*"As the Word of God has been passed down through generations, it is truly remarkable how well the Bible has been preserved. In ancient times, Scripture was read publicly in synagogues, but personal copies were rare—many people couldn't afford them, and literacy was not widespread.
When Paul says, 'It is written,' he may never have owned a copy of the Psalms himself, relying instead on what was read to him. However, we do know that he had access to books, as Mark brought some to him."
Agreed.
Found this .
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"Discovered in a power plant in 1912. Two men dislodged this iron cup in a large chunk of coal which has an assigned age of 300 million years. If true, then humans were around much longer than we are being told. If however the dating of coal is wrong, then this was possibly forged from the metal shop of Tubal-Cain 5,500 years ago and got caught up in the global flood of 2348 B.C."
Rodger , I had a question for you , did you miss it ?
First of all, I do not know. I have NO idea. I was simply trying to develop discussions.
However, would you agree that God created them out of love for humanity? Think of all the "Bio- deposits" we as humans have used through time.
Actually I would believe the dino's deposits would be a very very small fraction when compared to the deposits from the vegetation . Of course God shows his love to in so many ways that I am sure we miss many of them everyday .
I believe God created the Dinosaurs and you seem to also .
Did God tell us He created the Dinosaurs when He told us of...
Cannt miss something you were never looking for!
IMHO..... you must realize that the info you posted comes from a very "strict" young earth creation web site.
Then, this as with all things that all of a sudden pop up as outliers, is that one problem with this kind of evidence is that
it relies heavily on the veracity and memories of the individuals involved.
Since all people commonly lie or are otherwise fallible in this regard, scientifically, anecdotal evidence is not worth much. One might ask why would these men would make up such a story. There might be any number of other reasons-------
1. for a gag,
2. attention,
3. an effort to validate something they believe in etc.
However, even if they were telling the truth as far as they knew it, there is an aspect of the report about which they could be mistaken, and on which the significance of the find could rest.
The point is, one cannot make a compelling scientific argument based solely on the word of two individuals. Even the major creationist group Answers in Genesis (AIG) seems to agree with this principle. One of their web articles entitled "Where are all the human fossils" cautions that claims about man-made objects in ancient sediments are not worth much unless accompanied by reliable real-time documentation of the excavation.
Noting that past claims of this nature, including other alleged objects in coal, have not met these rigorous criteria, the authors state: ....
"We can only concur that there is no definite unequivocal evidence of human remains in those rock strata that can definitely be identified as Flood sediments."
Source:
(Batten et al, 2006).
In a similar article strict creationist Andrew Snelling writes in
Creation Magazine: "As far as we are aware at the present time, there are no indisputable human fossils in the fossil record that we could say belong to the pre-Flood human culture(s)."
(Snelling, 1991).