What! No Dinosaurs? by Deacon David Clifton
A look at the story of creation in the Book of Genesis
There are many people today, if they consider the Bible at all, dismiss it as a collection of ‘folk-tales’, having about as much
credibility,
and
relevance
to
present-day living, as the tale of Red Riding Hood. In particular, the accounts of creation in the Book of Genesis (Gen 1: 1 - 31: complete
and 2: 4-25) are derided as nonsense.
The
Christian
response to these criticisms is not helped by those fundamentalists, who insist on the literal truth of everything in the Bible. They assert the ‘falsehood’ of evolutionary theory, even going so far as to claim that dinosaurs never existed and that their fossils were put in the earth by God to test our faith, or by the devil to deceive us! Until the modern era the Catholic Church, like everyone else, has accepted the Biblical accounts as factually accurate,
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