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  • No, Dinosaurs Aren't in the Bible: Part 2 (Leviathan)

    04/27/2019 6:22:28 PM PDT · by pcottraux · 21 replies
    Depths of Pentecost ^ | April 27, 2019 | Philip Cottraux
    No, Dinosaurs Aren’t in the Bible: Part 2 Leviathan By Philip Cottraux Last week I wrote about how the infamous passage in Job 40 about the Behemoth is often misconstrued as a dinosaur. In the very next chapter, God describes a monstrous fire-breathing sea dragon, the Leviathan, which Young Earth Creationists speculate was a real-life marine reptile, even citing this passage as evidence that dragons from ancient lore must have been based on an actual animal. I pointed out that dual references of a cow-like fertility deity and a fire-breathing dragon of chaos often appear in ancient literature in conjunction,...
  • No, Dinosaurs Aren't in the Bible: Part 1 (Behemoth)

    04/20/2019 5:49:47 PM PDT · by pcottraux · 85 replies
    Depths of Pentecost ^ | April 20, 2019 | Philip Cottraux
    By Philip Cottraux It’s been a long time since I’ve weighed in on the creation controversy, mostly because I hate how divisive it is. But I want to start a series critiquing Young Earth Creationism on a particular aspect that doesn’t get a lot of attention: the clumsy and unscientific way it tries to factor dinosaurs into the creation account. Smart aleck atheists sometimes demand explanations why the Bible doesn’t mention dinosaurs, implying Genesis is an ancient fairy-tale that gets Earth’s origins wrong. This isn’t a problem for old-earth interpretations, but the Young Earth Creationist claims that adding up the...