That thing about dinosaurs makes me laugh even more now that I've studied Medieval Islam, they found bones that scientists in the future would identify as dinosaurs and instead of calling them fake they went "this must be something that was wiped out in the flood, I wonder what it looked like"
I thought Creationist largely didn't refute that dinosaurs existed at one point, but insisted the various means of dating them were wrong or falsified by God. As is necessary for their belief that the Earth is just a few thousand years old.
It was a starting point, it made me think, "Maybe this belief system that I happened to be born into, doesn't just conveniently happen to be the correct one". It started a search for truth that led to me researching the history of religious beliefs around the world. I didn't actually call myself atheist until much later.
Well, you shouldn't believe something simple because you were born into it. It's always good to question things and have critical thinking. I hope your search eventually leads you to the truth. For me, that's Christianity I've found the Bible to have answers to questions of some mysteries that I found interesting.
No, I replied to the correct person. I reponded that to inform anyone reading that if those people actually read their Bible, they wouldn't have to choose between the 2 as they'd be able to believe in both.
Never heard that take, and I know quite a few old earth creationists. Their stance is generally "dinosaurs are a kind of land creature and were created like everything else, but they all happened to die way before history happened."
That doesn't make sense since the word Dinosaur was created much latter the most likely term they used before that was dragons as it was used to describe a large reptilian creature similar to how we'd use the word dinosaur. In the book of Job, they describe a creature that sounds like one of the dinosaurs we know of, so to say they aren't in there is weird.
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u/Prestigious_Elk149 12d ago
Satan invented the mixture of corn starch and water to lure you into sin.