When Christians are asked by non-believers to reconcile dinosaurs and the account of creation in Genesis, many questions arise. Is the Bible silent about dinosaurs? Why are dinosaurs apparently never mentioned in scriptures? Did dinosaurs live before or during the time of Adam and Eve and mankind?

We should note that the word “dinosaur”, which means terrible lizard, is a relatively new word that was first used in 1842 and was coined by scientist Richard Owen. This is the reason that the word “dinosaur” doesn’t appear in the Bible which was written well before the 1800‘s.

What The Bible Says About Dinosaurs

Dinosaur-like Creatures Mentioned

In the Book of Job, dinosaur-like creatures are mentioned and so they appear to have existed at the same time that Adam and Eve and their descendants existed. Job is an ancient book. If this book were placed in its true chronological order in the Bible, it would reside within the Book of Genesis since Job lived over 4,000 years ago.

In Psalm 74:13 it says, “It was you who split open the sea by your power; you broke the heads of the monster in the waters.” Isaiah 43:20 reads, “The beast of the field shall honor me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen” and he also writes about a monster (51:9).

Specifically, Are Dinosaurs in the Bible?

Job describes what sounds very much like a dinosaur. Read Job 40:15-24:

15 “Look at Behemoth, which I made along with you and which feeds on grass like an ox.
16 What strength it has in its loins, what power in the muscles of its belly!
17 Its tail sways like a cedar; the sinews of its thighs are close-knit.
18 Its bones are tubes of bronze, its limbs like rods of iron.
19 It ranks first among the works of God, yet its Maker can approach it with his sword.
20 The hills bring it their produce, and all the wild animals play nearby.
21 Under the lotus plants it lies, hidden among the reeds in the marsh.
22 The lotuses conceal it in their shadow; the poplars by the stream surround it.
23 A raging river does not alarm it; it is secure, though the Jordan should surge against its mouth.
24 Can anyone capture it by the eyes, or trap it and pierce its nose?”

Some of the translations say that the word “Behemoth” is an elephant or hippo, but there has never been a hippo or elephant that has a tail like a “cedar” (v 17) which is taken from the cedars of Lebanon. The cedars of Lebanon were valued above all timbers in ancient antiquity. They were 130 feet tall and their stout trunks could be over 8 feet in diameter. What elephant or hippo has a tail that size!? Many ancient dinosaurs were up to 150 feet in length like the Brachiosaurus.

Verse 19 says that this enormous creature ranked first in all of God’s works (v 19). Its size allows it to be unfazed by a “raging river” (v 23). It also appears to be irresistible even to humans or other animals that try to “trap it” (v 24).

Elsewhere, Job (41:1-34) describes a creature that inhabits the seas that some translations have mistakenly translated into the word whale. But any Bible with margins that gives the original translation of the word clearly indicates it is not a whale. What whale has razor sharp teeth like iron that can swallow its prey whole (v 14)? Has anyone ever seen a whale or fossil remains of a whale where the weapons of man can not penetrate (v 26-29)? What whale can destroy by simply passing over their prey (v 30) and has no fear whatsoever of anything (v 31-34)? In 2008 the Natural History Museum in Oslo, Norway revealed one of the largest dinosaur sea predator ever found. It is a Pliosaur Kronosaurus which is estimated to be over 50 feet long. The teeth that remain are still sharp enough to cut wood.

Dinosaurs, Fossilization and Extinction

There are hundreds of early British and French explorers and trappers and American explorers and settlers that wrote down reports of sightings of giant mastodon bones still lying on the ground. Many of the Indians they spoke with mentioned them as being in recent memory. The fact is that fossilization does not take millions of years since under the right conditions a bone, an old boot, and even wood can become filled with minerals fairly quickly. Necessary ingredients for fossilization, even in a few thousand years are these; a quick burial under very deep water or volcanic ash.

Consider the Great Flood of Noah’s time — this would have provided excellent conditions for fossilization of plants and animals. There would have been a rapid burial by millions of tons of water and sediment. The fact is that today there are many dinosaur remains that are still not completely turned in to rock and that have not been fossilized; millions of these have been found as bone. Even today they are finding fish fossils that still have a fishy smell to them. The flood may have been the reason that many of the dinosaurs died out. Even the sea creatures would have died since many of their prey could have perished in the flood.

