God made the universe + humans in 6 days (the beginning of everything).

Where does dinosaurs fit into all this?

This post was edited by red_man_27 on Dec 28 2010 10:16pm

Mesozoic as I recall we named it.

So humans lived among the dinos?

Because evolution theory says we came after right?

#1 Best I have studied there may be mention of a few "lifeforms" mentioned early, that could possibly have been dinos. They are mentioned in Job. They could be something like crocodiles as well because they are on mentioned in passing. By the rarity, we could assume at best, the "lifeforms" mentioned are a novelty and the time period is not the Mesozoic era. You could go off on a wild tangent and think "If they were dinos, they lived way, way past their known archeological time-period." If you do that you are way out on a limb early in the thought to begin with. Possible but not even probable by Science as we understand at the moment.

#2 To kill arguments, toss evolution and go with archeological evidence. You can even toss arguments about C-14 dating. We can get a general relative pattern, without arguing specifics, with large enough samples. Those patterns tell us humans came along after dinosaurs and there was a major extinction event between them. That being said, it is unlikely any would survive till the time man walk the earth.

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A Side note is you are projecting from Genesis and it is not a Scientific text. Therefore, After over 20 years of looking at it periodically myself, from both sides, I would be amazed if you found anything more concrete than my ever so statistically improbable outlier thoughts.

In conclusion, I'm not sure what you are trying to accomplish but this train of thought seems pretty fruitless beyond what I've mentioned in the end by what we can find atm.

A couple possibilities.
1) The Creation stories aren't to be taken literally, so the 6 day time span and limited inclusion of lifeforms is pretty meaningless.
2) Dinosaurs were put there in the rocks by Satan to confuse people.


I agree with this except for one common misconception. C-14 dating is only good for things that are up to about 60,000 years old because C-14 has a half life of about 5700 years. So after 60,000 years, that's over 10 half lives, so there would be less than a tenth of a percent of the original amount of C-14 by that point. For older fossils, they use other radioactive elements.

how long is a day in the eyes of god?

Yea, I just chose a layman specific and didn't expand to include heavy metal dating, such as uranium.

Thumbs up on you actually calculating that out as well. I usually don't bother on a first response because I seem to confuse the innumerate.




For example: 2 Peter 3:8 (King James Version) But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

I've studied not only this specific example but time in general and perspective seems as much or maybe more important than the idea of time itself, in these passages.

In a nutshell, from hardcore examination from dimensional/temporal Physics, to diligent study of Scripture and every place in between; a western centered view of time and impersonal analytical interpretation are an astronomical unit, from being a tangent in thought, most of the time.

We'll if the book of Genesis is true, then humans have been living longer than dinosaurs right?

Either way, it sounds weird humans being created at the same time as the earth was (like 4 billion years ago).



It implies that one day spent with God (spiritually) is greater than a thousand years spent without God. Not actual time differences

I believe in science.