(December 13, 2013 at 10:24 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Well, gee, the bible doesn't mention jellyfish either (that I know of). Is knowledge of dinos necessary for saving faith? Of course not.
The fact is, the Bible mentions many other animals that were not 'necessary for saving faith'.
A further fact is, that dinos were known to inhabit the entire middle east area (at least as it was over 60 million years ago). If they existed at the same time humans did, there is no way they would not have been mentioned.
Humans being hunted by creatures several times bigger than bears and lions (both mentioned many times in the Bible) would have been mentioned.
It must be very hard to continually live in such a state of cognitive dissonance.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
