Could dinosaurs have been purposely excluded from the Ark for some reason?

[Richard.20.12]

I don't see any evidence of this in the Bible as all animals seemed to be brought on board but maybe I'm missing something. What do you think? Of course eggs could have been brought on board so the size of them isn't so much a consideration. They may have taken long periods of time to grow as well. Man lived over 900 years back then so maybe animals lived much longer too. It does follow after all though no one seems to talk about this. First born children often appeared much farther along in their lives than today so maybe everyone grew much slower. Can you imagine how much wiser you'd be if it took 9x longer to grow up??? 9x the life experience? Maybe this explains why the people around the tower of Babel area were so advanced. They did seem to do remarkable things with no history or past experience to draw from. Only a long lifespan would give them huge advantages over us today.

 

[Sophrosyne]

It is very possible that the dinosaurs were gone by the time the ark was finished. Some people think the population was rather large at the time perhaps even a billion people and some also consider that at that time there was only one large continent (Pangea) if these things were the norm at that time it is quite possible that the dinosaurs were all killed and used for materials and food. It is also possible that dinosaur babies were let lose from the ark and there was not yet enough food to support a decent size survivable population of them. One other logical conclusion is that dinosaurs had served their purpose and like countless millions of species now extinct he simply either wiped them out or allowed them to perish like the giant mastadon and saber tooth tigers.

 

[DragonFox91]

It's good to throw ideas out like this. Maybe the carnivores were indeed deemed too dangerous & were left off. (then although the herbivores were let on, eventually they died out after the Flood.) After all, murderers were obviously left off. Would God really see any more value in a T-Rex over human beings? Hmmm........

But most people think the carnivores were allowed on & were able to sustain populations off the ark at first & then eventually met their time like mastodons due to changes in climate.

 

[d taylor]

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I believe they were not on the ark because they were like unto the nephilim.

 

[ViaCrucis]

I don't see any evidence of this in the Bible as all animals seemed to be brought on board but maybe I'm missing something. What do you think? Of course eggs could have been brought on board so the size of them isn't so much a consideration. They may have taken long periods of time to grow as well. Man lived over 900 years back then so maybe animals lived much longer too. It does follow after all though no one seems to talk about this. First born children often appeared much farther along in their lives than today so maybe everyone grew much slower. Can you imagine how much wiser you'd be if it took 9x longer to grow up??? 9x the life experience? Maybe this explains why the people around the tower of Babel area were so advanced. They did seem to do remarkable things with no history or past experience to draw from. Only a long lifespan would give them huge advantages over us today.

Well, if one believes the story of Noah's flood is meant to be taken literally (that's not an opinion I share), and if all living animals today are descended from those rescued animals on the ark, then dinosaurs certainly were on the ark. As there are still dinosaurs today.

Birds, it must be remembered, are dinosaurs.

The term "dinosaur" is used to describe a broad group of vertebrates, generally divided between the saurischian and ornithischian ("lizard-hipped" and "bird-hipped" respectively) dinosaurs. Fossil evidence has been pretty clear at this point that many, perhaps even most, dinosaurs had feathers. For example there is evidence of feathers on ceratopsian dinosaurs (those in the same family as triceratops), and a whole lot of evidence that therapod dinosaurs definitely had feathers. In fact some smaller therapods even had four wings, such as microraptor. Birds are simply therapod dinosaurs. They are highly derived therapod dinosaurs, in the same way that whales are highly derived mammals, but they are still therapod dinosaurs.

So, strictly speaking, there are still dinosaurs. We just call them birds.

Keep in mind, however, also that the issue of "dinosaurs on the ark" wouldn't be restricted to dinosaurs. Dinosaurs are just one group of animals that is now mostly extinct. There are entire orders of animals that are extinct, completely--like the pteranadons, the flying reptiles (which were not dinosaurs) or the various marine reptiles such as the ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs (again, not dinosaurs). Also, mammals are the only surviving members of synapsids, a large order of animals that includes mammals but also many, many other kinds of animals, such as dimetrodon.

So the issue isn't merely "the dinosaurs", but it's a much bigger one: As there are an unknown number of kinds of animals that don't exist today, but definitely did live in the past. This only really becomes a problem, however, if one tries to force the biblical story of the flood and the modern fossil record together in a way that the divinely inspired biblical writers never intended.

-CryptoLutheran

 

[Sabertooth]

One theory is that young [read "smaller"] dinos were on the ark, but went extinct later.

 

[DragonFox91]

As there are still dinosaurs today.

Birds, it must be remembered, are dinosaurs.

-CryptoLutheran

Crypto, calling a bird a dinosaur would be like calling an amphibian a fish. Totally different. Birds are not dinosaurs.

 

[ViaCrucis]

Crypto, calling a bird a dinosaur would be like calling an amphibian a fish. Totally different. Birds are not dinosaurs.

Except that birds are dinosaurs. Just like whales are mammals.

-CrptoLutheran

 

[Richard.20.12]

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I believe they were not on the ark because they were like unto the nephilim.

