>>Of course, to keep this thread in its main track, you know that the real reason is that Noah did not take the big dinosaurs in to the ark before the flood.
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>Or God sent a mighty thunderbolt to destroy the dinasaurs because they would not accept the faith of His yet-to-be-born son
I actually consider this an issue that deserves some serious thought (although it is not, of course, of the greatest urgency...).
Not that dinosaurs necessarily had intellects (or souls) like humans, but somewhere in the wide Universe there are bound to be creatures that do. So, what is God's plan for them? What sort of guidance does He give them? I find it very likely that just as He sent us Jesus Christ to guide mankind (and, according to Bahá'í belief, several other divine Messengers as well), He can just as well have sent Messengers to guide other, non-human, civilizations.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
