Buffalo << Phil, Those are amazing! I never saw the connection before! >>
Well now you have the evidence of
fruit directly evolving into
animals. Makes for some tasty animals.
As for TrueOrigin’s answer to TalkOrigin’s Global Flood problems, I’ll just point out that Christian creationist geologists who lived before Darwin saw no need to try to reconcile a literal global flood with the known scientific data. I wonder why that is, and that was over 150+ years ago. So here is TrueOrigin coming along 150+ years later, and saying
"Nope, you Christian creationists got it all wrong, not only lions and bears but also mastodons, mammoths, giant sloths, pterodactyls, megalosaurs, iguanodons, hylaeosaurs, a host of other extinct mammals and other pairs of forty-foot-long monsters were all preserved on the ark. "
Another Hugh Miller (1802-1856), a highly respected and devout Presbyterian who was gifted with an elegance, grace, wit, and clarity of written expression matched by few, wrote:
“Plain men who set themselves to deduce from Scripture the figure of the planet” had little doubt that the earth was flat “until corrected by the geographer”; “plain men who set themselves to acquire from Scripture some notion of the planetary motions” thought that the sun moved around an earth at rest “until corrected by the astronomer”; “plain men who have sought to determine from Scripture the age of the earth” were confident that the earth was about six thousand years old “until corrected by the geologist.”
In sum, plain men quite properly learned the way of salvation from the Bible, but every time they “sought to deduce from it what it was not intended to teach – the truths of physical science – they have fallen into extravagant error.” (The Testimony of the Rocks [1858], p. 305-306)
Note the date of publication: 1858.
And here’s more:
Vastly expanded knowledge of the fossil record made the biogeographical argument far more persuasive than it had been only a century earlier. Animals in various parts of the world had been preceded by similar animals. The
sloths of South America had been preceded by the extinct megatherium, known only from fossil remains. The
kangaroos and
wombats of Australia had been found as fossils only in that region. The birds of New Zealand were found as fossils only in New Zealand. The problem of the migration of species to and from the ark could not be evaded by recourse to an interchange of land and sea. Miller claimed with devastating logic spiced with biting humor that, on the supposition that a continuous tract of land stretched between South America and Asia,
“it is just possible that, during the hundred and twenty years in which the ark was in building, a pair of sloths might have crept by inches across this continuous tract, from where the skeletons of the great megatheria are buried, to where the great vessel stood. But after the Flood had subsided, and the change in sea and land had taken place, there would remain for them no longer a roadway; and so, though their journey outwards might, in all save the impulse which led to it, have been altogether a natural one, their voyage homewards could not be other than miraculous.”
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Phil P
