The Flood and the Dinosaurs

Certainly dinosaurs existed and they weren't such 'horrible creatures' as you seem to think ... certainly no more 'horrible' that today's lions, tigers, wolves, sharks and any other animal which lives by killing other animals. In any case, meat-eating dinosaurs were the exception - most of them were vegetarians. It is very likely that some kind of flood was real because widely different cultures all over the world have 'flood' myths. The story of Noah in the Bible is one such and can be traced back to similar, much older stories current in many Middle Eastern cultures. It is simply a myth, passed down through countless generations with embellishments and personal names and place names added to make it more 'real'. The supposed site of 'Noah's Ark' on Ararat in Turkey is simply a roughly boat-shaped rock formation which has been vastly exaggerated by people who WANT to believe that the story is true! Since time immemorial there have been tsunamis and other disasters, so it is not surprising that many cultures all over the world have folk memories of such things where just a few people survived to tell the tale. The disaster which killed off most of the large dinosaurs happened so long before humans were even thought of that it is very unlikely that our folk memories extend back that far. Whatever it was that caused the extinction (the most likely event is a huge meteorite strike in the area now known as the Yucatan peninsula in Central America), it resulted in a drastic worldwide change in climate which made it impossible for large animals to survive. We know, from the fossil record, that some smaller animals were able to survive, including some warm blooded animals, about the size of rats, which were later to evolve into all of the mammals which we know today, including humans. The only remnant of the true 'dinosaurs' living today are birds. Reptiles like lizards, snakes and crocodiles were already completely different species by the time of the 'great extinction' and many survived to evolve into the different orders that we have today. You have to remember that the people who 'wrote' all of the Bible were NOT scientists in the way that we use the word today and knew nothing about many things which we accept as facts today. If they ever found fossils of large bones, they thought that they were the bones of dragons and made up fanciful stories about them. For many years, it was thought that finds of what were clearly the remains of sea creatures (shells and fish skeletons) in the rocks of mountainous areas were evidence of a 'great flood'. We now know that these fossils were actually made when the rocks they are now found in were deep under some ocean.

John MacKay and his Australian creationist colleagues have done some good work on this. One point made is that when people lived to near 1000, reptiles also lived to much higher ages. As reptile bones, unlike those of mammals, do not fuse, that means they also grew much bigger. Some of the species that disappeared may have become much smaller by the time they disappeared.

I don't think dinosaurs were horrible but if you wonder if god could make such predatory creatures, just look at some predators living today. This question reminded me of the poem Tyger by William Blake, that goes: "Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Dare frame thy fearful symmetry? When the stars threw down their spears, And watered heaven with their tears, Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?"

"Is that far fetched?" It seems to be the very definition of far-fetched. But to each their own. If that's more plausible an explanation than what geology and paleontology and biology is able to provide, have at it. But I only responded here because I had one burning question. If the humans were that much more intelligent to where they were creating hybrids and more advanced with DNA than what we are today, then why couldn't anyone else make another boat?

Aw.... you have such a nice question e. I never thought about that. So it means dinosaurs and the flood has connection? It means science and the bible is correlated to each other. I do not know. For me, Noah and the flood is not that literal even though they found it on Turkey. If it is true, maybe half of the area were being flooded... I do not know but this is what I feel.

I do somehow believe that dinosaurs existed a long time ago. Anyhow, I think I would disagree with your statement that dinosaurs were horrible beings. Though they are pretty big according to fossils with scary features, they are just like our animals today. Lions and crocodiles kill and eat gazelles in the wild. Some bats sucks blood from other animals and other sorts of things.

I've heard scientists have found piles of bones and fossils much like a tide had washed them ashore.. and it sure answers the question of how sea life fossils come to be found in the desert. Yes, i think the dinosaur (and also the Cainites with the prominant? brow) disappeared through he flood. I'm thinking at "the fall" since mankind had been assigned overseer of the earth, the spirit of predatorness quickly entered the animal realm. And human, it seems, too.. But that is the fruit of having created rational creatures.. (because thinking ability includes the ability to choose). But heck, what's the other option? I'm amazed at God's patience! And also, I think we humans greatly underestimate both God, and, His Great Plan of Salvation, i.e. I believe He reaches all. Because He can only be Perfect, and Perfection makes no, mistakes.

It's hardly a question of whether they existed or not, with all the bones they've found. I don't see how dinosaurs were "horrible" other than being of a much larger size than we are used to. I have wondered, though, at the intelligence of human beings back in time. It seems that the further we go, the less people can reason and understand things. People were much closer to God because they didn't hide in unnatural boxes called "science" or "logic" (which are sometimes neither).

As a child I thought they were made up but when I went to school I learned they were real. I went to a place close to Vernal, Utah where many Dinosaurs were all mixed up in a pile. I think this was caused as the flood water receded and like debris collected in the same spot. Of course, we have the Dinosaurs that were frozen with green stuff still in their mouth. I am not sure the Dinosaurs looked like mankind protrays them but they were big. I have a feeling the devil may have had something to do with the existence of these huge animals and that is one reason God allowed them to all die beside the fact they were probably too big to get into the ark.