Question About Dinosaur Bone Placement

[ChaoticPrecision]

As many radiometric dating validity statements there are, there are just as many discrediting it, it seems.

So why would God place the bones of dinosaurs in such a way that we would percieve them as being millions of years ago, from a logistics/relegious standpoint?

The main question is why are the bones there? They serve no real purpose. They don't really do anything other than provide oil, and discussion fuel for the skeptics. What is their purpose?

If you can, refrain from the "time frame of Genisis could be any length of time" as it really doesn't give a good explanation. It appears, to the skeptics, as a simple copout from truly confronting the idea that they reigned the earth, before we did..with no real, detailed explanation from the bible.

Why put so much history in the ground when it doesn't really mean anything?

If you say "we don't understand God's plan" I swear, I'm gonna eat cookies!! About seventeen more than my diet allows.

 

[Tishri1]

I learned at the Institute for Creation Research
http://www.icr.org/

Seems they have an idea how Noah got all those dinosaurs on the ark

http://www.icr.org/index.php?module...ype=all&f_keyword_any=dinosaurs&f_submit=+Go+

there are interesting articles in there but also when I took the tour they explained that what they did was bring young dinosaurs into the ark before they went thru their adolesent growth spurt....the young ones were about the size of a sheep or ox and much easier to carry....

I admit I took their word for it (didnt have any reason not to), but it was fascinating ,and you could call them and ask about it yourself

 

[Rafael]

I believe time is relative to the will of God and that beings that have this power can use time as a tool. The devil can also work between dimensions as is hinted to in Job, first chapter. Who knows all theses things among men when we are still so ignorant of even the basic elemental powers like time, gravity, light - to know and understand them enough to have some control over them.
A great battle goes on over man in the spiritual dimension, and what we observe here, we observe in part, having little knowledge of the many other unseen dimensions as we seek to discover..
Here's and ineresting link that may pertain to your query, in part: http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/giants.htm

Hebrews 11:3 By faith we understand that the entire universe was formed at God’s command, that what we now see did not come from anything that can be seen.

 

[Utah Knight]

I do not know how others believe but i will tell you how i feel

We define a day as 24 hours or one rotation around the sun. This is our time frame and it may not be the same with him. He created the sun but who knows when he did. Maybe a day for him was not 24 hours as it is now but maybe far longer

 

[BereanTodd]

Dinosaurs lived on the earth up until the time of Noah, the bones date to these (supposed) long periods of time, because the injection of water into the equation makes dating methods EXTREMELY unreliable, and there was this little thing known as the world-wide flood.

Just as an example they have taken bones from just dead seals and other water creatures, and when dating them they show tens of thousands of years of age.

 

[BigNorsk]

It's something God did to help provide employment hunting for them, excavating, and displaying them.

Marv

 

[£amb]

As many radiometric dating validity statements there are, there are just as many discrediting it, it seems.

So why would God place the bones of dinosaurs in such a way that we would percieve them as being millions of years ago, from a logistics/relegious standpoint?

The main question is why are the bones there? They serve no real purpose. They don't really do anything other than provide oil, and discussion fuel for the skeptics. What is their purpose?

If you can, refrain from the "time frame of Genisis could be any length of time" as it really doesn't give a good explanation. It appears, to the skeptics, as a simple copout from truly confronting the idea that they reigned the earth, before we did..with no real, detailed explanation from the bible.

Why put so much history in the ground when it doesn't really mean anything?

If you say "we don't understand God's plan" I swear, I'm gonna eat cookies!! About seventeen more than my diet allows.

I don't think I really have an answer for this, but I could'nt resist the last paragraph for my answer....soooo, I'll help you with your cookies...

 

[£amb]

And does your diet allow milk?....

You can't have cookies without milk! It would be so un-American...

 

[kulenok]

I think that God created dinosaurs and when they died they left behind bones just like humans and cats do. Is there anything wrong with that statement?

 

[MethodMan]

As many radiometric dating validity statements there are, there are just as many discrediting it, it seems.

So why would God place the bones of dinosaurs in such a way that we would percieve them as being millions of years ago, from a logistics/relegious standpoint?

The main question is why are the bones there? They serve no real purpose. They don't really do anything other than provide oil, and discussion fuel for the skeptics. What is their purpose?

If you can, refrain from the "time frame of Genisis could be any length of time" as it really doesn't give a good explanation. It appears, to the skeptics, as a simple copout from truly confronting the idea that they reigned the earth, before we did..with no real, detailed explanation from the bible.

Why put so much history in the ground when it doesn't really mean anything?

If you say "we don't understand God's plan" I swear, I'm gonna eat cookies!! About seventeen more than my diet allows.

How about "We will never undersatnd the Wisdom of God"?

 

[HypnoToad]

As many radiometric dating validity statements there are, there are just as many discrediting it, it seems.

So why would God place the bones of dinosaurs in such a way that we would percieve them as being millions of years ago, from a logistics/relegious standpoint?

