Dinosaur Files - Where do dinosaurs fit into Biblical history?

Where do dinosaurs fit into Biblical history?

Dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago, but how long had they been around before extinction? Are they mentioned in the Bible? For example, would they have been on Noah's ark?

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They were around for over 100 million years. They are the most successful form of life ever, well, so far. They are not mentioned in the bible. There were extinct before Noah's time.
They don't exist in the bible because the people of that time period didn't know dinosaurs existed. Thus, no mention in their bible.
ya the Bible at the most goes back about 10,000 years at best. It starts basically at the time that people in the fertile crecent were first building cities. The dinosaurs were long dead and fossilized by then
they dont, thats why all christians that truly believe that the earth is only 6000 years old are so damn hard to talk to, their skulls are inpenetrably thick. there are dinosaur fossils that are 100, 250 and 300 million years old, and everywhere in between. plus ther was an age before the dinosaurs, and an age before the precursors of dinosaurs. but as the christians put it: "god put those there to test our faith", and "those scientists are wrong, those bones are only 5000 years old" is so far past stupid that it is just rediculous. but hey wahtever floats your boat
The dinosaurs never existed; their fossil remains are just traps set by Lucifer to trick mankind into doubting the Biblical Genesis.
Just call it one of the MANY mistakes in the Bible.
The era of Dinosaurs (Mesozoic) lasted for 160 million years. It ended about 65 million years ago. Modern man (Homo Sapiens Sapiens) came about 130,000 years ago.(Homo Erectus, the very first humans with brains about the same size as modern man, go back to around 2 million years ago.) There's over 60 million years between dinosaurs and the beginning of biblical history. With the exception of some unconvinced fundamentalists, no one seriously believes there was an overlap between dinosaurs and humans.
Tanzer hit the nail on the head. Dinosaurs were not mentioned because the people for which it was originally written would never have understood what they were talking about. Dinosaurs, evolution, creationism, Noah's Ark, the bible, science -- all these things work together. There's no conflict between them. Evolution was the process God used to create the world; creationism is just a metter of understanding the timeline; there is plenty of evidence for the flood of Noah's Ark fame; science merely prove God's intricacies, etc. Albert Einstein said that the more he learned about the Universe, the more he believed in God.
Nowhere since the people who wrote most of the bible did not know about dinosaurs. One possible exception to this was the final version of the King James bible finished in mid 1750's. I seriously doubt that the supposed scholars who constructed the final version of the KJV knew anything about dinosaurs. Consequently, god didn't get credit for the dinosaurs. We had to first discover the paleontological remains to know about them and I would have to look into the first such discovery to guess about whether any such information existed in the 1750's. In any case it would have been very difficult for biblical writers to add something such as dinosaurs so late in biblical rewriting. True believers have a multitude of such problems to deal with not the least of which is that biblical peoples didn't know anything about Texas or, for that matter, most of the planet! I wrote an extensive piece on the web about the Noah's Ark saga. I explained what many people already knew ( I made no claim of originality) that no single boat built today with modern knowledge and technology could do the job claimed. Additionally, the amount of water required to reach the highest mountains is unavailable on earth or in the solar system and god has exhibited no ability to bring water to earth from outer space just to kill people or for that matter, for any reason. Maybe, if you are a 'believer' it might helpful if you considered the improbable stories in the bible to be... Literary license. I agree that such phrase is in the interest of putting the... best face...on the situation.