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how do you explain dinosaurs?
Topic Started: Sep 16 2007, 05:32 PM (324 Views)
lilac7
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queen
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But I've heard that 6,000 years doesn't really mean years as each year could've been much longer than what we think of as a year. Is that not one of the explanations?
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npl
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I always explain that we don't understand everything about the world. Hashem gives us clues, and we have to try to figure out. Sometimes the clues and our Torah knowledge don't match, but that just means we don't understand it yet, and Hashem hasn't shown us how it all fits together.

WRT dinosaurs, to a 5 yo I'd say that they are animals from a long time ago that don't live any more. If the kid asks more specific questions about geological time, I'd talk about it being a long time ago, and not being sure how the geological time fits with our understanding of time from the Torah, but there are lots of ideas from the Rabbanim, and that we are still learning about the science. (You could even go into detail about scientific theories and how they get refined and updated or even refuted over time as our understanding changes).

HTH

Naomi
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Akvir
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i havn't had the question yet, my son just likes dinosaurs and that's about it.
He hasn't seen a real life lion either. So i guess he probably thinks they still exist.
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