This would mean that the dinosaurs What about the Dinosaurs then? were made on that day, that Adam would have seen them, and would have There seems to be a current myth that mixed with them. This would not be people who think God created the world dangerous because all, according to the do not believe in dinosaurs. Of course, Bible, all creatures started off as if we did deny the existence of vegetarian c.f. Genesis 1:30. dinosaurs then we would be denying solid evidence in the form of the …Noah’s flood fossilised skeletons and parts of skeletons that litter our museums Then where are they today? Why do we today. The argument goes that only seem to have fossils of them and therefore our belief in origins is also not the real thing? The Bible goes quite denying solid evidence and has no a long way to answering this. Genesis credibility. To be quite clear at the 6-8 records a world-wide flood, start, there is no conflict between an generally known as Noah’s Flood. Noah acceptance of the first part of the took some of every land-based creature biblical book of Genesis as true history into the Ark he built under God’s and the existence of dinosaurs. direction. After the waters died down, So how do dinosaurs fit into the Bible? Noah, his family and the creatures on You will not find the word ‘dinosaur’ in board came out onto a completely the Bible for one simple reason – the altered world. From here on we have to name was not invented until 1841 by do some intelligent thinking as the Bible Sir Richard Owen and the Bible was does not tell us explicitly what written a very long time before that, happened to any of these creatures – it the King James version being translated is not its focus. The consequence of the into English in 1611. The term globe being covered with water which ‘dinosaur’ comes from the Greek words then dried up would mean a lot of for ‘terrible lizard’. Although the name evaporation. There would also be much does not feature in the Bible, there are dust in the atmosphere from all the tantalising descriptions of creatures volcanic eruptions taking place during that could be referring to dinosaurs or the flood year. This dust would cause sea going or flying dinosaur-like there to be much less sunlight getting creatures, for example, Job 40:15-19 through and would lead to a drop in the describes a creature called ‘behemoth’ overall temperature which in turn could and if you read this it could be lead to the greater formation of ice. The describing a dinosaur like a balmy conditions probably in place Brachiosaurus, or Ps 74:13 refers to the before the Flood would no longer ‘dragon that is in the sea’, obviously a pertain and it was a harsher, more very large, impressive creature. Then extreme climate so that some creatures there is Isaiah 30:6 which mentions a would have found it difficult to survive. ‘fiery flying serpent’. Significantly, Job This is possibly why the dinosaurs died may well be the oldest book in the Bible out. There are tales all over the world and at a time within a few hundred that refer to large creatures, sometimes years of the Flood when dinosaurs were fire-breathing, and it would seem that more numerous. people were aware of these beasts for quite a long time after the Flood, into …on the 6th day recorded history. For a more comprehensive study of this The Bible talks about God creating all subject we refer you articles at th the land-based creatures on the 6 http://www.answersingenesis.org/get- day, the same day He created Adam. answers