what if God was actually capable of creating the heavens and the earth, now just think of that concept for a moment, a being who could just speak the words and a planet would appear, and what if God could see the future? and what if God had a plan all along? now with that thought in mind, let's re-read your post,
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Cardano
Nice stuff - I hope you throw your 2 bobs- worth in more often. I almost agree with you.
Director 12 - for the most part I agree with your reply. Now if the 2 of you could reach out and hold hands we would have the driving force of evolution meeting the motivating force of the Creator. I believe evolution is the act of creation taking place in every replicating cell.
I think you're both basically right but need that extra ingredient the other has to offer.
Re- missing link stuff. Speciation is the big deal and as close to impossible to record in the fossil record as you can get. They have found almost 200 varieties of platypus in the fossil record. From a toothed beauty to one several times larger then today's platypus. The whale is represented by some very beautiful fossils that tell an evolutionary story.
Time is working against you Director 12. The gaps are closing though they will surely never find enough to convince those that nothing will convince.
This is a snippet of what we are up against.
Mission to America stuff.
Dinosaurs and People:
We've already seen that, based on God creating both land animals and Adam on day six, that the Bible is saying that dinosaurs and people must have lived together.
Dangerous dinosaur Based on the Bible, is it possible that people and dinosaurs lived together? Yes!
i say.
look at all the pretty pictures of dinosaur and human footprints, yes they did live on earth together
why don't all the lions and tigers and bears and sharks just eat all the people, why didn't the dinosaurs eat all the animals out that they did eat?
i'ts called an eco-system,
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The Bible tells us what animals, including dinosaurs, ate. During day six of creation God said: "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you; and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to every thing that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food; and it was so." - Genesis 1:29-30 NASB)
God created Adam and Eve, and all the animals as vegetarians! All of the animals, including dinosaurs, eat plants.
i say
now what if God had a plan, what if God knew what he was doing, what if it was part of his plan from the beginning?,
think of it like this,
why did God create the earth?
was it because there was a war in heaven
Revelation 12 7 9 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him
So what if God said, "ok Satan, you and your lot couldn't make it, i now have an unclean temple in heaven, how am i going to clean it?" i'll just create a new species lower than the angels and show the angels that dissobeyed, that it can be done," then when mankind fails, i can send my only begotten son, i'll sacrifice him and use his blood to cleanse the temple in heaven and redeem all the people who will repent on earth.
So if God knew all along how the outcome was going to be, and it was all part of the plan to get his only begotten son into the world, surely he knew how the animals would turn out, so he equiped them accordingly, with sharp teeth.
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But, what about those BIG, sharp teeth? Take T-Rex for example, certainly he was a meat eater.
Panda eating bamboo - Big, sharp teeth do not mean an animal is a meat eater. Bears have teeth that are big and sharp, similar to a lion's. Yet many bears are mostly vegetation. Chinese Pandas have very sharp teeth. They need those sharp teeth because bamboo, their only food, is very hard to chew. There are numerous examples of animals that only eat plants, and that have very sharp teeth. An animal with big, sharp teeth just means that it is an animal with big, sharp teeth--nothing more.
So, Adam and Eve did not have to worry about being eaten by dinosaurs.
How do we get fossils?
The animal has to first die. That's rather obvious. When did death enter the world? Not until Genesis chapter three when Adam and Eve disobey God. So up until that time neither people nor animals died. So, based on the Bible, there could not be any bones to create fossils until after the fall.
Here's another Biblical reason why the fossils we find could not have been buried before God created Adam:
The Bible provides a complete genealogy from Adam to Jesus. You can go through the genealogies and add up the years. You'll get a total that is just over 4,000 years. Add the 2,000 years since the time of Jesus and you get just over 6,000 years since God created everything.
i say,
again you are looking at God as in human restraints,
if God can create the heaven and the earth, why can't he do it in six days? because Scientist tell you he can't, surely that can't be your proof.
the universe is approx 19 billion light years across, just imagine the power of God who can create that and don't think of it as, well mankind couldn't build it, so how could God?
