Were there Dinosaurs in the Bible?

Actually, scripture alludes to a Dinosaur in Job 40: 15-24.This message has been edited by Hydarnes, 08-16-2004 12:45 PM

This has to do with dinosaurs. And I'm not particularly fond of getting off on twitty tangents.

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So where is the Dinosaur in that chapter?

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It takes a fertile imagination to see a dinosaur in any of that.

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I wouldn't resent your verbal usurpation so much if it were for a more valid objection, but in this case, I do.If you can adequately explain to me another animal that might fit that description, I will recant my position that it is referring to a large dinosaur.

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How can dinosaurs be mentioned in the Bible when the last dinosaur died 65 million years or so before the Bible was even written?

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A brilliant question. But since the Bible DOES mention one, what merit is there left in it?This message has been edited by Hydarnes, 08-16-2004 01:40 PM

Be my guest, give us some of this "anything".This message has been edited by Hydarnes, 08-16-2004 01:35 PM

I'll just cut through your verbal meandering.How is it insufficient?This message has been edited by Hydarnes, 08-16-2004 01:41 PM

It doesn't require a great deal of assumption before recognizing that the creature described simply does not fit an animal other than that of a Dinosaur. Unless, of course, you're ready to step in and compensate for the failures of the the challengers ahead of you.The context, in my estimation, betrays no indication of being metaphoric.Bzzz, Try again!This message has been edited by Hydarnes, 08-16-2004 01:55 PMThis message has been edited by Hydarnes, 08-16-2004 02:30 PM

Bulls really have tales comparable with ceder trees....And you might have noticed that it says "eateth grass as an ox", clearly not an ox itself.Bzzz. Try again!This message has been edited by Hydarnes, 08-16-2004 01:53 PM

But if one accepts that all the people contemporary with the dinosaurs would have been eliminated by the Flood, there isn't much reason why they *should* be mentioned much.

One question crashfrog:If crocodiles went extinct with the Dinosaurs, do you think that today they would be classified with Dinosaurs?

One more questionDo you believe that crocodiles are reptiles?

Then why are you so vehemently disputing Buz' classification of Dinosaurs as reptiles?

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Do you mean "today they would be classified as Dinosaurs" because no they would not.

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If what you wrote is what you meant Crashfrog has shown (in post 84) that today crocs are classified with dinosaurs in the same taxa, this does not mean that crocs are dinos or that dinos are reptiles.

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So this is an unreliable identification?:"Dinosaur, one of a group of extinct reptiles that lived from about 230 million to about 65 million years ago. The word dinosaur was coined in 1842 by British anatomist Sir Richard Owen, derived from the Greek words deinos, meaning marvelous or terrible, and sauros, meaning lizard. For more than 140 million years, dinosaurs reigned as the dominant animals on land."--http://encarta.msn.com/..._761573347/Dinosaur.html#461520248

So if it is one of great contention, why are you feigning certainty?

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Dinosaurs inhabited the Earth for several hundred million years.

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Yes yes, we know the doctrine.