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THE BIBLE AND THE
by
Robert
A. Ginskey
Do dinosaurs disprove the
Bible? Scientists say ancient
dinosaur fossils are millions
of years old. Yet the Bible sup–
posedly says that everything
was created a mere 6, 000
years ago. Do science and the
Bible contradict each other?
A
sorne time in the past. the
earth was inhabited by a bi–
zarre assembly of awesome
and immense reptiles. Uigantic di–
nosaurs roamed the land. "Thunder
lizards" weighing 50 tons must have
shaken the ground as they walked.
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Other creatures were terrorized by
the horrendous tyrannosaurus (pic–
tured above with triceratops), a 50-
foot-long, 20-foot-high meat-eating
monster with a four-foot head filled
with huge, saberlike teeth .
G iant-wi nged
pterosa u r s
swooped down from the sky, while
the oceans were alive with fearsome
marine reptiles called ichthyosaurs
and mosasaurs.
Then, in what is probably the
most mysterious and dramatic pa–
leontological event in all earth his–
tory, the dinosaurs suddenly became
extinct.
Scientists say the strange and re–
markable "age of reptiles" occurred
more than 70 million years ago. Yet
most fundamentalist churches and
creationist groups attempt to sup–
pon the idea that God created the
whole universe, including man and
the dinosaurs, about 6,000 years
ago.
Thus thc dinosaur has come to
symbolize one of the most funda–
mental challenges to the Bible and
Christianity: Can the Bible account
for the existence of dinosaurs and
other extinct creatures in the shon
period of 6,000 years? And if not,
must the Bible be rejected?
The fact is. fundamentalists face a
real problem in trying to squeeze
dinosaurs into 6.000 years of eanh
The
PLAIN TRUTH May 1977