Why is there no mention of dinosaurs in the great book?
December 5, 2013 at 12:07 am
(This post was last modified: December 5, 2013 at 12:11 am by Yahweh.)
Quote:Most people who say that the bible is boring, have never even attempted to read it. As for Dinosaurs The Bible does not provide specific answers to this question. According to the Genesis account, animals were created during the fifth and sixth creative periods or ‘days.’ If the Hebrew expression translated “great sea monsters” [Hebrew, tan·ni·nim′] includes dinosaurs, which often inhabited swampy, watery areas, this would mean that dinosaurs were created on the fifth “day.” (Gen. 1:21) We do not know whether they continued to exist until man was created (toward the close of the sixth “day”). At the very latest it seems likely that they must have disappeared off the earth at the time of the flood of Noah’s day. Dinosaurs were reptiles, and some kinds of dinosaurs bear strong resemblance structurally and otherwise to lizards (sauros is, in fact, the Greek word for “lizard”; saura in Leviticus 11:29, LXX). Not all types of dinosaurs were of such gigantic size. Hence, even if they had survived till the Flood, this would not have required taking pairs of the mammoth varieties into the ark. Other smaller members of the particular family or “kind” to which these belonged would have sufficed to fulfill the divine command.—Gen. 6:19, 20; 7:14.That's the answer a theist gave to defend his god.
Some of the older translations of the Bible at times use the word “dragons” to translate the Hebrew tan·ni·nim′ (“sea monsters,” NW). (Ps. 74:13; 148:7; Isa. 27:1, Authorized Version) The term “dragon” (Greek, dra′kon) is found in the Christian Greek Scriptures. It has been suggested as possible that, rather than having a purely mythical source, this expression may originally have been applied to enormous creatures such as the dinosaurs, taking on mythical tones only after these mammoth creatures had long disappeared. Interestingly, many of the mythical depictions of the “dragon” strongly resemble certain types within the family of huge reptilian creatures that includes the dinosaur.
This is my opinion
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Dinosaurs disappeared 65 million years ago. Modern man has been on the Earth about 100,000 years. Neanderthal was around at approximately the same time as modern man, it's just that they were in Europe, and modern man was in Africa and didn't come to Europe until after the ice age, where they found Neanderthals.
The uneducated people that wrote the bible had no idea about any of this.
I believe those idiots who made all of this shit up never believed anything like dinosaurs walked the earth. They never knew of anything even existing, hence why there is no record of it in the bible. Yeah, there are mentions of these fictional sea monsters, but c'mon... 2,000 years ago? Not much has changed(regarding animals, that is). Also, there's this notion the world was flooded. Why isn't there present-day evidence that remotely supports the idea of mass flood having ever occurred? Because there wasn't one. I'm eager to see how many theists and jesus freaks come to the bible's defense.
P.S:I HAVE read the bible. It's filled with great, entertaining fallacies rolled in dog shit, and sprinkled with piss.
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