nJob 41:15  His back is made of rows of shields, shut up closely as with a seal.  (16)  One is so near to another that no air can come between them.  (17)  They are joined one to another; they clasp each other and cannot be separated.  (18)  His sneezings flash forth light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the dawn.  (19)  Out of his mouth go flaming torches; sparks of fire leap forth.  (20)  Out of his nostrils comes forth smoke, as from a boiling pot and burning rushes.  (21)  His breath kindles coals, and a flame comes forth from his mouth.\n\n\nHere's another unknown creature that God asks Job about.\n\nJob 40:15  Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.  (16)  Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.  (17)  He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.  (18)  His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.  (19)  He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.  (20)  Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.  (21)  He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.  (22)  The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.  (23)  Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.  (24)  He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares.
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well actually I've been pondering this for a while. God say's He created them. I dont think they were 'pets'. the fossil soil beneath us is four miles thick all around the earth. that translates into one hell of a lot of dinosaurs. then they died . God begins creating again calling forth 'every living creature'. life begins to grow and mulitply on its own without God's help. so it is my feeling that the dinosaurs served one absolute and essential purpose. God created them specifically to be used as fertilizer for the earth. to provide fossil fuel. the earth would not be in existence today if not for the dinosaurs. life as we know it would not be the same. they were used to prepare the earth for human habitation.
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How could anyone know? That is a key indicator that the bible is BS. None of the people that made Christianity know about neanderthal etc. Now these flaws are being shown. If the bible says there were no neanderthals, then it is wrong, if it says there was, then is acknowledges evolution.
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Good luck...\n\nCan a Christian believe in evolution?  I do.  I know that this world hasn't always been as we know it now.  I know that I as a homo sapien, evolved from something else.  God can create and destroy as he so chooses.\n\nWhy then are dinosaurs not in the Bible?\nWhy does the Bible not reference such catastrophic events that wiped them out?\n\nIn my opinion, because it isn't something we necessarily need concern ourselves with.  The fact that GIANT lizards once walked this earth is pretty darned fascinating.  Can we learn anything from them?  Unless we want to turn ourselves into giant lizards I think not.\n\nWhat we need to concern ourselves with is the history as it is written in the Bible.  The Bible is not only a religious tool, but also one that can be studied for it's historical content and story.  \n\nDo I believe the stories? YES!  Do I believe that everything happened exactly as it is written? YES!  \n\nI believe the world was created in seven days.  But what is our definition of days compared to Godly days.  \n\nThat we will not know until we can ask our creator.  (But frankly, by the time I die and go to heaven, Days will hardly matter to me anymore.)
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No one knows if dinosaurs existed, what we know is that fossils of dinosaur bones exist.  The sensible explanation is that dinosaurs did exist and their bones became fossils, but why do you care about what is sensible?  According to the bible the earth was created in 6 days, that is wrong to.  The only time the bible is right is by accident.  Snakes use to talk in the bible.  You have to admit the bible leaves a lot out.  Like if Adam and Eve had 2 sons, and no daughters, where did Cain and Abel's wives come from?
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No. This is because Dinosaurs died out around 65 Million years ago. The bible refers to events in the last few thousand years. According to fundementalist christians the world was created 4000 years ago. The are even building a museum in America which shows Dinosaurs living side by side with humans. THIS IS NOT CORRECT AND IS INSANE TO BELIEVE. There was a programme on the BBC on this museum a few days ago which showed one of those big horned dinosaurs with a sadlle on which gave me a good laugh! I think their reason for the Dinosaurs not surviving the flood was that they couldn't fit on the ark, which also gave me a good laugh ;)
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the so-called christian record was compiled just a few centuries before the fall of roman imperialism under constantine. he called together so-called christian scholars to set the canon, that is those books which were to be included in the bible. as for a christian fossil record, there is none. fossils are actually bones and skeltons of animals which have been suffused with chemically inert material similar to stone. to become a fossil takes thousands of years, not just a few, but thousands of thousands of years. mankind, as we know him, has been here for less than twelve thousand years, which is not long enough to turn even the smallest bone into a fossil.creationism is nothing more than a religious position which has absolutly no basis in fact anywhere. the latest attempt to get god , and hence religion, back into schools is called intelligent design. this is nothing more than replaciung the word for god with the words intelligent design by those same self-professed experts who want religion (specifically creationism) to be taught instead of evolution. the major difference between the two is this, evolution explains based on scientific principles, religion makes claims based on belief but is never supported by facts.
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If you're talking about the "tracks" in Paluxy river, Texas, these have been around, and been debunked, since the mid 1970's.  Even many creationist sources now recognize that the footprints are bogus.\n\nHowever, some creationist web sites and books *still* trot these out, decades after they've been debunked, as "evidence" of the co-existence of dinosaurs and humans, even though the overwhelming evidence is that they went extinct 65 *million* years before the first humans appeared.  \n\nIn other words, any source you see that brings up the Texas footprints is *not* the place you want to going for scientific information.
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One of your other anwerers mentions the fact that man has only been around for the blink of an eye in relation to the time that dinosaurs existed. Doesn't that make us pathetically arrogant to go thinking that we are the chosen ones? He could well be right and we could be here and gone in less than 200,000 years. As for why the bible doesn't mention dinosaurs; the men who wrote it had no idea that they had existed.