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how do you explain dinosaurs?
Topic Started: Sep 16 2007, 05:32 PM (325 Views)
ykmommy
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I was reading JRK's thread on schools and I just realized that a few times, ds has brought up dinosaurs (as there was an exhibit on them at the zoo this summer) and I explained that they were robotic. But - in general - how would you explain them to a boy almost turning 5?
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My seven year old explains it like this

Hashem was creating worlds... and even though the books say that there were no humans there were, and they told Hashem that the dinosaurs were being mean. So Hashem sent a meteor and whiped them out, and then the nicer animals came along..

LOL

BTW I have no clue where he heard that, but it's cute...
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Mandy
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Dinosaurs existed a long time ago and then became extinct. That's how I explain it.
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hallie_ari_mom
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Sep 16 2007, 06:37 PM
Dinosaurs existed a long time ago and then became extinct. That's how I explain it.

Me too.
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I haven't had to explain them, yet. I remember the answer I got was that we don't have any concept of what time was for Hashem. So when it says "yom echad" (one day, whichever day it was), it doesn't mean it was our 24 hour day. So all those millions of years ago, dinosaurs DID exist, and in the time of creation it was probably not for longer than one of Hashem's days, based on His time(lessness), not how we count.
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Sep 16 2007, 07:24 PM
I haven't had to explain them, yet. I remember the answer I got was that we don't have any concept of what time was for Hashem. So when it says "yom echad" (one day, whichever day it was), it doesn't mean it was our 24 hour day. So all those millions of years ago, dinosaurs DID exist, and in the time of creation it was probably not for longer than one of Hashem's days, based on His time(lessness), not how we count.

This is what we told dd. We try to validate science and Torah without negating either.
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U Tarzan Me Jane
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funnily enough, it has never really come up in any significant way.
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So.. are dinosaurs non existent according to the Torah? I'm not even sure what any other answer would be other than the one I gave before...
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the whole theory of evolution is what is not Torahdik. So, how can I explain something that exists to archeologists when the world is only 6000yrs old?
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Ah, gotcha. Now I am curious about you explain dinosaur bones.
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the most common explanation is, Dinosaurs existed in the time of Noach and before.(Noah). But for what ever reason hashem decided that They would not exist after the flood. They all died out during that time.

Now all the bones were still around even after the flood had killed them out. the world was literally under water for over a year after the rains came down.

the theory is that water aged the bones to the extent that they looked to be millions of years old.

There is another explanation that really makes a lot of sense in terms of science. That is that hashem created the world fully mature. Meaning that while something was only created that day, it was in its most mature state. a tree was not created as a seed,but as a tree that would look to the naked eye as being 100 years old.

the animals were also created in mature form, as were Adam and eve. Therefore even though the worl is really less then 6000 years old, to the human eye it can look older.
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Ooh.. that' s interesting. I have never heard of either explanation. My childhood rabbi was orthdox and was a real science nut. (he's one of Jackie Mason's brother, so maybe the term should be UNorthodox...) I never learned from him that science and Torah did not go hand in hand. In fact, he made it sound like one supported the other!
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alot of times it does, except when it comes to things being millions of years old....LOL
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U Tarzan Me Jane
Sep 17 2007, 06:13 PM
alot of times it does, except when it comes to things being millions of years old....LOL

Funny! Well.. I exaggerate a lot so hearing that something is a million years old to me doesn't really mean 1,000,000 years old.. it could mean 20 minutes!
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