Conclusion

The more we read the Bible, the more we find that dinosaurs are not inconsistent with the scriptures. They could have died from disease, the flood, or in some cases, hunted into extinction. Regardless, it is obvious that the dinosaurs did roam the earth at one time. It is also clear that the Bible makes mention of some creatures that fit their description. Therefore, Christians belief in the Bible and the knowledge of the existence of dinosaurs, are not incompatible. In fact, they are completely compatible with God being the Creator of all life; plants, animals, insects, and mankind.



Read more: http://www.whatchristianswanttoknow.com/what-do-christians-believe-about-dinosaurs/#ixzz2BTt6KvMP

Yeah,me think so too,but man and dinosoar cannot exist at the same time,dinosoars are too large in size,hence man cannot survive in there era.

man did not exist when dinosaurs did. your hippie guide is a farce. a lie.
good attempt though. but next time plz come up with somethiing better. .

dj militant: Yeah,me think so too,but man and dinosoar cannot exist at the same time,dinosoars are too large in size,hence man cannot survive in there era.

You mean to say dinosaurs will have been using man to make barbecue abi?

PAGAN 9JA:
man did not exist when dinosaurs did. your hippie guide is a farce. a lie.
good attempt though. but next time plz come up with somethiing better. .

My "pagan friend", what is your give and take on the dinosaur matters? They never existed abi na white maggick man use to control them?

Nice to see christians looking for facts.
But the bible is a book of poetry. And in poetry figures of speech like hyperbole, simile and metephor are used.

Job was obviously being poetic, so I'm not surprised by his descriptions of things.
The beast in the sea he was describing was probably a whale. Haven't u heard of humpback whales? Those things are huge. Infact they are the biggest animals on earth.

The beast on the earth could have been an elephant or croc. Like I said, hyperbole.


Besides, ur explanation of their extintion is quite inconsistent.
Weren't they meant to be in the ark? Wasn't every specie meant to be on the ark?

^^^^Hmn, i still wonder how NOAH MANANGED TO BUILD THAT ARK SEF, ALL BY HIMSELF. NOAH MUST HAVE BEEN A GOD TO BUILD THAT ARK ALL BY HIMSELF.

DINO INSIDE THE ARK? HMN, THE ARK WOULD RATHER HAVE SANK, OR EVERYONE IN THE ARK WILL HAVE BEEN SLAINED, OR THE ANIMALS WILL NOT COMPLETE A PAIR EACH WHEN THEM DEY COMMOTH - DINO GO DON CHOP THEM TIRE.

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When Christians are asked by non-believers to reconcile dinosaurs and the account of creation in Genesis, many questions arise. Is the Bible silent about dinosaurs? Why are dinosaurs apparently never mentioned in scriptures? Did dinosaurs live before or during the time of Adam and Eve and mankind?

We should note that the word “dinosaur”, which means terrible lizard, is a relatively new word that was first used in 1842 and was coined by scientist Richard Owen. This is the reason that the word “dinosaur” doesn’t appear in the Bible which was written well before the 1800‘s.

What The Bible Says About Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs and other ore historic animals existed millions of years ago. Before our present age ,before Adam was created , they were all destroyed in the first world ruled by lucifer who became Satan.

dinosaurs are also known as dragons and as to whether they coexisted with humans, is a subject of study.

safe to assume they went extinct before the current dispensation.

one can also assume the serpent in the garden of eden was some form of this species.

And according to your theory meat eating dinosaurs like t-rex, raptors, allosaurus, and giagantic plant eaters eg sauropods also co-exsisted peacefully with man .... EpicFail

that is a myth

FMK: that is a myth

just wait until u see the bone of a dinosaur u will understand.

Nothing like dinosaur abeg, they were myth. But what about the fossils of dynosaurs? where them fossils came from if they did not exist before?

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My "pagan friend", what is your give and take on the dinosaur matters? They never existed abi na white maggick man use to control them?

they existed way before homo sapien. for example this dinosaur you talked about:

15 “Look at Behemoth, which I made along with you and which feeds on grass like an ox.
16 What strength it has in its loins, what power in the muscles of its belly!
17 Its tail sways like a cedar; the sinews of its thighs are close-knit.
18 Its bones are tubes of bronze, its limbs like rods of iron.
19 It ranks first among the works of God, yet its Maker can approach it with his sword.
20 The hills bring it their produce, and all the wild animals play nearby.
21 Under the lotus plants it lies, hidden among the reeds in the marsh.
22 The lotuses conceal it in their shadow; the poplars by the stream surround it.
23 A raging river does not alarm it; it is secure, though the Jordan should surge against its mouth.
24 Can anyone capture it by the eyes, or trap it and pierce its nose?”

