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Atheist_Forever · 12-11-2006, 04:34 PM

So how do Christians explain dinosuars? I'm not attacking anyone, just wondering. Surely you do not think they boarded the ark with Moses? And if the Earth is 10-20 thousand years old, why does the Bible, and, as far as I know, the Church, make no mention of them? Because Man would have seen and interacted with them, evidently.

krosero · 12-11-2006, 05:22 PM

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So how do Christians explain dinosuars? I'm not attacking anyone, just wondering. Surely you do not think they boarded the ark with Moses? And if the Earth is 10-20 thousand years old, why does the Bible, and, as far as I know, the Church, make no mention of them? Because Man would have seen and interacted with them, evidently.

Christians think that dinosaurs evolved about 225 million years ago, and that they perished 65 million years ago. A widely accepted theory of their demise implicates the impact of an asteroid, though there has been recent controversy about whether there was more than one asteroid.

Kevin Rosero

Ben C Smith · 12-11-2006, 05:30 PM

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Christians think that dinosaurs evolved about 225 million years ago, and that they perished 65 million years ago. A widely accepted theory of their demise implicates the impact of an asteroid, though there has been recent controversy about whether there was more than one asteroid.

:notworthy: again, Kevin. You are on a tear of late.

Ben.

Toto · 12-11-2006, 05:33 PM

I gather that creationists think that dinosaurs are mentioned in the Bible (the Behemoth, I think), and that either Noah took some dinosaur eggs on the Ark or that they all drowned in the Flood. (One of those views is probably heretical.)

Answers in Genesis has a dinosaur FAQ.

leftinrightsouth · 12-11-2006, 05:47 PM

In college there was a fundie Christian who really enjoyed telling me that I was going to hell, so I have to say I delighted in asking her really "difficult" questions. So, the dinosaur question really tortured her. I think at some point in the argument she tried to convince me that dinosaurs were a hoax created by Darwinists to dispute the bible. (Yes, she was really not bright and no amount of facts seemed to make much of a difference at all.) Of course, this doesn't account for all Christian's ideas on dinosaurs, but she is pretty typical for where I live.

John Kesler · 12-11-2006, 06:01 PM

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Answers in Genesis has a dinosaur FAQ.

I love this excerpt from one of Ham's dinosaur articles:

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Those land animals (including dinosaurs) found the new world to be much different than the one before the Flood. Due to (1) competition for food that was no longer in abundance, (2) other catastrophes, (3) man killing for food (and perhaps for fun), and (4) the destruction of habitats, etc., many species of animals eventually died out. The group of animals we now call dinosaurs just happened to die out too. In fact, quite a number of animals become extinct each year. Extinction seems to be the rule in Earth history (not the formation of new types of animals as you would expect from evolution).

To the many problems with the Noah's ark tale we can now add this one: God had Noah go to the trouble of collecting pairs of each animal "kind," including dinosaurs, for the purpose of preserving them from the flood, knowing that they would then be released to a world in which "many species" of animals would become extinct and in which "[e]xtinction seems to be the rule," as it was for the dinosaurs.

Tangent · 12-11-2006, 06:50 PM

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To the many problems with the Noah's ark tale we can now add this one: God had Noah go to the trouble of collecting pairs of each animal "kind," including dinosaurs, for the purpose of preserving them from the flood, knowing that they would then be released to a world in which "many species" of animals would become extinct and in which "[e]xtinction seems to be the rule," as it was for the dinosaurs.

God, isn't God a shit?

Actually, it seems kind of par for the course with the OT god.

AnimatedMalamute · 12-11-2006, 11:40 PM

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So how do Christians explain dinosuars? I'm not attacking anyone, just wondering. Surely you do not think they boarded the ark with Moses? And if the Earth is 10-20 thousand years old, why does the Bible, and, as far as I know, the Church, make no mention of them? Because Man would have seen and interacted with them, evidently.

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.

~Jerod T.

WishboneDawn · 12-12-2006, 02:52 AM

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Christians think that dinosaurs evolved about 225 million years ago, and that they perished 65 million years ago. A widely accepted theory of their demise implicates the impact of an asteroid, though there has been recent controversy about whether there was more than one asteroid.

Kevin Rosero

:rolling: :rolling: Thank you!

Tigers! · 12-12-2006, 04:07 AM

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I gather that creationists think that dinosaurs are mentioned in the Bible (the Behemoth, I think), and that either Noah took some dinosaur eggs on the Ark or that they all drowned in the Flood. (One of those views is probably heretical.)

Don't forget dear old Leviathan

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Toto Contributor Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Los Angeles area Posts: 40,549	I gather that creationists think that dinosaurs are mentioned in the Bible (the Behemoth, I think), and that either Noah took some dinosaur eggs on the Ark or that they all drowned in the Flood. (One of those views is probably heretical.) Answers in Genesis has a dinosaur FAQ.

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leftinrightsouth Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: MS Posts: 9	In college there was a fundie Christian who really enjoyed telling me that I was going to hell, so I have to say I delighted in asking her really "difficult" questions. So, the dinosaur question really tortured her. I think at some point in the argument she tried to convince me that dinosaurs were a hoax created by Darwinists to dispute the bible. (Yes, she was really not bright and no amount of facts seemed to make much of a difference at all.) Of course, this doesn't account for all Christian's ideas on dinosaurs, but she is pretty typical for where I live.

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