Quote Originally Posted by Messier-11:
How do you explain dinosaurs or evolution?.........any defense besides the normal bs of the bones were put there to test our faith
First off, I want to say that any defense talking about putting the bones there to test faith etc.. its pretty hard to swallow for sure... a lot of people will always fall back on something like that when they don't know an answer, while usually there is a more proper response....
Dinosaurs and Darwinism definitely help to make it all confusing and hard to believe the bible... Starting with Evolution...
Its important to understand their are 2 different kinds of evoulution, referred to as Macro and Micro evoulution... Micro evolution is the ability for a species to change in minor ways over a long period of time to suit their enviroment or survival needs... I think it would be silly to dispute this as its evident and is proven....
now when we get to the whole people came from monkeys deal, that is called Macro evolution, which is in a nutshell the dramatic changes in an organism that basically causes a change in species... contrary to popular secular belief, there is no basis to this and is not proven, in fact there has been much evidence to the contrary.
Darwin himself states, in order for his Theory to be true, there would need to be fossil discoveries of all the interim lifeforms from monkey to man... kind of like the pic/graph you see where monkey gets more and more upright and turns into man.... well there hasn't been any recovery of any of these interim versions of man/monkey discovered... and as of late a lot of the so called "proof" as far as skulls of monkey/men that were discovered in the 1970s have since been debunked as being fake and just regular ape skulls etc.. in many cases, not only that, but the same people that discovered them, have been the ones to come and denounce the authenticity
As far as Dinosaurs... one thing to consider is that the bible makes mention a few times of dinosaurs... in the book of Job it talkes about a large dragon type creature... and mentions its tail being as large as a Cedar Tree, and that its strong in the hips, and also that it is an herbivore... now before you say its ridiculous to consider man and dinosaur co-existed consider this...
The whole dating of the world and the things in it, much like macro evolution boils down to man saying its that way... for instance we all here about carbon dating and poly argon dating etc... and that different layers etc... are different times, but where in those rocks etc... are they coming up with those base numbers of millions of years etc... one would take that as gospel and assume it to be the truth, when in reality it may take more "faith" to blindly go along with that vs. the bible.
One last thought on Poly Argon dating which is considered to be very accurate etc... Poly dating can supposedly tell the age of fossils and things like that but consider this... if you poly argon date live clams in the pacific ocean, the test will show that they are 1400 yrs old or so, when their still alive. Thats not to say that the dating isn't a worthwhile tool, or that these methods can't produce insight, because they can.. more what I'm saying is the actual numbers (not the scale) of years are still based ultimately on man made theory...
Its hard to prove any one way or another, but its important to point out that things aren't so cut and dry as far as Bible vs. Evolution etc... but the general sentiment and conception is that everything science is fact, when everything creation oriented always comes back to man's opinion, and really has a lot less backing it up
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