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Originally posted by Shelbert Lemon
I have not read all of the Bible so maybe I missed a part where they are talked about.
No, you didn't miss it.
And God said "let the waters swarm with with swarms of living creatures and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavans" So God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves...
That is incorrect, as birds didn't exist for many millions of years after the creation of the world, towards the end of the dinosaurs reign. Likewise the early oceans were most certainly not filled with "great sea creatures" - rather jelly fish and little things like that. "And every living creature that moves"? It might sound pedantic but virtually no species alive in todays world was present at the beginning, or even in the first few million years following. Hell, in the case of all major mammals, birds and sea creatures, they didn't exist for many millions of years after.
"And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind : and God saw that it was good."
Genesis 1:24-25
I guess they could fit in with the "beasts of the earth" - but it doesn't sound very dinosaury. And as above - "everything that creepeth" - when everything that creepeth most certainly did not get all created at once. And the use of the word cattle/livestock after their kind? There was not a single species during or before the reign of the dinosaurs that qualifies that descriptor, or for a long time after.
Sounds to me like some animal we haven't scientifically documented (correct me if I'm wrong please - not a zoologist). To me Behemoth sounds kind of like a brontosaur and leviathan sounds kind of like a plesiosaur. Impossible of course since both were already extinct by that time, but it is interesting.
That's not so strange - it is quite possible that such creatures might have existed, though one expects there would be some evidence of such massive beasts, especially with iron bones and such. However, it could quite possibly have been a dinosaur - extinct yes, but fossilised bones have been turning up since ancient times, and in such times the answer to the unexplained, such a strange beasts, was to it was mythological. Minotaurs, cockatrices, griffins, dragons etc Or even downright fiction - people had imaginations then as well. Or mistakes - it is believed that the mermaid myth has it's origins linked to delusional sailors seeing manatees down deep and thinking they were part fish part human.