Comments on: Which came first, dinosaurs or Adam and Eve?

By: themiddle

themiddle — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 05:44:52 +0000

Lindsey, go do your homework!

By: lindsey

lindsey — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 22:17:26 +0000

which insect started metamorphosis because i have a project about it and i wanna impress my teacher and i wanna put my question on there and know the answer and also i wanna a good grade and if i do i get to go eat a speicial breakfast with my daddy ’cause he said he’ll take me to restruant like the BEACON!!!!!!!!!

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By: God's Child

God's Child — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 15:20:09 +0000

Everyone, go get your bible.
In Genesis, Chapter 1 God created the heavens and earth in 7 days.

God tell you WHAT he did on each of the six days and on the 7th day he rested. We do not know how long a day was for God but we do know it wasn’t in 24 hour period as we have it today.

Verse 11 states: God said, “I command the earth to produce all kinds of plants, including fruit trees and grain.” And that’s what happened. The earth produced all kinds of vegetation.

Verse 24 in Chapter 1 states: God said,”I command the earth to give life to all kinds of tame animals, wild animals and reptiles.” And that’s what happened. God made every one of them.

Verse 27 states: God said, “Now we will make humans and they will be like us. (which means that God and the angels were already here). God doesn’t say in what order this was done but he does say it in Chapter 2.

Chapter 2 tell us about the garden of Eden and HOW God created man and the animals.

Verses 7-9 states: The Lord God took a handful of soil and made a man. God breathed life into the man, and the mand started breathing. The Lord made a garden in a place called Eden, which was in the east, and he put the man there. The Lord God placed (not created but put there) all kinds of beautiful trees and fruit trees in the garden.

Verses 18-20 states: The Lord God said, “It isn’t good for the man to live alone. I need to make a suitable partner for him.” So the Lord took some soil and made animals and birds. He brought them to the man to see what names he would give each of them. Then the man named the tame animals and the birds and the wild animals. (I’m sure dinosaurs were considered wild animals.) That’s how they got their names.

So, the Bible states that Man came first then the animals so that they could be a partner to the man, but that none of the animals were the right kind of partner for the man.

Don’t believe what I say about God didn’t give us the order in which came first in Chapter 1? Try this. “On Saturdays, I shop, clean house, do laundry and see friends”. Do we know in what order they were done? No we do not. We speak in what we did, not neccessary in the order that we did them.

Same is true of God in this sense. He told us What he did on the 6th day in Chapter 1 and how he did it in Chapter 2. God has a sense of humor. He got what he wanted; us discussing this topic eons of years later.

By: Nathan Nagelkerk

Nathan Nagelkerk — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 03:33:35 +0000

Hi, my name is Nathan Nagelkerk and I live in Grand Rapids, MI. My e-mail is servant119b@gmail.com.

I figure dinosaurs came right before Adam and Eve

By: rod michael

rod michael — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 15:30:34 +0000

god created earth and us and everything ,love one another,but i will laugh a little at science,although 2 wrongs dont make a right ,yall talk about scientist and your college education or just being intelligent beings that god and jesus are fairy tales,well why can we drill in deep oceans but not stop that leak ,haha hit your knees and find some faith ,we christians might need a little help with this gulf of mexico/ scientific oil spill,BTW i dont have much faith in intellect,read acts in the bible or just keep talking about carbon 14 haha

By: Jewlicious » Dad, who was the third person on the planet?

Jewlicious » Dad, who was the third person on the planet? — Sat, 23 May 2009 21:19:31 +0000

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By: mike darnell

mike darnell — Sun, 04 May 2008 17:58:18 +0000

Yo themiddle!

I like it inside my skin – it kinda keeps all my organs from spilling all across the floor and making a mess.

As for the colors…
subtlety is not really my thing : )

Here’s something a little darker…
digitalartprin...

Mike

By: themiddle

themiddle — Sun, 04 May 2008 15:34:27 +0000

Mike, you should get out of your skin more and stop using such subtle colors.

By: mike darnell

mike darnell — Sun, 04 May 2008 09:29:58 +0000

This one is easy.

You don’t confuse scientific fact with religious belief and that’s that.

The bible is a story, an incredible story, held by some to be divinely inspired. It’s purpose is to inspire and educate.

Electing to debase it by bringing it down to the level of mere scientific research is akin to critiquing Moby Dick for factual errors regarding the behavior of whales.

Anyhoo… If you’d like to see an interpretation on the theme of Adam and Eve created by an Israeli artist (myself) please visit:
digitalartprin...

