Created at the same time as everything else. Noah would even have them on the Ark; even the biggest dinosaurs laid eggs that were relatively small (2' long). Noah wasn't dumb, you take the young, small ones, not the large ones. Most died out or were hunted out after the flood. Mokele-mbembe is an example of a possible sauropod living today deep in the rainforests of Africa. Over 1000 lakes around the world have sightings of an unknown creature (e.g. the Lochness Monster and Lake Champlain's Champ). The atmosphere is much different now vs then so they wouldn't be able to live as long, nor grow as big.
Are you sayin that carbon dating or whatever they use is all wrong?
Simple answer is yes. This is actually a good hour long discussion, but to summarize quickly:
1. Carbon (and other radio-dating methods) on samples of KNOWN age come back as being much, much older than they really are.
2. Carbon dating specifically is based on the assumption that C14 levels in the atmosphere have stabilized, however they have not (which is in itself an indication that the Earth is less than 50,000 years old).
3. Radio dating methods can only be accurate when the sample being tested has been "sealed" for the entire age of the object. In reality no such example exists and the natural phenomena of leaching drastically changes the ratio of the mother to daughter elements being tested which significantly alters the results by several orders of magnitude.
4. Testing samples from different parts of the same animal resulted in a wide variety (by 10's of thousands of years) of results.
You don't think that in 2000 plus years that the Bible proclaims a bunch of peeps sittin around a fire passin the pipe didn't come up with the greatest story in history.
The Bible was scribed by 40 different people, in 3 different languages over 1500 years in 66 books; yet are in sync and harmonize one with another. That alone is indicative of divine inspiration. However the Bible is also full of prophecies, most of which have already been fulfilled. There are approximately 2500 specific prophecies, about 2000 of which have already been fulfilled.
If religion truly wants to reach every body then they would find a way to embrace science and not be so hypocritical..
I agree. I love science, real science. But Evolution (Macro-Evolution specifically) isn't real science, not anymore. A great number of Evolutionists have written, said or otherwise indicated that the Theory of Evolution has so many irrecoverable issues that it can no longer be considered a plausible explanation for life on Earth. The only reason it continues as a "science" is the only alternative theory out there is Intelligent Design; ironically a good number of "Evolutionists" have gone so far as to say that since they cannot use Evolution to explain life on Earth, that life on Earth must have Alien origins -- and they don't even see the irony that if Aliens "planted" life here, that is a form of Intelligent Design. In another thread, I posted a number of quotes from Evolutionists that illustrate this point.
Meanwhile, I bet you have never heard of Baraminology, which are scientists researching and tracing animals back to their original created "kinds." Micro-Evolution, that is variations within a kind of animal, is the only part of Evolution which has been "proven." Baraminologists look at Micro-Evolution to "trace back" the original animals that were created by God at the beginning, and what stepped off of Noah's Ark about 4400 years ago. Those are real scientists with real PhD's doing real science; it's just never highlighted because it is Intelligent Design instead of Random Chaos.
