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'Totally Strange' Hurdia a Hurdle for Evolution
ICR ^ | September 9, 2009 | Brian Thomas, M.S.

Posted on 09/09/2009 10:05:48 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts

Cambrian rock layers contain fossils that represent almost every modern phylum of animal, plus many that are now extinct. One animal fossil in particular would win the weird prize, if there were one. Paleontologists have been piecing together this strange creature’s body parts, which look as though they were taken from an array of totally different sea animals. This variety of features eludes an evolutionary explanation.

The parts of this particular fossilized animal had previously been described separately and given different names, as though they belonged to different creatures. But a recent study revealed that all these parts came from just one “totally strange” sea creature...

(Excerpt) Read more at icr.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: belongsinreligion; catastrophism; catholic; christian; creation; evolution; godsgravesglyphs; intelligentdesign; judaism; science
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To: GodGunsGuts
.....because there surely weren't weird creatures in Earth's past...and present.....

Hurdia:

Nope....not seein' ANYthing weird at all.....

281 posted on 09/10/2009 4:31:42 AM PDT by ElectricStrawberry (Didja know that Man walked with vegetarian T. rex within the last 4,351 years?)
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To: metmom
You guys need to decide what it is you think about ID. When it suits your purposes, it's backdoor creationism. Other times, it's trying to remove God from society.

I am one person, not 'You guys'. It is very strange that you would ally with a movement that has a 20 year goal of replacing God in our culture with the great ID! OTOH, it is not strange since you will not declare that God and the ID are one and the same.

282 posted on 09/10/2009 5:16:46 AM PDT by ColdWater
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To: count-your-change
But I welcome anything you can point to in His Word that indicates God evolved life.

Genesis.

283 posted on 09/10/2009 5:17:53 AM PDT by ColdWater
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To: Buck W.; metmom; CottShop
Because ID is a trojan horse to force creation rationalization into schools. For ID to be recognized as “science”, it cannot reference God.

I once thought that but now I think the movement has its own goals to become the religion replacing God with the ID.

284 posted on 09/10/2009 5:22:10 AM PDT by ColdWater
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To: CottShop

You are a phony Christian; your checklist is therfore of academic interest only. No real Christian is of sufficiently weak faith to cling desperately to the literal truth of the bible.


285 posted on 09/10/2009 6:18:26 AM PDT by Buck W. (The President of the United States IS named Schickelgruber...)
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To: tpanther; Buck W.; MrB; CottShop; metmom; GodGunsGuts

Bucky seems awfully concerned about the opinions of Man...

Funny, we’re all just decorated dust, sinners, and “all our righteousnesses are but filthy rags” (Isa 64:6).

Bucky, if you’re interested in an opinion that really counts, God wrote it out for you, and it’s freely available online if you don’t want to buy or borrow a Bible.


286 posted on 09/10/2009 6:28:45 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: tpanther
Imagine if a scientist discovers the culprit behind liberalism!

A "scientist" won't discover it, as the whole ideology is based on a single lie - that man is "basically good".

The "culprit" is this guy

287 posted on 09/10/2009 6:33:25 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: Buck W.; MrB; CottShop; tpanther; GodGunsGuts; Fichori
You are a phony Christian; your checklist is therfore of academic interest only.

On what criteria do you make that determination?

It's ironic that evos go ballistic when a creationist makes a comment about an evo not being a true Christian; they get all bent out of shape and start quoting verses about not judging people and all.

But then they turn around and do the very thing that they condemn in others, pass judgment based on who knows what, about whether someone else is a Christian.

Why is it that evos feel that they have the right to do to others what they condemn in others doing to them?

No real Christian is of sufficiently weak faith to cling desperately to the literal truth of the bible.

That is not your determination to make, but God's only. Jesus never condemned people for weak faith like you do. He encouraged them. He said that if you had faith the size of a mustard seed, we could move mountains and nothing would be impossible for us.

It's not the amount of faith that is the critical issue, it's what the faith is in. Weak faith in a strong God is more effective than strong faith in weak man.

Matthew 17:19-21 Then the disciples came to Jesus in private and asked, "Why couldn't we drive it out?" He replied, "Because you have so little faith. I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you."

288 posted on 09/10/2009 6:43:40 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: ColdWater; count-your-change

You mean this verse where He said He used the dust of the earth?

Gen 2:7 7then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

Or this verse where God says He used the dust of the earth?

Gen 2:19 Now out of the ground the LORD God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them.

Just to note, man was not a living being when he was created, which demonstrates that God did not evolve man from another living creature.

There’s no plainer way that God could have indicated that He did not use evolution than that. Any other interpretation is reading more into it than it says. Why do people want to lie about what the Bible plainly and clearly says?


289 posted on 09/10/2009 6:49:20 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: tpanther

Thanks for the ping!


