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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31mlbB8KFmY
This museum has received much criticism from the scientific community who see the timeline for creation to go well beyond 6 days and deny that man walked with dinosaurs.
If dinosaurs were around in the days of Noah then I cannot see how the arch would have held all the animals and the only animals mentioned in scripture are basically the animals we have today. There are ample ancient cave drawings, pictures and sculptures of early man but not a one of the largest animals to ever live. Why the ancient art world would have ignored this is unclear.
Is science wrong?
Is the Bible wrong?
If on the arch then where are the dinosaurs today?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31mlbB8KFmY
This museum has received much criticism from the scientific community who see the timeline for creation to go well beyond 6 days and deny that man walked with dinosaurs.
If dinosaurs were around in the days of Noah then I cannot see how the arch would have held all the animals and the only animals mentioned in scripture are basically the animals we have today. There are ample ancient cave drawings, pictures and sculptures of early man but not a one of the largest animals to ever live. Why the ancient art world would have ignored this is unclear.
Is science wrong?
Is the Bible wrong?
If on the arch then where are the dinosaurs today?
In the Book of Job dinosaurs are spoken of, and there are numerous examples of dinosaurs in ancient art. Consider the link below. You will see a Triceratops, and a T-Rex type dinosaur on Ica burial stones.
In the Book of Job dinosaurs are spoken of, and there are numerous examples of dinosaurs in ancient art. Consider the link below. You will see a Triceratops, and a T-Rex type dinosaur on Ica burial stones.
Don't you ever give up? There are no dinosaurs mentioned in the bible, and those Inca burial stones are nothing but hoaxes...Next you will be bringing up those El Toro figurine hoaxes for the umpteenth time....Round and round we go again.
Don't you ever give up? There are no dinosaurs mentioned in the bible, and those Inca burial stones are nothing but hoaxes...Next you will be bringing up those El Toro figurine hoaxes for the umpteenth time....Round and round we go again.
And can you direct me to the scientific review that would prove your assumption, that the Inca buricl stones are fakes? Or could you show me the scientific review which would reveal that the El Toro figurines are hoaxes? I'm mean really, your the one who says science has the answers. Where's their review on these discoveries? Oh that's right, science only does a review if they think it proves evolution, and all other evidence is ignored or dismissed. Yeah, nothing like honest and unbias science. LOL
There isn't one. Christianity is in a variety of denominations with varying views on everything from Darwin to wearing hats. More general the Bible does not overtly mention dinosaurs nor deny their existence.
This is almost like asking what's Islam's view of aluminum.
There isn't one. Christianity is in a variety of denominations with varying views on everything from Darwin to wearing hats. More general the Bible does not overtly mention dinosaurs nor deny their existence.
This is almost like asking what's Islam's view of aluminum.
Thomas, dinosaurs are spoken of in the book of Job. Consider the link below.
This one will run and run, but I must smile at this quote from your link.
"We would expect behemoth to be a large land animal whose bones are like beams of bronze and so forth, so whatever a behemoth is, it is large. A key phrase is “He is the first of the ways of God.” This phrase in the original Hebrew implied that behemoth was the biggest animal created. Although an elephant or a hippopotamus are big, they are less than one-tenth the size of a Brachiosaurus, the largest (complete) dinosaur ever discovered.[1] A Brachiosaurus could therefore easily be described as “the first of the ways of God.”
This is a circular argument. It says that the Bible describes a Brachiosaurus because it is bigger than the Hippo or Elephant.
How do we know that the Bible isn't talking about the Elephant and Hippo which if there is no Brachiosaurus there, would be the biggest?
But it is there. the Bible says so. How do we know the Bible is talking about the Brachiosaur? Because it is the biggest.
The mentions of Behemoth, Leviathan and the rest are arguable. Certainly the language is so poetic that it is hard to get a proper description out of it. It's true that Hippos, Oxen or Elephants don't have particularly large tails. It is arguable whether the reference to the tail is really to genitals. I don't think one can ever get to a solution from wrangling over Bible text.
I think the best evidence is scientific, as is generally the case, rather than Biblical textual.
There is no mention of dinosaurs or of the prehistoric mammals in other ancient written records. The carvings don't show them. One can make much of Babylonan dragons and the Egyptian Set god or the legend of Tiamat, but they don't add up to much more than the Welsh dragon. Mythical.
We find no dinosaur bones in the way we find the bones of domesticated or wild animals of the time. If we find the bones of prehistoric animals we find them in rocks, apart from the more recent ones in tar-pits or ice-age deposits.
At best, we could say that one or two large animals now extinct (and they could be extinct mammals) might have survived as has the Crocodile, Shark and Coelacanth, though in evolved forms.
There is a curious carving at Ta Phrom in Cambodia. It appears to show a Stegosaurus. It could be other things but it certainly does resemble one, but if so, it has changed a lot from those dug up in fossil form. It is just possible that one species survived to the 14th century in the Cambodian jungles, but it must be pretty rare as there is no other carving showing it.
So where does that leave us? There is only arguable evidence for survival of a few, rare, prehistoric animals in Biblical or more recent times. So what?
"What", is that dinosaurs have to have survived, if Young Earth creationism is to be maintained. And Young Earth creationism has to be maintained if a Bible literalist belief is to be maintained.
It wasn't so bad if one could assume that the dinosaurs were wiped out in a Biblical flood. Why, science actually supported that. But then, dinosaur footprints were found in levels claimed by Creationists to be left by the flood, which means that dinosaurs had to have survived the flood. Not just Titanotheres or Giant sloths, but the dinosaurs, too. So they all had to be on the already overcrowded Ark.
So that's the answer. A Christian can believe in the dinosaurs in the Bible or not, but a Young Earth Bible-literalist Christian, has to believe that the terms refer to dinosaurs.
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The Noah's ark story is ridiculous enough as it is...but to think that there were dinosaurs on it is even sillier! And if they were not on the ark and died in the flood then the story is a lie.
There are references in Job which sound potentially like dinosaurs, but it's fairly ambiguous. One can believe it or not.
I really don't think Christianity has, or maybe even needs, an unambiguous position on this matter.
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