Rock of Ages?

It has been said that it is better to know the Rock of Ages
 rather than the age of the rocks.

Debates abound as to the age of the earth and it's rocks, and none of us were around when God spoke it into existence.  Considering that God is outside of time, us trying to relate to his procedure of things is like an ant climbing up a blade of grass in a golf course and proclaiming he now understands the size of the earth.

Coastal redwoods of California as the one above can be dated by its growth rings showing some over 2500 years old and still going strong.  So while Christ walked the earth this tree was just getting started.  Then, there are petrified fossils of such trees like the one below 12.5 feet in diameter found at 8,200 feet above sea level at the Florissant fossil beds in Colorado that were buried by volcanic ash and lahar mud-flows long before there were pyramids in Egypt.  Similar stumps can be see at the Ginko Fossil beds of eastern Washington left over from when there were no Cascade Mountains to hinder the flow of marine air to what is now a desert climate.  How many thousands of years did it take for these mountains to push up to where they are today?  Many of them are volcanoes which have been dormant for hundreds of years.  But not all of Washington's mountains are volcanic, some are due to upheaval of the earth's crust and the layers of various levels of history are clearly displayed.  When Mount St. Helen erupted in 1980 it was a reminder of our ancient past that created petrified wood with the help of hot mud flows.

 For a thousand years in Thy sight are like yesterday 

when it passes by, or as a watch in the night. (Psm. 90:4)

Mastodon and Woolly Mammoth tusks are dug out of the ground every year in Alaska such as the ones below that I turned into pieces of art.  The last of these big hairy elephants disappeared over 10,000 years ago and those that we find today have been frozen in the tundra for all of these years.

This scrimshawed drawing above is on a piece of ancient mammoth/elephant tusk measure about 5 inches tall.  These disappeared about 13,000 years ago at the end of the last Ice Age.  The Ice Age may have been linked to some degree to the gyroscopic precession, or wobble, of the earth as it spins, considering a complete wobble takes 26,000 years.  This would cause the sun to shine more directly on different places on the surface of the earth because of the nature of the poles have a different location.  Below I did a relief carving on this large tusk sitting on my work bench which was then mount on two pieces of Alaska jade for the late Mel Quakenbush of Fairbanks, AK

Lower jaw of Mastodon 

Skeletons of ancient extinct whales have been found in the Egyptian desert from a time when there was an inland sea large enough for whales.  But these are whales nothing like what we have today.

Wadi El Hitan - Whales in the desert

Many types of fossils have been found high in the mountains around the world.  Most often they are found in sedimentary type rock that at one time was lying flat on an ocean floor and now it is elevated at every possible angle thousands of feet in the mountains.  A global flood is one explanation but it is more complicated than that.  I don't recall God giving Noah any instructions about dinosaurs or woolly mammoths.

But do not let this one fact escape your notice,
 beloved, that with the Lord  one day is as a
 thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
(2 Pet. 3:8)

Those that argue for 24 hour days in Genesis, when God created the world and everything in it, claim that the bible is so simple even a child can understand it.  However when they get to chapter three of Genesis where God is recorded "walking in the garden in the cool of the day" most children (like the Mormons) are going to think God is a big man, with hands, feet, eyes and ears.  The bible clearly teaches that God is spirit and is not a man.  So the "day" (or should I say "hour") has come when the simplistic approach to interpretation suddenly gets a bit more complicated.
 
Peggy Brown standing next to one very large fossilized bone,

Saber tooth cat found near White Bluffs along

 the Columbia River up stream from the Tricities

Dinosaurs in the Bible?

For those who try to find dinosaurs in the bible there presents many problems.  They point to dragons in the KJV as the solution.  But, are you seriously saying that the den of dragons mentioned in Jere. 9:11, 10:22 and dragons of the wilderness in Malachi 1:3 were anything other than figurative language?  Job said, he was a brother to dragons (Job. 30:29).  So did he really have dinosaurs for relatives?  The New Testament, Rev. 12:3,4,7, etc. clearly uses the dragon as a picture of the Devil not a literal creature walking on all fours.  The word dragon in the Old Testament is a King James translation issue.  Modern translations use the word jackal rather than dragon for obvious reasons.  Job was probably not a brother to Satan or dinosaurs but referring to his enemies as a brood of vipers as did Jesus in the NT.  The King James bible does similar things with the words for Devil and demons which I have addressed in my article about the King James Only problems.

There are many problems in trying to connect the biblical flood with the age of dinosaurs and ancient history.  To start with the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods produced different kinds of fossils which came to a rather sudden end and beginning which speaks to three catastrophic events or floods not just one.  They appear to be global events not simply local floods.

https://youtu.be/RKiRPCexdZk

https://dale-apologetica.blogspot.com/2018/09/king-james-bible-only.html

http://dale-apologetica.blogspot.com/2018/08/reading-between-lines.html