(04-04-2019 12:03 PM)DustMyBroom Wrote:  

(04-04-2019 11:04 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(04-04-2019 10:26 AM)DustMyBroom Wrote:  

(04-04-2019 02:31 AM)ericsrevenge76 Wrote:  I don't buy the 66 million years nonsense. Way too much conflicting evidence and a lot of evidence piling up that dinosaurs lived with man in the past 5000 years.
Of course as Christian I have way more faith in the Bible than the word of man, but even the science has major conflicting evidence now.
I'm always surprised when Christians believe in the billions of years stuff concerning dinos. They seem to accept a man rising from the dead after 3 days (a scientific impossibility), but reject almost everything else the bible says because.......science. The Bible talks about dinosaurs walking the earth with man. It gives detailed descriptions of a huge sauropod and a giant sea creature.

The problem with the “Christian perspective” is that it requires a lot of faith in its religious based viewpoints, but places no faith at all in science based viewpoints. All that does in the end is make science easy for the faithful to dismiss while simultaneously failing any and all logic based argument.
There is no confusion regarding dinosaurs. They went extinct, and there has never been any evidence of coexistence with man. Even the oldest of dinosaurs aren’t “billions of years old” by the way.
There isn’t any geological confusion about chicxulub either. It’s a giant crater caused by a giant rock striking the earth. The 66 million year old estimate for its age is consistent throughout the earth, too. What that means is that material that only comes from impactors has been found with material radiologically identical to chicxulub in areas far from chicxulub...that only happens if the materials are mixed together and then thrown a distance by tremendous force.

The problem with the purely scientific viewpoint is that it requires a lot of faith in its science based ideas, but places no faith at all in religion based ideas.
My own perspective is that science explains what happened, and religion explains why it happened. That pretty much gives me a logical way out of these sorts of disputes.

I certainly don’t disagree with you here and apologize if it came off that way. Faith is very important. In its absence, the world suffers.

No need to apologize, I didn't take it that way. My comment was more meant for both sides. If people just made that distinction, I think about 90% of the religion-science issues go away.