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The Bible says God created everything, but science says dinosaurs lived and died millions of years ago—so where do humans fit in?

The Bible teaches that God created everything including animals, humans, and even creatures like dinosaurs (Genesis 1:1, 1:21).


The Bible doesn’t clearly say when dinosaurs lived or how they became extinct, so Christians understand this in different ways. Some believe dinosaurs lived with humans, while others believe they lived long before humans.


So if dinosaurs died millions of years ago, then humans were not yet created at that time.


The Bible doesn’t clearly explain some details like dinosaurs, so we shouldn’t get too distracted by things it doesn’t explicitly teach.


Science is a human effort to understand the world, and sometimes it can be wrong or change over time.


So we can learn from science, but our main focus should be on what the Bible clearly teaches—about God, our lives, and our relationship with Him.


Also, not everything in science is equal to Scripture. Science tries to explain how the world works, and its ideas can change. But the Bible is God’s Word and gives us the truth about God, creation, and salvation.


So we can learn from science, but we should not place it above the Bible.


The most important truth is this: God created all things, and humans are specially made in His image.


The Bible’s main focus is not dinosaurs, but our relationship with God.

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