What happened to the dinosaurs? Does the existence of dinosaurs contradict the account of Jehovahs creation?
To answer this question, I would like to first give you a few facts about the process of creation as presented by the Bible: • In the beginning, Jehovah God created the heavens (our skies and atmosphere) and Earth. This “beginning” is not the very beginning of everything, as there is no beginning for God. This beginning also does not refer to the beginning of God’s creation process. This beginning deals with the beginning of the world to which we belong. • God created every form of earthly life in a span of six days. Sometimes, a “day” in the Bible simply refers to an unspecified period of time, so each day in this stage of creation might have lasted thousands or millions of years in our human time. • God first established plant life on our planet, followed by animals (organisms in the waters came first, and then land animals) and, lastly, humans. Science agrees with this fact. According to science, the last dinosaurs died 65 million years ago, and humans did not exist until a very lon