In the beginning...

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bananaboo4

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So, we all know how the Bible starts.....

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. (NKJV; Genesis 1:1-2)

In my opinion, that verse right there let's us know that the earth was in fact here although the bible doesn't say anything about any other life forms. Do you guys think it would be possible for this time to be when the "cavemen" and dinosaurs were walking about on earth, even though there was no light? I guess it could be possible.

Just something to think about.......
 
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yeah Ive always wondered and I DO think there were dinosaurs I dont know about cavemen..
AND IM NOT 18!!!!!IM 17!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

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bananaboo4 said:
So, we all know how the Bible starts.....

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. (NKJV; Genesis 1:1-2)

In my opinion, that verse right there let's us know that the earth was in fact here although the bible doesn't say anything about any other life forms. Do you guys think it would be possible for this time to be when the "cavemen" and dinosaurs were walking about on earth, even though there was no light? I guess it could be possible.

Just something to think about.......
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What are you wanting us to see again? In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. We know this, however the earth was not here before the beginning.
 
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hmm God actually spoke light into being before anything else! Which is pretty cool
 
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no light means no photosynthesis(except in rare cases, such as those plants in the deep recesses of the sea). No photosynthesis means no vegetation. No vegetation means no herbivores. No herbivores means no carnivores. No carnivores means no life forms on the planet. I really don't think it would be possible for dinosaurs or "cavemen" to have existed before light.
 
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if there were no other life forms I dont think there could be cavemen because they had to live on something and in the account of creation God made all other things before he made people on the sixth day and God rested on the seventh
 
bananaboo4

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it was just a thought... this is NOT part of my beliefs guys. :p
 
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Maybe darkness is metaphorical? Cavemen WERE NOT around when the Dinosaurs were on the Earth :p Common misconception.
 
bananaboo4

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well Ill be john brown!
 
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:p Heh

P.s. I know this is totally off topic, but how do I get the flag to appear by my avatar?
 
bananaboo4

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Just make sure your country is selected on your profile. :p

I believe you would find that under the Control Panel section ;)
 
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Still not doing it :(

*Sorry to go off topic*
 
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Hahaha, you're offtopicness is definitely okay with me!

If that didn't work, I'm not completely sure how to do it then....

Sorry =/
 
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We are told that light was present and plants grew before the two great lights, sun and moon, were established according to Ge 1:12 and 16. It indicates that life was there in its full athough we are not told the full picture. It all ended by a general disaster alike the Noah flood.
 
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I've actually been struggling with this topic for a while.

The bible speaks about creatures like the Leviathan and behemoth as dinosaurs in Job, but it doesn't seem to make sense.

Another thing, I've taken an abundance of anthropolgy and archaeology classes and there is a multitude of pre-human type beings such as homo erectus, Australopithecus, homo habilis, and the one most commonly known homo neanderthalensis that we have fossils from.

I don't believe in Darwinism (wanting to make that clear) but I do think evolution in the sense of adaption exists. We see it even today in cultures. People who live in hilly parts of the world typically have shorter legs that are easier to move about such terrain with for example.

But why are these things, that which God must have know we would have discovered, not covered in the bible?
 
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We ask many questions to which we find no answers in the scriptures. Maybe we tend to concentrate on things that are not important for us from God's perspective?
 
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bananaboo4 said:
So, we all know how the Bible starts.....

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. (NKJV; Genesis 1:1-2)

In my opinion, that verse right there let's us know that the earth was in fact here although the bible doesn't say anything about any other life forms. Do you guys think it would be possible for this time to be when the "cavemen" and dinosaurs were walking about on earth, even though there was no light? I guess it could be possible.

Just something to think about.......
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The Creation Evidence Musseum in Texas appears to have roof that man and dinosaurs existed together pre-flood. The have found fossilized footprints of a man inside of a footprint of a large dinosaur which could only occur if indeed they lived on earth at the same time. Also they have found stones thousand of years old that have carvings of specific breeds of dinosaur (some with 3 horns, others with long necks, other with large fins on their backs) which proves that early man were eye witnesses to living dinosaurs.

As for cavemen, think about this. Have you ever saw the skeleton of a man who live 300 years? 600 years? 900 years? Considering there are large concentrations of neanderthal skeleton around the middle east, coul be that these are the skeletons of humans who had aged a great deal? Just think about how gravity effects the body in 80 years... could you imagine the effects after 800?
 
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Did you hear that the present dating might be far out of tune? The constant figure for radioactive decay was established in laboratory apparently without "natural" conditions. The same rate of decay was obtained under higher preasures and temperature in a friction of time. Does enyone know to what conditions were the sampled remains subjected?
 
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NazariteNation said:
As for cavemen, think about this. Have you ever saw the skeleton of a man who live 300 years? 600 years? 900 years? Considering there are large concentrations of neanderthal skeleton around the middle east, coul be that these are the skeletons of humans who had aged a great deal? Just think about how gravity effects the body in 80 years... could you imagine the effects after 800?
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This is a great point and one brought out by Jack Cuozzo, an othrodontist who spent years studying the old fossils, looking at the teeth to try to give an indicator of their age. He intended to add another plank under the platform of evolution but instead discovered all these fossils appeared, at least by the mouth, to be humans who were indeed several hundred years old. He wrote the book "Buried Alive", I highly highly recommend it for research, it has some great insight, although it is a pretty dry read. (he's a tooth doctor, not a writer)

The Bible also speaks of the time "when giants roamed the earth" I don't think that's referring to large men, like goliath, but the dinosaurs, etc. Our dating methods are such a joke that you can't look at carbon dating to give an accurate timeline of when these existed.

I have heard a rumor that lewis and clark described dinosaurs in their journals, but I have been unable to find anything supporting or denying this rumor.

Also, check this link out. http://paranormal.about.com/od/earthmysteries/a/aa011704_2.htm really weird stuff that makes no evolutionary sense!

To quote one part:
The most incredible of such anecdotes was recorded in 1856 in France. Workmen laboring in a tunnel for a railway line were cutting through Jurassic limestone when a large creature stumbled out from inside it. It fluttered its wings, made a croaking noise and dropped dead. According to the workers, the creature had a 10-foot wingspan, four legs joined by a membrane, black leathery skin, talons for feet, and a toothed mouth. A local student of paleontology identified the animal as a pterodactyl.

Food for thought... :)
 
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I have never heard of the theory that the skeletons could be of such aged people. I find that extremely interesting!
 
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