Did Adam and Eve hunt dinosaurs?

Answer 1

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Most indeed they did, There are many references in The Bible about dragons. Many think that dragons were a myth however that is only because the term dragon is what we know now as dinosaur. The term dinosaur only arrived in the 1800's. Prior to this they were known as dragons, and every great culture in humanity has a reference to them. Most dating back within the last few thousand years, which would lead to believe that not only did Adam and Eve walk with dinosaurs, it was not long ago that many dinosaurs were around, as apposed to the few species that remain.

Since Dinosaurs are land creatures, they were created on the same day of all the other land animals, so that would mean that Adam and Eve did live with dinosaurs. How they became extinct I don't know.

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Dinosaurs are an archaeological reality, Adam and Eve are a religious metaphor. They aren't even a part of the same reality, let alone the same time period.

Dinosaurs became extinct about 65 million years ago. Adam and Eve were supposed to have lived about 6 to 7 thousand years ago. (about 4000 BC) They would have never met.

Assuming dinosaurs ever existed they would have been part of creation and would have been contemporaries of Adam and Eve. There is no record that Adam and Eve actually saw dinosaurs; they may have lived in different parts of a very empty planet.

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The second answer seems to be a creationist answer. Many inconsistencies seem to have been found in creationist stories.

"There is no evidence that Adam and Eve saw dinosaurs" (see above)

Dinosaurs were not known or discovered until about 1882 with Dorson and Owen. Since they were not known they were not put into the Bible which was written long before dinosaur bones were discovered.

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Ancient Hebrew did not have the word 'dinosaur' but it did describe a number of creatures considered by many to be types of dinosaur such as the Leviathan and the Behemoth.

By simple and logical analogy Adam and Eve certainly walked with dinosaurs and with Lions as well and snakes and Spiders and other dangerous creatures without harm.

Further Opinion: Most certainly Genesis 2: 20 includes a list of the groups of animals which Adam named. This evidently does not include dinosaurs. Cattle are not dinosaurs. The 'fowl of the air' are not dinosaurs either (even thoughthey descended from the dinosaurs). 'Beasts of the field' is a clear reference to domesticated creatures used by man for agriculture. These clearly were not dinosaurs either.

Although this is a somewhat different issue, Adam clearly in this instance was not required to name every single species on the planet. Nor do we have one single actual name recorded of any of the creatures that he named. If we follow the logic through then all cattle, birds and beasts of the field do not exist because the names which Adam gave them are not recorded. This conclusion would seem to be somewhat difficult to arrive at.

Dinosaurs were certainly created by God only days before Adam or else they evolved and were extinct (although this is difficult to prove given the history of the Coelacanth and the Wollemi pine)as is presumed, around 65 million years ago. These two positions are clearly and irrevocably incompatible. What is unnecessary is to draw false conclusions from the Bible account. There are literally thousands of things, probably millions of things which the Bible does not record which everyone knows exist, including people who believe the Bible. No-one who believes the Bible doubts that anything does not exist simply because it is not mentioned in the Bible. This is a straw-man argument.

Adam and Eve were made up my Moses from Egypt, it is just a story.

Get real...Adam and Eve did not exist...it's all made up by those darn sheep herders, and Moses was made up too.

Carbon dating and the 40 or so other dating methods we now have are proven totally and line up beautifully when cross checked. The real world realizes that the Bible is just myths mixed up with some real names and places. It is a man-made prehistoric artifact...as is all religions.

§ Dendrochronology - for dating trees, and objects made from wood, but also very important for calibrating radiocarbon dates

§ Thermoluminescence dating - for dating inorganic material including ceramics

§ Optically stimulated luminescence or optical dating for archaeological applications

§ Potassium-argon dating - for dating fossilized hominid remains

§ Archaeomagnetic dating - Clay lined fire hearths take on a magnetic moment pointing to the North Pole each time they are fired and then cool. The position of the North Pole for the last time the fire hearth was used can be determined and compared to charts of known locations and dates

§ Magnetic Properties of Lead used to establish dates. Chemistry Professor Shimon Reich, a specialist in superconductivity, has demonstrated a method for dating artifacts based on the magnetic properties of lead, a material widely used in Israel and elsewhere in antiquity. Reich and coworkers found that at cryogenic temperatures, lead becomes a superconductor, but the corrosion products formed from centuries of exposure to air and water (lead oxide and lead carbonate) do not superconduct. On the basis of magnetic measurements and comparison with artifacts that were known (using other techniques) to be up to 2500 years old, the group showed that the mass of lead corrosion products is directly proportional to an object's age (New Journal of Physics, 2003, 5, 99)

§ Amino acid dating

§ Obsidian hydration dating - a geochemical method of determining age in either absolute or relative terms of an artifact made of obsidian

§ Rehydroxylation dating- for dating ceramic material.

§ Paleomagnetism: The polarity of the Earth changes at a knowable rate. This polarity is stored within rocks, through this the rock can be dated

§ Tephrochronology: Volcanic ash has its own signature for each eruption. In a sedimentary sequence the associated material within the ash layer can be dated giving a date for the eruption. If this ash is found anywhere else in the world a date will already be known (bearing in mind transportation time).

§ Oxygen isotope chronostratigraphy: This is based on the climatic stages displayed in SPECMAP relating to different cold and warm stages experienced in deep time for example point 5.5 in the SPECMAP chronology describes the peak of the last interglacial 125,000 years ago.

§ Astronomical chronology

§ Fluorine absorption dating

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Answer 2

A:No. there are two reasons Adam and Eve never aw dinosaurs:

1. Adam and Eve are not real, historical people;
2. Dinosaurs became extinct around 65 million years ago, long before the time of any humans.

Answer 3

On at least two counts, no:

• According to the biblical genealogies, Adam and Eve lived around 6000 years ago, whereas the last dinosaurs became extinct around 65 million years ago.
• It is now widely accepted that the story of Adam and Eve is not historically true, as modern humans have been on earth for over 200,000 years.

Answer 4

According to Evolutionists and Old-Earth Creationists, the answer ranges from "impossible" to "unproven" (as in the case of Mokele-Mbembe).

According to Young-Earth Creationists, the answer is "yes." Dinosaurs are mentioned in Genesis 1:21, which may be mistranslated as huge sea-creatures but actually uses a Hebrew word which elsewhere refers to land-reptiles as well.

See also:

Is there evidence of recent Creation

Answer 5

Dinosaurs became extinct long before the first humans appeared, so if Adam and Eve did actually exist, they would not have even seen a living dinosaur, much less eaten the meat of one.