Dinosaurs killed in flood?

bboyneko

I was thrift store shopping as I always do on saturdays, and came across some older JW literature (as I often do at thrift stores) It was a very simple tract, I forgot the title, but it had a picture of the flood, and if you look closely you see a dinosaur drwoning in the flood. It looks like a T-rex. Was this really the official position of the society, and is that still the case? You'd have to be astoundingly ignorant of science to beleive dinosaurs walked the earth with man only 6,000 years ago.
-Dan

YoYoMama

That has always been a question of mine. I've looked through the literature but have not found an official statement saying that Dinosaurs died in the Flood. I know some animals disappeared like the Mamooth (spelling?), is that consider kind of like a dinosaur? It would be interesting to find out what really happened to them and how they disappeared. I know that the dating might be off, but how much are they off?

Angharad

If your talking about the flood killing off the dinosaurs, the dating is well off, the last of the dinosaurs died off around the end of the Cretaceous period about 65 Million years ago.

Amazing

Hi Bboyneko: Angharad is correct about the death of the Dinosaurs at or over 65M year ago.

The Society used to strongly hold that the earth was void of life until God begin to make it habitable about 48,000 years ago (6 creative days of 7,000 years each, plus 6,000 years into the 7th creative day).

I vaguely recall them teaching that the dinosaurs were used by God as a kind of giant living "lawn mowers" to keep the vegitation under control - because the earth was under the watery canopy, it was more moist and humid, and vegitation was supposed to grow more rapidly as it does in the tropics today. And with that, I also recall that they believed that the last of the dinosaurs would have been killed off in the world-wide flood of Noah's day - about 3,500 years ago.

Yes, the Watch Tower Society is as ignorant of science as the Taliban are of basic human rights, or as Hitler was about evolution and the master race. They are ignorant, poorly educated, and bent on promoting stupidity with increasingly more stupidity - and when caught - they cover lies with more lies. - Amazing

Simon

The flood 'science' and where the dinosaurs fit in was one of the first things that started me questioning the WTS teachings. I remember finding several contradictory arguments where they used dinosaurs as proof against young earth creationist arguments but then argued against old-earth & evolution by using young-earth "they died in the flood" arguments.

I can't recall where they were from but I think it may have been old questions from (people posing as) readers.

Amazing

Hi Bboy: I looked at the WTS main site to search for "Dinosaurs" to see what they teach today. Here are the results:

http://www.watchtower.org/cgi-bin/library/searchindex/query.pl
Documents containing: Dinosaurs err: no results

Typical for the Watchtower Idiocy and Ignorance Society. - Amazing

DB

A cover article of Awake addressed the matter of the dinosaurs; it was printed about 4-5 yrs ago. The article maintained that God "ended their [the dinosaur's] life" but it did not specify when. The article did say that scientific evidence shows that man and dinosaurs did NOT live at the same time, so any former teaching that they died at the flood has since been dropped, and rightfully so.

aChristian

: I also recall that they believed that the last of the dinosaurs would have been killed off in the world-wide flood of Noah's day - about 3,500 years ago.

Actually, the Society dates the flood to 2370 B.C.E., which would of course be about 4,370 years ago. Not that it makes a whole lot of difference. The claim that a flood once entirely covered the earth at any time in mankind's history, let alone one which killed the dinosaurs, is absolute foolishness.

rhett

I know my JW family still believes that man and dinosaurs lived at the same time. My wife never really knew the phsycoticness of them until I was talking about how a meteorite killed the dino's around my family. Whenever I said that everyone there just stopped and stared at me for a few seconds until my sister gained enough exposure to tell me that the flood killed the dinosaurs. Ever since that day my wife never questions me anymore about how crazy JW's are. Apparently the JW's have spent a little too much time watching the Flintstones......

I don't need to fight
To prove I'm right
I don't need to be forgiven.

Amazing

Hi AChristian: You made a good point when you said, "Actually, the Society dates the flood to 2370 B.C.E., which would of course be about 4,370 years ago."

I was thinking 3,500 BC, and inadvertantly stated ... "3,500 years ago" ... my error. If I recall correctly, the Society states that Adam was created in 4,026 BCE. Given that the Flood supposedly happened after Adam dies and before Amraham lived, then somewhere between 2500 and 3000 BC would be about right. And that would be between 4,500 and 5,000 years ago.

You also noted, "Not that it makes a whole lot of difference. The claim that a flood once entirely covered the earth at any time in mankind's history, let alone one which killed the dinosaurs, is absolute foolishness."

I agree with you 100%. I did a series on H20 about the Flood and how it could not have been a worldwide flood. The geological evidence and physics stand in the way of any such planetary flood - though a localized flood could have happened, and some indications are that such an event took place between what is now the Black Sea and the Mespotamian Valley. Thanks again. - Amazing

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