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To: Wuli
Then you are saying God created a world of death and suffering long pre-dating the fall of man and introduction of sin and death into the world as described in Genesis. A demon-god who made things like cancer (seen in the fossil record) part of his original "very good" creation. That is not the God of the Bible. And it makes the biblical teaching that the original good state of creation will be restored into a laughingstock. Restored to what, dinosaurs chasing humans across the landscape of Heaven? Rather, the record of suffering and death in the fossils is from the Kataclusmos of Noah's time. The ice age is the natural result of warmed oceans from the cataclysmic events of his time leading to high precipitation and rapid snow buildup over dust and cloud-enshrouded cold continental interiors in the years following.

The Bible says death is the 'last enemy' to be defeated. In the old-earth telling death has been around long before man and is the driver of evolutionary processes. It is painful that people try to mate these two contradictory concepts.

As a monoglacialist I'd point out that evidence for "interglacials" is weak and better interpreted as rapid icefield edge fluctuations in a single ice age. This explains why we don't have significant evidence of animal extinctions in the interglacials, yet we have extensive animal extinctions at the actual close of the ice age. If the interglacials were real those extinctions should have happened at the first interglacial in particular.

22 posted on 07/22/2025 11:34:09 AM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
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To: EnderWiggin1970

Do you actually believe that ice ages were total snowball ice ages that should have killed off everything?

You must be a young earther... No, that is not how it worked. Most of the earth was still ice free during the ice ages. And... What are now deserts were green...

The factual history of human fossils dictate that “Man” as they claim as a hominid has actually been through over 30 glacial/inter-glacial cycles...


28 posted on 07/22/2025 11:44:15 AM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: EnderWiggin1970

No. What i am saying is the period from Adam to Noah in the old testament, with all the important lessons on God and God’s relationship with humanity, and the seeds of what later develops with Abraham and the Hebrews, is incomplete as far as the total world, covering main events relative to the Middle East alone,

And like the period from Adam to Noah in all of that, there were other non-middle east civilizations after Adam and up to the flood left out of the old testament, BECAUSE their histories were not histories handed down to the peoples of the lands from which we get the Hebrews, which is who from we get the old testament.


60 posted on 07/23/2025 7:57:25 AM PDT by Wuli (uire)
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