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Subject: Connie and Dori

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Hillbilly

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Date Posted: 20:55:43 09/30/10 Thu
In reply to: Connie 's message, "Dori" on 09:07:02 09/29/10 Wed

I have seen where you mentioned this Basil in the past and from what I gather from both of you he is reprobate.

The fossil record is a complicated study but it can be understood simply.

First the fossils in different strata. Sedimentary rock layers are a world wide fact. The very word sediment invokes the idea of a settling of solids suspended in a liquid.

Heavier sediment sinks fastest as will objects that are not dissolved in water. Heavier boned animals would sink fastest and would be found more in the deepest of the sediments as they would hit the bottom first and be covered the deepest. How much hair an animal had would also factor as the more hair the more buoyant. Feathered birds would probably sink last.

This would be interpreted by many scientists, who believe these layers are evidence of ages, as showing an evolutionary process. However, in order to preserve the entire animal and allow fossilization the process would of necessity have to happen quickly. Animals decompose and also are eaten by scavengers. To find an entire fossilized animal, whether large or small, would require that animal to be buried in the layer very quickly. All this proves the probability of a catastrophic flood rather than ages of slow building of the layer.

Something also that cannot be explained other than an event like the flood is when you find a treasure trove of fossils at high altitude in mountainous areas. In some of these locations you will find all sorts of fossils of carnivore as well as herbivore animals. Only something more frightening than being eaten would cause these various animals to be in the same location at the same time to be buried together and fossilized in the same strata.

Only a flood answers the riddle of what would have produced this.

I'm sure you Basil already has had these facts thrown at him many times and I'm just as sure that he ignores the evidence just as he ignores the fact of ancient lore from all over the world testifying of a great flood in the distant past. Indigenous peoples the world over have these legends woven into their historical past. The evidence of the flood is too great to ignore.

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[> [> [> [> [> Subject: Boy, Hillbilly...
Author: dori [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 22:46:34 09/30/10 Thu You sure have Basil pegged... grin. That's him to a tee. As Connie said, it is sad that he is raising his two daughters to be atheist--having said he wants his children to think with their brains and not get caught up in a bunch of fairy tales. Sad, huh?

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Connie
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Date Posted: 09:34:10 10/01/10 Fri

As Dori said you have Basil pegged to a tee.I guess we mention him because we've known him (in another forum) for along time and remember when both his children were born and how proud he was of them (and still is I'm sure). They are teen-agers now. He is an engineer (and I'm sure a very good one) and I believe engineers, as well as scientists, are the ones who have the most trouble accepting the Bible as the inerrant Word of God. Also although I'm not sure I believe he was a Roman Catholic in his younger years and apparently something happened to cause him to reject everything spiritual and only accept what he can see, feel or touch and for which there is a "earthly" explanation.

[> [> [> [> [> [> [> Subject: Hillbilly

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Sandy
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Date Posted: 18:19:21 10/05/10 Tue

I believe that what is written in 1st Cor. 1:23-31 as well as chapter 2 explains why those your describing cannot seem to come to the knowledge of the truth sometimes.

Meaning they think to much, only believing what is logical to their minds I guess. :-) Not choosing to believe what they do not understand within their own minds in faith.

There are many people like that it seems, choosing to only believe what is reasonable to them.

And you cannot be like that in order to follow the Lord.

Another scripture that says the same thing is written in Is. 55:8-11. As well as what God finally told Job also beginning in Job 38-41.

I believe chapter 41 telling us who these people are following, as well as whose child they also belong to as well, unfortunately.

[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Subject: Sandy,
Author: Hillbilly [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 21:21:57 10/06/10 Wed I also think often they can't or won't come to the knowledge of the truth because they want a god they can control. As you cited God's ways are not our ways and His thoughts are not our thoughts. Thanks for you input and it is good to see you here again God bless.

[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Subject: Yes, it's nice to see you again, Sandy. 8-)
Author: dori [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 23:39:08 10/08/10 Fri And it seems I am behind in a study. Been having some health issues, but all is improving. Will 'splain more later. Gots a toothache and am going to bed. xoxo