Dinosaurs?

[Logic]

This is the best thread ever!

By the way, the creatures the bible is talking about are obviously mythical creatures, they're describing what people believed dragons or something looked like.


God compares Behomoths tail to a giant Cedar Tree...yep just like Hippos, Hippos have humungous tails. Common man common sense.

He moveth his tail like a cedar

This is not comparing it to a cedar tree, it's comparing it's motion to the tree's!

 

[Asimov]

besides:

Brachiosaurs...and sauropods alike, did not have cedar like trees. Their tails were whip-like.

They didn't sit under trees to relax in the shade, they were too big. They didn't eat grass as an ox, because a)grass didn't exist when they were around b)they ate only ferns and bushes. Grass wouldn't provide enough grazing material for them.


While there may be mention of dragons in cultures, Brachiosaur looks nothing like a dragon.

 

[Nathan Poe]

While there may be mention of dragons in cultures, Brachiosaur looks nothing like a dragon.

Not when it's alive, anyway, but consider the following:

It's a fact that many fossils are found, not by professionals, but by accident: By hikers, campers, park rangers, et cetera...

Now, it's perfectly reasonable to think that this has happened throughout history. So if, back in ancient times, some farmer or miner stumbles across a big honkin' lizard-like skull, what would they make of it?

 

[Logic]

Not when it's alive, anyway, but consider the following:

It's a fact that many fossils are found, not by professionals, but by accident: By hikers, campers, park rangers, et cetera...

Now, it's perfectly reasonable to think that this has happened throughout history. So if, back in ancient times, some farmer or miner stumbles across a big honkin' lizard-like skull, what would they make of it?

It's unlikely that they would find an intact, fully exposed skull or even a good size piece of a skull.

 

[notto]

God compares Behomoths tail to a giant Cedar Tree...yep just like Hippos, Hippos have humungous tails. Common man common sense.

There isnt a man alive that doesn't exaggerate about his 'tail' and 'stones'.

You don't really think it is talking about his true tail, do you?

 

[DJ_Ghost]

Depends upon the individual's preconceptions of the topic I suppose. I doubt you would believe that Loch Ness exists until it was caught, killed, gutted, and examined by "authorities."

Thats no way to treat a lake.

Ghost

 

[HRE]

Thats no way to treat a lake.

 

[Faithful nonbeliever]

"Many dinos probably died off because of a change in conditions after the Flood. Most of the remaining dinos were probably hunted to extinction due to human fear."

Interesting, so do think Noah walked a brachiosaurus & a T-Rex onto the arc? Also, there is no way humans could survive for long living with dinos, let alone hunt them to extinction. They were very effecient killers, we are lovers not fighters, lol. They certainly would have been worth mentioning in the bible, but people back then knew nothing about them. They wrote only about what they had seen with thier own eyes.

 

[adams apple]

This thread is pure gold. You couldn't make it up.

 

[Jet Black]

The reason That most of the dinasours got extinct is because people started hunting them.

all of them? even the little dinosaurs? what did they do, have daily "kill a reptile" competitions?

 

[Aron-Ra]

God compares Behomoths tail to a giant Cedar Tree...yep just like Hippos, Hippos have humungous tails.

Sorry Crispie. But the behemoth can't be a hippo.

Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.

[Hippos don't eat grass. But then, neither did dinosaurs.]

Lo now, his strength [is] in his loins, and his force [is] in the navel of his belly.
[I won't actually show this image. View at your own risk.]
http://x.photo.free.fr/photo/animaux/rhino.jpg
[Of course I should also point out that dinosaurs didn't have navels or recognizable "loins"]

He *moveth* his tail like a cedar:

[Their tails really do look like cedar trees moving in the wind]

the sinews of his stones are wrapped together. His bones [are as] strong pieces of brass; his bones [are] like bars of iron. He [is] the chief of the ways of God: [Only] he that made him can make his sword to approach [unto him].

[The rhinoceros is the 2nd largest land animal on Earth]

Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play. He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens. The shady trees cover him [with] their shadow;

the willows of the brook compass him about. Behold, he drinketh up a river, [and] hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.

He taketh it with his eyes: [his] nose pierceth through snares.

 

[Nathan David]

What about all the OTHER prehistoric animals there are fossils of? Dinosaurs weren't the only animals around before the human era. YECs talk about dinosaurs a lot but you never hear them mention trilobytes or brachiopods.

 

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

What about all the OTHER prehistoric animals there are fossils of? Dinosaurs weren't the only animals around before the human era. YECs talk about dinosaurs a lot but you never hear them mention trilobytes or brachiopods.

Of course there were also the giant prehistoric mammals like indracotherium , giant ground sloths and glyptodonts, armadillo like animals the size of volkswagen beetles with spiky clubbed tails. What about some historic animals, such as kangaroos that were supposedly living in around the area where Noah was, got on the ark and then took off for Australia at some time after the flood. You'd think there'd be some mention of these remarkable animals either in the Bible or in some depictions of Middle Eastern primative art. The Egyptians were portraying a wide variety of animals in there art before, during and after the dates that AiG picks for the flood which the Egytians failed to notice. I guess that's why they failed to notice kangaroos.

the frumious Bandersnatch

 

[Data]

[Their tails really do look like cedar trees moving in the wind]

Tail means penis you know. Euphemism. No, I'm actually completely serious.

Straight after it mentions it's testicles.

 

[Aron-Ra]

Tail means penis you know. Euphemism. No, I'm actually completely serious.

Straight after it mentions it's testicles.

I wasn't sure what "stones" meant. But if you're right, what does that do to Hovind's idea of the behemoth being a brachiosaur, based on the notion that his "tail" was as big as a tree?

 

[Nathan Poe]

I wasn't sure what "stones" meant. But if you're right, what does that do to Hovind's idea of the behemoth being a brachiosaur, based on the notion that his "tail" was as big as a tree?

Shows an unhealthy ancient fascination with animal genitalia?

 

[notto]

I wasn't sure what "stones" meant. But if you're right, what does that do to Hovind's idea of the behemoth being a brachiosaur, based on the notion that his "tail" was as big as a tree?

It is interesting to note that the hippo has one of the largest 'tails' in the animal kingdom. (don't ask how I know that and I wouldn't encourage a google search to find out because of some interesting results you might stumble across - just take my word for it).

 

[Mayerpod]

However the Flood destroyed most of the dinosaur's habitation, so now they live in secluded areas in the rainforests of South America and Africa, waiting to be discovered someday. I doubt the T-Rex is still around, but certainly the raptors are around somewhere.

LOL