Dinosaurs may still be alive. Dinosaurs lived with man, there is art from many ancient civilizations that clearly depicts dinosaurs, and stories from hundreds of ancient civilizations of "dragons" as well. These were the dinosaurs.
There have been several recent finds of dinosaurs that contain soft tissue, there has even been reports of DNA being recovered. This would not be possible if dinosaurs went extinct millions of years ago. It is doubtful that DNA could even survive thousands of years, so dinosaurs could have been roaming around just a few hundred years ago.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/dinosaur.html
There have been dinosaur and human footprints found in the same location in several areas of the world. These would have had to be made within hours of each other.
Dinosaur Fossils
Discussion in 'Baptist Theology & Bible Study' started by saturneptune, Mar 25, 2013.
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HeirofSalvation Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
Start doing some research about "Tachyons"....and how they (faster than light particles)....might be disproving some facets of Einstein's theories of relativity...The Science is there...and it will ALWAYS support Scripture. We just don't know how to look for it. -
There was a nearly intact dinosaur discovered recently that still had vegatation in it's stomach.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/12/071203-dino-mummy.html
No way this dinosaur died millions of years ago, it probably died within a few hundred years.
What is amazing is that skin patterns were found that had been shown in ancient artwork, showing that ancient artists had actually seen living dinosaurs and did not make their drawings from fossils. -
Ancient art showing dinosaurs;
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preachinjesus Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
2. Always good to see you keep an open mind to my posts. :) -
I believed Genesis 1:1 and John 3:16. I also believed what I was being taught from grade school to college. Believed what I read in "scientific" magazines and books long after I left formal schooling. Just as I believed all those Nat Geo and Discovery channel "documentaries". Being an avid science fiction fan, at the time didn't help either.
The only way I could reconcile Gen 1:1 and John 3:16 with what I though I knew for fact, was one little phrase.
Genesis 1:1 tells who created the earth. John 3:16 tell why. Evolution tells how.
I didn't even know that belief had a name, until I was challenged on my little phrase.
Still asking, BTW. In your opinion did dinosaurs live thousand or millions of years ago?
There are many places in the Bible where evidence is less than clear. If everything was crystal clear there wouldn't be any need for faith. I can see the stapler on my desk. Therefore I don't need any faith to be assured it's right where I'm looking as I type.
Hebrews 1:1 KJB Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
While biblical evidence of dinosaurs is less than clear, physical evidence is becoming more clear as time passes. I won't repeat the links others have posted. Nor, take the time, right now, to find the links uncovered during my studies. Includes, BTW, commentary from "scientists" who disagree with them dying out 26,000 million years ago from an astroid strike in the Gulf.
Alternative scientific viewpoints that have received little, if any postive attention. Either ignored by "educators" or discounted in other demeaning ways. If I'd been given the opportunity to study or even been made aware that opposing opinions and study existed, perhaps I wouldn't have formed a hybrid belief that was incapable of sustaining itself. Most hybrids cannot faithfully reproduce copies of themselves.
Plus, remember, when I started this study, I was determined to prove that I was right. Therefore anyone who agreed with me was just what I was seeking. Someone else had a little different idea on that.
BECAUSE:
Last I heard, it takes about 7 years of Sunday school classes to cover the contents of the Bible. If the lesson plan used, intends to cover the Holy Book from cover to cover. Thus over a 12 year timespan to graducate from highschool how many times is the Creation week covered in SS study? Two hours maybe? How many hours, in public school would you guess is given to evolution studies? Pure speculation from long ago memories. One week per year @ 1 hour per day per week times 9 years (12 yrs - grades 1-3) = 45 hours plus an equal time for homework. 90+ hours compared to 2 or so. Easy to see why a HS diploma also carries a belief that evolution isn't just a theory. It's a FACT!
That just guesstimated study time for the topic of evolution. Doesn't include related studies that are used to reinforce the concepts of evolution.
Add to those hours all the hours in front of media screens that promote evolution. Denounce God in the classroom. Promote bunny rabbits and jolly red-suited elves and being politically correct with "Happy Holidays".
My words were not said with the thought that I'd convince anyone. I KNOW better. I know what it took to convince me. That's the reason why Proverbs 2:3-6 combined with 2 Tim 2:15 are some of my favorite Bible verses. I had help from One who knows the truth. -
Iconoclast Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
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http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/hockey/news/2003/07/21/body_found_ap/
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Come here convicted, I am waiting for you. -
And dinosaurs were recorded in history until recent times, as late as few centuries ago! -
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But God, Job 38, says we do not know!!!! -
HeirofSalvation Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
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I have a thought of which I would like to hear the thoughts of each of you.
Romans 11:15 For if the casting away of them the reconciling of the world, what the receiving, but life from the dead?
There we have death relative to the reconciling of the world.
2 Cor. 5:19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
There we have, forgiveness of sin, which brought forth death, relative to reconciling the world.
Should I understand the, "world," kosmos Strong's 1. an apt and harmonious arrangement or constitution, order, government; to be what took place from Gen.1:3-31?
If so why was the lamb ordained before the foundation of the world (kosmos), to die before any of that was done?
It appears to me that what was ordained before and done from Genesis 1:3-31 was to bring about the reconciliation of something that had taken place in Genesis 2. -
God is all seeing and all knowing. He knew before Genesis 1:1 what would transpire before the last verse in Revelation. IMO, after Revelation is completed, God will have achieved His objective, established before Gen 1:1.
When I plant a vegetable garden in the spring, I have a pretty good idea of the potential problems that I may encounter over the summer. Thus the question, "Why do it?" from friends who do not garden. Because the objective of gardening is the harvest. While I can only speculate in the spring, God knows His harvest that will come about in the fall. -
quantumfaith said: ↑Just for clarification, "carbon" dating would not be used for dating "dinos", as carbon 14 decay has limitations and "maxes out" at approximately 50,000 years. There are of course even with those things measured with c14 issues of contamination and rates of decay, most of these issues are clearly understood and taken into consideration as parameters.Click to expand...
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Yeshua1 said: ↑true, but the fact remains that ANY dating system is problematic, as those holding to them assume there was no great flood, no change in atmosphere, that data is properily beeing screened etc!Click to expand...
I "assume" the atmosphere has gone through significant changes over time, else there would be no life as we know it
I don't believe any scientist makes a claim absolute precision regarding radiometric dating techniques, all such techniques give "ranges" some better than others, all techniques also attempt to resolve for extraneous variables etc. -
The authors provided another reason why this soft tissue is from a more ancient source than modern fungus. They found that the ratio of radioactive carbon (C-14) to non-radioactive carbon (C-12) was less than five percent of that found in living organisms. Upon death, organisms begin steadily losing C-14 from their tissues as it radioactively decays into nitrogen. Its complete decay would require only thousands of years, assuming a constant decay rate in an undisturbed system.
The researchers found plenty of C-14 in their mosasaur—enough to calculate "an age of 24,600 BP [years before present]." ... But no amount of any of these could persist after 70 million years. http://www.icr.org/article/6084/
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