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I have come to think of the fossil record in a new way.
In the beginning, if God made men, and animals just in Eden (Adam was brought there after he was made, of course) then when the fall happened, and death came into the world, we would not expect to see these fossils at large in the world, in the fossil record!
Some creatures, trilobites, and various things appear in the record, however, and seem to have been created at large on the planet at the time. (Not just in Eden) Perhaps for some reason like preparing the earth for man and beast, later, as they multiplied, and were to spread out from Eden. I would guess that they were not made to live forever, as creatures in Eden. Either that, or they were the first to die after things started to die, at least out where they were.
Rather than interpreting, then, the record as one where the bigger things evolved from the smaller, or 'simpler' lifeforms, it would then be a record of migration out from Eden, and the various creatures that started to appear in the record, in other words, first to die far from Eden.
In the beginning, if God made men, and animals just in Eden (Adam was brought there after he was made, of course) then when the fall happened, and death came into the world, we would not expect to see these fossils at large in the world, in the fossil record!
Some creatures, trilobites, and various things appear in the record, however, and seem to have been created at large on the planet at the time. (Not just in Eden) Perhaps for some reason like preparing the earth for man and beast, later, as they multiplied, and were to spread out from Eden. I would guess that they were not made to live forever, as creatures in Eden. Either that, or they were the first to die after things started to die, at least out where they were.
Rather than interpreting, then, the record as one where the bigger things evolved from the smaller, or 'simpler' lifeforms, it would then be a record of migration out from Eden, and the various creatures that started to appear in the record, in other words, first to die far from Eden.