Were there Dinosaurs in the Bible?

I'm sorry if I'm making another silly topic filled with my silly questions again. I just don't know where to ask these... I'd appreciately muchly if someone would paste a link in case my questions here have already been answered in other threads.I'm confused again, as always (my genetic defect). In the bible, did the dinosaurs live alongside the other land animals upon "creation" including the mammals and Adam and Eve? If not, did they become extinct before the humans were "created"? Ummm, can that be the case? It's just, I thought nothing can die because Adam and Eve have not sinned yet.In case they started dying off after the two first humans became sinners as was told by "God" that all creatures would now start to die after periods of time, would it mean that the scientific way of dating fossils which suggests that the dinosaurs were all wiped out 65-70 million years ago before any human types of fossils can ever be found is wrong? I'm not certain how old in the time table is the oldest human fossil ever found.If they survived alongside Adam and Eve and didn't become extinct up until the bible's great flood, did Noah pair them together to fit in his boat or did he leave them to drown because they were too big?In case the dinosaurs lived alongside the mammals we know of today, did they also hunt our known animals like the gazelles and zebras?-------
Oooppss... I made a mistake with the Title... Where should have been Were.This message has been edited by Tel Rinsiel, 08-11-2004 07:49 PM

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Hi Tel. Welcome! If you go back about a month you will find a thread, WHY ARE THERE VENEMOUS SNAKES. The following is my message 11 on that thread in which I offer my reasons for believing dinosaurs were in the garden and the parent dinosaurs could have survived throughout the earth until the flood. Also I don't believe they were on the ark. If you read the exchanges after my post 11 with others, you will see how I think on this subject.
Perhaps the Biblical answer lies in the details of the curse upon the serpents in Genesis 3: 15, "And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; he shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel."
The serpent was radically changed at the fall, according to the Genesis account. The clear implication is that the prefallen ones had longer legs and were walking and possibly flying creatures. Imo, the prefallen serpents were the dinosaurs whose offspring became snakes, lizzards, allegators, etc. They are all of the serpent family. Likely two not mentioned results were diminished intelligence and poisonous venom. The serpents were the most intelligent of the animal kingdom at creation according to the account. A lot happened at this catastrophy of the fall, including thorny plants and so forth. I believe some plants became poisonous as well.

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I do not agree with most creationists such as ICR who believe and teach that dinosaurs were in Noah's ark. I do believe however, that the parent prefallen dinosaurs lived very long lives and many survived until the flood which would have been about 1500 years since many humans lived nearly a thousand years.

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Thanks for the welcome. But... what about scientists' way of dating the fossils of dinosaurs? Scientists say that there were mass extinctions of dinosaur species around 65-70 million years ago. Have we really found human bones that date as far back as that? If the answer would be that some of them could have died off before Adam and Eve were "created", it would still pose a problem since none of "God's" creations can die yet before Adam and Eve disobeyed "God".This message has been edited by Tel Rinsiel, 08-12-2004 04:38 AM

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I find it improbable that the legendary Noah was able to gather Dinosaurs and put them in his Ark, considering the theory that these "Terrible Lizards" died out some 65 million years ago, and the flood was thought to have happened some 4,000 or more years ago. We have a time difference of 65 million years. (Someone's time scale is messed up).

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I have wondered about that, as well. Also, were the continents already divided and separated far out to the ocean like the South and North American contents during the time of the flood? I was kind of questioning how the animals there managed to cross the oceans to fit inside Noah's boat. And, when the boat landed after 40 days of flood, I wonder how the animals like the giant ant-eaters, tapirs and jaguars indigenous to South America managed to return to the far continent.