Whereas I don’t know each Christian’s opinion about dinosaurs, I’d say that some don’t imagine in dinosaurs for 2 causes: 1) the Bible mentions solely two dinosaur-like creatures of which there isn’t a hint immediately (they usually could have been fictitious), and a couple of) the existence of dinosaurs doesn’t agree with their perception about creation.
The 2 creatures in query are the Behemoth and Leviathan. The primary is talked about in Job 40 when Job was “contending “ with the Lord and God was proving His sovereignty over all issues. “Take a look at Behemoth, which I made together with you and which feeds on grass like an ox. What energy it has in its loins, what energy within the muscle groups of its stomach! Its tail sways like a cedar; the sinews of its thighs are close-knit. Its bones are tubes of bronze, its limbs like rods of iron” (Job 40:15-18). Though we don’t name any creature immediately by this identify, one can see how there is likely to be one other animal that it’s near in description (hippopotamus or rhinoceros maybe?)
Then there may be the Leviathan which is talked about in Psalm 74:13-14 in talking of God: “It was you who cut up open the ocean by your energy; you broke the heads of the monster within the waters. It was you who crushed the heads of Leviathan and gave it as meals to the creatures of the desert.” And once more in Psalm 104:25-26: “There’s the ocean, huge and spacious, teeming with creatures past quantity–dwelling issues each massive and small. There the ships go back and forth, and the leviathan, which you shaped to frolic there.” Was this only a legendary creature written about to show some extent about God’s energy?
Christians who query the existence of Leviathan and Behemoth could extrapolate to imagine that since these are the one two massive, unfamiliar beings talked about within the Bible, there have been no dinosaurs. The Bible would have talked about others, proper? Not essentially. We don’t have an inventory anyplace, together with within the record of all of the animals in Noah’s ark, of all of the creatures that God created.
Additionally, if a Christian believes in a literal six days of creation, they conflict with archeologists who say that dinosaurs lived a whole lot of tens of millions of years in the past– a lot sooner than people who God created on the sixth day. Then we have now to deal with 2 Peter 3:8 the place Peter writes, “with the Lord at some point is sort of a thousand years, and a thousand years like at some point.” So, was it a literal six days? God solely is aware of, however for these Christians who imagine the Bible is inerrant, they take this quantity actually.
The group Solutions in Genesis claims that the earth is just 6,000 years outdated. They are saying the strategy used to this point dinosaur fossils and different geologic finds is predicated on defective radiometric knowledge (in use since 1905). They imagine that radiocarbon relationship is extra correct and helps the younger earth idea when fossils and rocks are examined.
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