One injustice the jw religion does is it gives a totally false sense of confidence to members--teaching you can just think about something to figure it out, and totally discounting the need for actually studying something to obtain knowledge. Also, it gives members the false belief an idea, however uninformed, is equally valid to knowledge obtained by scientific analysis.
I had the same experience and there was a rude awakening. But a great awakening it was--I am now more curious than ever and am able to keep an open mind, rather than trying to close it by shoving round facts into the square peg that is the biblical story of Earth's history.
Here is a good video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T69TOuqaqXI
Does anyone realize that dinosaurs are mentioned in the Bible?
You are saying dinosaurs are mentioned.
God told us he created all the beast of the field didn't need to mention dinosaurs seperatly.
You are saying dinosaurs aren't mentioned?
Now my theory of what happened to the dinosaurs.
Don't we actually know what happened to the dinosaurs, which would render a theory unnecessary?
One they were on the Ark, so those not on the Ark were destroyed.
Setting the implausibility of the flood and ark story aside, the bible says one of every type of animal was on the ark, doesn't it?
Two we have Nimrod mentioned as being a great hunter. He would have only had to kill the female and destroy all her eggs.
Then dinosaurs would have been gone.
What would be the motive?
And wouldn't the deliberate extinction of a whole type of animal be significant enough to mention in the bible, especially since jehoopla knew the dinosaur would be a fly in the creationists' ointment in future years?