Noah did not have to go out and find the animals. God brought each one. This probably included a young pair of each main type of dinosaur. Perhaps God just included the basic types of dinosaurs He first created; not every variety that had developed since Creation.
Young dinosaurs would be small and easier to care for and would use less food. It would have been foolish to fill up space on the Ark with the oldest, biggest adults.
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... Basic types of dinosaurs?
So if God brought all the animals together and added extra water content to the planet sufficient to cover all land, why the fuck did he have to get some guy to build a boat for him? Why not use those matter-controlling powers to just float the animals away into space in a bubble of air or something? Heck, why not just kill all the bad people and not bother with that flood crap? Maybe he'd improved his aim a bit by the time of that whole "killing all the firstborn of Egypt" thing.
I wish fundies would get their damn stories straight. Some of them think the flood wiped out the dinosaurs while others say that Noah took them on the ark since it says that he took 2 of every animal. Either scenario is ridiculous as is the flood myth altogether. There is absolutely no way to explain the earth and the life thereon, much less the universe within the context of the freaking Babble.
not every variety that had developed since Creation
Its worse than that.
What's so fundie about this? I have the book Paul wrote this in, and it makes perfect sense to me. There's nothing in the Bible that says evolution can't occur, so just because a Christian believes in evolution, it doesn't go against the Bible. The whole "animals never change" and "animals are the same today as they were before" stuff is just a made-up interpretation of the Bible. "Kinds" aren't the same as species. I think that different types of dinosaurs could have easily developed since Creation. You might say, "but creationists think the earth is 6,000 years old." The Bible never says anything on the earth's age, or the time of the flood. All it says is "in the beginning." It never says when the beginning was. The 6,000 year thing was just an assumtion made by YECs.
Austin, it's pretty fundie to believe that God actually flooded the entire Earth and that some guy built a giant boat with a bunch of animals from the various "kinds." Even if fewer kinds than species are needed, that's still a whole lot of animals.
"Noah did not have to go out and find the animals. God brought each one."I agree that that is what it says in the Bible. It's not true, but it does say that in the Bible.
"This probably included a young pair of each main type of dinosaur. Perhaps God just included the basic types of dinosaurs He first created; not every variety that had developed since Creation."
The Bible doesn't say "each main type," it says "They (Noah's family), and EVERY beast after his kind, and ALL the cattle after their kind, and EVERY creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and EVERY fowl after his kind, EVERY bird of EVERY sort." (Gen 7:14)
"Young dinosaurs would be small and easier to care for and would use less food. It would have been foolish to fill up space on the Ark with the oldest, biggest adults."
Well, one can't worry too much about the foolishness of which, what or how many dinosaurs might have been on the ark as the whole ark story is one of the most absurd lies ever perpetrated.
Why did God even need to bring the dinosaurs along in the first place? I don't understand why fundies are always trying to shove dinos on the ark--does anybody know? weren't on the Ark and perished in the Noachian Flood.
I wish they'd make up their minds.
If you believe this horseshit I have some Florida real estate and a slightly used bridge in New York I could let you have for a steal.
Sierra, I'm really sorry, but if that makes me as fundie as the other psychotic people on the internet (Dad, Xerxes, Dore Williamson, JohnR7 etc. etc.) then fine. I'm not trying to push Christianity on people. It's my religion. My culture. If believing it makes me strange, then I'm gladly a wierdo. Besides, I admit evolution, and it doesn't conflict the Bible, the Bible never says the earth is 6000 years old, and the simple fact that the Ark wasn't big enough to support every single species within every single kind basically proves that God inteded creatures to evolve. I think there's evidence of a flood. I saw a picture of strange ocean wave marks. I'm not saying they're proof, but they are interesting.
Young dinosaurs would be small and easier to care for and would use less food.
Austin, the Earth's topography isn't static. Much of the American Midwest used to be under water, and the Bering Straight used to be a land bridge connecting two continents. Finding ocean wave marks in otherwise non-oceany places (not that this makes sense if you believe an ocean several miles deep covered the entire Earth at once) is not unexpected and can be easily explained without invoking giant, sinner-and-baby-drowning floods.
DV, I fear they're the fundies that believe all those Hovindisms about Nessie, and dinosaurs still existing in Africa, and dinosaurs were dragons in the Middle Ages and a whole other basket of trippy little mushroom shit, so they must've been on the 'Ark' to survive the 'flood'.
Austin, you're not as fundie as the clowns that are quoted here, but you have to admit the thought of a world-wide flood as according to the Bible is pretty fundamentalist.
Austin:
Where the heck do people get this stuff from? Does this guy even own a Bible?"Noah did not have to go out and find the animals. God brought each one.
Where does it say that in the Bible? God tells Noah "you will bring two of every sort into the ark". It doesn't say He'll bring them. That was just made up.
This probably included a young pair of each main type of dinosaur. Perhaps God just included the basic types of dinosaurs He first created; not every variety that had developed since Creation.
"Probably", "perhaps" - again, just inventing stuff not in the Bible.
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