Why is there no mention of dinosaurs in the great book?

[pineapplebunnybounce]

See, proof!

[Ryantology]

Well, gee, the bible doesn't mention jellyfish either (that I know of). Is knowledge of dinos necessary for saving faith? Of course not.

This thread, if nothing else, makes it evident that certain benighted people need no justification to hold their faith in spite of all of incompatibility with the real world.

[Lek]

Well, gee, the bible doesn't mention jellyfish either (that I know of). Is knowledge of dinos necessary for saving faith? Of course not.

This thread, if nothing else, makes it evident that certain benighted people need no justification to hold their faith in spite of all of incompatibility with the real world.

You didn't answer the question.

[Ryantology]

This thread, if nothing else, makes it evident that certain benighted people need no justification to hold their faith in spite of all of incompatibility with the real world.

You didn't answer the question.

I did, back on the 6th.

If that is too flippant for you, I'll give you the obvious answer: the writers of the Bible had not the slightest clue what they were talking about and just made shit up that everyone else believed because they didn't know any more than the writers of the Bible and the writers of the Bible probably figured that would never change.

[bennyboy]

Why is this thread in the fucking philosophy section? If you're going to talk about stupid shit, at least talk about stupid shit that makes you say, "Hmmmmm. . ."

[paulpablo]

Sorry but everyone on this thread seems to be beating around the issue but not hitting any important points.

The problem isn't that there's a species of animal that existed that isn't mentioned in the bible.

The problem is that the bible specifically says man was created by god on the sixth day of creation which leaves only 5 days for dinosaurs to have existed, and in those 5 days it doesn't say god created any creature and killed them all off.

The quran doesn't make this same mistake, not because it is more accurate than the bible but because it's more vague, there's no mention of what day man was created and translators of the quran don't agree on if the quran says the world was made in days or time periods.

[KichigaiNeko]

Either way they are all wrong?

And that about wraps it up for the inerrant knowledge of the authors of the Tanakh, Bible and Quran= God

[Simon Moon]

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.

[Minimalist]

Well, gee, the bible doesn't mention jellyfish either (that I know of). Is knowledge of dinos necessary for saving faith? Of course not.

There are notoriously few jellyfish in the Judaean desert. Thanks for providing another excellent example of why your fucking bible is a pile of localized shit.

[TudorGothicSerpent]

I don't think it's impossible that the ancient Jews were aware of the existence of fossilized animal remains, or even that they mentioned them in the Bible. I just think that the way they probably mentioned them wouldn't exactly make Biblical literalists comfortable.

There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

You find similar myths in most cultures, including the nearby Greeks (who had their legend of the gigantomachia between the gods and the giants), along with stories about gigantic animals. There's a pretty good chance that the idea started as an accretion of stories around a basic truth. People have probably been digging up the bones of enormous, dead animals like dinosaurs and more recent giant mammals for years, and interpreting them through a naive lens as giants who lived in a mythological past of either monsters or heroes. There's even a possibility that leviathan and behemoth could have actually started out as dinosaurs. Of course, the problem with this from a literalist standpoint is that they started out that way and then turned into myths, and exist in the Bible only as imagined monsters, breathing fire in the depths of the ocean rather than resting peacefully as skulls in limestone hills.