SA Huguenot
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1. The Bible describes Animals that never existed.
(Leviticus 11:6) A hare is not a cud chewer.
(Leviticus 11:20) A foul does not have 4 feet.
(Isaiah 34:7) The Bible speaks of a Unicorn.
Answer:
This accusation against the Biblical description of animals in contradiction to zoology was one of the numerous contradictions’ Dr Zakir Naik made to disprove the validity of the Bible as a Muslim during the debate he had with Dr William Campbell at the University of Chicago in 2000. This argument was further taken up by a lot of Atheists in their quest to disrupt the Christian belief in the Bible. Upon investigation to validate these claims, I learned the following. Please take note that this is not an attempt by me to try to prove the Bible correct, but an attempt to show some information not relayed by the Atheist and Muslim which should be taken into account.
The Bible is of opinion that the Creation of the Universe is much older than 6 000 years, contrary to what many Atheist and Christian want it to claim. However, the Bible is very clear, “Life” was created only 6 000 years ago according to the chronological count within its pages.
This would render a version of humans walking with Dinosaurs. A topic endlessly discussed between Creationists and palaeontologists, with the discoveries of human footprints in rock as old as 90 million years, some even next to dinosaur footprints. I will not venture into these claims, but will rely only on the assumption that through the Biblical point of view, man and dinosaurs lived together.
Now we can think about the following:
Every hour 17 species of animal go extinct. Are we sure there were not some animal looking like a huge horse that had a single horn that died out?
What about a foul with 4 legs?
Taking the above in consideration, I opened my books on dinosaurs and other animals, and found the “Archaeopteryx” discovered in Germany in chalk layers. Well, its wings had claws on the front. Is this not 4 legs? In China, the discovery of “Claudipteryx Zoui” confirms the same bird-reptile had four claws with wings that enabled it to fly short distances. Even more interesting is “Sinosauropteryx”. This reptile had feather filaments covering it in the same manner as the Kiwi, but had no flight feathers on its front legs. These legs look like reptilian claws! Scientists describes it as a foul that crawls. The feather prints within the rock is clearly visible to the observer. Even today you will find that the normal chicken has a thumb and a nail on their wings.
As I paged through my books, by accident I found an article on the fossils of a one horned Rhinoceros discovered in Siberia! “Elasmotherium sibiricum”, or the Siberian one horned rhino was believed to have died out 350 000 years ago. Carbon dating on the fossil bones gave a very recent date of 29 000 years. Ignore the fact that this animal’s bone was 29 000 years old, it is sure that there must have been other survivors elsewhere in the world living with humans 6 000 years ago. I agree, this might not be a “Unicorn” such as the mythological description, but it is close indeed. Who says there were no other animals with a horn and an appearance like a horse or antelope?
Then I also discovered a living bird with claws!
Whos chicks have fully developed claws on its front tips of the wings.
The Hoatzin lives in the Amazon, and any Atheist that might like to claim the animals described in the Bible never existed, will have to retract their words and will have to agree that the Bible knew of such animals 3400BC.
Anyway, looking at extinctions of animals, a claim that these “Mythological animals” never existed, is at best simply hoping no one will think about the above to allow leniency to the Atheist’s claim.
(Leviticus 11:6) A hare is not a cud chewer.
(Leviticus 11:20) A foul does not have 4 feet.
(Isaiah 34:7) The Bible speaks of a Unicorn.
Answer:
This accusation against the Biblical description of animals in contradiction to zoology was one of the numerous contradictions’ Dr Zakir Naik made to disprove the validity of the Bible as a Muslim during the debate he had with Dr William Campbell at the University of Chicago in 2000. This argument was further taken up by a lot of Atheists in their quest to disrupt the Christian belief in the Bible. Upon investigation to validate these claims, I learned the following. Please take note that this is not an attempt by me to try to prove the Bible correct, but an attempt to show some information not relayed by the Atheist and Muslim which should be taken into account.
The Bible is of opinion that the Creation of the Universe is much older than 6 000 years, contrary to what many Atheist and Christian want it to claim. However, the Bible is very clear, “Life” was created only 6 000 years ago according to the chronological count within its pages.
This would render a version of humans walking with Dinosaurs. A topic endlessly discussed between Creationists and palaeontologists, with the discoveries of human footprints in rock as old as 90 million years, some even next to dinosaur footprints. I will not venture into these claims, but will rely only on the assumption that through the Biblical point of view, man and dinosaurs lived together.
Now we can think about the following:
Every hour 17 species of animal go extinct. Are we sure there were not some animal looking like a huge horse that had a single horn that died out?
What about a foul with 4 legs?
Taking the above in consideration, I opened my books on dinosaurs and other animals, and found the “Archaeopteryx” discovered in Germany in chalk layers. Well, its wings had claws on the front. Is this not 4 legs? In China, the discovery of “Claudipteryx Zoui” confirms the same bird-reptile had four claws with wings that enabled it to fly short distances. Even more interesting is “Sinosauropteryx”. This reptile had feather filaments covering it in the same manner as the Kiwi, but had no flight feathers on its front legs. These legs look like reptilian claws! Scientists describes it as a foul that crawls. The feather prints within the rock is clearly visible to the observer. Even today you will find that the normal chicken has a thumb and a nail on their wings.
As I paged through my books, by accident I found an article on the fossils of a one horned Rhinoceros discovered in Siberia! “Elasmotherium sibiricum”, or the Siberian one horned rhino was believed to have died out 350 000 years ago. Carbon dating on the fossil bones gave a very recent date of 29 000 years. Ignore the fact that this animal’s bone was 29 000 years old, it is sure that there must have been other survivors elsewhere in the world living with humans 6 000 years ago. I agree, this might not be a “Unicorn” such as the mythological description, but it is close indeed. Who says there were no other animals with a horn and an appearance like a horse or antelope?
Then I also discovered a living bird with claws!
Whos chicks have fully developed claws on its front tips of the wings.
The Hoatzin lives in the Amazon, and any Atheist that might like to claim the animals described in the Bible never existed, will have to retract their words and will have to agree that the Bible knew of such animals 3400BC.
Anyway, looking at extinctions of animals, a claim that these “Mythological animals” never existed, is at best simply hoping no one will think about the above to allow leniency to the Atheist’s claim.
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