Why do some people believe that dinosaurs never existed?

Question

I overheard someone at my work saying that dinosaurs never existed. And it got me thinking....Why do some people believe they never existed? I'm just wondering what they think happened? Do they think the fossils are fake or what? Just wondering.

Answer 1

i gus it's because you should never believe something just becau tell you it's true

Answer 2

some believe that, since according to the bible the earth was compiled of space material whose to say that their remains didnt come from extinct planets?

Answer 3

because they are to deluded to look at the facts and you'd be amazed at how many dumb people are out their these days.

Answer 4

Some people have a remarkable ability to delude themselves such that they are able to reject the objective evidence in favor of their own beliefs. We say that they have rich fantasy lives............

Answer 5

well we have all diffrent appenions on things

Answer 6

Amazing isn't it.  My answer to your question would be the same as everyone else's answer: religion and ignorance.

There are even people out there who believe that the holocaust never happened either.  I don't even have the words within me to describe my utter disbelief that the people don't think that the holocaust never happened.  They're truly brainwashed; let's hope they never reproduce.

When I hear of such statements that the dinosaurs never existed I am that much more pleased at the fact that I do not go to church for my weekly brainwashing.

Answer 7

Some people get blinded by religion.

Answer 8

My mom and educated sister (and I mean Bachelors Degree) don't believe in dinousaurs. And we believe in GOD and he made all. However, my family and I do. Bones are enough proof for me. It states in Genesis 6:4 that "There were giants on the earth in those days..."  They were here and they was destroyed with the flood of the earth. (My opinion on that, God may have destroyed them before that)  But don't blame God for some people's ignorance.

Answer 9

Well some people just believe what they want to believe, no matter how much evidence is presented to them. These people that believe dinosaurs never existed are probably the same people that believe the earth is flat. Go figure.

Answer 10

Some people have to see to believe!  Since they haven't seen any living dinosaurs, they don't believe that they existed.

Answer 11

just like the majority of the people who have answered, i'm going with religon.

Religious people believe that adam and eve where the first living on earth. I have heard a personal belief from a teacher at my church that they believe that when God created the Earth he used material from some other worlds he had created. [and that there are more worlds in the universe than grains of sand]

And that dinosaur remains just happen to be in soil and rocks from the other worlds.

but that was the only person i have ever heard say that.

Answer 12

It's amazing how religion can cloud a person's judgement. Frightening, even.

Answer 13

Even the most fundamentalists admit that there were dinosaurs.

The problem is that they say they disappear 5,500 year ago.

Answer 14

Like many people here have said it is due to religion. In my opinion that facts are just being ignored. The theory of evolution is all around us....brachiopods, cephalopods you can pick these fossils up anywhere and see their changes through time... I mean birds have a similar hip structure to dinosaurs, they're there closest living relative.

You can't ignore CHARLES DARWIN!!!

i gotta add that fossils can be dated using certain techniques of carbon dating and stuff, someone can't just make carbon appear in a fossil it's crazy. It's a strong belief i sometimes don't understand..i was brought up a christian but i cannot ignore that facts of evolution... it sounds like the dark ages when they would burn you at the stake for saying that life existed millions of years ago...

Answer 15

some told them so, many people like to believe things with out questioning

Answer 16

Religion. That's probably your shortest answer. You could go on forever debating the specifics.

Answer 17

Ignorance!

I find it rather ironic that those who believe in a supreme being do not believe in evolution...

Yet substantially more evidence exists to justify evolution, considering NO evidence exists of a supreme being!!!

Answer 18

Because they never did.

Answer 19

they did exist, those fossils could be real.

Answer 20

Same reason, many people dont believe in God. They want proof and/or they want to see it for themselves.

I believe in dinasaurs as i am satisfied with fossils, thats enough proof for me, whereas when it comes to God, i dont have enough proof so i dont believe in it..

Answer 21

There is proof of dinosaurs but some people must see things to believe they are true. Some fossils are fake though people tend to do anything fo money these days!

Answer 22

For religions reason, because yeah the bible says that everything started with Adam and Eve, they take the bible literally or they have to see one to believe one, also some people think it was a business conspirator to make money.

I don't agree with any of them in my opinion, just like Dinosaurs existed so did the evolution of the human being. I do believe however that God started live because well life and  the Universe didn't started or existed just by mistake something or someone had to turn on the spark.

So in conclusion people take what they are told or heard literally, thy don't judge the possibility that any of this is either right or wrong, they are not subjective.

Answer 23

because people are bumholes

Answer 24

because thats wat they believe and they probably dont believe in history.....not all though

Answer 25

mainly because of religion. Christans say that there were never dinosours or anything like evolution.

My parents dont believe in evolution or dinosours, but i sort of do. I mean, in the bible it says that God made everything as it is. My mom thinks that people made up the dinosaurs for show, I dont know why. I mean, the evidence is RIGHT THERE and there is so much proof that once giant lizards reigned the earth. I mean, Dodos also once existed too, and now they are extinct; so were dinosaurs, so there you go. Evolution is also something obviously true. My church is all against thinking that humans came from "monkeys". They dont know what evolution is! They just think of evolution and a monkey turning into a man pops in their head. Buts thats not the whole thing though. It's just people these days are ignorant and dont want to believe these days. I mean, global warming is real too, but people just dont WANT to believe.

Answer 26

The bones were placed by demons to throw us off. Don't be confused! They did it for "teh lolz" as it were.

Answer 27

There are many people out there who need to see it in thier own eyes. Like religion many people don't believe in christ, because they don't see him. There are people with religions who don't believe in evolution and take the words of the bible seriously. I mean I do believe in my faith but It's hard for me to believe that God will tell man how he created earth. I don't think we are capable of that type of knowledge, because the atom had to of started somehow, it couldn't of just been there all this time.

Answer 28

they're ignorant due to their religious beliefs...

Answer 29

hi....i don't want to answer this question(even if it's the only one i understand)...but wanted to  peek in ANSWER in the world....greeting from italy!!!!!!......do you understand what i have written?....is it wrong??

Answer 30

They did exist, I think some people are stupid to think they didnt live with people because they did. Go to you tude and type in kent hovind.

Oh and by the way ccs fan i am a christian and i do believe dinosaurs existed.