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      Dinosaurs

      I am just curious about this, and sorry if a ton of people have already asked this before me. What is the Christian view on dinosaurs? Do they believe dinosaurs never existed, or do they believe they did but not evolution?

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      It depends on the Christian but fundies have four views:

      - Dinos never existed
      - Dinos DID exist but were killed off by the flood
      - Dinosaurs died out after the Great flood by humans
      - Dinosaurs are still alive today

      All four of which are totally baseless and asinine.


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      Alright thanks. I was just wondering about that because I just don't understand how Christians wouldn't believe in them. Aside from all of the evidence that they did exist, there are discovery specials on dinosaurs all the time. Who doesn't trust the discovery channel? I think if there really is a god it would be the discovery channel.

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      Check out the dialogue in this forum...

      http://bibleforums.org/forum/showthread.php?t=49768

      Make sure you don't have any food or drink in your mouth when you read it.
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      Quote Originally Posted by Universal Mind View Post
      Check out the dialogue in this forum...

      http://bibleforums.org/forum/showthread.php?t=49768

      Make sure you don't have any food or drink in your mouth when you read it.
      This thread is a true classic. I've read it some times before and it never fails to crack me up.
      I mean.. wow, just looking at the first reply with the lizards, that's so fucking hilarious.

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      Quote Originally Posted by Flinte View Post
      Alright thanks. I was just wondering about that because I just don't understand how Christians wouldn't believe in them. Aside from all of the evidence that they did exist, there are discovery specials on dinosaurs all the time. Who doesn't trust the discovery channel? I think if there really is a god it would be the discovery channel.
      There are many types of Christians. In reality it is only the church leaders, etc which don't believe in it. Catholic canon law approved evolution (they are more secular). The bible itself says nothing about dinosaurs.. I believe you should read the bible, and not let anybody else try to interpret it for you. The bible never said be in a certain Christian denomination.

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      Dinosaurs escaped from God's Terrarium, just beyond the butterfly exhibit and next to the petting zoo in Garden of Eden Family Park and Artisan Jellies. God let them romp around a bit, then The Lord called them to His side, that He might pair them off for tournament fighting. And He looked upon it, and saw that it was hella sweet.
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      Quote Originally Posted by Taosaur View Post
      Dinosaurs escaped from God's Terrarium, just beyond the butterfly exhibit and next to the petting zoo in Garden of Eden Family Park and Artisan Jellies. God let them romp around a bit, then The Lord called them to His side, that he might pair them off for tournament fighting. And He looked upon it, and saw that it was hella sweet.

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      Quote Originally Posted by Taosaur View Post
      Dinosaurs escaped from God's Terrarium, just beyond the butterfly exhibit and next to the petting zoo in Garden of Eden Family Park and Artisan Jellies. God let them romp around a bit, then The Lord called them to His side, that he might pair them off for tournament fighting. And He looked upon it, and saw that it was hella sweet.
      This is epic.

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      Quote Originally Posted by Seismosaur View Post
      It depends on the Christian but fundies have four views:

      - Dinos never existed
      - Dinos DID exist but were killed off by the flood
      - Dinosaurs died out after the Great flood by humans
      - Dinosaurs are still alive today

      All four of which are totally baseless and asinine.

      yes, I have heard that the dinosaurs were on the ark with Moses

      True story, Turns out Creation scientists have made a breakthrough. The T-rex is not a carnivore....its sharp teeth are simply from when it helped Moses carve wood on the ark.


      So calm down, the other animals were completely safe
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      Moses? Lol Omg!

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      Quite a few Christians accept evolution as fact and don't believe the seven day creation theory as being literal. So basically they could believe the dinosaurs died out long before humans. Even if you don't believe in evolution you can still believe god created and removed many organisms over hundreds of millions of years until he created a sentient being( humans). I suppose if God were outside of time it wasn't exactly as if he watched for millions of years then created man, outside of time is just.. hard to think about..

      However the bible does mention the leviathan and i THINK there is another reference to a huge plant eating creature, obviously this could be an elephant or something but some claim it's a description of a dinosaur.

      Some say the story of Noah's ark includes dinosaurs boarding his ship.. which is unusual.. there's no explanation is to why they would die out after that really. Also I'm still confused on how all the creature became herbivores or lost the need for food( or the instinct to attack one another) while on the ark together.

