Do the existence of dinosaurs contradict biblical creation?
|Print This Page| |Send to a Friend| Do the existence of dinosaurs contradict biblical creation? The subject of dinosaurs captures the fancy of every school kid. They are told that dinosaurs lived millions of years ago, long before any human walked upon the earth. In this way, many children are introduced to the doctrine of evolution. Is the existence of dinosaur fossils embedded deep in the earth clear proof that the earth is countless ages old and that life must have evolved? That depends upon what standard of knowledge you accept about the past. No one can travel back in time to make firsthand observations of what things were like, so we must make basic assumptions about what had to happen. Either you assume that natural forces were sufficient to have produced all life over vast ages or you assume that they were not sufficient and that God must have done it as the Bible says. Science cannot provide final answers to this question, since the same data could be “explained” by different
