Dinosaurs: Biblically speaking...part deux

I know, I'm a couple days late on this, but some things came up. And I also know that you are expecting me to say something, anything about college football. But I'm not. I do not wish to add to the mess of opinion. There are people smarter than I that will make good arguments and people dumber than I (Les Miles) that will make stupid arguments. There is a point of saturation and I don't want to add to that.

So I'll get back to the dinosaurs. In the last blog I gave Biblical references describing dinosaurs and gave evidence that dinosaurs and man lived side-by-side. Today, I'll give a possible theory for why the dinosaurs became extinct. This is easily the best explanation I've heard and it's Biblically sound. Here it goes.

The place we need to start is in the beginning. Yes, God created the heavens and the earth. But let's dig a bit deeper. First, go to Genesis 1:6-8. "Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. (7) Thus God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so. (8)"And God called the firmament Heaven...

What this tells me is that God created a firmament of water, and called it heaven, meaning there was a layer of water suspended in the atmosphere. The firmament, I'll call it, is much like an ozone layer. It surrounded the earth (waters divided from waters) and protected the earth from the suns radiation, provided a consistent temperature throughout the earth and most importantly, a consistent air pressure.

In Genesis 2, it clearly states that God had not caused it to rain. There was no need for rain, as the weather was perfect all the time, as God had wanted it to be. Also, in Genesis 1:20, God told the birds to fly above the earth and across the face of the firmament. If the firmament were not a solid thing (water) then why couldn't birds fly through the firmament or above the firmament. But no, the firmament had boundaries and it was solid.

But that firmament would eventually be broken, and that came in the great flood. Genesis 7 tells us about it. It reads in verse 11 that the windows of heaven were opened. Could this mean that the firmament was broken?

I'm not suggesting that dinosaurs died in the flood, because they would have been aboard the ark. Yes, really, they would have fit. There weren't that many "kinds" of animals then. Noah didn't need to take a collie, golden retriever, and a lab. He just need a dog. Most fossil records show that most dinosaurs were much smaller than we are led to believe. Instead, I'm suggesting that the collapse, or the depletion of the firmament, caused problems on earth with weather, temperature, and most importantly, pressure. I've read that many dinosaurs had minimal lung capacity and with the increase in air pressure, they would have a difficult time breathing, and thus, a difficult time living.

Something to think about anyway.

This doesn't have to do so much with extinction, but it gives more evidence that humans and dinosaurs could have lived together. Common sense would say that dinosaurs would have wiped out humans. But in Genesis 1:30, it says that God gave every green herb for food to the birds and the beasts. Not flesh, but herbs. Let's move to the post-flood, where everything changed. In Genesis 9:2-3, it is the first time God tells man that any animal, fish, bird, creeping thing, whatever, is given to man to eat, "even as the green herbs." Apparently, before this, man did not eat animals and likewise animals did not eat man.

I've always been intrigued by the history of mankind and the creation. Certainly, there are many questions that we will never be able to answer, but by reading the Bible and really studying it, we might be able to answer a few of those questions.