How do the dinasours and Garden of Eden fit together?

I asked the question about fossils in Jerusalem, and I don't think I phrased my question correctly. How can a person believe in the Garden of Eden and dinasours at the same time?Obviously, the dinasours were here first, then after 170 million years, god sent Jesus to earth..... I'm trying to figure that out. I guess its a naive question.

How do the dinasours and Garden of Eden fit together?
Being naive myself, I also see a large conflict with the scientific evidence that proves dinosaur fossils predate humankind, and the belief in creation and the Garden of Eden. I don't know if it's possible to believe in both without some sort of rationale that humans were created in "His image" after "He" played around with creating dinosaurs millions of years prior. It doesn't make sense to me either, being an empirical person.



But, there seems to be an explanation for everything, and when all else fails, you get really insulted so nobody asks these types of naive questions.
Reply:Dinosaurs are real. Adam and Eve is a cute story poorly plagiarized from Sumerian Tablets.
Reply:It can work if you interpret the Bible symbolically, but not if you believe the Bible is literally true.
Reply:The bible was writen by man.



Some parts are stories. The parables spring to mind.



Some law. The ten commandments.



Some History. The flight from Egypt, and so on.



The Garden of Eden is a story.
Reply:If you want to discuss fairy tales, you really should take it to religion and spirituality, because this discussion board is for discussions of academic, objective history (in theory)



there is no evidence whatsoever to suggest that there is a garden somewhere in the middle east that is guarded by an angel with a flaming sword and has a tree that will grant you eternal life if you eat from it.



The "Young Earth" charlatans have all sorts of theories, ranging from dinos being wiped out in the flood to fossils being man made and part of an overall conspiracy by evil atheists to eradicate religion from the world.
Reply:Dinosaurs existed so did Jesus Christ. There is scentific proof of the existence of dinosaurs ans historical proof of the existence of Christ.



The Garden of Eden is altogether a different proposition. It perhaps is an allegory on the stages of evolution from the formation of the Universe to the appearance of man on earth.



What the basis of this allegory is not known. Some people would even think it scandalous to label it as allegory.



If you believe in the Garden of Eden, then naturally you would believe in the original sin. But what is it? The discovery of sex.

If there was no sex, the human race would not have existed.

Sex has always been taboo down the ages and even now we have prudes that refuse to discuss it and label it sin.



It is upto you to believe in what you want to.
Reply:The people who believe in the absolute literalism of the Bible tend to either believe that the dinosaurs were IN the Garden of Eden and were wiped out by the Flood, or they believe that when the Bible says the earth was created in "seven days," that they meant seven days by GOD'S calendar, which maybe works differently then ours, so one day by God's reckoning would be more like a million years by our reckoning.



For them, it works, and I don't begrudge anyone for their own beliefs, to be honest (it's when they try to convince me that they should also be MY beliefs that I tend to get twitchy).
Reply:Much like mayonnaise and chocolate syrup. You can force them to mix, but it's not terribly appetizing.
Reply:Earth is older than that...so the first creatures are unknown but since dinosaurs were evolutionary creatures it must've taken much more time than that to start leaving fossils and so on if you know what i mean, that's my opinion on the sub.