Table of Contents
- Does God exist?
(Chapter 1)
- Did God really take six days?
(Chapter 2)
- What about the ‘gap theory’?
(Chapter 3)
- What about carbon dating?
(Chapter 4)
- How can we see distant stars in a young universe?
(Chapter 5)
- How did bad things come about?
(Chapter 6)
- What about arguments for evolution?
(Chapter 7)
- Who was Cain’s wife?
(Chapter 8)
- Were the Nephilim extraterrestrials?
(Chapter 9)
- Was Noah’s Flood global?
(Chapter 10)
- What about continental drift?
(Chapter 11)
- Noah’s Flood-what about all that water?
(Chapter 12)
- How did the animals fit on Noah’s Ark?
(Chapter 13 &
Chapter 14)
- Where are all the human fossils?
(Chapter 15)
- What about the Ice Age?
(Chapter 16)
- How did animals get to Australia?
(Chapter 17)
- How did all the different ‘races’ arise?
(Chapter 18)
- What happened to the dinosaurs?
(Chapter 19)
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Study guide
Creation Answers Book by Dr Don Batten (editor), Dr David Catchpoole, Dr Jonathan Sarfati, and Dr Carl Wieland
Lesson 18
What happened to the dinosaurs?
Supplemental materials
Q&A: Dinosaurs
Textbook
The Answers Book, Chapter 19
Discussion questions
- In your own words, explain the history of dinosaurs according to evolutionists: When did dinosaurs live? Where did they come from? What did they eat originally? Why do we find dinosaur fossils today? etc.
- In your own words, explain the true, Biblical history of dinosaurs: When did dinosaurs live? Where did they come from? What did they eat originally? Why do we find dinosaur fossils today? etc.
- Review the difference between ‘origins’ and ‘operational science’ (See Chapter 1). Which aspects of paleontology fall under the realm of ‘origins science’? Which aspects are considered ‘operational science’?
- What is meant by the term ‘Christian worldview’? ‘Secular worldview’?
- What is our knowledge of the way dinosaurs looked based on?
- Does the Bible mention dinosaurs? Why or why not?
- Read Job 40 and Could Behemoth have been a dinosaur?. Based on this, and the information in the Answers Book, what type of animal do you think ‘behemoth’ was?
- It was thought that a Japanese trawler pulled a dead plesiosaur from the ocean many years ago; however, further studies have found that the carcass was probably that of a basking shark, not a plesiosaur. Read Letting rotting sharks lie for more information.
- List some evidence that confirm dinosaur bones have not been around for millions of years. (See also Dinosaur bones: Just how old are they really?, and Sensational dinosaur blood report.)
- Contact your local zoo. What can you find out about endangered species programs and extinctions happening in the present? Based on this information, what types of things may have caused the dinosaurs to become scarce or extinct? Read Did a meteor wipe out the dinosaurs? for information that refutes a common idea that a meteorite caused the dinosaurs to become extinct.
- Why is important that we are able to explain the existence of dinosaurs within a Biblical worldview?
Additional Resources
Dinosaurs and the Bible (DVD)
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