Dinosaurs and Doubt

Dinosaurs and Doubt

Lord, thank you for always being with me. Thank you for your spirit that lives inside of me, making me more than I alone could be. I don't understand much of who you are or how everything works, but I feel stronger and happier when I believe in you.

 A lot of people say that you are a fabrication, made by humans to give them comfort and help them make sense of the world.  All I know is that I never could have invented you. I've tried living without believing in you, and it made my world dark and hopeless.  I don't know if that's just because I was raised in the church, and I never learned any other way to manage my life, or if it is because you are indeed the only way for me to function. Either way, I choose life with you. You bring me hope.  You bring me joy and purpose.  My days are better with you. 

I read a web page of Creationist beliefs (they call it science) about dinosaurs: when they lived, if they coexisted with humans, and what happened to them. https://answersingenesis.org/dinosaurs/dinosaurs-and-the-bible/

 It relied very heavily upon the Bible as a resource for scientific fact, using the six days of creation in Genesis as a vehicle to "prove" that dinosaurs were created on the same day as humans and existed on the earth at the same time, possibly even up to today, hidden away in deep, unexplored places. 

Honestly, it all sounded pretty ridiculous. It made me kind of ashamed of your followers. They are honestly trying to follow you and take the Bible for their guide, yet they explain away or ignore the vast body of scientific research that exists about dinosaurs, instead dismissing it as "the beliefs of evolutionists" that "cannot be proved, because they were not there to observe it."  They are making Christians sound like idiots, and there are people who believe them and are teaching these "facts" to their children.  

I am torn. I want to believe in your Word and let it shape my world view, but I also don't want to bury my head in it so deeply that I ignore everything that mankind has discovered since Moses penned Genesis.  I believe that you made the world and everything in it, but I remember that your time is not like ours, and,

"With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day." (2 Peter 3:8)  So the six days of creation in Genesis could have each been a thousand years, for all we know. 

As my daughter asks me questions about the world, as I teach her about science and how things work, give me wisdom, oh Lord, to teach her what is true. I want to honor you in all that I do, and I want your Word to have authority in what I believe and how I live my life. However, I don't want to be a blind fool and accept everything verbatim if that's not how it should be read. Please help me to find my way. Be glorified, God in my life.