Some of the translations say that the word “Behemoth” is an elephant or hippo, but there has never been a hippo or elephant that has a tail like a “cedar” (v 17) which is taken from the cedars of Lebanon. The cedars of Lebanon were valued above all timbers in ancient antiquity. They were 130 feet tall and their stout trunks could be over 8 feet in diameter. What elephant or hippo has a tail that size!? Many ancient dinosaurs were up to 150 feet in length like the Brachiosaurus.

Verse 19 says that this enormous creature ranked first in all of God’s works (v 19). Its size allows it to be unfazed by a “raging river” (v 23). It also appears to be irresistible even to humans or other animals that try to “trap it” (v 24).

only few herbivorous dinosaurs had such tails like "cedars" such as brachiosaurus,etc., and they all lived dirong the jurassic/triassic era around 196-146 million years ago. so there was no question of humans, etc trying to ""trap" them because humans did not exist back then.

Interesting mr pagan.

@OP which kin name you dey use?

I saw a story on yahoo front page abt remains of a big dead dinosaurs found in mexico. ive been thinking abt it since then. maybe the story of dinosaurs is in the missing books of the Bible. How come God didnt mention it at all?

Kudos to OP and other people who has contributed with their little knowledge.

But the book of Isaiah has been dated no matter how less than 150BC by skeptic and it's a book of prophecy (things that has happened and things to come).

Isaiah says something in:
Isaiah 43:16-17 "16Thus saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters; 17 Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as tow.

Verse 17 clearly stated how fossil had formed and how lives had gone into extinction(including Dinosaur).

Scientist has recorded that 98% of lives(including Dinosaur) had gone into extinction which it can be traced back to Genesis global flood (for a creationist).
And generally speaking, a fossil is any evidence of past plant or animal life that is preserved in the material of the Earth's crust. But when most people talk about fossils, they mean a specific subsection of this group -- fossils in which the shape of the animal or plant has been preserved, while the actual organic matter of its body is gone.
Though Dinosaur was not mentioned in the Bible but if you can pay close attention with that verse 17 you will discover that Dinosaur falls within the text.

With such certainty only God could vividly know that some lives has gone extinct and formed fossilize materials about 3000 years ago when this book was written when NO MAN could've conceived the ideas of fossilized matterials because He made it happened that way for a known reason best to Him.

Emusan: Kudos to OP and other people who has contributed with their little knowledge.

But the book of Isaiah has been dated no matter how less than 150BC by skeptic and it's a book of prophecy (things that has happened and things to come).

Isaiah says something in:
Isaiah 43:16-17 "16Thus saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters; 17 Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as tow.

Verse 17 clearly stated how fossil had formed and how lives had gone into extinction(including Dinosaur).

Scientist has recorded that 98% of lives(including Dinosaur) had gone into extinction which it can be traced back to Genesis global flood (for a creationist).
And generally speaking, a fossil is any evidence of past plant or animal life that is preserved in the material of the Earth's crust. But when most people talk about fossils, they mean a specific subsection of this group -- fossils in which the shape of the animal or plant has been preserved, while the actual organic matter of its body is gone.
Though Dinosaur was not mentioned in the Bible but if you can pay close attention with that verse 17 you will discover that Dinosaur falls within the text.

With such certainty only God could vividly know that some lives has gone extinct and formed fossilize materials about 3000 years ago when this book was written when NO MAN could've conceived the ideas of fossilized matterials because He made it happened that way for a known reason best to Him.

Nope. There is a lot of fossil evidence and it tells quite a story. First off, we can see many different types of dinosaurs that existed during different times. Even if you do not trust the current dating methods, the simple logical analysis of the fossils shows that certain types of dinosaurs are never found in the same layers. A Cretaceous dinosaur would not ever be found in a Triassic layer. This shows that the layers were put down at quite different times. Enough time to allow one type of dinosaur to live and breed and die out and then for another type to come along. By the way, this ties into evolution.

Next up, is the world lacks a consistent layer that would be created by a worldwide flood. A worldwide flood should have put a single layer of sediment around the world. We would be able to find it all over and it would be pretty darned easy to spot. It is not there. We can see world wide layers for other actions in the past. For instance, there is a layer at the KT boundary that is believed to be fallout from a very large asteroid hitting the planet. It is a very ancient layer though. There is no layer that indicates a world wide flood. Since we can find dinosaur fossils all over the planet then it would take a worldwide event to wipe them all out. If it was a flood then there should be a worldwide layer. That is not there so it could not have been a flood that did the job.

