Comments on: Dinosaurs, Creationism and Kids | How do we teach them the truth?

By: Tabitha @ Saving Toward A Better Life

Tabitha @ Saving Toward A Better Life — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 04:24:32 +0000

Thanks. I’ll check it out!

By: Esther Aguilera

Esther Aguilera — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 02:17:40 +0000

Great article you should look at the app splat it teaches about creation in a phone way. Is a Christian app for kids. You can get the creation case series for free. If you pay the app then you get more kids Christian programs.

By: Ami

Ami — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 21:35:46 +0000

Excellent information here! I think I will read the books and possibly use them in our homeschool co-op. Thanks!

By: Alyssa

Alyssa — Tue, 23 Aug 2016 19:31:51 +0000

Grade* lol

By: Alyssa

Alyssa — Tue, 23 Aug 2016 19:30:57 +0000

Great stuff!!!! Doing a 1st grease Research Report on Dinosaurs!! Love this!

By: Tabitha @ Saving Toward A Better Life

Tabitha @ Saving Toward A Better Life — Fri, 24 Jun 2016 19:19:22 +0000

In reply to Danielle.

Thanks for your fabulous addition to the conversation! I will have to check out those YouTube videos. I’m teaching a Dinosaurs & Creation class for our homeschool co-op in the fall so those will come in handy!

By: Danielle

Danielle — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 21:43:32 +0000

(Ok, WARNING–passionate, joyful, just-discovered-the-truth post ahead!) ;D First off, I 100% agree with your sentiment about the importance of this subject! I actually just did an amazing dinosaur unit study with my kids (K & Preschool 3) that was NOTHING like the ones I had in school growing up! ;) We covered it all–the Flood, rock layers, fossils, the origins of the name “dinosaur” & what ppl called them beforehand (including in the Bible), recent discoveries like dinosaur soft tissue, blood, parts of DNA, etc. It was the FIRST TIME I’d heard ANY of that stuff w/o the neo-evolutionary spin! Creation makes SUCH perfect sense on a grand scale, when you hammer out all of the scientific details, & meticulously go over the overwhelming amount of physical evidence for it! That’s what my mind was craving all these years! Why don’t more Christians educate themselves about this?!? Why are we as a church so careless with our kids’ education?? The question of origins is so completely essential to true faith…plus, it’s absolutely amazing & awe-inspiring (especially when you get into cosmology)! It’s such a crime that our education system (& museums, libraries, etc) are so stubbornly censored! :o I got angry thinking of all the years my head was so filled with the junk they teach in public schools! The truth really does set us free & I’m thanking God that I finally discovered it!
I also discovered Catie Frates at our huge annual convention (FPEA) this past May. She is awesome & funny & has free “intro to creation science (includes dinosaurs)” YouTube videos that are so entertaining. Thanks for the resource recommendations! For when the kiddos get older, I also recommend Dr. Russell Humphreys (cosmology), Dr. Don Patton (rocks, fossils, Flood, dinosaurs), Dr. Jonathan Safarti (general creation apologetics), Dr. Kent Hovind (dinosaurs)…all brilliant scientists who are after truth & present it matter-of-factly. It’s shocking how many scientists have to “come out” after they’ve reached tenure or after receiving their PhD’s. So many have been fired or black-listed for dissenting. It seriously is a “bully system.” It has to be….bc Darwinism is on its last wobbly leg! #peaceloveandtruth

By: Margie

Margie — Sat, 21 May 2016 15:29:25 +0000

In reply to Kelly.

Kelly,
I, too , questioned this extensively. The one thing God keeps bringing me back too, is that we should start with inherent, God breathed Word for answers. If you start with Genesis, you’ll notice the 7 literal days are in a very logical order. God had an amazing plan from the beginning. I’m starting to look at it in a different way. I no longer start with what Science says; I start with what God’s word says. God is faithful, and if you look around, you can see how Science (if used correctly) confirms God’s creation. We have been lied to since we were very young about the age of the Earth and it’s so difficult to rebuttal this in your mind. Pray to God for guidance in the issue. Let Him take you on a journey to find the truth. He is faithful.

By: Margie

Margie — Sat, 21 May 2016 15:21:03 +0000

Thank you for this. I’m not sure where you live, but there is a creation museum in Glenrose, Texas. It is small and not overly dance, but well organized. The museum shows how dinosaurs and man lived at the same time. We took our daughters to this before we went down the road to the Dinosaur State Park; which preaches millions of years. It was very helpful.

