Dinosaurs and the Bible

Johnnytoxic · 15 Jun 2008 at 12:01

Did dinosaurs and mankind walk the earth at the same point in time? According to the bible all animals and mankind were created on the sixth day.

Not trying to say the bibles wrong but just wondered if they did.

This article got me thinking
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...anks-discovery-DNA-relics-humble-chicken.html

Vulcan · 15 Jun 2008 at 12:04

Are you suggesting that the Bible doesn't make sense in today's modern world?

Nitefly · 15 Jun 2008 at 12:05

No.

Just, no.

shifty_uk · 15 Jun 2008 at 12:05

I wouldn't think so. Didn't they become extinct because of some global mass destruction?

Johnnytoxic · 15 Jun 2008 at 12:06

Then what do the vicars say about this?

Haircut · 15 Jun 2008 at 12:07

It's a little known fact that the feeding of the 5000 wasn't actually using fish, but Jesus got his hands on some brontosaurus steaks.

me227 · 15 Jun 2008 at 12:09

There are two mentions IIRC in the bible about large creatures. One in the water which is mentioned in the book of Job and a land one which I can't remember where that one is mentioned.

People use those verses of evidence of this.

EDIT:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan

http://www.genesispark.org/genpark/bible/bible.htm

shauncr91 · 15 Jun 2008 at 12:10

EDIT: Nvm, I did a naughty

aardvark · 15 Jun 2008 at 12:11

Johnnytoxic said:
According to the bible all animals and mankind were created on the sixth day.

Not trying to say the bibles wrong but just wondered if they did.

the bible is wrong - its a scientific fact and has been proved many many times over.

me227 · 15 Jun 2008 at 12:14

Johnnytoxic said:
According to the bible all animals and mankind were created on the sixth day.

Also the translation of the word day from Hebrew is misleading. It doesn't mean 24 hours, in its original sense it just meant a period of time.

Thunderbolt · 15 Jun 2008 at 12:28

When I was a kid I loved dinosuars, but I went to a C of E nursary school and have fairly christian parents. I asked this question a LOT! Got some cracking answers, my mum used to say that god creating the word in 7 days of watever it was, was meterphorical and it took millions of years and dinosaurs existed at some point just before man. Another answer I got once was that the devil/god planted dinosaur bones in the ground for temptation or watever reason. Either way I didn't believe anything in the bible after that.

Izi · 15 Jun 2008 at 12:51

AdamDaniels88 said:
When I was a kid I loved dinosuars, but I went to a C of E nursary school and have fairly christian parents. I asked this question a LOT! Got some cracking answers, my mum used to say that god creating the word in 7 days of watever it was, was meterphorical and it took millions of years and dinosaurs existed at some point just before man. Another answer I got once was that the devil/god planted dinosaur bones in the ground for temptation or watever reason. Either way I didn't believe anything in the bible after that.

I was deaply religious when I was little (under 5). My mum gave me a picture book bible and I read it and fell for it being so young. As I got older I soon realised how much it was complete rubbish.

I was always told by religious folk that dinasaur bones were planted by god for a good story...

Slinwagh · 15 Jun 2008 at 12:59

So you are asking if the Bible, a work of fiction holds any truth?

peetee · 15 Jun 2008 at 13:05

thought said:
I was always told by religious folk that dinasaur bones were planted by god for a good story...

Do you think anyone actually believes that?

doodah · 15 Jun 2008 at 13:10

thought said:
I was always told by religious folk that dinasaur bones were planted by god for a good story...

Really?

Wondered how they got around that one

It is certainly going to be an interesting next few hundred years in terms of Religion and Science as we discover more about our existence and the universe! Galileo's theory of heliocentrism, now the Pope saying that God might have made life else where in the universe......

doodah · 15 Jun 2008 at 13:11

Sorry DP

Old Wino · 15 Jun 2008 at 13:42

Bony Maloney · 15 Jun 2008 at 13:46

God left dinosaur bones lying around to mess with man's head

he's a prankster God!

[FnG]magnolia · 15 Jun 2008 at 13:48

Johnnytoxic said:
This article got me thinking
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...anks-discovery-DNA-relics-humble-chicken.html

If you buy or read the Daily Mail you deserve everything that happens to you.

In answer to your question ... Yes, I was picking up the hymn books, these exact books, and I was stacking them like so, and I'd stack them up to my chin, so I was really at full stretch with about 30 hymn books, and he said "Come on Peter, you can fit another one in there!" I said "No, I can't, I really can't," but he pushed another one in and said "You can fit another one in" and I said "I can't" so he pulled my head right back, so my head was like this, and I thought I was going to choke. And then he ran along this pew like that and threw the books, and yelled "Pick them up! Pick them up!"

Eriedor · 15 Jun 2008 at 13:57

[FnG]magnolia;11892154 said:
If you buy or read the Daily Mail you deserve everything that happens to you.

In answer to your question ... Yes, I was picking up the hymn books, these exact books, and I was stacking them like so, and I'd stack them up to my chin, so I was really at full stretch with about 30 hymn books, and he said "Come on Peter, you can fit another one in there!" I said "No, I can't, I really can't," but he pushed another one in and said "You can fit another one in" and I said "I can't" so he pulled my head right back, so my head was like this, and I thought I was going to choke. And then he ran along this pew like that and threw the books, and yelled "Pick them up! Pick them up!"

You're a strange one......