I recently went to an exhibit on dinosaurs at the local museum, and I got to thinking. I'm a christian, and I was just wondering where dinosaurs are mentioned in the Bible...which is a bad thing when you are trying to keep your car, that has an uncanny tendency to drift, on the road, and when trying to get on escalators. (for future reference)
So, I kept trying to come up with some theories. I got home and googled it and found some mentions of "beasts" especially in Revelation, but Revelation is in the future. Needless to say, I was confused, not that this affected my faith in any way. It affected more my total belief in dinosaurs, or well, the stories and 'facts' associated with them.
After several hours of pondering (and eating fudge rounds), I came to this conclusion. It most definately isn't right, but it satisfies me: *ahem*. If god made the world in seven days, maybe days is an optional word. And when the Bible says days, maybe it means millions of years. So when God made the animals before people, he included dinosaurs, and they lived in that several million year 'day', before he, oh I don't know, decided he didn't want them anymore.
So, that's that. I can sleep at night now.
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I was talking about this same subject with a friend and this is her theory.
Many species of lizards grow until they die. Prior to the flood man lived to be 900+ years old. She assumes that lizards lived to be as old, thus if they are growing for 900 years, they would get pretty big. After the flood mans years were limited to, what I think, 100 and something years. Assuming the same for animals then lizards would not be as big because they do not grow as long. Yup, dinosaurs are big lizards in her mind.
My theory: Yeah, I am not sure what it is
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A lot of people claim the behemoth in Job is a dinosaur based on a mistranslation of phallus for tale.
My theory, dinosaurs aren't in the bible because the people who wrote the bible didn't know about them.
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