Well that's interesting. Carl Everett, the short-fused Red Sox outfielder who has thankfully gone to the Rangers, said the dinosaurs never existed, because there is no mention of them in the Bible.
Which is it?
...And God prepareth the great monsters...
Gen 1:21
The bible speaks of the behemoth, an animal with a tail like a tree trunk. No large animal had a tail like a tree trunk except the dinosaur. And studying Genesis in the original Hebrew, there is no problem with the earth being 4 billion years old.
Job 40:15 Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.
Job 40:16 Lo now, his strength [is] in his loins, and his force [is] in the navel of his belly.
Job 40:17 He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.
Job 40:18 His bones [are as] strong pieces of brass; his bones [are] like bars of iron.
Job 40:19 He [is] the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach [unto him].
Job 40:20 Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.
Job 40:21 He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.
Job 40:22 The shady trees cover him [with] their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.
Job 40:23 Behold, he drinketh up a river, [and] hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.
Job 40:24 He taketh it with his eyes: [his] nose pierceth through snares.
They are described in accurate detail in the book of Job.
Well that's interesting. Carl Everett, the short-fused Red Sox outfielder who has thankfully gone to the Rangers, said the dinosaurs never existed, because there is no mention of them in the Bible.Which is it?
Hey now. Computers and airplanes were never mentioned in the Bible, so they must not exist either. The Bible doesn't mention Coca-Cola or cheeseburgers; yikes! Out they go, too.
Conversely, if all those dinosaurs existed in the garden of Eden, it must have been too crowded to include all the other animals - modern animals, ice age animals, all those giant mammals that existed after the dinosaurs were gone; not to mention all the dinosaur and non-dinsosaur species of the Jurassic, Triassic, Cretaceous, etc., and then all the species which existed long before the dinosaurs. Nope; not even if the entire earth was Eden could it hold them all, all of them alive at the same time.
Fundamentalists seem to have a problem dealing with any kind of chronology over 6,000 years; but then they don't realize they borrowed that time span from the Zoroastrians.
Reminds me of a Bible thumper I once worked for. He said everything in the Bible was literal EXCEPT where Jesus changed the water to wine. He said that was a mis-translation and that the wine was really grape juice since Jesus would not condone drinklng alcohol. HHAHAHAHA He also said that God created the dinosaur fossils to appear old to test man's faith. How can you argue with that kind of logic???
No one should argue with that. Even those who believe in australopithecan Eve must realize that Eve and her descendants derived names for the animals. (A Latin-Greek lexicon, no doubt.)
The ballplayer is ignorant.