The Question of the Dinosaurs

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Wasn't the firmament a comet in the night sky? thus spreading the 'seeds of life' to grow on Earth.

According to the Christian bible time began 4004BC

Which is around the time when Gilgamesh was at Uruk...

[Sofiyya 1,687]

sounds good to me...................so, the movie encino man was fiction?

And Jurassic Park?

[Scott & Lai 12]

The Bible was written by Man, its accuracy & interpretation should be questioned.

Science trumps theology & Religious Opinions.

The above statements were written by a human being, their accuracy & interpretation should be questioned.

My Old Testament History (it was a real history class, not religion) professor in college explained dinosaurs this way. He said that between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2 is what many scholars consider the "Gap Theory" in which the dinosaurs existed. Naturally this blows the literal creationist theory out of the water. Sounds good to me.

I don't think the Gap Theory works very well. Genesis 1:1 is sort of a summary statement covering the creation of the entire Universe, while Genesis 1:2 begins the description of the formation of the Earth. Though I do believe the Bible in its entirety is God's Word, I don't believe the Earth was made a handful of thousands of years ago, nor that the process took 144 hours. I don't think that is what Genesis 1 & 2 intend to convey. I'm more in line with the "days" being ages. I think the Big Bang would fit quite nicely in Genesis 1:1. The rest of the chapter fits well with the current understanding of how planetary systems develop, with the observer placed just above the newly-formed Earth.

[Scott & Lai 12]

Wasn't the firmament a comet in the night sky? thus spreading the 'seeds of life' to grow on Earth.

According to the Christian bible time began 4004BC

No, the word "firmament" refers to the expanse of the sky. And, no, the Bible no where gives 4004 BC as the point when the Universe (or the Earth, for that matter) was created. We have Bishop Ussher of the 16th century to thank for that idea.... Personally, as a Bible-believing Christian, I have no problem with the commonly accepted ages of the Earth and Universe as around 4.5 and 14 billion years.

[Dr_LHA 3]

It is truly an enigma that there is not one overt mention of the existence of dinosaurs in the scriptures.

Why is this an Enigma? The reason dinosaurs are not mentioned in The Bible is because people didn't know about the existance of dinosaurs until archeologists starting discovering them in the 17th century (3rd if you include Chinese discoveries I believe).

Edited March 28, 2007 by dr_lha

[mendeleev 68]

It's not that science and religion are diametrically opposed. They're just skew. And maybe, eventually, nutty religious views about creation will pass over an event horizon (that is, into a black hole, never to be seen again)

And the Bible doesn't talk about dinosaurs because the people that wrote it didn't know about them -- just like they didn't know about a lot of things ....

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

It is truly an enigma that there is not one overt mention of the existence of dinosaurs in the scriptures.

Why is this an Enigma? The reason dinosaurs are not mentioned in The Bible is because people didn't know about the existance of dinosaurs until archeologists starting discovering them in the 17th century (3rd if you include Chinese discoveries I believe).

Beyond Farce

[brnidokiegurl 0]

These are not my words they belong to

Dennis Russell M.Miss,(Abilene Christian University)

M.Div (Oral Roberts University

[Dr_LHA 3]

These are not my words they belong to

Dennis Russell M.Miss,(Abilene Christian University)

M.Div (Oral Roberts University

Yes, I know. A quirk of the quote system, I didn't mean to imply that you were saying that. Sorry.

Edited March 28, 2007 by dr_lha

[brnidokiegurl 0]

[Mirorgate 0]

Where does the asteroid theory of mass extinction 65 million years ago fit into things?

Scientists would have to plow another asteroid into the earth to prove that one... but who'd be around to admire their work after that??

I think there is some geological evidence to prove that a collision event took place around that time.

Oh, there is evidence of impact, I admit that. But as to the reason dino died out? Is it that simple and sudden? Again, in order to prove the theory, scientists would have to plow another massive asteroid into the planet and watch it die to prove their point.

Wasn't the firmament a comet in the night sky? thus spreading the 'seeds of life' to grow on Earth.

According to the Christian bible time began 4004BC

No, the word "firmament" refers to the expanse of the sky. And, no, the Bible no where gives 4004 BC as the point when the Universe (or the Earth, for that matter) was created. We have Bishop Ussher of the 16th century to thank for that idea.... Personally, as a Bible-believing Christian, I have no problem with the commonly accepted ages of the Earth and Universe as around 4.5 and 14 billion years.

ages over days. He definately has a good sense of humor. I mean really... the platypus. Hysterical!

[Scott & Lai 12]

It's not that science and religion are diametrically opposed. They're just skew. And maybe, eventually, nutty religious views about creation will pass over an event horizon (that is, into a black hole, never to be seen again)

And the Bible doesn't talk about dinosaurs because the people that wrote it didn't know about them -- just like they didn't know about a lot of things ....

Actually, that's not necessarily the case; they may not have known about dinosaurs, or they might have. Leviathan and Behemoth sound a lot like dinosaurs. There are many things that people then did know about which are not mentioned in the Bible, such as the shipbuilding techniques of the Phonecians, for example. The purpose of the Bible wasn't to tell us everything there was to know at the time.

[Dr_LHA 3]

Oh, there is evidence of impact, I admit that. But as to the reason dino died out? Is it that simple and sudden?

It was only "sudden" in geological terms. Its not like all the dinosaurs died out on a particularly asteroidy weekend. Current theories in the length of time that the extinction took place over ranges from years to tens of thousands of years.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Oh, there is evidence of impact, I admit that. But as to the reason dino died out? Is it that simple and sudden? Again, in order to prove the theory, scientists would have to plow another massive asteroid into the planet and watch it die to prove their point.

Well there's no consensus that the disaster was the sole cause, and there are indeed several other theories about climate change that was taking place at the same time, but there's not really any disagreement that a geological event (involving a single or multiple impacts) took place on a global (climate changing) scale. From that you can extrapolate that life would have been very hard as a result, but as noone saw it - there's obviously a certain amount of guess work involved.

[KEN's ROSE 0]

If working toward the beginning of Genesis, all time on Earth started at 4004BC.

There is a well known theologan (sure I don't remember his name) said that the extinct fossils were obscure sea creatures washed up during the firmament. This was to explain dinosaurs, and starfish and trilobite fossils high up mountain tops. Also explained that freshly flowed lava samples were dated by scientists to be 6 million years old, though it was only 6 days old.