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Do jw's believe dinosaurs existed?
by farmer 38 Replies latest jw friends
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pudd
The witnesses have no problem in the belief of the existence of dinosaurs. They believe they were used by Jehovah to help prepare the earth for man.
They do not however believe in evolution at all.
hope this helps!
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Beans
I asked my Dad this once, he kinda stumbled on this one! They don't talk about htis much nor does any religion.
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gitasatsangha
The older black NWT (not the Green ones), had a map of Eurasia and Africa on the inside cover, with some kind of bipedal dinosaur walking across the Sahara. I used to like that as a kid. Gave me soemthing to imagine about while some old elder was droning on about "the sacred secret"
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Flash
They believe they were used by Jehovah to help prepare the earth for man.
I never believed this! It's just another example of the GB needing to have an answer for everything.
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Dan-O
I still have one of those on my desk, Gita. I kinda like the dino. I always wondered why they didn't add Fred & Wilma & Pebbles touring the desert in their car ...
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gitasatsangha
I still have one of those on my desk, Gita. I kinda like the dino. I always wondered why they didn't add Fred & Wilma & Pebbles touring the desert in their car ...
To hell with Fred and Wilma, I wanted Betty Rubble on my bible, or lap, or whatever.
Gita of the Yabadabadoo Class
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gaiagirl
I once saw a "questions from readers" article in a back issue of the Watchtower or Awake owned by an older brother in the congregation where we had our book study. This was probably the 1969 bound volume, in which it stated that dinosaurs may have existed up until the time of Noah!!!!! More about evolution...the teaching used to be that each and every different species (although the WTBTS used the word "kind" instead of "species") was a distinct, separate creation. So monitor lizards were created as a separate kind from crocodiles, which were created separate from snakes, which were created separate from skinks, which were created separate from horned toads, etc. All were said to be separate from any bird, although they didn't like to talk about fossil birds such as Archeopteryx, which had claws on its feathered wings, a reptilian tail, and reptilian teeth in its beak. Archeopteryx has a reptilian skeleton, very similar to a small velociraptor, if the fossil had not included impressions from its feathers, it would not have been known to have been a bird. But if you ask a JW, they will tell you it isn't a reptile evolving into a bird, but that it instead was a completely separate creation.
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santacruzchick
I've always wondered about that, especially as a child. For some reason, I never asked.
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gitasatsangha
Gaiagirl,
Jdubs are no different from most creationists in that regard. They try to bend logic to support an unsupprotable premise. I have never understood why, because there does not have to be an inherent conflict between the bible and natural selection.