Thank God for the extinction of dinosaurs

Have you ever stopped to thank God for the extinction of dinosaurs? I did tonight after considering the sort of menace such creatures must have been to whom or whatever encountered them. Imagine the dreadful scene, of being pursued by a monstrosity twenty or more feet tall, swift of foot and burnishing a cutler's set of teeth and claws with size and edge of butcher's knives. Sharpened wooden spears would blunt upon the brazen plates of this [i]lusus naturae[/i]. Seeing as God considered all His creation to be "very good", what a kindness of Him to answer the prayers of primitive men and be rid once-for-all with the tyrannical beasts!

I realize some high-brow naturalist or scientific aficionado might read these opinions with aghast disdain. Such would prefer all men eaten before losing a single lower species to extinction. Pairing it to my faith they might chide, "concern for the next world gives him no regard for this one." May I remind these fellows that the greatest conservationist of all time was one Noah, whom I hold for a hero? In his vein I too support proper maintenance of our world, and in fact relish natural wonders which abound. On my shelf is a subscription to National Geographic. There is a difference, however, between saving spotted owls and wishing to have again tyrannosaurs rex and velosa raptors, and it is largely appetite. Several tigers and jackals to hold down the rodent population, mankind can endure. But behemoth lizards and flying predatory leviathans? Thank God they are dead.

The following children's song is pertinent, set to the tune of "The Farmer and the Dell",

Tyrannosaurus Rex
The animals you vex.
You beat them up
And eat them up
And leave a pile of wrecks.

Praising Him for all providences,
-Mike:.

Sorry to say this, but what you are trying to say isn't quite clear to me.

First of all, who said dinosaurs are extinct and who said they were a menace?

Primitive men? What's that?

I have to ask that, because God created Adam, and the popular secular mindset of a primitive man is akin to a hairy monster who grunts and groans because he does not possess the intelligence to speak coherent words.

Tyrannical beasts? They were created vegetarian, or so we are told in Genesis 1.

Anyway, I don't want to go on for too long, long posts are wearisome.

God bless.

It's neat that you bring this up.

The other day I was driving in my car and I was thinking "what if I constantly had to watch out for pterodactyls that might destroy my car at any second?"

My friends say I think about random things sometimes... :-)

That's what I was thinking Krispy! :-P

Tyrannical beasts? They were created vegetarian, or so we are told in Genesis 1.

Yea, I am glad they are extinct too (with a few supposed exceptions).

Enid, the purpose of this thread was to bring some lighthearted rejoicing over the many things we take for granted.

You asked how we know the dinosaurs are extinct. I'm not sure where you live, but they definitely do not inhabit my home town, San Diego.

You surely know that the dinosaurs did not stay vegetarian, and what then? Men are made of meat. As for "primitive men", I meant so only in the sense that their means of self defense were limited to things not equal to the creatures at hand. By this standard, villagers in the African jungles are primitive.

As was mentioned, Job talks about animals (behemoth, leviathan) so hardy that man could not combat them. I look forward to realizing far more of the subtle mercies God has shown to this world.

Krispy, I have the same 24 hours you do. While you were watching Third Day, I was reading about dinosaurs. Both of us have traded our blessings. :)

Blessings.

I don't know. It would be cool to see what a Cabela's dinosaur hunting section would stock. I'd like to see a pocket-sized T-Rex calling device. Could be useful in traffic not to mention T-Rex hunting.

Extinction? I think Kent Hovind might take issue with the title of this thread..

8-)

Brother Paul

I don't know. It would be cool to see what a Cabela's dinosaur hunting section would stock. I'd like to see a pocket-sized T-Rex calling device. Could be useful in traffic not to mention T-Rex hunting.

:-P

I appreciate the lighthearted nature of this thread. I never did consider the blessing of not having to deal with the various frustrations of living in a world with such creatures. We hit way too many deer, racoons and opposums with our cars, imagine running into a t-rex as you are driving down the road.

It is refreshing to remember that God gives us so many blessings we take for granted. We are certainly blessed beyond measure.

Greetings Mike

Wanted to say thanks for posting this. It has been on my heart since reading it the other night. In all honesty of late I have been focusing on some of the difficult things that are going on around me. It was good to be reminded of just how deeply our Father loves us and that many of the things that He has done and continues to do in my life are blessings that I have at times taken for granted. For a time I have been feeling discouraged that our house is in need of repair in several areas. Its is an older home and in many ways we have out grown it. I drive by some of the newer home developments in my area and think..."Oh how wonderful it would have been to get out of our old house and move to a nice big house with plenty of space and no problems." I was feeling really down about things, then I read this post of yours and realized that the nice big new house would have had a nice new big mortgage payment that would have been extremely difficult to make in these tough economic times.Many people we know are actually having hard times making their payments now on their new homes. Anyway, I have repented of my attitude and am giving thanks to Father for this house we are in. IT does need work, but He always provides the means to get things done. IT is small but then again its nice to be close to one another, and our payment is easily met each month. Father truly does provide!!!

God Bless
MJ