toldailytopic: How many years ago did dinosaurs walk the earth? And how do we know th

[SilenceInMotion]

Reviewed this back in ... 2010:cheers:


http://www.theologyonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=68626

It would appear you will either like the data or hate it... Depends on ones bias! :think:

Have fun.... I'm done with this research/topic... :thumb:

Happy research...
Paul

Noting that ancient people witnessed a 'dragon' of sorts is not proof. Dinosaurs were prevalent enough that it would have been relatively normal to see such things. A person or group of people having encountered an extraordinary beast invokes an idea that there may have been a stray that somehow managed to keep their species going after the cataclysmic event millions of years ago.
Sort of like if we find a megalodon (giant primitive shark) in the ocean.

 

[sky.]

"dinosaurs" and the modern definition of them are not Biblical.

 

[voltaire]

"dinosaurs" and the modern definition of them are not Biblical.

What do you mean?

 

[Alate_One]

Evolutionists love to talk about how the data and evidence exists for their ideas, but when it comes to actually discussing the data and evidence....

We love to discuss them. It's people like you that insist your assertions are correct and won't do the minimal amount of online research to provide any basis for your ideas.

Plus you don't want to discuss the evidence that supports the standard scientific answer to the question in the OP.

 

[sky.]

What do you mean?

On the 5th day.

Genesis 1:20-25

20 Then God said, “Let the waters abound with an abundance of living 5creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the 6firmament of the heavens.” 21 So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 And God blessed them, saying, x“Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” 23 So the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
24 Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according to its kind”; and it was so. 25 And God made the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.


23 So the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

On the 6th day

Genesis 1:26
26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

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The Bible does not say that there were "millions" of years between the two events.

Did God create a super animal millions of years before man? and how much time was in between the 5th and 6th day?

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Job 38:4

4 “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?
Tell Me, if you have understanding.


That is what the Bible teaches. The existence of dinosaurs "millions" of years ago or millions of years before man is not proven Biblically.

 

[voltaire]

On the 5th day.

Genesis 1:20-25

20 Then God said, “Let the waters abound with an abundance of living 5creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the 6firmament of the heavens.” 21 So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 And God blessed them, saying, x“Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” 23 So the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
24 Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according to its kind”; and it was so. 25 And God made the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.


23 So the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

On the 6th day

Genesis 1:26
26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

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The Bible does not say that there were "millions" of years between the two events.

Did God create a super animal millions of years before man? and how much time was in between the 5th and 6th day?

----------------

Job 38:4

4 “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?
Tell Me, if you have understanding.


That is what the Bible teaches. The existence of dinosaurs "millions" of years ago or millions of years before man is not proven Biblically.

Do you deny the existence of dinosaurs in past history?

 

[sky.]

Do you deny the existence of dinosaurs in past history?

I think that the Scriptures prove that both man and beast share practically the same age in creation.

Evolutionists use the age of "dinosaurs" to predate God's creation by millions of years and then they use it to prove the evolution of man.

 

[Holy Moses]

65+ million years ago

 

[sky.]

65+ million years ago

Is that a question or a statement?

 

[Stripe]

We love to discuss them. It's people like you that insist your assertions are correct and won't do the minimal amount of online research to provide any basis for your ideas. Plus you don't want to discuss the evidence that supports the standard scientific answer to the question in the OP.

Any response to the water and cement questions posed you, or are you ever going to seize upon the opportunities to dodge?

 

[voltaire]

Sky....Have you considered the possibility the dinosaurs and much of the fossil record are the result of life recreating itself after God destroyed all life from the face of the earth? If that happened there is no contradiction. God did create animals and man together. It just so happens that that original created world has been totally obliterated.

 

[Nick M]

Have you ever noticed how the book of revelation is not in chronological order? Have you ever wondered if perhaps genesis is not either?

The author explicitly lays it out in order, the morning and the evening were the first day. And the second day.

 

[sky.]

Sky....Have you considered the possibility the dinosaurs and much of the fossil record are the result of life recreating itself after God destroyed all life from the face of the earth? If that happened there is no contradiction. God did create animals and man together. It just so happens that that original created world has been totally obliterated.

Nope. The Bible says that God brought the animals to Noah and chose Noah and that He preserved His creation. The Bible does not say that God "recreated" or that God's preservation of creation was a result of "itself".

Genesis 6:17-19

 

[alwight]

I think that the Scriptures prove that both man and beast share practically the same age in creation.

Evolutionists use the age of "dinosaurs" to predate God's creation by millions of years and then they use it to prove the evolution of man.

All any scripture might "prove" is that somebody somewhere sometime wrote something down.

 

[Nick M]

All data shows that dinosaurs last walked the Earth over 65 million years ago..

Neg rep, because you know the real answer can't be more than thousands, with the soft tissue finds in multiple fossils.

 

[Nick M]

They are, sort of. But we call them birds, now days.

'Cause that makes perfect sense. lain:

 

[SilenceInMotion]

It's almost surreal looking at the mummified dinosaur:

Because it was once this:

And when you look long enough, you can see evolution.
Notice the features: This was a late dinosaur, for one. And it was right in the transitional phase from aquatic>reptile to *bird*.

What a coincidence, Nick

 

[Nick M]

You can see something that isn't there? Fascinating....

 

[sangrida7]

'Cause that makes perfect sense. lain:

Believe it or not many dinosaurs evolved into modern day birds. I could list the genetic and physical similarities, if you still don't understand.

 

[Alate_One]

'Cause that makes perfect sense.

Sure it does, if you look at the skeletons. (Especially since tweety bird looks nothing like actual birds) :dunce:

t-Rex (a large theropod)

Compsognathus (a small theropod)

Archeopteryx (first? bird)

Confuciusornis sanctus (primitive bird)

Chicken (modern bird)

Eagle (modern bird)