(March 15, 2010 at 1:06 pm)Watson Wrote:(March 15, 2010 at 10:51 am)Thor Wrote: Since dinosaurs were the dominant creatures on the planet for millions of years, I have to wonder if they would have considered themselves to have been "divinely created". If dinosaurs could have conceived of a deity, I imagine they would have looked around and assumed that some higher power created this planet just for them! After all, the evidence is obvious! They were big, powerful and no other creature could stop them. Maybe the dinosaurs would have believed that "god" was an invisible dinosaur who lived in the sky and watched over them!
Why not? Makes just as much sense as what the faithful believe.
I don't think dinosaurs were self-aware...
Not even Barney? Or even Cecil? (Or was it Beanie? I could never keep those two straight.)
Science flies us to the moon and stars. Religion flies us into buildings.
God allowed 200,000 people to die in an earthquake. So what makes you think he cares about YOUR problems?
God allowed 200,000 people to die in an earthquake. So what makes you think he cares about YOUR problems?