Dinosaurs

[jimmyrrs]

Originally Posted by nahkoe

I don't know. lol

I do believe they existed.

I really haven't studied creation a whole lot (recently). I'll get to it sometime.

Oh, fwiw, I don't believe in a literal 7 days. I think that's one case where the word would have been better translated as a length of time. But that'd be awkward so "day" was used.

I understand some don't beleive in the literal 7 days. I'm ok with that. It may have been 7000 years. What is time to God. We look at time in 24 hrs. The Bible says the evening and morning were the first day. We do it different now. Midnight is not called evening. It is the start of a new day for us.

I have wondered about the time from Gen 1:1 when he created the heaven and earth until, Gen 1:5 the first day. How long did the heaven & earth hang around before God started on it again. Was it all at once or did he wait a spell?

[jimmyrrs]

Originally Posted by TJJJ

I feel dinos werejust big lizards, relative to the croc or other lizards. The problem with reptiles is that as long as they are alive they are growing bigger and bigger. A 20 ft croc will have possibly lived 80 - 100 years. Before the flood we see where men were living over 900 years, so it is possible that reptiles could have lived and grown as long. A 300 year old croc would have been huge!

You bring up a good point TJJJ.

I have been taught that only land creatures & fouls were on the Ark. Fish were not. A croc can live in water yet has to come up for air just as whales. The problem with croc coming from the dinosaurs age with me is where did they rest. That's a long time in the water for them to make it with no land to reat on. Were there trees floating around and they got out of the water to rest? I don't.

[TJJJ]

Originally Posted by jimmyrrs

You bring up a good point TJJJ.

I have been taught that only land creatures & fouls were on the Ark. Fish were not. A croc can live in water yet has to come up for air just as whales. The problem with croc coming from the dinosaurs age with me is where did they rest. That's a long time in the water for them to make it with no land to reat on. Were there trees floating around and they got out of the water to rest? I don't.

I would think that there would be plenty of debris to rest on, possibly. Also, because they eat rotten meat there would be plenty to eat!