I've always been curious about the age of dinosaurs and those other really big creatures. I don't know that I have read anywhere in scripture about them.
How do dinosaurs fit into the Creaton story?
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NoNameMcgee
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my stance is they were around before the flood
and the pressure of the flood is what made the fossils as opposed to millions of years
(also i believe the atmosphere was different then which is why they could grow so big and breathe with small nostrils and that was why men lived so long)
and the pressure of the flood is what made the fossils as opposed to millions of years
(also i believe the atmosphere was different then which is why they could grow so big and breathe with small nostrils and that was why men lived so long)
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Read about the leviathan, and the behemoth.
I too believe they were before the flood. And the flood (not some comet) killed off all but the few taken on the ark, there were some after the flood (see above examples) but the climate could not sustain them, as the change was to drastic.
I too believe they were before the flood. And the flood (not some comet) killed off all but the few taken on the ark, there were some after the flood (see above examples) but the climate could not sustain them, as the change was to drastic.
"Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox. Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly. He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together. His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron." Job 40:15-18
This would be an ideal description from a different point of view of a dinosaur. A cedar is a big tree, and anything that has a tail that big, yeah, that's a formidable animal.
I too believe that the flood killed these animals, and not a comet, that's all speculation. There's a reason God did not allow these animals to continue on with mankind.
This would be an ideal description from a different point of view of a dinosaur. A cedar is a big tree, and anything that has a tail that big, yeah, that's a formidable animal.
I too believe that the flood killed these animals, and not a comet, that's all speculation. There's a reason God did not allow these animals to continue on with mankind.
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NoNameMcgee
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yeah
i think so
i think most were made on the 5th day
then God made a few more for adam to name after He made adam
I'm just trying to put it all into perspective. I fully believe the Creation story and I know God is the Creator. I know these large animals live because we see the evidence from discoveries of their bones.
Even though we do not know what animal Behemoth was, it certainly was not a dinosaur.
Dinosaurs were too big to live in the oxygen level and temperatures we have on the planet now.
Also, they needed much larger vegetation etc. Look at some pictures of old plants.
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BTW, behemoth is just in masoretic text.
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Gen 1: [FONT="]Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according to its kind”; and it was so. [/FONT]25 And God made the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.[FONT="]26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all[b] the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
Here is where the dinosaur and all animals were created, you can see, they came before man. But actually, they were created on the same creation day. [/FONT]
Cows and horses can live on grass... and despite being the largest living mammal in the world, the blue whale's primary diet consists almost exclusively of krill, a small oceanic creature that measures in at a mere 1-2 cms
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The ark is roughly the size of an American battleship. (I'm pretty sure most battleships are the same size, but I'm not positive, so I'm going for an American one.)
The averaged-sized animal is the size of a sheep.
A railroad boxcar can hold 120 sheep, because they tier the car.
A battleship can hold thousands of boxcars.
At that time there were 70,000 species of animals. (More now, because we've subspecies them. For instance, there is dog, and then there is bassett hound. Back then there was only dog.)
Out of those 70,000 species, half lived on or in water, so did not need an ark to save them.
A good portion of the ark held vegetation for the herbivores. Rodents reproduce like rabbits, (which are a rodents lol), so plenty of built-in meat for the carnivores.
Two brontosauruses, two T. Rexes, and all other variations of dinos could fit in the ark, because most of those 30,000 species are bugs, and little vermin. (Even some of the dinos were little.)
Ever notice how often the dinosaur fossils are related to a flood? Yeah, there's a reason for that. The whole world flooded and almost all creatures died in it. Since the evidence says they drowned, I'm going with most did drown. And the rest went in the ark.
The evidence also points to the vegetation was different before that big flood. I get that. Even after a mere hurricane or huge flood, the atmosphere changes. New York City got snow in July when Krakatoa (volcano that destroyed the island it was on, but has recently resurfaced to create another island) blew in the Indian Ocean several months before that. A global flood says the entire earth is going to change afterward.
I think the dinos went in the ark. I don't think many survived long afterward. (I personally think the gator, some lizards, and turtle are dinosaurs, so not saying they've all disappeared yet.)
However, on an interesting note, woolly mammoths were around at the time of Moses.
Cows and horses can live on grass... and despite being the largest living mammal in the world, the blue whale's primary diet consists almost exclusively of krill, a small oceanic creature that measures in at a mere 1-2 cms
But apatosaurs or tyrannosaurus are not whales living in ocean. Their bodies were so heavy that they can not live today or eat just grass.
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Even before, considering Adam came on Day Six, and living creatures before that.
There are actually cave drawings in France of a man with a dinosaur, but the cave has been closed so no one sees it anymore.
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Give yourself some more time and you'll start noticing the time chart changes. Since many paleontologists have come to realize evolution can't happen that quickly, they re-date the numbers about once every 20-30 years. The dinos lives 5-6 million years agos and man came along 25-50,000 years ago when I was a kid.
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The dinos were anywhere between tiny and huge. You really can't say they were all "too big," even if you buy the evolution baloney. Personally, it always sounded like something like a brontosaurus to me.
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For those who do not think the behemoth was a dinosaur.
Job 40: 15 Look now at the behemoth,[a] which I made along with you; (he was made with mankind)
He eats grass like an ox.
16 See now, his strength is in his hips,
And his power is in his stomach muscles.
17 He moves his tail like a cedar;
For those who have never seen a Lebanon cedar. Imagin this tree, and how it moves, this is what God says this creature does.
if you look closely to the bottom right of the tree, those small things you see. Are adult people.. The tree towers over them.
The sinews of his thighs are tightly knit.
18 His bones are like beams of bronze,
How powerful would bronze bones be, as compared to creatures we see today?
His ribs like bars of iron.
Again, what creature today can we say has ribs so powerful, they ar like iron
19 He is the first of the ways of God;
He is th most powerful creature every created by God. How powerful you may ask?
Only He who made him can bring near His sword.
Only God can harm it. No man or animal alive can touch it. Again, this is not a dinosaur?
Job 40: 15 Look now at the behemoth,[a] which I made along with you; (he was made with mankind)
He eats grass like an ox.
16 See now, his strength is in his hips,
And his power is in his stomach muscles.
17 He moves his tail like a cedar;
For those who have never seen a Lebanon cedar. Imagin this tree, and how it moves, this is what God says this creature does.
if you look closely to the bottom right of the tree, those small things you see. Are adult people.. The tree towers over them.
The sinews of his thighs are tightly knit.
18 His bones are like beams of bronze,
How powerful would bronze bones be, as compared to creatures we see today?
His ribs like bars of iron.
Again, what creature today can we say has ribs so powerful, they ar like iron
19 He is the first of the ways of God;
He is th most powerful creature every created by God. How powerful you may ask?
Only He who made him can bring near His sword.
Only God can harm it. No man or animal alive can touch it. Again, this is not a dinosaur?
Give yourself some more time and you'll start noticing the time chart changes. Since many paleontologists have come to realize evolution can't happen that quickly, they re-date the numbers about once every 20-30 years. The dinos lives 5-6 million years agos and man came along 25-50,000 years ago when I was a kid.
Thats the charm of science. There is no dogma