Another piece of evidence against the idea of a worldwide flood killing the dinosaurs is that they are found in a lot of different types of deposits. Paleontologists have found fossils in all kinds of layers that were deposited under a variety of methods and under a variety of circumstances. There are fossils that were quickly covered over by floods, there are some that sank into swamps, there are some that were covered over by landslides. Each of these will leave different chemical characteristics in the layer. If a flood killed all of the dinosaurs then there should be a single type of layer or at least a predominant type of layer.

Also what happened to aquatic dinosaurs?

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When Christians are asked by non-believers to reconcile dinosaurs and the account of creation in Genesis, many questions arise. Is the Bible silent about dinosaurs? Why are dinosaurs apparently never mentioned in scriptures? Did dinosaurs live before or during the time of Adam and Eve and mankind?

We should note that the word “dinosaur”, which means terrible lizard, is a relatively new word that was first used in 1842 and was coined by scientist Richard Owen. This is the reason that the word “dinosaur” doesn’t appear in the Bible which was written well before the 1800‘s.

What The Bible Says About Dinosaurs

Dinosaur-like Creatures Mentioned

In the Book of Job, dinosaur-like creatures are mentioned and so they appear to have existed at the same time that Adam and Eve and their descendants existed. Job is an ancient book. If this book were placed in its true chronological order in the Bible, it would reside within the Book of Genesis since Job lived over 4,000 years ago.

In Psalm 74:13 it says, “It was you who split open the sea by your power; you broke the heads of the monster in the waters.” Isaiah 43:20 reads, “The beast of the field shall honor me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen” and he also writes about a monster (51:9).

Specifically, Are Dinosaurs in the Bible?

Job describes what sounds very much like a dinosaur. Read Job 40:15-24:

15 “Look at Behemoth, which I made along with you and which feeds on grass like an ox.
16 What strength it has in its loins, what power in the muscles of its belly!
17 Its tail sways like a cedar; the sinews of its thighs are close-knit.
18 Its bones are tubes of bronze, its limbs like rods of iron.
19 It ranks first among the works of God, yet its Maker can approach it with his sword.
20 The hills bring it their produce, and all the wild animals play nearby.
21 Under the lotus plants it lies, hidden among the reeds in the marsh.
22 The lotuses conceal it in their shadow; the poplars by the stream surround it.
23 A raging river does not alarm it; it is secure, though the Jordan should surge against its mouth.
24 Can anyone capture it by the eyes, or trap it and pierce its nose?”

Some of the translations say that the word “Behemoth” is an elephant or hippo, but there has never been a hippo or elephant that has a tail like a “cedar” (v 17) which is taken from the cedars of Lebanon. The cedars of Lebanon were valued above all timbers in ancient antiquity. They were 130 feet tall and their stout trunks could be over 8 feet in diameter. What elephant or hippo has a tail that size!? Many ancient dinosaurs were up to 150 feet in length like the Brachiosaurus.

Verse 19 says that this enormous creature ranked first in all of God’s works (v 19). Its size allows it to be unfazed by a “raging river” (v 23). It also appears to be irresistible even to humans or other animals that try to “trap it” (v 24).

Elsewhere, Job (41:1-34) describes a creature that inhabits the seas that some translations have mistakenly translated into the word whale. But any Bible with margins that gives the original translation of the word clearly indicates it is not a whale. What whale has razor sharp teeth like iron that can swallow its prey whole (v 14)? Has anyone ever seen a whale or fossil remains of a whale where the weapons of man can not penetrate (v 26-29)? What whale can destroy by simply passing over their prey (v 30) and has no fear whatsoever of anything (v 31-34)? In 2008 the Natural History Museum in Oslo, Norway revealed one of the largest dinosaur sea predator ever found. It is a Pliosaur Kronosaurus which is estimated to be over 50 feet long. The teeth that remain are still sharp enough to cut wood.

Dinosaurs, Fossilization and Extinction

There are hundreds of early British and French explorers and trappers and American explorers and settlers that wrote down reports of sightings of giant mastodon bones still lying on the ground. Many of the Indians they spoke with mentioned them as being in recent memory. The fact is that fossilization does not take millions of years since under the right conditions a bone, an old boot, and even wood can become filled with minerals fairly quickly. Necessary ingredients for fossilization, even in a few thousand years are these; a quick burial under very deep water or volcanic ash.

