Saturday, April 07, 2007
Have you ever wonder where do dinosaurs come from?
Why are they not mentioned in the Bible?
So did God actually created dinosaurs?
Why did Scientists said that dinosaurs have lived for a few million years when God created the earth and everything on it only a few thousand years back?
Maybe I can tell you a lil bit more about this topic (:
The following is adapted from Josh McDowell and Don Stewart - Answers and Reasons
Where do dinosaurs and other extinct animals fit into the Biblical story?
Very few of the many species of animals are mentioned in the Bible. Genesis records only that God created all living creatures of the sea, earth, sky and labels them in general terms such as cattle, creeping things, beasts of the earth and winged creatures.
Only those animals that are significance to human history are mentioned in the Bible, specifically, such as cattle, goats and sheeps (important to the economy), plus the specific list of clean and unclean animals in the Levitical law, etc. Many animals are not specifically named in the Bible, dinosaurs is one of them.
Lack of mention means little, other than that they did not come into the history of man in a way significance or necessary to record. That dinosaurs existed is apparent from the fossil of the great dinosaur beds, presumably preserved by a catastrophe, such as a flood.
Unless the sediments which entrapped them hardened quickly into stone, their bodies would have soon decomposed, but the remains that we have are bodies intact. A catastrophe such as the flood would explain having such remains.
Additional evidence for their existence, and at the same time as man, is the pictographs left in Africa and North America, and from fossil evidence human and dinosaurs footprints in the same formation.
As to why and how they become extinct, we can only conjecture. We know that Genesis records that when God finished creation, everything was very good. When the Fall occurred, death and destruction entered the universe.
Eventually corruption was so widespread that God destroyed all but Noah's family and two of every kind of living creature, which he caused to come to Noah for safekeeping on the ark. It is possible that God somne of th earth animals, that He didn't cause them to come to Noah, such as the dinoaurs. But the Bible says, " Two of every kind shall come to you to keep them alive."
We can conjecture that either dinoaurs didn't make it into the ark because, God intended them to become extinct at that time, or that because of climatic conditions after the flood, they failed to reproduce in sufficient numbers and died out. We simply don't have enough data to go beyond conjecture at this point.Labels: Josh McDowell and Don Stewart - Answers and Reasons
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