Dinosaurs?

[Borg]

Ok...so, what is your explanation of dinosaurs as it relates to the gospel?

What are they, where did they come from, how do you explain the differences in their carbon dated ages and the scriptural reference to the age of the earth?

[Green Lantern]

Ok...so, what is your explanation of dinosaurs as it relates to the gospel?

What are they, where did they come from, how do you explain the differences in their carbon dated ages and the scriptural reference to the age of the earth?

They were the dominant life form on the planet for millions of years. They evolved from lower forms of life as did everything else. And I believe that carbon dating is probably the best method we have for understanding when they existed upon the earth. I don't see that there is any conflict between what science has uncovered and what the gospel teaches. Am I wrong?

[Fiyero]

[YOhio]

Ok...so, what is your explanation of dinosaurs as it relates to the gospel?

What are they, where did they come from, how do you explain the differences in their carbon dated ages and the scriptural reference to the age of the earth?

Questions like this, and who would win in a fight between the T-Rex and Velociraptor, have vexed theologians for ages. I just don't have an answer for you Borg.

[Borg]

Love it!

[Fiyero]

What are they, where did they come from, how do you explain the differences in their carbon dated ages and the scriptural reference to the age of the earth?

When you make dinner and take it out of the oven at 6:00, is it ten minutes old at 6:10? If you were to analyze the materials at 6:10, would they read ten minutes old because dinner was announced "ready" at 6:00?

When Jehovah and the great and noble ones created the earth, they didn't zap it out of thin air; they used existing materials. (The thin air theory is the Big Bang Theory: in the beginning there was nothing, and then it exploded).

[jay santos]

This is easy. 6,000 years ago when God created the earth, he took it from pieces of other planets where dinosaurs had previously existed.

[Fiyero]

This is easy. 6,000 years ago when God created the earth, he took it from pieces of other planets where dinosaurs had previously existed.

God knew what materials mankind would need to survive and thrive. Fossil fuels, for example. And it was ingenious of Him to suck the deadly gasses away from Earth into Uranus and Neptune.

[Pheidippides]

How old do the scriptures say the earth actually is? Cuz I personally believe it's 40 million or billion or trillion or whatever years old and that dinosaurs help me travel to work every day and such.

[KillerDog]

I don't bother trying to explain stuff like that. All responses sound wrong.

[beelzebabette]

Reading this topic makes me think of my brother's fifth Sunday lesson from the bishop on dinosaurs. Looking back, I'm guessing that bishop was just really tired of his calling.

[SoCalCoug]

And it was ingenious of Him to suck the deadly gasses away from Earth into Uranus

That is where I find the greatest concentration of deadly gases to be.

[Fiyero]

Personally, if I were a God who knew that in fifty million years my spirit great-grandchildren would be ready to create earths, I would go ahead and stock the galaxy with many planets full of dinosaurs and minerals now, so that in fifty million years there would be an ample supply. I would also have planets that are covered with all manner of seeds and plant life. Surely in the trillions and trillions of solar systems out there we can find room for these needs.

That's what my great-grandGod did for my peers and I, anyway. And he was so wise.

[ERCougar]

This is easy. 6,000 years ago when God created the earth, he took it from pieces of other planets where dinosaurs had previously existed.

I think you're joking here, but it sounds an awful lot what Fiyero is implying is the explanation. Maybe he's joking too.

[kccougar]

First, let's get a consensus on how long a "day" is, then we'll talk about whether or not a really old earth conflicts with gospel teaching.