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Thread #114954   Message #2465714
Posted By: Little Hawk
14-Oct-08 - 06:20 PM
Thread Name: BS: Popular Views on Palin
Subject: RE: BS: Popular Views on Palin
They're not listed in the Bible at all, Richard, unless you count the phrase "there were giants in those days". (Some Christians do use that line to say, "See! The Bible does refer to the dinosaurs. They're really stretching when they do that.)

There are a great many things which are not spoken of in the Bible. This doesn't prove that they are not from God or anything else, and it doesn't prove anything about the Bible either...it just indicates that they are not spoken of. You want to know why? Because the men who wrote the various stuff that is in the Bible wrote about the things they either knew firsthand...or had heard about...and they certainly had not heard about dinosaurs...nor had anyone else until quite recently in history.

For instance, if you had spoken to someone in the Elizabethan age he would not have had a clue about dinosaurs, but he would have definitely heard of dragons and other mythical monsters of that sort.

People write about stuff they know about and are concerned about. The Bible was written by people of a certain historical era, and they wrote about the things they knew about and were concerned about.

This did not include dinosaurs.