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How do creationists explain dinosaurs? Do they think they are all fake? Is there a vast conspiracy, or just magic?

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  • Josh
    Lv 5
    6 years ago
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    Derp, God used his magic to make it look like the dinosaurs died out 50 million years ago.

    What they seem to ignore is that God really screwed over the scientists by creating all the scientific evidence proving beyond a reasonable doubt that the Earth is 4.6 billion years old.

    Why would their God provide so much "false evidence" to the scientists? Just to screw with the smart people?

    Simple answer; God doesn't exist.

  • 6 years ago

    Your question leaves a lot to be wanted. Creationists have no special need to "explain" dinosaurs. Dinosaurs are dinosaurs.

    If you mean justifying their existence; creationist and naturalist alike believe in dinosaurs. What problem in relation to dinosaurs would lead you to the conclusion that hey are fake, conspiracy, or magic? There is, to my knowledge, no creationist literature that says dinosaurs can't have been 100% real.

    There are people who take a view that history is much more condensed than most would believe. Though those people are the subject of a great deal of mockery, science would never progress if someone didn't challenge paradigms. "Young earth creationists" in both the Christian and Jewish faith use reasons that have almost nothing to do with dinosaurs to defend their positions.

    While I disagree with their position, it can be very difficult to discern knowledge from assumption. It doesn't help that so many religious naturalists make so many ridiculous straw man claims to boost their own confidence of views they likely know nothing about. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: There is no reason for creationism (even Biblical creationism) to necessitate a rejection of science nor is there a reason for scientists to reject the role of creation.

    If it is the mere existence of dinosaurs that needs explaining in your question, I would say that no one can agree with the next person, whatever their religion. The only universal claim by creationists is that they were, in some way, created. Some say they were created directly into their final form and others say they arose from less complicated creatures. None, to my knowledge say they never lived or that they are magical beings.

    Source(s): Young earth creationist articles: https://answersingenesis.org/ Old earth creationist articles: http://www.reasons.org/ Brief summary of the traditional timeline for dinosaurs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_dinosau...
  • CRR
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    Easy peasy. Dinosaurs were created on the sixth day along with all the land animals and man. They were probably taken on Noah's Ark with the other land vertebrates and remnants survived for centuries afterwards, but they have gone extinct.

    Since even the largest dinosaur hatched from an egg the size of a football young ones would have easily fitted on the ark.

  • 6 years ago

    The last time that I asked a creationist, he told me that dinosaurs lived in noah time and were aboard the ark. I just laughed and walked away.

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  • 6 years ago

    Dinasours did exist ... Young Earth Creationist

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    According to creationists, they believe that dinosaurs lived along with humans

  • Lynn
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    The same way I explain dodo birds and carrier pigeons. They were. They aren't. Why? Too hard to figure out?

    Speaking of magic. Is that something you assume often?

  • 6 years ago

    Dinosaurs died out about 60 million years ago. Anything else you want to know, just ask.

  • ronbo
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    dinosaur is a fairly new word, its about 100-150 years old, BEFORE that they were called dragons. and dinos and people lived at same time. the flood killed them off just like most all the others. but evolutionist will say a meteor wiped out most of life. you have two views, the flood or meteor, both views have the same out come.

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    Ee always have to begin by defining terms. Creationism...for me means..Creator. I was not around then. I can guess but

    waste of time.

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