Shavua Tov
Mike

By: Collin Merenoff

Collin Merenoff — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 04:58:11 +0000

From what I’ve read about Schroeder, he has some serious mathematical errors.

Relativity is not a license to set up coordinates in whatever way seems PC, frum, etc. The choice of coordinates is based on what’s mathematically simplest for a given problem.

By: Jewish Mother

Jewish Mother — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 19:19:26 +0000

post 221 – it is sad that as CK would say the best minds are not always available today. Gevalt. There is no war between science and religion. When one is imagined, it amounts to limiting G-d which is religiously impossible.

Einstein gave us elastic time. Why not use it? He went to a lot of trouble so it seems a pity to not use the fruits of his efforts. But that requires a big elastic mind and some work.

“the acceleration of a falling body is 32 feet per second per second – help! That destroys my religious faith! Don’t tell anybody!”

Why should any fact about nature destroy anybody’s religious faith?

Ridiculous.

Wait until I get to my private theory, that Breishis is about how Creation is PERCEIVED by US, when we are born. First we see light, then we figure out the night-day rhythm, then we notice the animals on the crib bumpers, then we sort out mommy & daddy, then ….

We might see religious teaching as not so much about nature as about US, how we are impacted. “That’s how it looks to YOU, that’s how it works for YOU,” says G-d. “Astronomy and microbes are great, but what about how it all impacts YOU?”

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:52:43 +0000

Some fun trivia, it were Medieval Jews that determined that Adam and Eve were created on 7 October 3761 BCE. Before them (those Medieval Jews, that is), Jewish scholars did all kinds of chronology calculations.
cf. jewishencyclop...

By: themiddle

themiddle — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:40:22 +0000

Heh, the Amazon reviews are interesting. You have 48 5 star reviews, but another 13 scathing 1 star reviews.

By: themiddle

themiddle — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:28:41 +0000

Freaky! I don’t know that I buy it, but it’s an interesting alternative theory. If I can find the time, I’ll seek out that book.

By: Shelly

Shelly — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:14:57 +0000

I think you would find the book “The Science of God” helpful for this question. Geral Schroder, the author, explains that time is literally not the same now as it was at the creation of the universe. As our universe expands, the dimension of time changes as well- it has to do with relativity. So if you could stand at the point of the creation of the universe and calculate the time that passed until the creation of man- and remember, you are looking at all of this happening FROM THE POINT OF THE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE- then what we all calculate as the passed 15 billion years (and this calculation is done from THIS point of time) would be perceived as 6 days! the bible has no contradictions with physics in this sense- 6 days are literal, but we must do the counting from the point of creation! We simply did not understand this until Einstein- who explained the physics of time. In that sense, the dinosaurs- and strangely enough- EVERY OTHER THING(LIKE THE SUN AND MOON) AND ANY SPECIES DECRIBED WITH EVOLUTION- can actually be traced back to the expected day that they were created- if we take the changing of time into consideration- and this can be done when we calculate how many years-from OUR POINT IN TIME- each day indicates.

By: Johnathan

Johnathan — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 13:28:11 +0000

I always wondered if time was measured differently as you look at the ages of people and births. However it showed a steady decline versus my dad was 800 and than all his sons died at 100. So if time was measured different than maybe but I don’t think it conflicts with Torah.

I remember seeing an interesting theory on carbon dating being incorrect. Wish I bookmarked that.

The only other thought of how Dinos didn’t exist is by a concept that may not be orally spoken about. Anyone agree?

By: Collin Merenoff

Collin Merenoff — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:12:29 +0000

I don’t think we should blame ourselves for the conflict between the Torah and evolution. This is stirred up by the IDN and the Wedgists, and I highly doubt there is even one Jew among them. I think a good way to approach the issue would be to explore the evolving meaning of the word “theory”, considering that “theos” is Greek for G-d.

By: Ellie

Ellie — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 03:04:50 +0000

I teach in a Jewish day school in 6th grade, and I was going over Parshat Breishit with my students today, when I discovered that they are all very troubled about dinosaurs. Many of them had heard from their “English” teachers that dinosaurs certainly existed, and from their “Hebrew” teachers that dinosaurs did not exist.
I don’t think they’ve learned much about the big bang and evolution, but when the school system presents something like dinosaurs in a secular curriculum, there should be a systematic and carefully thought-out curriculum about addressing the issues. Every girl in my class had a very strong opinion about whether or not dinosaurs, in fact, existed.
I want to commend you for bringing up this conversation and suggest that we need a better method of teaching complicated subjects like these to kids who are younger with less-developed and less sophisticated intellects. Any ideas?