uncle_onion

Question for Xtians:

If the bIble was true and was inspired of god, then why does it not record Dinosaurs inthe book of Genesis?

john

Plognark

Because the bones were put there by satan to FOOL US!! BAD DEVIL!!! EEEEVIL DEVIL!!!

Magus55

For the same reason it doesn't record the other thousands/millions of animals by name.

Plognark

I dunno. I'm pretty sure a T Rex, pterodactyle with 30 foot wingspan, or raptor pack would have been pretty damn inspiring.
*ahem*

Onager

Yeah, when you're busy writing about cattle, fish, and fowl it's pretty hard to waste time even mentioning the towering behemoths lumbering past.

I just noticed that the bible is even funnier if you read everything up to the flood whilst picturing dinosaurs in the background.

Here's a thought: Maybe the dinosaurs were the "giants" who "came unto the daughters of men". No wonder they weren't allowed on the ark.

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I have a book written and self-published by a security guard at the college I went to which explains this perfectly. In addition to the normal creationist dogma (normal for 15 years ago, before the cryptocreationist movement) it explains that all the tribes the Bible mentions living near and being massacred by the ancient Israelites were actually various species of animals, including dinosaurs.

Indeed, the giants of the OT were dinosaurs. Amalekites were flying reptiles - pterosaurs. A related tribe, the Amorites, included flying reptiles which breathed fire, as well as various other mountainous creatures. These are all identified, further, as "evil angels" or devils. He further identifies many species of ancient mammals, reptiles, and mythical creatures as other tribes in and around the region between Canaan and Egypt. "Gittite" for example may have meant "horned giants" including both mammoths and the Ceratopsia. No information on whether this is a "kind" is given. Interestingly, support for this load of ... ideas ... is drawn from the fact that there is little archealogical evidence for the existence of those tribes of people. Therefore identifying them as dinosaurs makes much more sense!

Goliath is potentially identified with any of about a dozen animals but was certainly some sort of giant beast. This is based on short out of context verses - he had a spear, for example. This could have been a mammoth's tusk or "the Iguanodon's spearlike thumb, described in II Samuel 23:21 and I Chronicles 11:23."

So, you see, dinosaurs are well described in the Bible. All you have to do to properly interpret it is to be more or less insane. (The book is Biblical Dinosaurs by Ronal J Baker, ISBN 0-9629531-3-X. To quote Dave Barry, I am not making this up.)

uncle_onion

"For the same reason it doesn't record the other thousands/millions of animals by name"

sorry but it does mention animals as being part of the "creative days". I was always taught in my (ex) religion that god used the dinosaurs to crush the trees so that we now have coal, etc. It seems to me that this is another proof that the Bible is not inspired. If it was then g would have told moses about them so that he could write about them.

JOHN

Doctor X

Yet they all fit in the Ark. . . .

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Indeed! See above.

--J.D.

Gawen

Aahhhhh...so THAT explains it! Brilliant! The ancient Israelites, somewhere between 4000-6000 years ago, after killing the locals, chased all the rest all over the world and destroyed said 'giants'. And THAT therefore explains how people got all over the earth as well. Chasing dinosaurs....

Magus55

The majority of species wouldn't have needed to be on the Ark since mammals are one of the smallest groups of animals. Bacteria, Archaea, most insects, crustaceans, fish, etc. wouldn't need to be on the Ark.