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When i was a kid i once remember being told by someone that dinosaur bones were 'planted by the devil' to discredit Christians.

not sure why .....

Job 3:8 May those who curse days curse that day, those who are ready to rouse Leviathan.

Job 41:1 "Can you pull in the leviathan with a fishhook or tie down his tongue with a rope?

Psalm 74:14 It was you who crushed the heads of Leviathan and gave him as food to the creatures of the desert.

Psalm 104:26 There the ships go to and fro, and the leviathan, which you formed to frolic there.

Isaiah 27:1 [ Deliverance of Israel ] In that day, the LORD will punish with his sword, his fierce, great and powerful sword, Leviathan the gliding serpent, Leviathan the coiling serpent; he will slay the monster of the sea

yep - prolly just one of them big squids (sarc)

Then theres the question of the age of creation -was it six literal - or six periods ?.......my money is on epochs

Agreed. Also agree when it comes to the six day vs six epochs thing. Personally I believe six epochs, and for three main reasons. One is that it would fit perfectly with evolution, and secondly because the whole 'Earth was created 6K years ago' stemmed from Archbishop's Ushers calculations (which were based on geneology chronology using the lifetimes of people in the Bible). He even 'managed' to come up with the exact date - October 26, 4004 BC! Note that this was during the same time there were debates about the genders of angels, how many angels could stand on the head of a pin (seriously), and other questions that had no real substance.

My biggest reason however is the the third one ....whether the Earth was created 6,000 years ago (as some say), or 10,000 years ago (as some Young Earth Creationists pushed back the 6K date when it didn't match with some discoveries that were older than 6K yrs), or eons ago (my personal belief) doesn't matter much. As a Christian what i adhere to is a personal belief in Christ and relationship with him. To me that is what matters ....not whether Adam walked with T-rex (which is just plain dumb .....particularly when i heard that one of the Creationist museums claimed that the reason T-rex had sharp teeth in a perfect world was so that it could eat fruit better!!!! Or the fact that some years back there was an expedition by some Young Earthers to Lake Tele in the Congo to investigate claims of some sort of Loch Ness type lake monster - read 'dinosaur' - that lived there ....in a bid to show that if 'dinosaurs' still exist today then science is wrong on other things too). To me all that is nonsense ....here are far more important things.

Oh, and they never did get any real evidence of that Lake Tele monster. Guess Loch Ness in Scotland is always open for 'research.'