Consider the Great Flood of Noah’s time — this would have provided excellent conditions for fossilization of plants and animals. There would have been a rapid burial by millions of tons of water and sediment. The fact is that today there are many dinosaur remains that are still not completely turned in to rock and that have not been fossilized; millions of these have been found as bone. Even today they are finding fish fossils that still have a fishy smell to them. The flood may have been the reason that many of the dinosaurs died out. Even the sea creatures would have died since many of their prey could have perished in the flood.

Conclusion

The more we read the Bible, the more we find that dinosaurs are not inconsistent with the scriptures. They could have died from disease, the flood, or in some cases, hunted into extinction. Regardless, it is obvious that the dinosaurs did roam the earth at one time. It is also clear that the Bible makes mention of some creatures that fit their description. Therefore, Christians belief in the Bible and the knowledge of the existence of dinosaurs, are not incompatible. In fact, they are completely compatible with God being the Creator of all life; plants, animals, insects, and mankind.



Read more: http://www.whatchristianswanttoknow.com/what-do-christians-believe-about-dinosaurs/#ixzz2BTt6KvMP

Came across that chapter sometime last year..but in verse 19,what did the bible mean by saying 'it ranked first among the works of God'? Any idea?

mkmyers45:

Nope. There is a lot of fossil evidence and it tells quite a story. First off, we can see many different types of dinosaurs that existed during different times. Even if you do not trust the current dating methods, the simple logical analysis of the fossils shows that certain types of dinosaurs are never found in the same layers. A Cretaceous dinosaur would not ever be found in a Triassic layer. This shows that the layers were put down at quite different times. Enough time to allow one type of dinosaur to live and breed and die out and then for another type to come along. By the way, this ties into evolution.

Next up, is the world lacks a consistent layer that would be created by a worldwide flood. A worldwide flood should have put a single layer of sediment around the world. We would be able to find it all over and it would be pretty darned easy to spot. It is not there. We can see world wide layers for other actions in the past. For instance, there is a layer at the KT boundary that is believed to be fallout from a very large asteroid hitting the planet. It is a very ancient layer though. There is no layer that indicates a world wide flood. Since we can find dinosaur fossils all over the planet then it would take a worldwide event to wipe them all out. If it was a flood then there should be a worldwide layer. That is not there so it could not have been a flood that did the job.

Another piece of evidence against the idea of a worldwide flood killing the dinosaurs is that they are found in a lot of different types of deposits. Paleontologists have found fossils in all kinds of layers that were deposited under a variety of methods and under a variety of circumstances. There are fossils that were quickly covered over by floods, there are some that sank into swamps, there are some that were covered over by landslides. Each of these will leave different chemical characteristics in the layer. If a flood killed all of the dinosaurs then there should be a single type of layer or at least a predominant type of layer.

Also what happened to aquatic dinosaurs?

If you read my post carefully especially those verses you will discover that verse 17 says "they shall lie together" which simply means it didn't happen in a day but in different occasions and a fossil of different creature can be found together.


For aquatic dinosaurs even the global flood account made it clear that the water at the deep burst forth first before the windows of heaven was opened. the aquatic lives will first of all affected before cripple lives.
shalom!

Emusan:





If you read my post carefully especially those verses you will discover that verse 17 says "they shall lie together" which simply means it didn't happen in a day but in different occasions and a fossil of different creature can be found together.


For aquatic dinosaurs even the global flood account made it clear that the water at the deep burst forth first before the windows of heaven was opened. the aquatic lives will first of all affected before cripple lives.
shalom!

Do you know how ridiculous the bolded sounds? So fishes, microbes, WHALES, sharks, crayfish, and what not survived the flood but Aquatic dinosaurs didn't?

mkmyers45:

Do you know how ridiculous the bolded sounds? So fishes, microbes, WHALES, sharks, crayfish, and what not survived the flood but Aquatic dinosaurs didn't?

Dude. Dont even bother trying to reason with that Emusan guy. He is the god of pseudoscience. And he will never concede.

Mamacita007: I saw a story on yahoo front page abt remains of a big dead dinosaurs found in mexico. ive been thinking abt it since then. maybe the story of dinosaurs is in the missing books of the Bible. How come God didnt mention it at all?

What missing books of the Bible? The Catholic church has the Good News Bible with about 7 other books.

