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Again, it's all a matter of perspective. Fundamentalist WASPs like to look at the Bible as a historical book as well as a religious book, however this is not how it was originally looked at by any means. The Bible is a book meant to show man's relationship with God through poetic stories - literally true or not, depending on the instance. It is not a history book and was not intended to be one. Dinosaurs and whether or not they existed has nothing to do with the relationship between humans and God and, therefore, are irrelevant to the Bible. Combine that with the fact that the Bible was written at a time when people knew nothing of Dinosaurs and all the more reason they would not be mentioned.
I know a LOT of religious people, and I know, at most, 4 or 5 that actually believe that the story of Adam and Eve is more than just a poetic representation of the idea that God is the source of all creation. This is why I find the whole evolution/creationism debate pretty exhausting because it's essentially a debate over something that only a relatively small handful of habitually close-minded people see an issue in.
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