      If you don't accept evolution or my earlier idea on God experimenting( Although if God can do everything and knows all, he wouldn't need trial and improvement, making God driven evolution needless) with creatures and removing them, then it's tough to get around.
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      Quote Originally Posted by cuddleyperson View Post
      Quite a few Christians accept evolution as fact and don't believe the seven day creation theory as being literal. So basically they could believe the dinosaurs died out long before humans. Even if you don't believe in evolution you can still believe god created and removed many organisms over hundreds of millions of years until he created a sentient being( humans). I suppose if God were outside of time it wasn't exactly as if he watched for millions of years then created man, outside of time is just.. hard to think about..

      However the bible does mention the leviathan and i THINK there is another reference to a huge plant eating creature, obviously this could be an elephant or something but some claim it's a description of a dinosaur.

      Some say the story of Noah's ark includes dinosaurs boarding his ship.. which is unusual.. there's no explanation is to why they would die out after that really. Also I'm still confused on how all the creature became herbivores or lost the need for food( or the instinct to attack one another) while on the ark together.

      If you don't accept evolution or my earlier idea on God experimenting( Although if God can do everything and knows all, he wouldn't need trial and improvement, making God driven evolution needless) with creatures and removing them, then it's tough to get around.
      Remember that dinosaurs became extinct 65 million years before there were humans. Anything that suggests humans and dinosaurs were on Earth at the same time is wrong. That includes even The Flintstones.
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      there was no hebrew word for dinosaurs at the time.


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      Quote Originally Posted by Universal Mind View Post
      Remember that dinosaurs became extinct 65 million years before there were humans. Anything that suggests humans and dinosaurs were on Earth at the same time is wrong. That includes even The Flintstones.
      I wonder what the bibleforums folk would say to that.

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      Quote Originally Posted by Xox View Post
      I wonder what the bibleforums folk would say to that.
      They would probably throw some lines from Genesis at me to try to prove me wrong.
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      Quote Originally Posted by Taosaur View Post
      Dinosaurs escaped from God's Terrarium, just beyond the butterfly exhibit and next to the petting zoo in Garden of Eden Family Park and Artisan Jellies. God let them romp around a bit, then The Lord called them to His side, that He might pair them off for tournament fighting. And He looked upon it, and saw that it was hella sweet.
      Well I think that just about answers my question.

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      Quote Originally Posted by cuddleyperson View Post

      However the bible does mention the leviathan and i THINK there is another reference to a huge plant eating creature, obviously this could be an elephant or something but some claim it's a description of a dinosaur.
      I agree with the rest of what you said, but I need to talk about the behemoth reference you are talking about. many scholars do say it is either a elephant or a hippo. but it does describe the beast's tail as being as big as a ceder tree. both of those animals have very small tails. I guess that is what leaves it open to being a dinosaur.
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      No, it was actually referring to the shape of the animals' penis in that verse.
      Last edited by A Roxxor; 04-27-2008 at 12:41 AM.

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      but it does describe the beast's tail as being as big as a ceder tree
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      No, it was actually referring to the animals' penis in that verse.
      Obviously at some point I'm thrown back in time. Does the verse say anything about a Delorean?
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      Quote Originally Posted by cuddleyperson View Post
      Quite a few Christians accept evolution as fact and don't believe the seven day creation theory as being literal.
      I personally have yet to met(in real life) a Christian who doesn't accept evolution, so I don't think they're really that few.
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      Dinosaurs are the devil.

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      Quote Originally Posted by Scatterbrain View Post
      I personally have yet to met(in real life) a Christian who doesn't accept evolution, so I don't think they're really that few.
      I have yet to meet a Christian who does in fact accept the theory of Evolution.

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      I have met Christians who accept the theory of evolution to degrees from zero to completely. I have met non-Christians who accept the theory of evolution to degrees from zero to completely. The majority of people I've met accept the broad outlines of the theory of evolution but aren't sure how many of the details we have right.

      On the topic of dinos, there's a great recent Nova on the evolution of dinosaurs into birds: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/microraptor/program.html
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      hmm i'd say AS biology has helped the Christians in my class start to actually understand what evolution is rather then just the usual " Oh we didn't come from tiny lil fish" or something. However i'd say it's a 50/50 split at my school, the side that don't believe in it are generally the stronger Christians that do actually go to church regularly and also some of the Christian youth worker staff i sometimes see.
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