Christians Have Long Known the Origin of Species
By Lee YanceyFossils have fascinated me since I can remember. My favorite book as a first grader was Danny and the Dinosaur. As I grew as a Christian I began to ask questions that yielded few results. Where do the dinosaurs fit into the Bible? Were they too big to get on the ark? Does the Loch Ness Monster exist? What about Bigfoot? And what about the anthropological fossil evidence of half-apes and half-men? How is the Christian to work through the fossil evidence? Scientists have discovered ways of dating fossils through the use of Carbon-14 and Radiometric dating determining the half-lives of elements and their rates of deterioration. Are these methods foolproof? Is the earth literally six thousand some odd years old or is it millions of years old? Did life on earth as we know it begin with a one-celled amoeba and evolve into the many different varieties of animal …
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