By: Tabitha @ Saving Toward A Better Life

Tabitha @ Saving Toward A Better Life — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 03:35:48 +0000

In reply to Kelly.

I don’t have all the answers but I do appreciate your questions.

There are two sites I like to turn to when I have questions: answersingenesis.org and icr.org

Both sites have several articles on carbon dating
http://www.icr.org/home/submitsearch?f_keyword_all=carbon+dating&action=submitsearch&section=0&f_search_type=google&f_constraint=both&f_context_all=any&f_context_exact=any&f_context_any=any&f_context_without=any
https://answersingenesis.org/search/?csrfmiddlewaretoken=GqAa6GJ9SuNnD6YkPHvS6VJgtR1QVODs&site=AiGall&q=carbon+dating

Also, the books I mentioned in the article are great. Especially Unlocking the Mysteries of Creation, The Explorer’s Guide to the Awesome Works of God, It deals with more than just dinosaurs. It has the answers to a lot of creation questions and counters to the evolution debate (including carbon dating)

As far as religions rewriting the Bible – I would steer clear of those! I’m a big believer of reading the Bible for yourself to know what’s in it. And I go to a church that sticks to the Bible for teaching and instruction. My Christian denomination hasn’t changed the Bible, or written extra books or had “prophets” come along and claim to have new messages from God. The Bible in it’s true form is the “inspired word of God”. Now, if you can’t find it within you to believe the Bible is infallible – that God inspired men to write down these words – then I can see where it would be difficult to reconcile what the Bible says with what “science” says. But my faith is rooted in the fact that the Word of God is just that…the Word of God.

Lee Strobel is an author who has written many books. One I read was “The Case for Creation”. I think it might be a good resource for you. Lee Strobel was an atheist investigative journalist who set out to write a book to prove God wasn’t real. But while researching his book, he discovered that God is real. Now he is a Christian and has written many books on his research on Creation, Christ, Christianity and more.

Also, you can find mentions of dinosaurs in the Bible. How does that fit in with what you believe? If dinosaurs died off before man, how did Isaiah write about “flying serpants” (Isa. 14:29 and 30:6)? And what about the book of Job, where it mentions an animal referred to as a “behemoth” with a tail like a cedar tree? (I can’t think of any animal other than a sauropd like a Brachiosauras or a Diplodocus that would fit that description!)
But even if you go beyond the Bible, two well known ancient historians Herodotus (450BC) and Josephus (AD50) wrote of similar animals.

Thanks for your questions! I would love to hear more from you!

By: Kelly

Kelly — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 23:25:05 +0000

I did read through this and look at your resources. I grew up Catholic. That in and of itself says things. I am going to ask some questions and I hope you don’t take them personally. How do you feel about fossils and carbon dating? What about using What about using radiation to tell how far something has decomposed? They use the chemicals on the periodic table of elements. Some elements existed millions of years ago that no longer exist because they died out from living too long. How is that explained? I literally watched a wooly mammoth being excavated from under a pond that has existed for a very very long time. I saw the bones with my own eyes. Yet there are no human fossils dating to the time period of dinosaurs. We have mummies and such but nothing as old as the dinosaur fossils. The bible is just an interpretation of the word of God. God himself did not literally write it with margins saying how long it took back in that time when time was kept differently. Also, if the bible is the word of God why do so many religions rewrite it to their satisfaction? If it was truth then it shouldn’t be changed or altered in any way. However, science has proven with hard evidence the existence of dinosaurs in multiple time periods and how they have changed. Literally things that you can see and touch. Things that have been dated millions or billions of years ago. Does that mean that fossils are a lie? I would greatly like to hear your thoughts on this topic. I am very curious and nobody can ever seem to answer my questions. Thank you for taking the time to read my comments and hopefully respond.

By: Tabitha @ Saving Toward A Better Life

Tabitha @ Saving Toward A Better Life — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 03:36:10 +0000

In reply to erin k.

Thanks! I hope you’ll share the post!

By: erin k

erin k — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 01:08:41 +0000

I homeschool too and one of the many reasons I do so is to counteract the media and textbooks that are being pushed on our children that do not line up with God’s Word. Thanks for being open and honest about where you and your family stand on this topic.