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What strange dreams we people, then awake and cannot remember.



A Thought to Share

Someone objected that "all the carnivores God created could not mean that there was no death in the days before Adam sinned" in one of the discussion groups.

Since we have no eyewitness record of all the animals that lived before the flood, we cannot look up what the animals were in that era. Genesis only records the lives (and deaths) of humans in those early years. Is it safe to assume just because an animal is alive today it was also alive then?

Fossils of carnivores of the mammalian varieties are not found in early strata. All early reptiles have legs, (no snakes until later). This suggests a later creation of animals as we know them today after the animals Noah released from the ark had a chance to establish themselves without predators.

I cannot recall seeing teeth in the jaws of fossil dinosaurs, except in drawings as the artist's concept. Has anyone reading this seen them? I have heard it said that they only ate plants, but cannot speak to this. One upright reptile yielded possession of its body to the devil to tempt Eve. Can we assume it ate some of the fruit to prove to Eve that she would not die?

Contents in the stomachs of the frozen mammals (from the so called Ice Age) has only turned up plants.

There is so much in the way of missing records, both in the fossil record and in the Bible that we probably should not assume one way or the other. However, predators just perhaps did not exist until after the Flood.

Humor

Courtroom on Record - Actual records of court proceedings

Attorney: And what terminated your marriage?

Witness: Death.

Attorney: Will you please specify whose death?

Witness: The death of my husband.
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Attorney: How many children do you have?

Witness: Nine.

Attorney: How many girls?

Witness: Nine

Attorney: How many boys?

Witness: Huh?

Attorney: I said how many boys do you have?

Witness: I done told you I had nine girls, that don't leave no room for no boys.
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It's News to Me

The EPA is now concerning itself with small quantity chemicals entering the environment, "nanoformulations" such as sunscreen, that may or may not cause problems over the next few hundred years. The zinc oxide is sited as having an unknown effect on the environment. Research on the nanoforms is going to cost millions of dollars per year over the next decade, and already the National Institute of Science says EPA is not doing enough.

Zinc oxide? The Food and Drug Administration approved that ages ago for human consumption in supplements. If it could be harmful to the environment in nano quantities, what am I doing taking it in larger doses? Seems like they should stop checking the water at bathing beaches and start checking the effluent from our sewage treatment plants. Or perhaps supplements should be banned. Better yet, disband the EPA into nano particles.