If you've read the old testament than you're aware of the the blatant absence of dinosaurs. Dinosaurs inhabited the earth long before the first neanderthal, but weren't all animals supposed to be created the same week as humans? Why would God create animals millions of years before mankind? What was their purpose?
I'd like to hear the responses of Christians, Muslims, and Jews.
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Hey oedipus, Oh yeah Christian view and I already have a blog about this so I guess if no one else responds to yours then you can read mine at http://progressiveu.org/124423-dinosaur-theory-from-a-biblical-perspective.
Oh, yea, I remember reading that one of yours BigSoonerBryan. For those who haven't read it, it makes a lot of sense. Just like the Flying Spaghetti Monster creating the world http://www.venganza.org/ also makes sense.
I must have missed the proof that there actually are/were dinosaurs?
I mean, unless you're counting the mis-pieced bone structures connected to make large dinosaur-esque animals? Haha, no seriously, I haven't found any concrete dinosaur evidence?!
Wow. You must not get out much. Haha! No, seriously... You must not get out much at all!
Hahaha! ...I'm off to do some googling on the subject... :-P
Cool! All Religious debate aside, Here is a link to the Natural History Museum's Dinosaur page. It's pretty interesting. http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/nature-online/dino-directory// I loved learning about dinosaurs when I was younger. In Utah, there is the Dinosaur National Monument http://www.nps.gov/dino/ , where they have unearthed hundreds of huge dinosaur bones. Often times bodies would wash down the river and get deposited and decay in the river bed and over millions of years of sediment, become preserved in the rock as fossils.
Wow! Very interesting! Thanks for the links!! :)
woah what! oh really there isn't substantial evidence of dinosaurs? those are just put together all wrong then? so those are sheep bones or deer or something. is that serious?
i find it really hard to believe that somebody really did indeed miss the proof. wow.
in support of bible type history. some say that the bible refers to dinosaur type animals a few times, and that dinosaurs and men were around at the same time.
it brings up a leviathan, which just means a large creature, and it is written that the tail is wider than a tree trunk.
then david apparently runs into some monsters in the ocean with a lot of teeth a couple times that some say must have been loch ness type things.
many other culture's stories include dinosaurish animals, and also flood stories, and there is maybe evidence for a world wide flood. and according to the history channel, they seem to have found the city of jericho, the one where the walls fell down and out instead of in. and it discussed how the plagues could have happened, that sometimes they get a lot of locusts, and the river sometimes gets tainted red by algae, and part of the red sea occasionally dries up, and there is some documentation of a plague.
i have no idea. i don't really believe in that stuff particularly. i just think it's very interesting for some reason. and i like to see them defend it so hard.
A fifty million year difference in time is pretty substantial evidence that man didn't walk on earth the same time that dinosaurs did. Some of those alleged 'plagues' could've happened; but the question is: Was it god's work?
Sure, if you disregard the whole fact that dinosaur bones are in rock strata millions of years different than humans. You really have to come up with reasoning similar to that of the Flying Spaghetti Monster www.venganza.org if you are to believe the bible story as actual historical fact.
Yes, there is evidence . . . very compelling evidence that dinosaurs existed. The Bible even describes two animals who most resemble dinosaurs. Behemoth (Job 40), and Leviathon (Job 41). These two are also mentioned other places in the Bible. Some Bible notes speculate behemoth as an elephant or a hippo but it was the one who's tail swings like a cedar.
Where the evidence is lacking is when they lived. The Bible is the only credible source in my eyes that describes dinosaurs with people although dragons sound a lot like embelished dinosaurs to me. We wouldn't have evidence of "dinosaurs" in older written material because the term wasn't coined yet.
The evidence that they lived millions of years ago is flawed and shakey. There are two sets of evidence that I can think of . . . Radio-metric dating and layers of strata.
Radio-metric dating is flawed because of the assumptions needed. You must assume the amount of radioactive material at the beginning and you must assume the constant rate of decay. There are factors that could change both of these including a world wide catastrophe.
The other is the layers (which has been mentioned above). This is a classic example of circular reasoning. The fossils are x millions of years old because we find them in this layer and the layer is x millions of years old because we find these fossils in it. That's not proof or evidence. Also, there are trees and even whales sticking through millions of supposed years of strata. The strata could have been, as I believe, created in a MUCH shorter time frame.
There is no proof of the age of the earth. We all take it by faith. I just choose to put my faith in the God who created the laws of physics ahead of the scientits who are still learning. Most of the time (when they don't exclude options at the beginning) they agree with Him anyway. :-)
One test may be flawed. But when every single test points to one answer, then you should probably consider it somewhat accurate. Not one test has given an acredited researcher reason to disbelief that man and dinosaur have been seperated from existence by at least 50 million years The discovery of dinosaur bones would surely have freightned uncivilized man, and would be a good explanation as to why there are myths of similar looking creatures. Have you heard of the Cyclops that lives in a cave on Crete? Homer, the great writer, refers to this beast many times. Turns out they found the remains of a mastodon that was missing its trunk. If you see the remains of a mastodon without a trunk, it is easily mistakable for an one-eyed beast.
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The evidence that they lived millions of years ago is flawed and shakey. There are two sets of evidence that I can think of . . . Radio-metric dating and layers of strata.
Radio-metric dating is flawed because of the assumptions needed. You must assume the amount of radioactive material at the beginning and you must assume the constant rate of decay. There are factors that could change both of these including a world wide catastrophe.
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You don't assume the constant rate of decay. Every radio active isotope has a half-life. It is the half-life that determines the rate of decay. For example.......... If you have 1 gram of Potassium 40 with a half life of 1.25 billion years. Then after 1.25 billion years you will have 0.5 grams. And after another 1.25 billion years you will have 0.25 grams.