I have the worldview that scripture is truth (see 2 Timothy 3:16) so science will never cause me to doubt the Bible.
I do not have a problem with dinosaurs or extinct mammals that supposedly predate the time frame for Noah's flood...the dating techniques are flawed. Each of the dating techniques used that give old ages (potassium-argon, rubidium-strontium, or uranium-thorium-lead methods) use assumptions as to what the original chemical composition of the item was and that the rate of decay has stayed at a constant. This has been shown to be flawed since running water over an item (in a river?) has caused leaching of elements into and out of rocks (fossils) which will change the “age” of the fossil.
I simply take God at His word...
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2 Peter 3:3-6 Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lusts, and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all continues just as it was from the beginning of creation.” For when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that by the word of God the heavens existed long ago and the earth was formed out of water and by water, through which the world at that time was destroyed, being flooded with water.
As for dinosaurs read Job 40-41 “Behold now behemoth”
The dinosaurs lived at one time with man...and there are plenty of reports of “dragon (read dinosaur) legends” in cultures around the world and old “text books” of science from hundreds of years ago that actually list some of these creatures as being alive at the time...
I agree with you that I have not seen any science that would cause me to doubt the Word of God. Hold to God's Word.
God bless
P.S. For more information I would suggest the book “In the Beginning” by Dr. Walt Brown
“...the dating techniques are flawed.”
Not true. Many of these techniques are based on basic physics of radioactive decay.
“Job 40-41”
From “Is the Truth Out There:”
This is often absolute proof of dinosaurs and man living together. A careful review of these passages show that “literally” interpreting these words as dinosaurs is not literal at all. The first clue is the descriptions of the leviathan breathing fire and so forth. This sounds like figurative language describing the fear people had of this animal, after all what literal animal breathes fire? Also, the liberal use of “as” and “like” are dead giveaways of figurative speech.
Some Bibles footnote the behemoth as an elephant or hippopotamus. The leviathan sounds like another feared creature of Africa (such as in Egypt), the crocodile. Both the crocodile and hippo are extremely dangerous and have caused countless human deaths. They also fit the accounts in Job better than dinosaurs or mythical beasts.
“dragon legends”
I don’t think I’ll be using mythology to prove the Bible.
“I simply take God at His word...”
I do to, but let’s not oversimply and dumb it down.