Why are there no cows in the Devonian?

[CabVet]

According to the Bible, everything was created during creation week, from bacteria to humans, some 6,000 years ago. Some here want to squeeze the entire fossil record into this timeline (of 6,000 years). My question is simple then, why don't we find fossil cows in Devonian strata?

To elaborate further, why is are there different communities of organisms in every strata and none of them correspond to what was created on creation week, except the most recent ones? Why are there dozens of layers below the more recent ones with many groups that are missing?

 

[HitchSlap]

Goddidit?

 

[CabVet]

Goddidit?

That would actually be the only acceptable answer, but just sit and watch nobody answering that.

 

[selfinflikted]

Goddidit?

My very next question would be, "Why?"

God, you trickster, you.

 

[HitchSlap]

My very next question would be, "Why?"

God, you trickster, you.

Sick sense of humor?

 

[Oncedeceived]

According to the Bible, everything was created during creation week, from bacteria to humans, some 6,000 years ago. Some here want to squeeze the entire fossil record into this timeline (of 6,000 years). My question is simple then, why don't we find fossil cows in Devonian strata?

You are mistaken in that there is no time frame in the Biblical Creation Narrative. You are also mistaken in your assumption that the life forms listed did not have something prior to them. In the creation narrative there is a "kind" prior to the kind being mentioned.

To elaborate further, why is are there different communities of organisms in every strata and none of them correspond to what was created on creation week, except the most recent ones? Why are there dozens of layers below the more recent ones with many groups that are missing?

You take your misunderstanding of the Creation Narrative and make a problem where there is none.

 

[HitchSlap]

You are mistaken in that there is no time frame in the Biblical Creation Narrative. You are also mistaken in your assumption that the life forms listed did not have something prior to them. In the creation narrative there is a "kind" prior to the kind being mentioned.



You take your misunderstanding of the Creation Narrative and make a problem where there is none.

Perhaps you can shed some light on this?

 

[CabVet]

You are mistaken in that there is no time frame in the Biblical Creation Narrative. You are also mistaken in your assumption that the life forms listed did not have something prior to them. In the creation narrative there is a "kind" prior to the kind being mentioned.

You take your misunderstanding of the Creation Narrative and make a problem where there is none.

Please, enlighten me and provide a scenario which makes the creation narrative compatible with the fossil record.

 

[AV1611VET]

According to the Bible, everything was created during creation week, from bacteria to humans, some 6,000 years ago. Some here want to squeeze the entire fossil record into this timeline (of 6,000 years). My question is simple then, why don't we find fossil cows in Devonian strata?

To elaborate further, why is are there different communities of organisms in every strata and none of them correspond to what was created on creation week, except the most recent ones? Why are there dozens of layers below the more recent ones with many groups that are missing?

If you found Adam's bones above Noah's bones in the fossil record, what conclusion would you come to?

 

[Loudmouth]

If you found Adam's bones above Noah's bones in the fossil record, what conclusion would you come to?

That I was dreaming, and it was time to wake up.

 

[AV1611VET]

That I was dreaming, and it was time to wake up.

I'll make this into a challenge thread, so I can beg guys for six weeks to answer it there, and not "derail" this thread.

 

[Queller]

I'll make this into a challenge thread, so I can beg guys for six weeks to answer it there, and not "derail" this thread.

If you do, please be sure to tell us how we know they are Adam's bones and Noah's bones. That will save us the trouble of having to ask.

 

[Loudmouth]

I'll make this into a challenge thread, so I can beg guys for six weeks to answer it there, and not "derail" this thread.

If you were wrong about everything, would you be wrong?

 

[AV1611VET]

If you do, please be sure to tell us how we know they are Adam's bones and Noah's bones. That will save us the trouble of having to ask.

Who cares how you know ... it's a hypothetical; and one that is pretty probing, in my opinion.

 

[Sayre]

Please, enlighten me and provide a scenario which makes the creation narrative compatible with the fossil record.

Theistic evolution.

 

[juvenissun]

According to the Bible, everything was created during creation week, from bacteria to humans, some 6,000 years ago. Some here want to squeeze the entire fossil record into this timeline (of 6,000 years). My question is simple then, why don't we find fossil cows in Devonian strata?

To elaborate further, why is are there different communities of organisms in every strata and none of them correspond to what was created on creation week, except the most recent ones? Why are there dozens of layers below the more recent ones with many groups that are missing?

I am not sure how to argue about this. But I will try.

First, thrown away the 6000 years age. It is not in the Bible.

There was no cow bone in Devonian strata because cow was not made yet. Land animals were made in batch and in sequence on Day 6.

Now, what you say?

 

[Loudmouth]

There was no cow bone in Devonian strata because cow was not made yet. Land animals were made in batch and in sequence on Day 6.

By Day 6 do you mean one 24 hour period, or something different?

 

[Atheos canadensis]

I am not sure how to argue about this. But I will try.

First, thrown away the 6000 years age. It is not in the Bible.

There was no cow bone in Devonian strata because cow was not made yet. Land animals were made in batch and in sequence on Day 6.

Now, what you say?

So even if we take the random age you suggest (anything that isn't 4.5Ga), that doesn't resolve the discrepancy between the pattern of the fossil record and the description of Creation and the Flood. I don't think saying the cow was not yet made makes any sense in the biblical literalist's world. Everything was created before death entered the world, yes? So why don't all organisms show up in the record more or less at the same time when death starts up? You can claim that the Devonian was prior to the end of the creation period, but that just moves the problem back. It still doesn't solve your problem of no cows being found with triolobites.

 

[EternalDragon]

So even if we take the random age you suggest (anything that isn't 4.5Ga), that doesn't resolve the discrepancy between the pattern of the fossil record and the description of Creation and the Flood. I don't think saying the cow was not yet made makes any sense in the biblical literalist's world. Everything was created before death entered the world, yes? So why don't all organisms show up in the record more or less at the same time when death starts up? You can claim that the Devonian was prior to the end of the creation period, but that just moves the problem back. It still doesn't solve your problem of no cows being found with triolobites.

They were probably larger and a more primitive creature like a wild Ox or a Auroch. Not like the cows we get milk from today.

Second, they aren't found in that strata because they were up on land and buried later in higher strata when they died. (During the flood).

 

[Black Akuma]

Second, they aren't found in that strata because they were up on land and buried later in higher strata when they died.

And we don't find animals like brachiosaurs or glyptodons or Sabre-Toothed Tigers with them because...