Dinosaur Files

How do you explain to a child the known scientific facts of dinosaurs, but it is not mentioned in the bible?

The bible begins with the Book of Genisis; that "In the beginning God created......" Just a question for advice and not meant to offend any religion, etc.

Public Comments

1. Perhaps they lived when the world was dark and void!
2. They were here before God showed up and he erased them and created man.
3. Tell him/her the bible is make believe
4. Show him/her a science book. Bible does not mention many kinds of animals What is the big deal???
5. I would think that would be a clue to you that the Bible story of creation is flawed. If you must lie to the child, tell him that it's in the verse where God created the creatures in the sea and the beasts of the earth. I think that covers it just fine.
6. Simple. Tell the child that the Bible tells of recorded history only. Dinosaurs were long (millions of years) before recorded history, before people knew of these things.
7. Good question - and as a Christian I am not offended - it is a question I had not thought of before - thanks for bringing it to my attention. I would just mention that The Holy Bible only relates to the animals that was known to be alive during it's writings!@
8. I told my kids who are now grown, that IF there were dinosaurs (cause a few relics do not prove it, you do understnad that the museum pieces were fabricated don't you ? ) God created them.
9. You lie with tales about giants and leviathans, as Christians have been instructed to do.
10. First testament I think Genesis When giants roamed the Earth Look in concordance for giants
11. Last I checked the bible mentions nothing about the space shuttle or the fact that cars, t.v.'s, motorcycles, airplans, football,baseball, hotdogs, apple pie and cheverlet exist but somehow I manage! Science is not something the majority of Christians or even Jews are against...in fact we embrace science as a God given study. We learn more about our World, ourselves and God through science. Of course just like most things you have good and bad science..Those on the Christian side who bend science to make it say what they want and those who oppose christianity to bend science to say what they want.. so like most things you have to read between the lines and do some research on your own to find out fact from fiction. Dinosaurs are cool....
12. Personally speaking no offense to those who are violent radicals, The Bible was only made by man. if there is a God i would wish to Him to end the violent killings all over the world He made and not just watch us kill each other.
13. Leviathan Sea Dwelling aquatic reptiles Dinosaurs in the book of Job Leviathan dinosaur bible kronosaur plesiosuar The Biblical book of Job speaks of a fierce creature called: The Leviathan Job lived in the land of Uz, which was in or near the land of Edom. This area extended both southwest and southeast of the Dead Sea, in an area that is now mostly a desert. ("The Remarkable Record of Job" by Henry Morris, pg 14). It is for this reason that neither the Behemoth (http://www.angelfire.com/mi/dinosaurs/behemoth.html) or the leviathan can be found there today. Job 3:8 KJV The first mention by name is scripture of Leviathan is in the book of Job chapter 3 verse 8. The leviathan is an aquatic reptile (similar to dinosaurs). No living animal fits the physical description of the Levaithan. For ideas of what this creature looked like we must turn to Job chapter 41 God's Power Shown in Creatures Job 41 KJV Job 41 1 Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down? " The Leviathan was a creature that was still alive at the time of Job about ____ years ago. It is clear from this passage that man is unable to capture this creature with a fish hook. (2) Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?" (3) Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?" (4) Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?" (5) Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?" (6) Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?" 7 Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?" 8 Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more." Many people successfully kill crocodiles. If you fight the Leviathan however you will lose. 9 Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?" Man would run at the mere sight of Leviathan. 10 None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?" Though Leviathan is strong, God is stronger. 11 "Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine." 12 "I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion." 13 "Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle?" 14 "Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about." 15 "His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal." Some have suggested that the Leviathan might be a whale. But whales do not have scales, or rows of shields like reptiles do. 16 "One is so near to another, that no air can come between them." 17 "They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered." 18 "By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning." The word that many bibles translate as "snorting" or "neezings" is the Hebrew word: "atish". This means to blow through the nose. 19 "Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out."
14. well to my understanding dinasours were around the time of atlantis . yes very new age ,so it might not be appropiate to try and explain to young children . but at this time is when it is felt the dinasours became extinct as did that particular civilization . atlantis was way before the time of Jesus perhaps it might be explained in that way ??? an ancient time,perhaps not everything is explained as well as it should be via the bible . but you can certainly say they were CREATED as everything was but they simply became extinct [thank goodness !!!]. peggy:}
15. It is a proven scientific fact that dinosaurs predated man. Genesis is written by Moses, several hundreds-thousands of years after the dinosaurs. We know that one day God created the light, the next the land, etc., but we don't know how long a day is to God. Dinosaurs ruled the land during one of God's "days". Moses' purpose for the writing was to tell the one paragraph on the creation, meaning it was created by God, then to tell the story of mankind. He was not doing detail before man. The old testament is a history book preceeding and leading up to the life of Jesus.
16. Tell him that the Bible story does not limit. It does not say it is a complete story, or even that it is chronological order (good luck with translating that into child speak) Let him know that this creation here might not be the only creation that ever happened. Lately science has shown that the earth was in fact destroyed by impact when the dinosaurs all died which would have left the earth void and without form and at that time the earth may very well have stopped spinning for a period, get the idea. The answer is basically we do not know everything
17. God didn't name every animal he made. But there is fact that there were humans during that time period. There are many mysteries in the bible. Don't question it. That's where the scientist go wrong, they question the word of the Lord and the sequence in which things occur. Maybe you should take them to church and let a religious leader of Jesus Christ faith explain as mush as they can. May I suggest a Pentecostal or Baptist religion.
18. The scientific facts about dinosaurs are they are reptiles. Reptiles do not stop growing. Under the right conditions, they can grow very large. The Bible talks about 2 things we dont' know about for sure today. Leviathan and Behemoth. The descriptions of them do not resemble a hippopotamus as some suggest. They do not resemble a steam locomotive as the Jehovah's Witnesses suggest.
19. The fact that dinosaurs existed is absolute fact based upon the geological record. Those bones in the Smithsonian are kinda hard to dismiss. On the spiritual side, the Bible did not mention a great many things. Remember that Moses wasn't trying to provide verifiable factual evidence of creationism to a scientifically minded 21st century population...he was trying to explain his understanding of God's role in the creation of the universe and man to a tribe of unsophisticated nomadic interlopers centuries before the first word of the Bible was put to paper...he wasn't trying to explain everything. In this way the Bible is being taken out of context by modern man. But the Bible is the only "proof" of creationism, and there are many other "creationist" theories from a variety of other religions. This is the danger of starting your search for truth with a dogmatic belief and trying to support this belief with the facts at hand. The scientific method starts with an unproven thypothesis based upon observation, and then challenges this theory through controlled testing. The findings of this experimentation produce other questions, with the goal of somday determining the "truth".
20. .scientists don't believe in God. scientist want to know the answer to everything.if they cant get an answer they will make one up. you cant know what God knows unless you a God or something.tell you child that.think outside the box but not away from the box.
21. The answer is simple. Tell your child that the Bible outlines God's Salvation Plan for Mankind without delving into science or history. You would be speaking the truth for the Bible is not a science book nor a history book and it is NOT an outline of the future. The Bible speaks the truth using parables, metaphors and fantastically symbolic writing known as Apocalyptic literature. It is not meant to replace science or history nor is it a crystal ball to peer into the future. H