A flat earther on this forum? Wow....that's weird. I love to hear their explanations for stuff. Its just beyond absurd and borders the mentally deranged. How about an eclipse? Its off to our side often. How does that work with a flat earth producing a curved shadow on the moon when its close to the horizon? (This should be rich!) You do realize the Earth is referred to as a sphere in Job?

 

[ByTheSpirit]

Depends, you could look at the account in creation that the first two verses speak of a time well before the 7 day creation. In that case, dinosaurs could have existed in a timeframe that modern science says they did and there is still no conflict with timelines.

Me personally? I don't put any thought or consideration into things like this because ultimately it doesn't matter. Just give me Jesus.

 

[d taylor]

A flat earther on this forum? Wow....that's weird. I love to hear their explanations for stuff. Its just beyond absurd and borders the mentally deranged. How about an eclipse? Its off to our side often. How does that work with a flat earth producing a curved shadow on the moon when its close to the horizon? (This should be rich!) You do realize the Earth is referred to as a sphere in Job?

Mentally deranged, huh wonder why you would want to spend your time writing back and forth with a mentally deranged person. So i will forgo you the embarrassment and not reply to your post.

 

[SkyWriting]

I don't see any evidence of this in the Bible as all animals seemed to be brought on board but maybe I'm missing something. What do you think? Of course eggs could have been brought on board so the size of them isn't so much a consideration. They may have taken long periods of time to grow as well. Man lived over 900 years back then so maybe animals lived much longer too. It does follow after all though no one seems to talk about this. First born children often appeared much farther along in their lives than today so maybe everyone grew much slower. Can you imagine how much wiser you'd be if it took 9x longer to grow up??? 9x the life experience? Maybe this explains why the people around the tower of Babel area were so advanced. They did seem to do remarkable things with no history or past experience to draw from. Only a long lifespan would give them huge advantages over us today.

Likely, the Flood wasn't a global event. And the story of it was written by a man on the boat. It wasn't written by a man viewing earth from the moon. There is no possibility of knowing the boundaries of the flood if you were in it. No person could know if every mountain was submerged and every land animal drowned.

 

[dqhall]

I don't see any evidence of this in the Bible as all animals seemed to be brought on board but maybe I'm missing something. What do you think? Of course eggs could have been brought on board so the size of them isn't so much a consideration. They may have taken long periods of time to grow as well. Man lived over 900 years back then so maybe animals lived much longer too. It does follow after all though no one seems to talk about this. First born children often appeared much farther along in their lives than today so maybe everyone grew much slower. Can you imagine how much wiser you'd be if it took 9x longer to grow up??? 9x the life experience? Maybe this explains why the people around the tower of Babel area were so advanced. They did seem to do remarkable things with no history or past experience to draw from. Only a long lifespan would give them huge advantages over us today.

The dinosaurs were destroyed by an asteroid or comet hitting the earth that raised a dust cloud that cooled the earth. They were cold blooded and could not survive the Ice Age. Mammals and a few smaller reptiles survived.

 

[Richard.20.12]

Likely, the Flood wasn't a global event. And the story of it was written by a man on the boat. It wasn't written by a man viewing earth from the moon.

That's not how it reads in the Bible. I go by the Bible. Better authenticity than any human.

 

[Richard.20.12]

The dinosaurs were destroyed by an asteroid or comet hitting the earth that raised a dust cloud that cooled the earth. They were cold blooded and could not survive the Ice Age. Mammals and a few smaller reptiles survived.

And where were humans when this happened? Are you an old Earth believer?

 

[SkyWriting]

That's not how it reads in the Bible. I go by the Bible. Better authenticity than any human.

It reads as if it was written by humans, edited by humans, and translated by humans.
But I was told the same thing and believed it as well.

 

[dqhall]

And where were humans when this happened? Are you an old Earth believer?

I favor an old earth creation theory based on fossil evidence and radiometric dating; plus evidence of God’s omnipotence and creative powers.

 

[Halbhh]

I don't see any evidence of this in the Bible as all animals seemed to be brought on board but maybe I'm missing something. What do you think? Of course eggs could have been brought on board so the size of them isn't so much a consideration. They may have taken long periods of time to grow as well. Man lived over 900 years back then so maybe animals lived much longer too. It does follow after all though no one seems to talk about this. First born children often appeared much farther along in their lives than today so maybe everyone grew much slower. Can you imagine how much wiser you'd be if it took 9x longer to grow up??? 9x the life experience? Maybe this explains why the people around the tower of Babel area were so advanced. They did seem to do remarkable things with no history or past experience to draw from. Only a long lifespan would give them huge advantages over us today.

Because the dinosaurs were long dead, i think from when God chose a just right asteroid to make them into carrion and compost.

 

[RDKirk]

They got the date wrong.

 

[Richard.20.12]

I favor an old earth creation theory based on fossil evidence and radiometric dating; plus evidence of God’s omnipotence and creative powers.

So what do the 6 days of Creation in Genesis mean to you? Remember, each day had an evening and morning.