290 posted on 09/10/2009 7:21:40 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: MrB

Oh, I own a bible. Several, in fact. My Christian faith, however, is sufficiently strong that I am not forced to adhere to the literal truth of the physical book to remain a believer.

You accuse me of concern for the opinions of man, yet it is you who clings to the physical product of man while claiming to be the blessed one.

You are a phony Christian.

Can’t you cultists do anything without summoning the posse?


291 posted on 09/10/2009 7:52:27 AM PDT by Buck W. (The President of the United States IS named Schickelgruber...)
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To: metmom

How’s the weather in the microcosm today, cultmom?


292 posted on 09/10/2009 7:53:33 AM PDT by Buck W. (The President of the United States IS named Schickelgruber...)
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To: ColdWater

You may be correct, sadly...


293 posted on 09/10/2009 7:54:31 AM PDT by Buck W. (The President of the United States IS named Schickelgruber...)
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To: GodGunsGuts
Is this somehow news to you? Are you really so clueless as to not be aware of the basic differences between Protestant and Catholic theology?

That site doesn't explain "the differences between Protestant and Catholic theology," it contrasts "Catholic tradition" and "the Bible." It says the Catholic Church violates the teachings of the Bible in ways that are sins and that anger God, and it illustrates the point with a crude drawing of the Pope in league with Satan to promote a perverted Bible. It's vile anti-Catholic bigotry, and you should be ashamed of yourself for defending it.

294 posted on 09/10/2009 8:08:11 AM PDT by Ha Ha Thats Very Logical
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To: CottShop

Something RESEMBLING a “fish” “scale” was found....that assumes that nothing in the history of animal life on Earth has ever had scales other than fish.......and where’s the actual “fish” this scale came from?? I find it hard to believe that a scale found in the cambrian layer means that all fish species were there during the cambrian period.

...butterflies/moths have scales...that’s why their “order” is LEPIDoptera....”scaled wings”, snakes have scales, fish have scales...some insects even LOOK like fish scales.

Where’re ALL the current ocean-dwelling animals found in the cambrian layer? No whales? No striped bass? No tuna? No bluefish? No humuhumunukunukuapua’a?

Not ONE?


295 posted on 09/10/2009 8:08:29 AM PDT by ElectricStrawberry (Didja know that Man walked with vegetarian T. rex within the last 4,351 years?)
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To: Buck W.; tpanther; metmom
As for the "posse", we're just pinging others who you've insulted out of your own sense of insecurity, as they will be interested as well.

Funny, you calling me a "phony Christian" - based on what authority? You have no authority. Neither do I, personally, to judge your salvation.

All I'll do is point you to the Word of God, which you call a "product of man". This claim that it is a "product of man" shows your ignorance of the Bible. I can judge your ignorance, without judging your salvation.

2 Timothy 3:15-17
15and how from infancy you have known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 16All Scripture is God-breathed* and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

*Other translations:
kjv: All scripture is given by inspiration of God
nasb: All Scripture is inspired by God

2 Peter 1:20-21
20Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet's own interpretation. 21For prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

"Above all"... hmmm... seems that this point is pretty important.

296 posted on 09/10/2009 8:15:07 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: MrB

[[Bucky seems awfully concerned about the opinions of Man...]]

Yes he does- He’s more concerned with looking good in the eyes of man than he is in actually listenign to God about how to be saved (or anythign else for that matter-) Bucky has his own bible that he follows, and it certainly doesn’t ressemble hte actual word of God- He even denies basic tennents of the Word of God claiming that these tennents are nothign more than ‘man’s word’ open to interpretation however one sees fit (regardless of whether other areas of God’s word contradict his interpretations)

[[Bucky, if you’re interested in an opinion that really counts, God wrote it out for you]]

He isn’t- it’s more important ot him that people view him as religious- the outside appearing clean, whiel hte inside rejects the word of God


297 posted on 09/10/2009 8:35:40 AM PDT by CottShop (Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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To: MrB

Bucky’s following statement perfectly point out his vitriol against God’s word and those hwo beleive God and His word

“No real Christian is of sufficiently weak faith to cling desperately to the literal truth of the bible.”

Yep- silly Christians, always putting hteir trust in God- How silly of us


298 posted on 09/10/2009 8:37:05 AM PDT by CottShop (Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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To: tpanther

godless leftist secular humanists
__________

LOL. I’m quite offended, tpanther, that you neglected to call me the communist nazi monkey loving kicker of small dogs in your post above.


299 posted on 09/10/2009 8:37:21 AM PDT by dmz
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To: MrB

As I asked cultmom: How’s the weather in the microcosm today?

Your brand of cult Christianity is phony. My authority for saying so? You won’t answer THE question.


300 posted on 09/10/2009 8:38:47 AM PDT by Buck W. (The President of the United States IS named Schickelgruber...)
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