How do Jehovah's Witnesses Explain This Fossil Record?

by sabastious 143 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

  • unshackled
    unshackled

    For the benefit of the minority in here (*cough* debator)...check out this amazing video: Paleogeographic views of earth's history provided by Ron Blakey, Professor of Geology, Northern Arizona University.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGcDed4xVD4&feature=related

    This is what biogeography is all about. Already mentioned before but needs to be again. A great example of this is the lemurs in Madagascar - the only place on the planet they exist. Let's consider two explanations of this...

    1) If evolution were true, this is EXACTLY what you would expect to see. Madagascar wasn't always an island, but it did become one millions of years ago. Not only an island in a geographic sense, but it also could be considered an "island" when it comes to the gene pool. Lemurs evolved over millions of years, cut off in its own gene pool island, from a common shared ancestor of modern monkeys. Hence we have lemurs and are unique ONLY to Madagascar and no where else on the planet.

    2) If the bible were true, there was a global flood sometime in the past 10,000 years. We know for a fact that Madagascar has been an island for millions of years. So how did lemurs end up ONLY in Madagascar? When Noah's ark finally settled somewhere (say Mt. Ararat) and all the animals dispersed - how did the lemurs even get to the island of Madagascar? Did every single one of them hike (and swim apparently) directly to Madagascar without one being left behind? Did god give them a map and direct orders to get thee to Madagascar pronto? The same questions apply to kangaroos in Australia, kakapo parrot only in New Zealand or even no native land mammals at all in New Zealand. These are just a few examples but there are thousands like this on our planet.

    In order to continue to believe the bible story, it is neccessary to completely ignore such evidence and reason. Creationists simply pretend the evidence doesn't exist. As mentioned before, there has not been one offered argument from a creationist that can refute this evidence. Not Answers in Genesis, not the Discovery Institute and certainly not the Watchtower.

  • thetrueone
    thetrueone

    Glad to see someone pointed that the core evolutionary process of living species in the past is correlated

    to the earth's geographical evolution with the attaching environmental changes.

    Unshackled

  • simon17
    simon17

    I'm not a geologist and to try and pretend I am is just silly

    No, you're not. All you know is that people who ARE geologists are wrong about their not being a global flood. Their lifetime of work and research is wrong. And they all have a bias to never admit there ever was a flood. Why? Why would Indian geologists or Chineese geologists or Athiest geologists all agree to team up and *believe* there was no flood? No, any scientists who found such evidence and could publish it in a peer-reviewed journal would have made a huge scientific discovery. Its what every geologists dreams of doing. Finding evidence for something new.

    There is no consipracy or bias. Because there is no evidence. Because there was no flood.

  • bohm
    bohm

    simon17: damn right.

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