dinosours???

[LilAngelHeart]

To answer Intahstellah64 's question, as best as I may, the Bible is highly complementary to dinosaurs. In Job 41, the Leviathan is mentioned as an obvious creature that we no longer see today. Same thing with Behemoth, also mention in the previous chapter (Job 40).

These are big, powerful critters, and may very well be akin to dinosaur fossil evidence found today.

Prior to the flood, the earth was a vastly different place than it is today. As has been theorized by some creationists regarding the canopy of water described in Gen 1:6, higher atmospheric pressure would have supported the larger creatures like the brontosauraus, diplodicus, et al. It is of concern to note that these massive creatures had nostrils similar in size to horses yet with about 50 to 100 times the mass! It would be a tremendous challenge just for that massive thing to breathe, much less to survive into a post-Flood world.

Also, since reptiles continue to grow their whole life, and we see Adam and his pre-Flood descendants living to be 900+ years of age...I'll assert that lizards got to be pretty dang big in 900 years!

LOL! Very well put!

 

[Ark Guy]

Plus we know that there were inhabitants on the planet before God made Adam & Eve because God told them to replenish or refill the earth.

Wrong.
re-plenish is not the original word. It is a KJV mistranslation, or at best, misuse of the word.

 

[InnerPhyre]

The whole "dinos grew huge over their 900 year life span" theory completely ignores the fact that they started out in eggs the size of bowling balls....

 

[Ark Guy]

Why is that a problem?

 

[InnerPhyre]

If they came out of eggs the size of bowling balls, it stands to reason that they weren't just regular sized lizards who lived a long time. They were HUGE creatures with normal life spans.

 

[Karl - Liberal Backslider]

Exactly. There's a direct correlation between the maximum size of the dinosaurs that we find and the size of their eggs, in the species where we actually have eggs.

Thing is, whilst reptiles do indeed carry on growing throughout their lives, the rate of growth slows massively. Indeed, mathematically it can be shown that it is perfectly possible for a reptile to live an infinite length of time and never get above a particular size.

The easiest way to think of this is to imagine an animal whose growth rate drops by 50% each year.

So in the first year say it grows from effectively zero (fertilised cell) to 1/2 a metre.

The next year it grows 1/4 of a metre. It is now 3/4 of a metre long.

The next year it grows 1/8 of a metre. It is now 7/8 of a metre long.

Even given unlimited time, the animal will never quite reach 2 metres, because the series 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/16.... tends towards, but never quite reaches, 1, regardless of how many terms are in the series.

 

[LilAngelHeart]

Plus we know that there were inhabitants on the planet before God made Adam & Eve because God told them to replenish or refill the earth.

Wrong.
re-plenish is not the original word. It is a KJV mistranslation, or at best, misuse of the word.

Says who? Anyway, I go by what I read in the King James Version. Which Bible are you reading?

 

[Zaphod]

Question: If dinosaurs existed during the time on Noah, why did he not take any on the Ark?

Also, wouldn't those dinosaurs that existed in the oceans still be around?

I ask this because I'm one of those heretic types that believes that God can create me just however and from whatever He chooses...

...and I'll STILL be thankful!

 

[LilAngelHeart]

Question: If dinosaurs existed during the time on Noah, why did he not take any on the Ark?

Also, wouldn't those dinosaurs that existed in the oceans still be around?

I ask this because I'm one of those heretic types that believes that God can create me just however and from whatever He chooses...

...and I'll STILL be thankful!

If I'm not mistaken, no humans were on the earth at the time that the dinasaurs ruled. This was before God created Adam & Eve. The dinasaurs were killed by some catastrophic thing that happened. This is what the Bible is referring to when it says in verse 2 that the earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep. Then God goes on to seperate the water so that the dry land could appear, maybe the water was ice from an ice age. It goes from, In the Beginning God created the Heavens and the earth, then next it says He seperated the water so that dry land can appear. When did he create the water? The water was already there and He just seperated it. I think what we are reading in Genesis is God restoring the planet from that catastropy that had occurred. Genesis says in the very beginning God created the Heavens and the earth, but we don't know exactly when that beginning was. It didn't begin with Him creating Adam & Eve though. What do you think God will do with the planet after our time here is up and after the millinial reign and everything? It's possible that God will create again on this planet while we are in Heaven.