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Old 12-12-2006, 07:53 AM   #11
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So how do Christians explain dinosuars?
It depends on the Christian. They don't all think alike. A majority of them accept the scientific explanation.

Most inerrantists claim that dinosaurs were created along with all the other animals during the first week of creation and subsequently all died out, possibly during Noah's flood but more likely sometime afterward.
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So how do Christians explain dinosuars?

The Devil hid dinosaur bones in the dirt to challenge the faith of Christians.
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The Church (notice the capitals here) usually get blamed for a lot. But in this case I'm pretty sure that The Church, i.e. the Catholic one, accepts the scientific explanation. That takes care of an awful lot of Christians in one fell swoop. It is only those silly Reformationists who think the universe started at something like T-6000.

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You mean Noah, right?

Anyhow, back when I was kind of a fundy myself (years ago), until I heard other YECs saying otherwise, I think I kind of assumed they had all died out before the Flood even happened.

Though the large number of prehistoric mammals is just as large a problem.

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and current birds - which are descended from relatives of dinosaurs so they did not all die out! Were birds on the ark? Dodos?
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and current birds - which are descended from relatives of dinosaurs so they did not all die out! Were birds on the ark? Dodos?
They found Noah's bones and guess what, he was a Chimpanzee! Naw, that can't be right.
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http://www.homobritannicus.co.uk/

Pre Darwin, the Bible was the primary source of information about history and it caused all sorts of mayhem, especially when stone axes were found, leading to a non biblical concept of stone age.

Druids were dragged in to explain all sorts of stuff, as were various relatives of Noah alleged to have got all over Britain. Jesus at Glastonbury (with Madonna of course) is a similar idea.
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