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Do you understand what sacred books are all about, baby?

Do you understand what sacred books are all about, baby?

A child asked me this all important question:

Why are dinosaurs not mentioned in religious books?

Krishna: Looks strange, doesn't it?

Even Vedas, Quran and Bible didn't mention dinosaurs.

Gods who dictated these texts or people who had visions of Gods who were told to write certain things never ever knew about dinosaurs.

Hmmm!

That 's because

Ancient religious texts weren’t written with the benefit of modern science, fossil records, or the slightest notion of geological time. Picture the writers who were just like you and me : they’re working in a world where a camel or the neighbour’s sheep or tigers and lions in forests around them are about as wild as things get. Jurassic beasts stomping around? These writers couldn't even imagine such things!

Moreover, these texts serve a certain purpose: they’re manuals for morality, cultural law, and “who's in charge” or who created what rather than biology textbooks. Think about it... if you were crafting a story to get people to behave or follow some ancient customs, throwing in 65-million-year-old lizard-birds in between would just complicate things and serve no purpose.

These texts are based on a worldview where the Earth isn’t billions, but just a few thousand years old. In that worldview, dinosaurs don’t even fit. Religious texts prefer neat, structured timelines, and throwing in prehistoric reptiles complicates that convenient package.

. Faith is generally more interested in the afterlife than life millions of years ago. These texts want you to focus on what happens after you kick the bucket, not what roamed around back when oxygen levels were spiking and continents were moving around like traffic on the roads. Dinosaurs would be a complete distraction from the main act.

So why aren’t dinosaurs mentioned in religious texts? People and Gods then didn't even know that such creatures existed on Earth! And they didn’t fit the agenda or the time. They weren’t exactly useful in explaining how humans should behave in a small, pre-modern society. And since those sacred books weren’t "revised" or shouldn't be revised when the fossils started rolling in, we’re left with that glaring absence.

Do you understand what sacred books are all about, baby?

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