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The Fossil Record- As God Would Have Made It Through Time

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Man wanted to follow his lusts and debauchery and believing in God was getting in the way. That is in fact, written in history.
Keep in mind that this forum is not about the existence of God. It's not a contest of theism versus atheism. It's about a particular Protestant sect versus everybody else; Christians, other theists and atheists all together.
 
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Are you saying that when God created the earth satan planted fossils and bones of animals that didn't exist yet?
I didn't say that. I said that as in the Biblical account of Satan being allowed to do what he did to Job, to plant illness and failings to test him, the bones and fossils and byproducts that were found underground weren't in the ground UNTIL man began digging for them. But, hey. What I believe and what I know has no impact on you so don't worry about it. I am just toying with possibilities like a scientist is permitted to create a hypothesis and explore the "what if's".
 
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Man wanted to follow his lusts and debauchery and believing in God was getting in the way. That is in fact, written in history.
I'm curious about when exactly you think man didn't follow his lusts and debauchery?

Greed, lust, cruelty and selfishness have been prevalent in all times and in all cultures.
 
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Man wanted to follow his lusts and debauchery and believing in God was getting in the way. That is in fact, written in history.

Oh brother! You're not repeating a butchered version of the bogus Julian Huxley "quote" spuriously spread by D. James Kennedy, are you?
 
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Oh brother! You're not repeating a butchered version of the bogus Julian Huxley "quote" spuriously spread by D. James Kennedy, are you?
I have never quoted anybody to that degree without giving them credit. And I have no idea who Julian Huxley is and am pretty sure I have not listened to or quoted Kennedy. Granted, it might be that I am following the fringes of some groundwork laid out by some others but I do have the ability to derive my own thoughts based on my own research over the past 50 years. It isn't hard to find or do yourself. What is hard to find is a polite person who doesn't believe in God. All of the folks who deny the existences of God, at least most of those I have experience with, seem to suffer from various levels of narcissism and get a lot of gratification from espousing their own attributes. Find one who is polite to a Christian and I would be immediately suspicious of their motives.
 
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Your comment sounded suspiciously similar to one falsely attributed to Julian Huxley - "The reason we leaped at The Origin of Species was because the idea of God interfered with our sexual mores.”

That's why I asked.
 
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What I believe and what I know has no impact on you so don't worry about it. I am just toying with possibilities like a scientist is permitted to create a hypothesis and explore the "what if's".
Everything that a Christian publicly states does impact other Christians. You are not an island.
Seeing your hypothesis has no facts to establish it, it is based on a guess. A guess that can't be supported either by science/nature or by scripture.

Job was tempted but God didn't leave Job in deception or confusion. There was a clear lesson to be learned. You're saying that God tricked man and continues to play the trickster.
 
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Once again somebody is putting words in my mouth. Not even close to what I said. But I will make it easy for you.
 
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Once again somebody is putting words in my mouth. Not even close to what I said. But I will make it easy for you.
If God is allowing satan to trick people and continue to trick people with false physical evidence, creating deception and confusion, what lesson is God teaching by doing this? It's nothing like Job, there was no false evidence presented to Job.
 
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You are mistaken here.
. Am I ? Show us some verifiable evidence then . A photo, a fingerprint , God’s social security number Something ! Natural phenomena being evidence for God’s existence is a belief not a fact. As a Christian I believe that, but as someone trained as a scientist I know that natural phenomena only gives evidence of natural processes. I’m not mistaken, you are mixing up facts and opinions ( religious dogmas are all opinions)
 
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No, I'm not, I'm just not willing to parade my reasons on the web.
 
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I stated that God speaks to us as individuals. But there’s no verifiable physical evidence of this . Neither your non answer nor your objections speaks to that . I also stated that I don’t have a problem with God doing this and I don’t look for this in nature (but I still think that the information about Tiktaalik going public during the Dover trial was God trying to get creationists attention
 
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If God is allowing satan to trick people and continue to trick people with false physical evidence, creating deception and confusion, what lesson is God teaching by doing this? It's nothing like Job, there was no false evidence presented to Job.
You called it false physical evidence. I didn't think of it as false physical evidence nor as creating confusion. I have no confusion. My parents don't, nor my sister and brother in law. My son, my daughter..., none of us have any confusion. Why should anybody else? But you are probably right. Still,blessed is he that believes when seeing, but even more so he that believes and has not seen.
 
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. I think that’s an interesting idea but you do understand that these fossil organisms were once living animals
 
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All of the folks who deny the existences of God, at least most of those I have experience with, seem to suffer from various levels of narcissism and get a lot of gratification from espousing their own attributes.
Gee...........sounds like many Christians I have known and met. Imagine that. Christians with human flaws and characteristics.
Find one who is polite to a Christian and I would be immediately suspicious of their motives.
Because we all know only Christians are polite to other Christians.
 
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. I think that’s an interesting idea but you do understand that these fossil organisms were once living animals
So Satan planted them here as living species of which some were subsequent fossilized. Which is not a bad idea. It would preserve the literal inerrancy of Genesis--which after all is the only important thing to a creationist--and it would still account for the diversity of life we see around us.
 
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So many things understood and spoken well, Sir Marine.

Most of your post content is quite higher than many posters on CF can see in Reality.

Yes, major universities and lower level school classrooms in bondage to presenting false knowledge, 180° opposite of what is truth.

A time of major deception is upon multitudes. It is before us to view. Such grand scale deceoption has overtaken even the smartest and most educated people of our time, people who spread deceptive words and principles. All thinking the Bible is full or error and non-sense.

We may be on the eve of the Lord Jesus exposing Satan and the mutitudes deceived by him. The deceiver of Mankind and the present grand-scale deception many are in bondage to. They speak lies as truth.

Evolution has zero fossil record proof. Time to face up to all that has been unearthed and what it shows.
 
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Once again somebody is putting words in my mouth. Not even close to what I said. But I will make it easy for you.
It is in many cases misunderstanding. Things still to out of reach for them to grasp with their present maligned knowledgebase. So they malign the truth.
 
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