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Oh, I don't intend to tell anyone they're wrong. I'm making my own opinion known, and I apologize if I come off as debating anyone. I'm a debate-whore, so I tend to do it without thinking. I respect everyone's right to their own interpretation, and that means I have my right to mine as well. It is interesting to note differences, yes.

I understood, and I, as well, love debating. I go to a class on Sundays where basically all we do is debate about Jewish matters. Now about what else we do that are symbolic of something else well:
1. Males are circumcised as a symbol of the covenant G-d made with Abraham
2. (I don't know if this counts but) Israel is like the mother to the Jewish people because it is the land of our forefathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
3. Bar and Bat mitzvahs are a symbol of adulthood (I think)
4. We rest on Shabbat as a symbol of G-d's day of rest (wops, that was what you were asking about xD)
5. most of the Jewish holidays are a symbol of something that happened in the past
Here are a few examples that I can currently think of xD

I don't really believe in dinosaurs because like it has been mentioned before, G-d created the earth, the animals and then the people. It never mentions dinosaurs, and besides, how could Adam and Eve live with the carnivores?

If dinosaurs did live with people then how come there is NOTHING written down about them except what scientists are currently finding out. Even if they only lived in the very beginning, some information would still have been passed down by word of mouth, and besides it does not make sense that, if they were living while other animals were around, they would randomly go extinct, and they could not have gon extinct when the flood occurred because Noah took two of EVERY animal on the ship with him

(sorry a bunch of ideas randomly popped into my head at once; I have never believed in dinosaurs, but I have never exactly had to explain why and I did not realize it could be this complicated rofl )

I'm well aware that dinosaurs did not live at the same time as humans. My point was that "even if" they did, we would not have been a major food source.

Dinosaurs went extinct before man existed as a species. There's absolutely no doubt about that. That places dinos between the creation of man (or leaving the garden) and the creation of earthly animals. The bible makes no mention of all animals surviving, or of all animals going extinct, and so arguing that point would be quite silly.

I guess this just depends if you take the time of Hashem creating the world as 7 days or as longer... there is no way to prove anything. Since I believe that it was actually 7 days then I believe that there were never dinosaurs

Sorry, I misread what you had typed. Thought you were saying it listed.

Anyway, we know which ones were fliers because of bone structure. We know what requirements are needed for an animal to fly (hollow bones, wings instead of arms, etc), and more appropriately they glide. We know what they ate because we have their teeth. We know which types of teeth are used for eating which types of food, and how fast they grind down if they're purely herbivores as compared to omnivores and carnivores. Beyond this, we can tell what bones belong to what species in a similar fashion to the methods used now to determine which bones belong to which ethnicity of humans (believe it or not, mongoloid, negroid, and caucasoid skeletons have some easily identified differences), or even if a bone belongs to an ape or a human.

We also know how they died. They found the big crater from the chunk of rock that came whizzing in from space. Rock hits Earth, rock goes boom, ash covers world, world gets cold, plants die, herbivores die, carnivores die, dinosaurs all gone.