Cambrian Fossils Still a Dilemma for Darwinism 100 Years After Discovery of Burgess Shale

Evolution News & Views ^ | August 31, 2009 | Casey Luskin

[whattajoke]

Once you have postulated a world-wide flood, accompanied by cataclysmic shifts in rock formations, you can pretty much explain any fossils anywhere.

Sure you can. Facts and logic and evidence be damned.

Plus, once you have postulated a creative God, that God can create anything, including things which will tend to give the unchosen a way to justify their unbelief.

I had to check your posting history to see if you're being sarcastic here or not. This reads exactly how I would write if I were pretending to be a creationist. You set the goal posts so ridiculously far apart, anything scores for your side and THEN you suggest that your God is a trickster God who purposely is tricking (ie, lying) to those "unchosen" folks!? What kind of loving God is that? Or do you actually worship Loki?

And people wonder why someone thought up the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I think your post makes it quite clear why!

[headsonpikes]

All in all, having read most of the sacred texts of the world, I’ve got to go with good old American Coyote, the trickster.

Kinda like Loki, but without the pickled herring.

[Phantom4]

OK, soft tissue with traces of what looks like surviving blood protein. The term “soft tissue” carries the freight.

[CharlesWayneCT]

John 12:40:

He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.

Exodus 9:12:

But the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he did not listen to them, as the LORD had spoken to Moses

Mathew 13:10-13:

10And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?
11He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
12For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.
13Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

The Bible clearly indicates, in these and many other passages, that the wisdom of God is not provided freely to the entire race of man but that God chooses to hide things from some, and reveal them to others.

The Bible indicates that God does this for His own pleasure, and His glory, and that man, the created, is in no position to question God, whether God chooses to use a vessel for honor or dishonor.

On a more practical side, in Genesis is says God created Adam from the dust, and that Adam immediately spoke. If you had looked at Adam immediately after the creation, you would have assumed, scientifically, that he had been around for 30 years or so, as he was a grown man. He probably had hair. Would you say that God was deceiving us by giving Adam the "appearance of age"?

If God decided that they way to create the universe was over vast distances, but obeying the laws of Physics, he would of necessity have to create the photons from the stars he created, so we could see them from the beginning. That too would offer evidence of "age". Would that be deceptive?

Creative acts are not easily analyzed later if you postulate natural causes. As I have said before, if you come by a table with a 12-pencil box, 11 pencils on the table, and one on the floor, by natural causes you could postulate that the 12th pencil rolled off the table and onto the floor, because of gravity.

But it could well be that someone took the one pencil, and placed it on the floor. That gravity could have also done the same thing does not mean the person was "deceptive" because they put the pencil on the floor.