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Are dinosaurs in The Bible

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No. If they were in The Bible, Adam would have named them all, like how he named the animals foxes, birds, donkeys, cows, bats, hare, etc. The authors of the Bible were still ignorant of dinosaurs.

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Yes. In Job 40:15-24, a creature called the Behemoth is described as having a tail like a cedar tree. The Behemoth was probably a sauropod, one of the large dinosaurs with long tails and long necks. When Adam named the animals, he did not name them in English or any other modern language, so he would not have called any animal a dinosaur. Discoverers of dinosaur fossils in the 1800s were the first ones to call them dinosaurs, which is Latin for terrible lizard.
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Some suppose that the Behemoth and Leviathan are referenced to dinosaurs (found in Job 40), however, most scholars agree that these are references to either the hippopotamus and crocodile, or two mythical creatures (used here poetically). So no, there is probably no mention of dinosaurs in the Bible.

Aside from the account of Adam up to Noah (and the long and open geneology that follows), the Biblical events start kicking with Abraham. Abraham is thought to live around 2,000 B.C., dinosaurs on the other hand, went extinct about 65 million years ago. That being said, the Bible is concerned primarily with man and his current circumstances, with small references to God's creative history (because the they testify of God's glory which is current). Old Earth creationist argue that the different "days" of Genesis are epochs or eras (Heb. "yom", translated "day", can mean epoch or era). They hold that dinosaurs had come and gone extinct before the advent of man (so we shouldn't expect to see references to them).
Job 40:15-24 and chapter 41

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