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?

Birroc

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?

Turtwig

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...
http://www.geocities.ws/monchromon/carnotaurus01.jpg

God really didn't give Dinos a chance did he?

Zillah

Jernal wrote: »

God really didn't give Dinos a chance did he?

Well, going by conventional numbers, he gave them approximately 800 times longer on this Earth than human beings have had so far.

Turtwig

Zillah wrote: »

Well, going by conventional numbers, he gave them approximately 800 times longer on this Earth than human beings have had so far.

To survive maybe, but to have fun?

Zillah

I think that Raptors probably enjoyed themselves.

iDave

God works in mysterious ways. Now lets just leave it at that.

Fox_In_Socks

iDave wrote: »

God works in mysterious ways. Now lets just leave it at that.

Amen iDave, you're preaching to the converted here. Like an iPad owner to iPhone owners.:)

Galvasean

Birroc wrote: »

Is this guy the dinosaur devil? or divil?

Jernal wrote: »

To survive maybe, but to have fun?

Who needs hands when you have..... THIS!

Sarky

Zillah

What the hell am I looking at in that first image?

Birroc

Zillah wrote: »

What the hell am I looking at in that first image?

A big white dinosaur cock?

Galvasean

Zillah wrote: »

What the hell am I looking at in that first image?

Devil dinosaur.

Beruthiel

Yup.
That's a big 'un.....

Brian Shanahan

robindch wrote: »

Find a copy of:

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

You might enjoy it

The ending of that book really pissed me off, as it's one of the things I always hated about catholic theology, even when I still believed.

For those who haven't read the book don't open the following:

telling a person who is dying horribly that ending their suffering early is wrong is the worst form of immorality IMO

robindch

Brian Shanahan wrote: »

The ending of that book really pissed me off, as it's one of the things I always hated about catholic theology, even when I still believed.

Thought the ending, so far as I remember it -- sharks et al, wasn't it? -- was pretty good.

The sanctity of suffering though - what a hideous thought, and certainly one worth thinking on the day the Supreme Court rejected Marie Fleming's appeal, while leaving open the possibility that the Dail might do something about it:

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/marie-fleming-appeal-on-assisted-suicide-rejected-1.1376352

Bannasidhe

robindch wrote: »

Thought the ending, so far as I remember it -- sharks et al, wasn't it? -- was pretty good.

The sanctity of suffering though - what a hideous thought, and certainly one worth thinking on the day the Supreme Court rejected Marie Fleming's appeal, while leaving open the possibility that the Dail might do something about it:

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/marie-fleming-appeal-on-assisted-suicide-rejected-1.1376352

*snort*

Pherekydes

Bannasidhe wrote: »

*snort*

Yep, I can really see an FG-led government voting for (limited) euthanasia*.




*Except in the case of suicide ideation, because euthanasia is never a solution to suicide.

Galvasean

"What next Joe? Suicide on demand!"

Brian Shanahan

robindch wrote: »

Thought the ending, so far as I remember it -- sharks et al, wasn't it? -- was pretty good.

I forgot about the shark, which was actually a coda to the book, not really a true ending.

The true ending came a bit earlier when the Abbot was arguing with a government scientist, and the girl's mother, over the morality of euthanising a young girl dying of radiation sickness. His piousness was sickening.

Bannasidhe

Brian Shanahan wrote: »

I forgot about the shark, which was actually a coda to the book, not really a true ending.

The true ending came a bit earlier when the Abbot was arguing with a government scientist, and the girl's mother, over the morality of euthanising a young girl dying of radiation sickness. His piousness was sickening.

Scratch book off reading list as blabber mouths have given away the ending. :mad:

Brian Shanahan

Bannasidhe wrote: »

Scratch book off reading list as blabber mouths have given away the ending. :mad:

Read Tiger! Tiger! instead. In that book the solar system's governments had the good sense to ban religion altogether, and a cathedral gets used for its proper purpose, i.e. housing the circus of a wastrel playboy multi-millionaire.