I was thinking lately about Dinosaurs after seeing the newest Jurassic Park movie in the theater. (Good movie, by the way.) If God created the land, sea, air, birds, fish, mammals, humans all in 6 days and then rested on the 7th day, where did dinosaurs come from? Or, as some believe, humans formed out of nothing when all particles collided just the right way in the Big Bang theory, where did everything else come from? We evolved from monkeys or apes? Where did those monkeys or apes come from? Single celled organisms that, over time, evolved into humans, mammals, birds, air, sea, and land? Ok, that discussion for another time.
Everything we are told growing up in school and by the media says that dinosaurs lived millions of years ago. That contradicts what the Bible tells us. That God created the whole world in 6 days and rested on the 7th day. But, how can the Bible be wrong?
Genesis chapter 1 (ESV)
1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep.
3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. (the first day)
7 And God made the expanse and separated the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse. And it was so. (the second day)
11 And God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants[a] yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth.” And it was so. (the third day)
16 And God made the two great lights—the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night—and the stars. (the fourth day)
20 And God said, “Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens.” (the fifth day)
24 And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds—livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so. 26 Then God said, “Let us make man[a] in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”(the sixth day)
So God created the Earth on the first day and man on the sixth day. Where are the dinosaurs that were to live millions of years ago?
"As you add up all of the dates, and accepting that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came to Earth almost 2000 years ago, we come to the conclusion that the creation of the Earth and animals (including the dinosaurs) occurred only thousands of years ago (perhaps only 6000!), not millions of years. Thus, if the Bible is right (and it is!), dinosaurs must have lived within the past thousands of years." -Dinosaurs and the Bible
How could God create dinosaurs and man together? Someone can get eaten, right? Wrong!
Genesis Chapter 1
29 And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food. 30 And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.
God told everyone to eat PLANTS! It wasn't Adam and Eve sinned by eating forbidden fruit that death entered into the picture.
Most animals are not described in the Bible but many dinosaurs actually are so we know they were living at the same time as humans. Even after the flood, dinosaurs were in existence since God mentions one that Job is familiar with.
Job 40:15-24 (ESV)
15 “Behold, Behemoth, which I made as I made you; he eats grass like an ox.
16 Behold, his strength in his loins, and his power in the muscles of his belly.
17 He makes his tail stiff like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are knit together.
18 His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like bars of iron.
16 Behold, his strength in his loins, and his power in the muscles of his belly.
17 He makes his tail stiff like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are knit together.
18 His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like bars of iron.
19 “He is the first of the works of God; let him who made him bring near his sword!
20 For the mountains yield food for him where all the wild beasts play.
21 Under the lotus plants he lies, in the shelter of the reeds and in the marsh.
22 For his shade the lotus trees cover him; the willows of the brook surround him.
23 Behold, if the river is turbulent he is not frightened; he is confident though Jordan rushes against his mouth.
24 Can one take him by his eyes, or pierce his nose with a snare?
20 For the mountains yield food for him where all the wild beasts play.
21 Under the lotus plants he lies, in the shelter of the reeds and in the marsh.
22 For his shade the lotus trees cover him; the willows of the brook surround him.
23 Behold, if the river is turbulent he is not frightened; he is confident though Jordan rushes against his mouth.
24 Can one take him by his eyes, or pierce his nose with a snare?
So if dinosaurs existed after the flood, what happened to them?
At the time of the Flood, many of the sea creatures died, but some survived. In addition, all of the land creatures outside the Ark died, but the representatives of all the kinds that survived on the Ark lived in the new world after the Flood. Those land animals (including dinosaurs) found the new world to be much different than the one before the Flood. Due to (1) competition for food that was no longer in abundance, (2) other catastrophes, (3) man killing for food (and perhaps for fun), and (4) the destruction of habitats, etc., many species of animals eventually died out. The group of animals we now call dinosaurs just happened to die out too. In fact, quite a number of animals become extinct each year. Extinction seems to be the rule in Earth history (not the formation of new types of animals as you would expect from evolution). -Dinosaurs and the Bible
