Please Explain the Existence of Dinasour Fossils

[chseeads]

Originally Posted by OP_Carl

And, as reminded by your tag line, they were ALL NEKKID too ! ! ! !


(good thing there weren't any thorns or briars, huh?)

Indeed....it all fits together when you start to think about it...LOL

[Mrs. LPW]

Arlo Moehlenpah
http://www.doinggood.org/creation.html He deals a lot with creation vs. evolution, but when he was at our church a few years back he answered a question regarding the reliability of carbon dating... He didn't seem to think it was reliable.

Personally, I think there are many things we'll not know or understand completely in this life... but unlike Satan tries to make people think (and sadly succeeds at times) it doesn't affect our faith.

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by Mrs. LPW

Arlo Moehlenpah
http://www.doinggood.org/creation.html He deals a lot with creation vs. evolution, but when he was at our church a few years back he answered a question regarding the reliability of carbon dating... He didn't seem to think it was reliable.

Personally, I think there are many things we'll not know or understand completely in this life... but unlike Satan tries to make people think (and sadly succeeds at times) it doesn't affect our faith.

Carbon dating is VERY reliable. You just need to know how to apply it. Unfortunately, the institute for creation research has picked up on the few times that it has not been done properly and ran with it, thus saying ALL radioactive dating has no merit.

[Mrs. LPW]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

Carbon dating is VERY reliable. You just need to know how to apply it. Unfortunately, the institute for creation research has picked up on the few times that it has not been done properly and ran with it, thus saying ALL radioactive dating has no merit.

Don't shoot the messenger!

[OP_Carl]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

Carbon dating is VERY reliable. You just need to know how to apply it. Unfortunately, the institute for creation research has picked up on the few times that it has not been done properly and ran with it, thus saying ALL radioactive dating has no merit.

It's been a while since I read it, but I came away with the impression that their main point was to show that the human element, i.e., the application and judging of results, was not entirely reliable. Not the actual science of carbon dating itself.

[tv1a]

I believe it is possible life was on earth between genesis 1:1 and genesis 1:2. I don't belive the the earth is 6,000 years old. Too much archeological evidence proves the earth is much older.

Originally Posted by Digging4Truth

There are animals mentioned in the bible that sound similar to dinosaurs.

The bible tells of huge animals who could drink up a river, with tails like cedar trees etc.

There are several postulates out there as to what happened to the dinosaurs.

One such postulate is that in the time before the flood there was a firmament of water around the earth (Gen 1:6-8) which caused there to be a temperate clime from the north pole to the south pole. The presence of wooly mammoths with tropical vegetation in their trunks in the frozen regions of our planet would tend to testify to this.

Dinosaurs were cold blooded creatures.

After the flood the introduction of the new concept of winter would eventually play havoc on these large cold blooded creatures.

Also... the pre flood era would have tended to have a year round, never ending growing season so the plants grew much bigger.

After the flood the temperature, food supply etc had changed to the point that it could no longer sustain these huge creatures and many of them died off.

Also... fossils are not formed on a large scale very often. Most animals that die tend to be eaten by other animals, parasites etc and do not turn to fossils. Fossils form when a dead animal is sealed off from the normal process of decay. (Such as a world wide hydraulic event)

It would be my guess that most fossils found on this earth were probably the remains of people & animals alive the day that Noah went into the ark and were sealed by that world wide hydraulic event from the process of decay to offer this opportunity for large scale fossilization to take place.

[tv1a]

This is the idea I've proposed for a long time. It seems the most plausible. I propose one other point. The light form wasn't the sun. Light wasn't created until the first day. The sun wasn't created until the fourth day. Ever wonder the source of light before the sun and moon were created?

Originally Posted by Newman

One idea of many.... (as touched upon by rgcraig)

In the beginning the Earth was without form and void (used up)....

The story of the Garden of Eden begins after satan had been cast down to Earth; hitting it like a gigantic, enormous metiorite that kicked up such a dust storm that the sunshine couldn't get through; the ice age came and the dinasaurs and all other life forms died out....

Then God spoke the words recorded in Genesis...

[RandyWayne]

Well, consider that the Earth (and other planets in our solar system) were "formless" spinning disks of dust and rock as they became the planets they are today. This was also going on AS the sun itself was forming and before nuclear fusion started deep inside it. There would have been a dull glow from the increasing heat, but not the fiery blazing orb we know now as the sun.

[OP_Carl]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

Well, consider that the Earth (and other planets in our solar system) were "formless" spinning disks of dust and rock as they became the planets they are today. This was also going on AS the sun itself was forming and before nuclear fusion started deep inside it. There would have been a dull glow from the increasing heat, but not the fiery blazing orb we know now as the sun.

Sort of like the DULL GLOW on the faces of people discussing how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?

[SDG]

Originally Posted by OP_Carl

Sort of like the DULL GLOW on the faces of people discussing how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?

Everyone knows the answer to that one, Carl. I think the airplane glue is getting to you.