What Do You Say to Your Kids About Dinosaurs and the Bible?
Question: ‘Dad, did God make dinosaurs too?’
Answer: ‘God made everything.’
Question: ‘Well, why doesn’t it say in the bible that God made dinosaurs with everything else?’
Answer: ‘Go brush your teeth.’
Whenever the family and I go someplace like the National Zoo or the Natural History Museum, I have a little game (read: annoying habit) of embarrassing my wife. Looking at the skeletons of dinosaurs, say, or an evolutionary chart in the ape house I’ll loudly say something like: ‘Of course, if you actually believe in that Darwin nonsense’ or ‘Naturally, it’s all a conspiracy by liberal humanists.’
It only adds to my wife’s embarrassment (read: irritation) when my mock pronouncements are actually met with ‘Amens’ from overhearing bystanders. I admit I’m always a bit surprised by them too. I can only imagine what sort of experience a zoo must be to those who don’t believe in the underlying premise behind every cage and exhibit. It must be a maze of lies and misinformation to such people, begging the even more problematic question of why, if evolution etc isn’t true, God has created a world seemingly designed to mislead us.
My boys have started trying to juxtapose dinosaurs (which they love) with God (whom they love). I take a less sarcastic angle with them and try to make sure I don’t say more than the bible tries to say.
Creation is our worship theme for the coming weekend and its got me thinking of those people I always run into at zoos and museums. And I’m wondering where you fall on this topic?
Do you think the Genesis account is literally true? Do you think its something else? How many creationists are out there actually?
On a related note, here’s NPR’s story about an evolutionary themed Dr Pepper ad that’s provoked complaints from Christians.
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Oooooh, creationism. Guaranteed to make me really, really cranky. Given that I need to get to sleep, a rant is not going to be useful right now.
I like to think that I can rebut pretty much any creationist claim made, though. Kind of like a sport…
Eva