Were dinosaurs religious?

Birroc

I was reading earlier that the first dinosaurs appeared approx 230,000,000 years ago and dominated for approx 135,000,000 years.

In contrast homo sapiens originated in Africa around 200,000 years ago. Humans only started farming about 12,000 years ago. Organised religion started around 6000 years ago.

So I got to thinking, how do organised religions explain what their God was doing for 230 million years and why didn't he create his chosen people sooner?

MagicMarker

Aliens.

Lapin

He put the dinosaurs here first to suss the place out and see if it was safe for the rest of us.

He decided that if the dinosaurs died out, then the planet obviously wouldn't be a safe place for humans and as it turned out they did become extinct.

So God left earth to the flowers and the trees, the birds and the bees and the unicorns and all the other animals.

And they lived happily here for millions of years.

Then, during one particularly heavy drinking session, God accidently flicked a switch and presto - Adam & Eve appeared and started eating apples and shagging and raising their kids to become murderers and the humans were here to stay and carry on in the same manner from then on.


It wasn't one of God's finer moments, and that drunken incident is one he has regretted ever since.

Turtwig

Birroc wrote: »

I was reading earlier that the first dinosaurs appeared approx 230,000,000 years ago and dominated for approx 135,000,000 years.

In contrast homo sapiens originated in Africa around 200,000 years ago. Humans only started farming about 12,000 years ago. Organised religion started around 6000 years ago.

So I got to thinking, how do organised religions explain what their God was doing for 230 million years and why didn't he create his chosen people sooner?

What makes you think God built the planet for homo sapiens? He built it for the mice so they could experiment on us I thought this was obvious to everyone?

coffee_cake

Birroc wrote: »

I was reading earlier that the first dinosaurs appeared approx 230,000,000 years ago and dominated for approx 135,000,000 years.

In contrast homo sapiens originated in Africa around 200,000 years ago. Humans only started farming about 12,000 years ago. Organised religion started around 6000 years ago.

So I got to thinking, how do organised religions explain what their God was doing for 230 million years and why didn't he create his chosen people sooner?

These are all lies, you infidel. It all started 6k years ago and the dinosaurs and people were best friends. Like god made it. :mad:

Turtwig

bluewolf wrote: »

These are all lies, you infidel. It all started 6k years ago and the dinosaurs and people were best friends. Like god made it. :mad:

God says to never trust a wolf.

Rayne Wooney

Bones aren't enough evidence for dinosaurs....




:pac:

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They were put there to test our faith.

Solair

Considering the most successful group of vertebrates are birds and they evolved from dinosaurs, they did pretty well for themselves!

There are also vastly more insects than humans (by weight) so, if anything this is insect world !

Pherekydes

Of course dinosaurs were religious!

At first, they gazed stupidly at the heavens, but one clever dino invented a god and he was able to control the minds of dinosaurs. But another dino grew jealous and invented his own god and caused a schism in Dinoland. Millenia passed, and religions proliferated, causing countless religious wars, but one even more intelligent dino posited that no gods existed and the God began to lose control of the minds of dinosaurs.

So he sent a meteorite...

Brian Shanahan

Jernal wrote: »

He built it for the mice

Cockroaches surely?

the culture of deference

Lapin wrote: »

He put the dinosaurs here first to suss the place out and see if it was safe for the rest of us.

He decided that if the dinosaurs died out, then the planet obviously wouldn't be a safe place for humans and as it turned out they did become extinct.

So God left earth to the flowers and the trees, the birds and the bees and the unicorns and all the other animals.

And they lived happily here for millions of years.

Then, during one particularly heavy drinking session, God accidently flicked a switch and presto - Adam & Eve appeared and started eating apples and shagging and raising their kids to become murderers and the humans were here to stay and carry on in the same manner from then on.


It wasn't one of God's finer moments, and that drunken incident is one he has regretted ever since.

Then he got p1ssed off again and thought fcuk these ungrateful bastards and he flooded the planet and tried to kill us all. What a guy

Lapin

the culture of deference wrote: »

Then he got p1ssed off again and thought fcuk these ungrateful bastards and he flooded the planet and tried to kill us all. What a guy

And given the amount of rain we get in this country, the fúcker must be very píssed off with the Irish.

Still, despite sending us foreign invasions, famines, floods and Fianna Fáil, he still hasn't managed to kill us off !

Bannasidhe

Lapin wrote: »

And given the amount of rain we get in this country, the fúcker must be very píssed off with the Irish.

Still, despite sending us foreign invasions, famines, floods and Fianna Fáil, he still hasn't managed to kill us off !

That's why he is sending us Gay Marriage and if that doesn't work he has compulsory abortions lined up next.

Lapin

Bannasidhe wrote: »

That's why he is sending us Gay Marriage and if that doesn't work he has compulsory abortions lined up next.

If he was into gay marriage, surely he would have sent us Adam and Steve instead.

Bannasidhe

Lapin wrote: »

If he was into gay marriage, surely he would have sent us Adam and Steve instead.

Sure they wrote Lilith out of the story so it's quite possible Steve (or Atar to give him his Hebrew name) was airbrushed out as well.

Ash.J.Williams

jeez...the dinosars died and turned into oil ...a gift from god

Mark Hamill

Lapin wrote: »

If he was into gay marriage, surely he would have sent us Adam and Steve instead.

As opposed to what he actually did - send his only son down to pull a bunch of men away from their wives and children so they could all travel around alone together :pac:.

Galvasean

Solair wrote: »

There are also vastly more insects than humans (by weight) so, if anything this is insect world !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2mmTDT6W7E

Cabaal

Lads, its important to remember that....

biko

It's all there in the bible, somewhere, maybe..

Birroc

biko wrote: »

It's all there in the bible, somewhere, maybe..

Did they have their own holy book? Perhaps archaeologists will find it some day. Could be very exciting.

Fox_In_Socks

Birroc wrote: »

Did they have their own holy book? Perhaps archaeologists will find it some day. Could be very exciting.

DINOSAURS! magazine. I had every issue. Even the repetitive ones (80%)

robindch

Birroc wrote: »

Did they have their own holy book? Perhaps archaeologists will find it some day. Could be very exciting.

Find a copy of:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz

You might enjoy it

Galvasean

Fox_In_Socks wrote: »

DINOSAURS! magazine. I had every issue. Even the repetitive ones (80%)

Everyone knows only binders 1&2 are canon. Everything else after that was Dougal Dixon inspired heresy!

robindch

^^^ If that guy's arms were a bit longer, I'd suspect him of public indecency.

Sarky

I presume you're all well aware of T-Rex Trying?

Beruthiel

Sarky wrote: »

I presume you're all well aware of T-Rex Trying?

Love the duel challenge.

iMyself

biko wrote: »

It's all there in the bible, somewhere, maybe..

and if not we can change it so it is...

Galvasean

If you think T. rex's arms were small, spare a thought for poor disgruntled Carnotaurus who just has paws with fused immovable 'fingers' where his arms should be...

Birroc

Galvasean wrote: »

If you think T. rex's arms were small, spare a thought for poor disgruntled Carnotaurus who just has paws with fused immovable 'fingers' where his arms should be...

Is this guy the dinosaur devil? or divil?