Ok, it looks like you first say that there is as much evidence discrediting the dating as there is for it. But then you ask why would we perceive them as millions of years old.

If there is as much evidence against it, then why start from a position that assumes that perception is correct?

Or am I misunderstanding your statement?

 

[Key]

As many radiometric dating validity statements there are, there are just as many discrediting it, it seems.

So why would God place the bones of dinosaurs in such a way that we would percieve them as being millions of years ago, from a logistics/relegious standpoint?

God does not enter this picture, only the inability of man enters this picture. It is the accuracy of the tools that is in question, faith has nothing to do with it.

The main question is why are the bones there?

Because an animal died, and they were in the right place at the right time for them to get preserved.

They serve no real purpose. They don't really do anything other than provide oil, and discussion fuel for the skeptics. What is their purpose?

Well if they did not get fossilized, many smaller insects and other life forms feed upon the bones for nourishment, until they finally break down and proving minerals back into the soil so that vegetation can continue it's growth cycle.

If you can, refrain from the "time frame of Genisis could be any length of time" as it really doesn't give a good explanation. It appears, to the skeptics, as a simple copout from truly confronting the idea that they reigned the earth, before we did..with no real, detailed explanation from the bible.

Huh?

God made man last on the list..so.. it would stand to reason that other animals existed before "Man".. Not sure what the question is.

Why put so much history in the ground when it doesn't really mean anything?

Ummm... another question I do not grasp. There is no history there, only scattered remains that we have found only hinting at what may have been, given that thousands upon millions of animals die every year and such a microscopic amount of them are ever in conditions that would lead to being fossilized, means we only have a hint at best of what may or may not have been before we decided to "write things down".

If you say "we don't understand God's plan" I swear, I'm gonna eat cookies!! About seventeen more than my diet allows.

Ummmm... well cookies are not a bad thing for you, just in moderation.

I am not sure how "Gods Plan" fits into these questions.

Are you talking about the "cycle of life" concept of Gods plan?

God Bless

Key

 

[FriarErasmus]

As many radiometric dating validity statements there are, there are just as many discrediting it, it seems.

So why would God place the bones of dinosaurs in such a way that we would percieve them as being millions of years ago, from a logistics/relegious standpoint?

The main question is why are the bones there? They serve no real purpose. They don't really do anything other than provide oil, and discussion fuel for the skeptics. What is their purpose?

If you can, refrain from the "time frame of Genisis could be any length of time" as it really doesn't give a good explanation. It appears, to the skeptics, as a simple copout from truly confronting the idea that they reigned the earth, before we did..with no real, detailed explanation from the bible.

Why put so much history in the ground when it doesn't really mean anything?

If you say "we don't understand God's plan" I swear, I'm gonna eat cookies!! About seventeen more than my diet allows.

Personally, I believe they are there and dated as they are because they are in fact that old. Here is a link to my position on this and why I believe it:
http://www.christianforums.com/showpost.php?p=32166243&postcount=53

Call me crazy... call me a heretic... but with my belief in the teaching I spoke of in that link, I have never been in a position to have my faith be in contradiction to any known fact of science (theories, on the other hand, I am quite often at odds with... but that is how science should be!).

 

[ebia]

As many radiometric dating validity statements there are, there are just as many discrediting it, it seems.

So why would God place the bones of dinosaurs in such a way that we would percieve them as being millions of years ago, from a logistics/relegious standpoint?

Because they have been. God doesn't lie, even through his word spoken into creation.

The main question is why are the bones there? They serve no real purpose. They don't really do anything other than provide oil, and discussion fuel for the skeptics. What is their purpose?

If you can, refrain from the "time frame of Genisis could be any length of time" as it really doesn't give a good explanation. It appears, to the skeptics, as a simple copout from truly confronting the idea that they reigned the earth, before we did..with no real, detailed explanation from the bible.

They did. Genesis isn't a complete, literal, historical account of the how the earth was created. It's a (set of) stories about why the earth was created, what God's role, and our role, in it are. Where it all went wrong, etc.

Why put so much history in the ground when it doesn't really mean anything?

He wouldn't

 

[heron]

The wording of your question is so interesting. The dinosaurs placed their bones on the ground when they grew too weary to keep walking. Or when one spit out the bones of their meal.

I know there are many Christians who believe in the literal day of Genesis, but there are just as many Christians who are open to various interpretations of these words.

The term used for day referred to the sun being in the sky. The term for night was "a twist away of the sun."

So we could even be literal about interpretation and recognize that the earth's revolution and rotation were different at that time.

Besides the old dating of dinosaur bones, there are also bones found overlapped with evidence of man. And there are hundreds of stories and illustrations of dinosaur-like creatures surprising humans of every civilization. Writers called them "mythological beasts" because no one chose to believe the victims and observers.

Norway

Wales

Laos

Germany

England

Babylon 800-550 BC

18th Century



I found this site while looking for pictures --
http://www.allaboutcreation.org/dragon-history.htm

Also this one...
http://www.isidore-of-seville.com/dragons/16.html