Why does the bible not mention dinosaurs?
We know they exsisted so why did'nt the bible mention giant lizard like creatures?
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The Bible is about preaching religion. I think God knew that preaching to dinosaurs wouldn't have much effect. As well as this, it might go a bit too off-topic for the synospsis describing the bible - and God wouldn't have wanted that. The people who wrote the bible cared about fish and feeding people five thousand at a time with scraps; they weren't interested in scary lizards. 2
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Well think of this way in one verse it mentions a dragon. So could the dragon in the bible be what we call a pterodactyl. And what scientists have basically done is get a bunch a bones make them fit together and say they've got a new dinosaur discovery... For all we know there may not of been many at all, scientists can only go by bones. Whoa, sorry I honestly didn't know that bearing in mind I made this argument over 500 days ago I don't even agree with it anymore. I called it a pterodactyl because that is the name given in every dinosaur book I own and I have never actually heard the name pterosaur given too it. Well, it does mention "behemoths", but back then, it could mean anything, such as monsters under the bed or just leviathans that guard the edge of the world. (That is in the Bible.) Even if it did mention dinosaurs, it's not like fossils have only been found now. It's possible for people waay back to have found massive fossils from dinosaurs and assume that they might still exist... 1
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behemoth: ox of the water and leviathan: serpent are not necessarily dinosaurs and are perfectly explainable in ways that do not disagree with several lines of scientific evidence - e.g. hippo and crocodile 1
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