text: what came first god or dinosaurs, how come the bible does not talk about dinosaurs?   some of these answers are clear evidence, that god also created brainwashing...  dinosaurs have been extinct for appx.65-70 million years, after an asteroid landed in the gulf of mexico near belize, and put the earth into darkness for 4-6 years. geologists excavating strata all over the world have proved this. without light, most plants could not grow, and without vegetation all of the large dinosaurs which depended on this as a food source, died out...  the first homo genus (man) did not arrive until about 2 million years ago, and if you must know, the first members on our "family tree" were rodents (mice & rats). they survived underground long enough, and continued to adapt. that is why we do medical testing on mice, because they are so much like we are, in fact, they are 99% genetically identical to humans...  the history of bible stories begins at the earliest 10,000 years ago, and it is basically a history and chronology of recorded human civilizations, from that point in time forwards. the reason genesis is so vague, is because it is intended to be poetic, not scientific, and because humans were not around 20 billion years ago when the universe (heavens)came into existence, nor were we around 4.6 billion years ago, when our solar system (earth) was created...