Originally posted by FusionJedi
I responded to this post within each of the Bold statements.

I myself try to be very open minded to other people's opinions and would suggest that the view of Christianity expressed by flipshark is perhaps more close minded or uninformed than that of some Christians.

Not all Christians believe as fact that dinosaurs never existed. There is a chapter in the Bible, in Daniel I believe, that speaks of a time that goes before man was created and opens up what is called "The Gap Theory" that says that there is a gap between when God created the heavens and the earth and when he created man, which would suggest that dinosaurs could have existed and the world could be a lot older than the History of the writings of the Bible. (There are also many Christians who believe in evolution, yet they believe that God designed the process, not just random or chance).

I covered this with the above statement.

Again I covered this with the above statement.
I think you misunderstood, my post. I am not being close minded, if anything I was generalizing, yet my statements are based on facts.

To clarify, I was talking ONLY about those christians which take the bible WORD FOR WORD. The "word for worders" if you will.

A word4worder believes:

1) God created the universe in exactly 7 days.
2) The earth is exactly X # of years old (some even have the timeline broken down to exactly "7 am on this day")
3) Fossils or any evidence of prehistoric animals are merely remains of things that died in the 40 day flood starring noah and the ark.

I know some christians believe in evolution, some even believe in the big bang (they believe god created the big bang and set everything in motion from there), I know some christians believe in dinosaurs, etc etc etc.

My statements were directed only towards word for worders. You clearly (from your dinosaur statement) are not a word for worder.