Did Dinosaurs Walk among Humanity?

Our teachers taught us in school that dinosaurs lived billions of years ago. They taught us that humanity wasn't even around during the time of the dinosaurs, and that a catastrophe - thought to be the Ice Age - wiped them from Earth. But the #Bible teaches us otherwise.

Faith versus Science

Most scientists are not Christians but rather are humanists. But we don't have to be a scientist to believe in the Bible. We simply delve into it and read its truth. If indeed the Bible is just a book with untruths in it, it serves little purpose, and hence salvation is also a myth; therefore we will all die once and rot in the ground.

Interestingly enough, though the Bible is God's revelation of Himself and His plan for all of humanity, it is also a science book, history book, a geography book, and a book of poems, among other genres.

Christians by faith believe as the Bible claims: "All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness" (2 Timothy 3:16, NIV).

This simply means that all we need to know about things as they pertain to this life may be found in the Bible.

Dinosaurs and humanity

Ancient and not so distant literature informs us that there were dragons during the time of man. For example, we have Bel and the dragon, the Kulta of Australian aborigines, St. George and the dragon, and of course numerous Chinese legends. Were these but myths and legends or was there actually something more to them?

Let's see what Moses wrote under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit: "God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good" (Genesis 1:26, NIV).

Did you catch that? All the creatures. All that have ever lived, mind you. Dinosaurs did not evolve out of an initial primordial slime! That is the lie of humanism. I'll not delve into the various problems with humanistic evolution, but I do know for a fact that my uncle wasn't a monkey, though he could go ape at times when he drank too much beer.

Anyway...

Around 1,600 years later, after Noah was instructed to build the 101,000 square foot ark, he and his family took a pair of each land-dwelling animal “wherein is the breath of life” aboard the ark (Genesis 8:15). This is to say that God preserved a remnant of humanity and animals from the global flood.

Even in the book of Job where we read about God speaking to Job: "Look at Behemoth, which I made along with you and which feeds on grass like an ox" (Job 40:15, NIV). Jesus was saying, "Hey, I am even bigger than behemoth! Trust me; I have a plan.'

What then shall we conclude?

For one thing, I'll trust God's word and this science by faith. Science continues to offer mounting evidence that dinosaurs did not predate humanity, and also that various kinds of dinosaur kinds did not go extinct until after the great global flood, the likes of which occurred only thousands of years ago (6,000 plus years ago it is said).

Dr. Brian Thomas writes of a recent dinosaur fossil discovery, stating: "[The] Argentinian sauropod find had the anatomy that points to Genesis creation, a size that points toward Job’s behemoth, and sediments that points to the Genesis Flood" (Thomas, 2021).

You may read more about this dinosaur by following the link below.

I enjoy reading scientific articles. One fact about these journal articles is that science is constantly updating things as they are discovered. Science thus continues to change. But God's word is everlasting and unchanging - something we can take comfort in. This is because the Creator, "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever" (Hebrews 13:8, NIV).

May you all be comforted and blessed with God's truth.

Reference

Thomas, B. (2021). Is Newfound Dinosaur Fossil the Biggest Ever? ICR. Retrieved from https://www.icr.org/article/is-newfound-dinosaur-fossil-the-biggest-ever/