Dinosaurs and religion.

[Cavalier]

I've always wondered about this;

According to christianity, judaism and islam the world is acouple of thousand years old, right?
Why isn't dinosaurs and such, that lived millions of years ago explained? or is it?

So either dinosaurs did not exist millions of years ago, or the religions are wrong?

[Pivra]

my christian 7days adventis friends told me... "they have found evidences that humans and dinosaurs once lived together"... so go figure.. LOL

[Rush Limbaugh]

According to christianity, judaism and islam the world is acouple of thousand years old, right?

Wrong. i know catholics dont believe that. That the earth was created in 7 days is not taken literaly as its impossible as there were no days then.

[AqD]

Wrong. i know catholics dont believe that. That the earth was created in 7 days is not taken literaly as its impossible as there were no days then.

I wonder what can it be if it doesn't really mean 7 days? 7 years? 7 million years?

If the facts in bible cannot be taken literaly, where can the Christians get real religion facts? from the mouth of popes?
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Aiesha

[boofhead]

my christian 7days adventis friends told me... "they have found evidences that humans and dinosaurs once lived together"... so go figure.. LOL

Jeez, most of my extended family are SDAs......one is a pastor......and they don't think that....they are very intelligent people.

[Adhamh Ashashi]

Well in Islam it is said that Allah's days can be 50,000 human years.

But Dinosaurs did exist. Don't worry

And people did live with dinosaurs. Have you seen the Yop ad.

[IronBlood]

Well in Islam it is said that Allah's days can be 50,000 human years.

But Dinosaurs did exist. Don't worry

And people did live with dinosaurs. Have you seen the Yop ad.

You are correct, the story of Genesis (the creation and flood story) are suppose to be methaphors. Like 7 days is 7 days to God.

Also in the New American Bible (Catholic translation), the footnotes clearly point to it as not factual. In reality the story, and even most of the individual books of the bible (the "pre-dispora" books that is) are not from one source only. From what I remeber,The main sources that the Bible is based on is the Elohist source, the Preistly sources, and Yahwehist sources (missing one I think). As you can imagine not all the sources go hand in hand withone another. For example, some of you may know this but, Adam had a first wife named Lilith, whose story comes from "The Zohan" source (Samartian?). This book was not included probably because it didn't agree with most of the other sources.

[MrMofo]

ive heard it said that god put fossils there as a test to the faithful.

Pretty much no matter what happens it won't shake anybody's beliefs in anything.

[gambit]

ive heard it said that god put fossils there as a test to the faithful.

Pretty much no matter what happens it won't shake anybody's beliefs in anything.

Haha thats ridiculous. I understand tests of faiths but when you're creating solid factual evidence against your own religion, thats pretty illogical. You're not seperating the faithful from the unfaithful, you're seperating the reasonable from the fanatical.

[Richard]

ive heard it said that god put fossils there as a test to the faithful.

Pretty much no matter what happens it won't shake anybody's beliefs in anything.

Well, I heard they were *actually* planted by Satan, the Great Deciever.

[Ex Tenebris Lux]

Well, I heard they were *actually* planted by Satan, the Great Deciever.

you're both wrong. it was the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

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

[Cavalier]

So, people, what have we realized about dinosaurs and religion?

I think that, after reading this through, religion is very incorrect to actual events(duh) of the timeline. There HAS been dinosaurs, millions of millions of years ago, aswell as cavemen and such, thousands of years ago. But, this isn't explained or written down in any religious text. Therefore I find religion EVEN HARDER to believe.
Would someone like to add something?

[mocker]

There were no dinosaurs. Ever. LALALALALALAL...

[Adhamh Ashashi]

As a test?

I personally believe that Chimpanzees were put on this earth as a test because they are so closely related to humans. I believe in creationism and not evolution of humans. Believe in animal evolution.

But people did live with dinosaurs. Heres the proof:http://www.thismodernworld.com/blog/StockDinosaur.jpg

[Legionary Jezza]

exactly has nobody ever seen jurassic park lol.

[Adhamh Ashashi]

Yeah exactly.

And Colonel Saunders will bring them back and open up a park when he runs out of humane ideas to do with chicken..

[bushbush]

my pastor used to debate with me on this. I told him carbon dating shows these fossils are millions of years old. He said carton dating is wrong.

[LegionnaireX]

Some fundamentalist may believe that dinosaurs lived with humans or whatever, but the majority of religious people I know believe the dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago. I'm a Christian, and an evolutionist.

However there does exist interesting archeological findings such as the Ica stones which suggest that some dinosaurs may have survived nearly into present day. The authenticity of these findings is very desputable. If they are real, it would force us to rewrite history.

[Cavalier]

So, I mean, it's far fetched that earth is acouple of thousand years old, that all animals was created at the same time as humans, or atleast if I remember my religion classes correct.

But still, it doesn't explain how dinosaurs have come around. Some in this thread has made responses about Dinosaurs and humans living at the same time. In that case, how did dinosaurs suddenly die out and only humans and all the rest survive?

[MrMofo]

my pastor used to debate with me on this. I told him carbon dating shows these fossils are millions of years old. He said carton dating is wrong.

*whispers* psst he was right, carbon dating only works to about 40,000 years. For older dating they use methods like potassium/argon and uranium/ lead.