Dinosaurs and
the Bible
“And
God made the beast of
the earth
(dinosaur, elephant, hippo etc)
after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing
that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was
good...
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:... And
the
evening and the morning were the sixth day."
(Genesis
1:25, 26, 31)
For many,
dinosaurs are a mystery. Where did
they
come from? When did they live? What happened to them? If the TV, movies
and the
newspapers are to be believed, then this all took place millions and
millions
of years ago.
However
there are two different and
completely opposite stories - one according to evolution and one
according to
the Bible.
Evolutionists
believe:
1.
Dinosaurs
evolved
about 250 million years ago - way before man evolved.
2.
Around
65 million
years ago, they all disappeared. It is thought that a large asteroid
collided
into the earth and killed them all.
3.
Their
fossil
history is found in layers in the earth and these layers were deposited
over
many millions of years.
4.
Some
of the
dinosaurs grew wings and flew off into the air. These bird dinosaurs
are not
extinct but still exist today.
5.
Man
has never
lived on earth at the same time as the dinosaur.
The Bible
states:
1.
God
created
dinosaurs about 6000 years ago.
2.
They
were created
on day 6 of creation.
3.
Adam
and Eve were
also made on day six of creation.
4.
Dinosaurs
and man
lived at the same time on earth and were not separated by millions and
millions
of years.
5.
As
the result of
Adam's sin, death came into the world. Therefore dinosaurs could not
have lived
before man as each of their lives would have stretched on for millions
and
millions of years.
6.
The
various types of dinosaurs were taken on board Noah's ark.
Those left outside were drowned and became fossils.
7.
After
Noah's flood, the dinosaurs came off the ark and lived
for a short time along side man on earth. Due to climate change that
happened
after the flood, the dinosaurs soon died off due to lack of food and
disease.
How did the
dinosaurs fit on the ark?
Current
thinking would have
us believe that they couldn't have possibly fitted on the ark as they
were too
big. However there were only a few that grew to extremely large size
but even
they weren't as big as the blue whale.
Today's
sheep would be the average
size of the dinosaur. Many were smaller, with one the size of a mouse.
One was
the size of an ostrich and one the size of a rooster. As reptiles keep
growing
as long as they live, only the oldest ones would have been the very
large ones.
Dinosaur
eggs range in size from
normal to the largest one found - being the size of a football.
So it must
be remembered that when
Noah took on board these animals, they would have been quite small.
They would
have grown during their time in the ark and be ready to repopulate the
earth
when they came off it.
How many
varieties of dinosaur were there?
Although
there are 600 or so
species of dinosaurs, there were probably less than fifty kinds that
were taken
on board the ark. Putting it another way, there are many types of dogs
in the
world, but they are still dogs. Interbreeding of a few basic types has
given
rise to many varieties.
In the
light of their small size,
they wouldn't have taken up a lot of room at all. Noah's ark was very
large and
could easily accommodate the dinosaur along with another 4000 or so
species of
animals.
Why is it
that all the dinosaurs disappeared suddenly off the
earth?
Popular
belief says that this
happened 65 million years ago when a meteorite hit the earth. In actual
fact,
all the evidence points to most of them being drowned in Noah's flood.
How is a
fossil formed?
Evolutionists
used to claim that as
animals died they were gradually covered by sediment. They've now
changed their
mind saying that for an animal to become a fossil, it has to be buried
very
quickly otherwise it gets eaten or decays rapidly. They now believe
that it
takes a sudden catastrophe for a fossil to be formed, like a flood!
The
bones tell a story
T-Rex bones
have been discovered
that haven't been completely fossilized. Some sections of the bones
contained
what appears
to be blood cells and hemoglobin. This totally
destroys the theory that dinosaurs lived 250 million years ago. Why? In
that
time, blood cells would have totally disintegrated.
There
was
also evidence of `fresh' bone. Scientists agree that this would not be
the case
if it were millions of years old.
Fighting
Dinosaurs
A
discovery
in Mongolia in 1971 found the remains of two fossilized dinosaurs still
locked
in combat in a fight to the death. This could only have happened if
large
amounts of silt and sediment had been immediately dumped on them as in
a
catastrophic flood.
Does
the Bible mention any
dinosaurs?
It
does.
Read Job 40:15-24 and see if the description of the `behemoth' doesn't
match
that of a Brachiosaurus. The name of `dinosaur' meaning `terrible
lizard',
wasn't invented till 1841 by Richard Owen of the British museum.
Are
there any around today?
Quite
possibly. After getting off the ark, Noah and all the animals found an
earth
that had been devastated by the flood. Indeed, food and plants had
become more
scarce and many species of animals have become extinct either due to
man's
activities and also competition from other animals. However, there have
been
sightings in the Congo fitting the description of dinosaurs.
Does
it
really matter?
If
you were
Satan, wouldn't you do your best to discredit the Bible? Absolutely.
What
better way then, than to say that man and dinosaurs didn't live and
exist
together at the same time and put a couple of hundred million years
between
them. Then you could point to other things in the Bible and say they
were wrong
as well.
Death
before Adam's sin?
If
the
dinosaurs died out before Adam, it means death didn't come about as a
result of
his sin of disobedience which the Bible clearly states (Romans 5:12 and Rom 6:23 )
Furthermore, the fact that blood had to be shed for the forgiveness of
sin and
that Adam and Eve wore `coats of skins' shows that they had killed an
animal
for a blood sacrifice. So, if dinosaurs died with bloodshed before
Adam, this
would take away from God first demanding that blood be shed for
sin.
Hence, the blood atonement message of the Bible is destroyed.
Brainwashed
The
only reason man finds it difficult to believe that
God created dinosaurs with man on the 6th literal day, is because of
the
brainwashing from TV and movies.
“If
a lie is repeated long enough, people soon accept it
as the truth.”
By Harley Hitchcock