Back to topic, there some things about the God and the Bible that's beyond human comprehension. My take on Dinosaurs is from Genesis 6:4 - "There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare [children] to them, the same [became] mighty men which [were] of old, men of renown". It could be that Dinosaurs existed on the earth with satan before man or they were wiped out in the flood in Noah's days.

I believe the Bible is a revelation from God. You can't force God to reveal what he won't. The existence of Dinosaurs is the least of my worries...

mkmyers45:

Do you know how ridiculous the bolded sounds? So fishes, microbes, WHALES, sharks, crayfish, and what not survived the flood but Aquatic dinosaurs didn't?

What does the bold mean? I couldn't get you.

But just try to understand a message before you post.

I said:

emusan:
For aquatic dinosaurs even the global flood account made it clear that the water at the deep burst forth first before the windows of heaven was opened. the aquatic lives will first of all affected before cripple lives.

@bold-affected is different from 'distroyed' if what you mean @bold in your post is that all lives in water died.

Some will die and some will survive because they live in water and water covers all the face of the earth.

PhenomenonVFX:
Dude. Dont even bother trying to reason with that Emusan guy. He is the god of pseudoscience. And he will never concede.

I'm not a god but man with full evidence of God Almighty existence.

I do conceed or reason with other people but the reality of nature with evidence of personal contact with God will never allow me to agree with any fairytale of atheist scientist.

I only try to let other christians who has not had personal encounter with God and ready to compromise their faith in God because of the lies of personal interpretation of facts by some people in our universe like some atheist on NL do to KNOW that not everything......completed in my signature!

Shalom!

dj militant: Yeah,me think so too,but man and dinosoar cannot exist at the same time,dinosoars are too large in size,hence man cannot survive in there era.

i disagree, there is harmony in everything about God. Its God's creature as wel as man. Each of them hav boundaries.

PAGAN 9JA:
man did not exist when dinosaurs did. your hippie guide is a farce. a lie.
good attempt though. but next time plz come up with somethiing better. .

Emusan:

What does the bold mean? I couldn't get you.

But just try to understand a message before you post.

I said:


@bold-affected is different from 'distroyed' if what you mean @bold in your post is that all lives in water died.

Some will die and some will survive because they live in water and water covers all the face of the earth.

What happened to aquatic dinosaurs? I need a proper and concise explanation. How did the water affect them? Did they die? If they didn't die where are they? If they did die why did they?

Emusan:

What does the bold mean? I couldn't get you.

But just try to understand a message before you post.

I said:


@bold-affected is different from 'distroyed' if what you mean @bold in your post is that all lives in water died.

Some will die and some will survive because they live in water and water covers all the face of the earth.

Also why is there a lack of DNA in fossils?

Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), the universal carrier of genetic information, is present in all organisms while they are alive. When they die, their DNA begins to decay under the influence of hydrolysis and oxidation. The speed of this decay varies on a number of factors. Sometimes, the DNA will be gone within one century, and in other conditions, it will persist for as many as one million years. The average amount of time detectable DNA will persist though is somewhere in the middle; given physiological salt concentrations, neutral pH, and a temperature of 15 °C, it would take around 100,000 years for all the DNA in a sample to decay to undetectable levels.

If fossils of the dinosaurs were less than 6,000 years old, detectable fragments of DNA should be present in a sizable percent of dinosaur fossils, especially in the Arctic and Antarctic regions where the decay of DNA can be slowed down 10-25 fold. A claim that soft tissues in a Tyrannosaurus fossil had been recovered in 2005 have since been shown to be mistaken,supporting the idea that dinosaur fossils are extremely old.

Dinosaur bones to me are created my men, all d well we dig in nigeria, we have neva come across fossil, d dinosaurs bones are always found where no one resides, sometin is fishy about dis whole tin, I was watchin nat geo wild , nd dey saw extint shark bone teeth easily, abeg scientist una dey lie

ednut1: Dinosaur bones to me are created my men, all d well we dig in nigeria, we have neva come across fossil, d dinosaurs bones are always found where no one resides, sometin is fishy about dis whole tin, I was watchin nat geo wild , nd dey saw extint shark bone teeth easily, abeg scientist una dey lie

Stop showing your ignorance and ignore this topic.....Fossils are man made? Dont make me laugh bro

mkmyers45:

Stop showing your ignorance and ignore this topic.....Fossils are man made? Dont make me laugh bro

have u dug one up b4