[MontanaBeth]

I was taught in Sunday school that Satan, being jealous of the Lord's ability to create life, tried his hand at it and dinosaurs was his contribution.

[walford]

"I was taught in Sunday school that Satan, being jealous of the Lord's ability to create life, tried his hand at it and dinosaurs was his contribution."

Was this a divinely inspired revelation or the musing of a single person? Any time that the finite pontificates on the will/methods/objetives/grand plan of the infinite we are treading on thin ice.

Let us simply understand that life is a blessing, and not flirt with blasphemy by claiming to know the mind of the Almighty. We are simply not equipped to know. We live our lives in uncertainty. We must demonstrate our character by groping through trial and error toward a moral existence that is ours to discover, not make. Anyone who claims to have all of the answers in a singular package is selling snake oil at best.

We can have a shallow understanding of some mechanical details [i.e. medicine, physics and the other 'hard' sciences], but unless we can fabricate one of those creations ourselves from scratch we are only mechanics, not engineers with respect to life.