What About Dinosaurs?

Dinosaurs?

• Did God create dinosaurs?

–Gen. 1:20-25

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Col. 1:16 - 16For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him.


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• Dinosaurs co-existing with man?

–65 million years ago?

–Gap Theory

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Exo. 20:11 - 11For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.




–Gap Theory

• Gen. 1:1-5, 16-18

• “day” is the same word (yom) in verse 5 and verse 18

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–Gap Theory

–Day-Age Theory

• “evening and the morning”

• What about pollination?

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–Gap Theory

–Day-Age Theory

– Fossil evidence

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"Over the decades, evolutionary theorists beginning with Charles Darwin have tried to argue that the appearance of multicelled animals during the Cambrian merely seemed sudden, and in fact had been preceded by a lengthy period of evolution for which the geological record was missing. But this explanation, while it patched over a hole in an otherwise masterly theory, now seems increasingly unsatisfactory. Since 1987, discoveries of major fossil beds in Greenland, in China, in Siberia, and now in Namibia have shown that the period of biological innovation occurred…”

“…at virtually the same instant in geologic time all around the world. ...just as the peculiar behavior of light forced physicists to conclude that Newton's laws were incomplete, so the Cambrian explosion has caused experts to wonder if the twin Darwinian imperatives of genetic variation and natural selection provide an adequate framework for understanding evolution...” (Time, 12/4, 1995, p.67, 74)

"The Cambrian Explosion occurred in a geological moment, and we have reason to think that all major anatomical designs may have made their evolutionary appearance at that time. Contrary to Darwin's expectation that new data would reveal gradualistic continuity with slow and steady expansion, all major discoveries of the past century have only heightened the massiveness and geological abruptness of this formative event...” (Stephen J. Gould, Nature, Vol.377, 26 10/95, p.682)

"And we find many of them already in an advanced state of evolution, the very first time they appear. It is as though they were just planted there, without any evolutionary history.” (Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker, 1986, p.229-230)

Dinosaur and human print together (Paluxy River near Glen Rose, TX)

30 ft. fossilized tree protruding through multiple sedimentary layers (Cookville, TN)

Fossilized human foot inside leather cowboy boot ca. 1950 (Iraan, Texas – 1980)




–Gap Theory

–Day-Age Theory

– Fossil evidence

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–Gap Theory

–Day-Age Theory

– Fossil evidence

–Archeological evidence

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Ta Prohm Temple, Cambodia (Khmer) 8th – 13th Century

Ica, Peru (Nasca) 500 – 1500 AD

Ica, Peru (Nasca) 500 – 1500 AD

Acambaro, Mexico (Chupicuaro) 800 BC – 500 AD

Grand Canyon, Arizona

Montrose County, Colorado (Fremont Indians) 400 – 1300 AD

Matt. 19:3-5 - 3The Pharisees also came to Him, testing Him, and saying to Him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?” 4And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ 5and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?



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• Dinosaurs in the scriptures?

–Behemoth (Job 40:15-24)

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– Leviathan (Job 41)

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– Leviathan (Job 41)

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• Where did they go?

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Gen. 6:19-21 - 19And of every living thing of all flesh you shall bring two of every sort into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female. 20Of the birds after their kind, of animals after their kind, and of every creeping thing of the earth after its kind, two of every kind will come to you to keep them alive. 21And you shall take for yourself of all food that is eaten, and you shall gather it to yourself; and it shall be food for you and for them.” 22Thus Noah did; according to all that God commanded him, so he did.





Deut. 29:29 - 29The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.





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• Mankind is special

–Gen. 1:26-28

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Isa. 43:7 - 7Everyone who is called by My name, whom I have created for My glory; I have formed him, yes, I have made him.

John 3:16

Eph. 2:10 - 10For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

Gal. 3:26-27 - 26For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. 27For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

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What About Dinosaurs?