(Mainly those who follow the bible, dont know enough about the other religions)
But do me a favour, and explain dinosaurs. Go on. God created the world in 7 days. Created man on the 6th if I remember rightly.
So where did the dinosaurs, and the meteorites that wiped them out come from? (well supposedly wiped them out, we’ll never realllly know).
They inhabited the world for millions of years, this is an indisputable fact. So wheres the mention of them? Was this a small oversight on the writers part? Or did God feck up and decide to brush it under the carpet?
And since we’re supposed to be made in Gods image. who did make the dinosaurs, since they were around long before mankind as we know now.
Answers on a reply below please! (This is not intended to create an argument, I really do want to know how people unquestioningly follow the creationist theory with this big hunk of unexplainedness!)
If you take it absolutely literally, you have a problem. And no fact is indisputable.
A day to god isn’t a day to man. What’s a few million years between dieties?
Man was not only made after dinosaurs, but after all the other animals, plants, dirt, and stars. The distinction between all this and Man, is that Man was in God’s image, not the rest.
And you shouldn’t expect every tiny detail (such as planet-killing meteorites) to make it into the record. How long a book did you want?
No, it says this in the fossil record. As I inferred in my ‘response 1’; those who choose to take the bible absolutely literally are going to have their own creative answer for your post. I was just relating the explanations I had heard.
The truly diehard young earth creationists think that the 7 days described in the bible are seven 24 hour periods. The less die hard creationists believe that each day could of been a longer period citing a passage from the new testamant which goes something along the lines of “a thousand years is a day to God”.
The diehard young earthers believe that the dinosaurs became exinct in the great flood described in the old testamant.
Do a search on this forum for creation, creative days, origin of life, or anything similar, and you will find enough on this subject to read for several days, creative or not.
You should probably have addressed your question to Creationists or Biblical literalists, rather that ‘religious people who follow the Bible’, of which group I consider myself a member - assuming that one is allowed to ‘follow the Bible’ without considering it infallible and absolutely literal.
I’m quite happy to leave matters such as where the dinosaurs came from (and where they went) in the capable and qualified hands of reputable paleontologists.
One explanation I’ve heard in Conversations With Creationists (sounds like a talk show…) is that dinosaurs never really existed… God just put the fossils and metorites there for us to have something to ponder, or something. Kind of an “It just is that way” explanation, but it’s mildly entertaining.
It is nonsense to suggest that by merely stretching the timescale from literal days to thousands of years (or longer), the six-day creation account in genesis is rendered reasonable; the events described in Genesis do not occur in the right sequence.
Sinful, are you aware that Young Earth Creationists- people who believe that God spoke the world into existance instantly over the course of six solar days, about 10,000 years ago- are actually in the minority of Christians?
Me, I was raised as a young earth creationist, but now am taking the point of view that I don’t know nearly enough about science to have an intelligent opinion on the subject yet. I tend to think more about what God is doing now than what he may have done in the distant indefinite past, or what methods he might have used.
But if I found out that God was the creative force guiding evolution, my faith would not be in the least bit shaken.
I’ll have to look for it to get an exact cite, but at one point in the Bible, all the creative days are referred to as one day.
Like: “In the day that God created evreything…” or something like that. Seems to me that “day” is more like a figure of speech than meaning a literal 24 hour day.
One of our earlier threads had some experts in ancient Hebrew discussing this very thing.
Don’t think so NoClueBoy; the phrase “And there was evening, and there was morning-the th day” is repeated; I don’t think there’s any way this can be taken to mean “back in the good old days”.
As I inferred in my ‘response 1’; those who choose to take the bible absolutely literally are going to have their own creative answer for your post. I was just relating the explanations I had heard.