#12683 Do Dinosaurs Create Issues for Catholic Beliefs and Faith? - Jimmy Akin
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🗓️ 21 April 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
“Do dinosaurs create a problem for Catholic beliefs?” This question opens a discussion on the intersection of faith and science, while also addressing the Catholic position on Revelation and the end times. Additionally, the conversation touches on how to respond to those who dismiss the importance of detailed faith discussions and the claims of personal apostolic authority.
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Questions Covered:
- 08:40 – Do dinosaurs create a problem for Catholic beliefs?
- 21:34 – What is the Catholic position on Revelation and the end times?
- 39:49 – How do I respond to people who think it’s not important to go into the details of the faith? They think it’s irrelevant.
- 50:33 – How do I respond to my dad who believes he has apostolic authority because he says he follows the bible?
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| 0:59.0 | Jimmy, of course, is our senior apologist here. |
| 1:01.4 | He's the man behind Jimmy Aiken's Mysterious World, and he's the author of a brand new book, |
| 1:06.6 | Evidence for Christ, how we know that Jesus is the Messiah. Hello, Jimmy. |
| 1:12.5 | Hello, Cyckelit. How are you doing? I'm good. Thank you very much for being here with us. I do. I'm going to ask you a question in a minute, and I'm going to ask you about dinosaurs. |
| 1:21.8 | Everybody loves dinosaurs. Kids love dinosaurs. Adults love dinosaurs. Probably you love dinosaurs. I know I do. Oh, yeah. |
| 1:29.0 | But is there a problem? Do they pose a problem for Catholic belief? That is, there don't seem to be any |
| 1:34.0 | dinosaurs in the Bible, and the fossils would suggest that the earth is really, really, really, really, |
| 1:39.9 | really, really old. So do they conflict with Catholic beliefs in any way? And I said I'm going to |
| 1:45.6 | ask you that question, because before we get to that question, I'm going to ask folks if they |
| 1:50.6 | will support us, because it is time for the first hour of our spring pledge drive. And I'll give |
| 1:56.4 | out that number, and we've got nine of our colleagues waiting online on the phone lines at the |
| 2:02.1 | moment, and that number is 888-291, 8,000. We come to you just four times a year, and we just take |
| 2:09.5 | six hours to raise the funds we need for the next three months, and we don't even take all of |
| 2:15.2 | those. Like I said, we'll get to that dinosaur question in just a second, 888-291. And we don't even take all of those. Like I said, we'll get to that dinosaur question in just a second. |
| 2:19.4 | 888-291-8,000, Jimmy. And we want to make sure that we let people know what we've got going on in this |
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