Did dinosaurs exist at time of the flood?

Answer 1

No. The accepted scientific consensus is that the dinosaurs died out almost 65 million years before people appeared on earth. That means the dinosaurs were gone long before Noah would have loaded his ark. You can read many interesting facts about dinosaurs at the related link provided below.

The physical size of the ark and the lack of reference to dinosaurs specifically makes it unlikely that, should the ark be real, dinosaurs would have been on it.

Answer 2

Yes, God created the heavens and the earth and all the plants and animals right? Isn't a dinosaur an animal. Adam and Eve lived with dinosaurs. In Job it says- behold the behemoth and then describes some sort of a dinosaur like creature. Also, keep in mind that the word dinosaur wasn't invented until the 1800s. The people in the time of The Bible would call them dragons.

Answer 3

The Hebrew term translated from 'taninim' in Genesis 1 may be translated as various types of 'reptiles' and thus may include the more recent English term of dinosaurs. Consider this story:

"Behold now behemoth, which I (God) made WITH thee;" get that, living in the reign of man. Continuing we read that this creature had a 'tail like a cedar' or very large tree - a comparison to other creatures no doubt. "He (behomoth) is the chief of the ways of God (the big land creature): He that made him can make His sword to approach unto him." This creature is so large that no man at that time could hope to kill behomoth, only God could. An awesome animal.

So this animal was a tremendous creature with a very large tail that lived in the waters of the Jordan having a very large mouth as the NIV states, "If a river rages, he is not alarmed; He is confident, though the Jordan rushes to his mouth." Any Pre-Adamic, young creationist theory does not fit here as 'sauropods' had tiny mouths and drank in a sucking manner through a straw. Further, Job states Behemoth ate grass. Most Geologist today would note that grasses are only found after the 'Cretaceous' period when dinosaurs roamed but are specifically mentioned in the Creation story of Genesis 1:11-12. As there are no fossil records with human bones being found with dinosaurs, behemoth cannot be a dinosaur.

So what was behomoth (Hebrew for 4 legged beast)or was Job just making up a story to illustrate a point?Well so far we have shown that he wasn't a dino.

The Fossil record does show a creature with massive bones classified as an unknown type of rhino. In 1910, a British scientist discovered such a creature and named it 'Baluchitherium,' meaning beast of 'Baluchistan'after the province in Iran where the bones were found. Note here, this area of Israel to Iran to Saudi Arabia to Egypt is generally the area of the origins of man in the Bible and not Africa where scientist now claim was the starting place. In 2003, a French team of scientists returns to the area and found COMPLETE remains of many male & femail baluchitherium just lying on the groundsuggesting that these massive creatures were swept away by a river, accumulating on its banks.

The dimensions of the fossil indicated that this animal had a head that was 5 foot long with a gaping mouth fitting its body size proportionally. They estimated that it stood 18 feet tall at the shoulder and 26 feet tall at its neck. From the tip of its nose to the rump, it was 30 feet long. This is equivalent to about 3 of todays African Elephants. It had a large 8 foot long tail like the cedar description of Job. Quite a behemoth!!

The Illustrated Library of the Natural Sciences, Volume 2 says this is the largest land mammal to ever existed and 'represents about the maximum size to which a land-living mammal can develop. Perhaps this then could be a dinosaur.

Answer 4

yes there was and i can give you proof but for now yes there was dinosaurs on earth

Answer 5

Those who believe in the flood do believe that dinosaurs existed at that time. In fact, they believe that is what wiped out the dinosaurs.

Answer 6

No. Dinosaurs, apart from birds, died out long before the first humans walked the earth.

Answer 7

Yes, but not through all of its existence. Pangaea came together in the Carboniferous period and remained through the Permian. Dinosaurs appeared in the next period, the Triassic.

Answer 8

yes. yes there were

Answer 9

Yes!