Dionosaurs vs. The Bible

Hey everyone!!! This is my first post so hopefully I make sense. Ok, my question has to do with dinosaurs. I have really thought about this one and have not come to a answer. I am a Christian but I belive the world is billions of years old and that dinosaurs lived here at one time. Now I am not sure how.I hate to contridicte the Bible but a lot of what it says along the lines of creation and such relly don't work with what I have been taught. So not to make blasphmy but I think the Bible might be wrong.Keep in mind I am Christian and I am just looking for some gudiance in my problem. And tell me if these kinds of questions or thoughts make me any less Christian?
God Bless,
Tara

Welcome Delia!

We have a special board of this forum to place questions of this nature...

Science,Creation,and Evolution

But I can answer this one myself. It only requires that you read and understand the first two verses of your bible.

Genesis 1
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

Notice that between the two verses, the words... beginning and now ...show a time gap. How long and what could have occurred? We do not know by reading our Bibles.

There are no flaws in your Bible! ... The problem lies in human understanding.

Hope this helped. Look forward to seeing you on the boards.

LOVE

There is a web site on Talk Origins that discusses religion and evolution issues. I'm not sure if we're allowed to post that link here, but if you're interested i could e-mail it to you. The only problem with the bible is that certain parts cannot be taken literally.

This does not have a huge impact on faith. Jesus spoke in parables, it is not unreasonable to figure that large parts of God's Living Word are not meant as literal fact reporting.

To be fair, you *can* take it literally - it just ends up contradicting a lot of things we now have very good reason to believe to be the case.

And yes, we can link:

http://www.talkorigins.org/

The people involved in that site are, so far as I can tell, good and honest people. They aren't trying to spread lies to further some sinister, evil, end; they're trying to help people understand the physical qualities of the world we live in.

They do not pretend to any particular knowledge about the spiritual qualities of the world we live in. If you want information about spiritual things, you might look at a popular book called "the Bible", which I believe has some very good insights into these matters.

I would then provide links straight to
Interpretations of Genesis:

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/interpretations.html

and God and Evolution:
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-god.html

Heard of that one...has the author written anything else i might recognize?

Another theory I have toyed with is this:

HOw much time elapsed between the creation of the Garden of Eden (Iand the rest of the universe), and the actual fall?

Only a theory, but:

Duirng the time of "pre-fall", the universe did not know, and was not affected by sin, and it associated affects: Carnivore behavior, entropy, etc...

Is it perhaps during this time that the dinosaurs lived?

Without sin, there would be no death or destruction of anykind. The universe, earth specifically, would not be "aging"...

For who knows how long, there may never have been any evidence of radioactive dacay, or at least no change in the apparent"age" of the earth.

And, nothing would have died, before the fall.

Couple this with the mature earth theory adn with the effects of the flood, I think you have a sage of a billiojn year old earth, that has only existed for roughly 6000 (from the time of the fall), and that allowed for man and dinosaur to co-exist for who knows how long...

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INcluding molecules?

Interesting theory.

But still, if there was nothing to show the passing of time before the fall, then all 'evidence clocks' would start At the fall. Again, it becomes a matter of God decieving us with evidence that doesn't jar with reality...

dinosaurs vs. the bible??????? dinosaurs are in the bible.

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