do JWs believe in dinosaurs?

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  • Happy Guy :)
    Happy Guy :)


    When my kids were young they loved dinosaurs. I used to take them to our local Museum every few months to see the exhibits and there was/is a decent dinosaur exhibit with plenty of educational plaques next to the skeletons explaining how, where and when they lived. When I took them there would have been around the late 1980s and early 1990s.

    My kids used to go back to their Mom's and tell her and her family all about it. My ex wife never said anything to the kids but the elders and their spouses (who my ex exposed the kids to) sure did. One elder's wife in particular gave an elaborate story to my kids about how dinosaurs didn't ever really exist and that it was Jehovah who merely put the bones in the ground because he knew that kids would like them.

    Both my kids were told (very strongly to the point of threatened) that they were not to talk about the explanations written on the plaques at the museum to any other (JW) kids. They were forced to adopt the idea that Jehovah had salted the ground with the bones.

  • MidwichCuckoo
    MidwichCuckoo
    dinosaurs didn't ever really exist and that it was Jehovah who merely put the bones in the ground

    I heard that too Happy Guy. Do you think it's true? I'm not so sure......

  • gringojj
    gringojj

    I always felt this was a huge problem for the WTS. I asked a JW once about this and his reply was that they have found fossilized footprints of a t-rex and a mans foot next to it. Hence the two once walked side by side. Kind of funny but its pretty easy to picture an illustration in a wt or awake of a t-rex walking in the woods and a man walking next to him. Picture in the background a lake and some sort of cascading waterfall, lots of rich vegetation, and the man holding a staff and wearing not much more than some type of natural underwear(because surely men who walked with dinosaurs would cover up). In any case isnt it vital to WTS doctrine that they keep the creation days as 1 day equals a thousand years? Isnt the fact that they know we are in the last days have something to do with being 7000 years into mans existence? If they admitted the 6000 yr old earth crap was bull wouldnt that throw off thier calculations? Its pretty crazy to think about it because it so ridiculous but if dinosaurs were made with all other animals they would have only roamed the earth like 4 thousand years ago right? And we know there were so many types of dinosaurs why doesnt it talk about in the bible why god decided to kill all of them and not let them live after the flood? None of this crap makes sense. How can dubs defend this stuff to the end i dont know.

  • Happy Guy :)
    Happy Guy :)

    Do I think that God salted the ground with bones? Absolutley not. Nonsense invented by literal creationists....in my opinion.

  • City Fan
    City Fan

    I once had the misfortune to get into a conversation with 2 Mormons who'd knocked at my door. I asked them something like 'why did they think god created dinosaurs only for them to get wiped out'. One of them said "I've thought about this one and I think it was so we could have oil".

    mmmmmmm........

  • Elsewhere
    Elsewhere
    One of them said "I've thought about this one and I think it was so we could have oil".

    Hmmmmmmm.... yuuuuup. *** Slowly closes door ***

  • katiekitten
    katiekitten

    Well they must believe in dinosaurs because they had a picture of that little one in the back of the green bible.

    When I was a dub I always thought god made them to keep the grass down until he made man, and man made lawn mower, presumably.

    I always thought exhibitions and programmes about dinosaurs were unscriptural, but I wasnt quite sure why. If I ever went to the British Museum I used to sniff righteously at that dinosaur skeleton and pretend it wasnt there.

    Now I just marvel at it all. I have no idea why they were around, I doubt we could have co-existed nicely.

  • greendawn
    greendawn

    They want to "reach people" means they are sending out their slave workers to bring in more slave workers while deceiving them into thinking that they are saving people from the ever postponed Armageddon.

  • MidwichCuckoo
    MidwichCuckoo
    Well they must believe in dinosaurs because they had a picture of that little one in the back of the green bible.

    Of course you're right Katie - but what about the newer prints? Have they flip-flopped? Has the dinosaur been airbrushed out along with 1914 from the Awake (or WT?) ? Oh - and as dinosaurs were PRIOR to Noah - what about the carnivorous (have I spelt that wrong?) ones?

  • Legolas
    Legolas

    I remember bringing that question up with the lady I study with, she said they were not real that the devil distracts us with things like dinosaurs and UFO's to keep us busy and away from the truth! I said that can't be right because we now have their bones and ( she gave me her old green Bible when we started) there is what looks a dinosaur on the inside cover of HER Bible that she gave me!! Well she didn't say anything after that.

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