Paleontology – The study of past geological periods as known from fossil remains, (dinosaurs).
Genesis To Revelation.
The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology. (Stephen Jay Gould)
As I began the process of researching, writing and putting together SURTSPaleontology, I realized that there were quite a few bible verses that someway…somehow…mentions directly or indirectly, items that qualify under the scientific study of paleontology.
SURTSPaleontology will be divided up into 2 sections:
Genesis To Revelation, and
For this section of SURTSPaleontology…Genesis To Revelation, I would ask that you consider the following…
For a book that is not intended to be a book on science, let alone paleontology, it is quite amazing, not only on the amount of science that is in there, but the validity of the references regarding paleontology, that are in there.
Based on the evidence presented, I would submit to you there is absolutely nowhere in the Bible where the paleontology topics are unfounded. I would also submit to you that there is nowhere in the Bible where any scientific discovery since the Bible was put together, has yet to be proven false, regarding paleontology.
What is truly amazing is the fact that many of the facts above were already in the Bible before man and his science…and aleontology, ‘discovered’ them. In multiple cases, by hundreds or thousands of years.
What other religious book has this record?
The point is this:
While the Holy Bible is of course a religious book first and foremost, clearly, it is much more than that.
I wish to thank the authors of the following website for their ideas, concepts and inspiration, for SURTSPaleontology…Genesis To Revelation:
https://www.christianity.com/wiki/bible/what-does-the-bible-say-about-dinosaurs.html
https://www.openbible.info/topics/dinosaurs
https://biblereasons.com/dinosaurs/
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Welcome to SURTSPaleontology…Genesis To Revelation.
Genesis To Revelation:
1. Genesis 1:19-21:
If you are looking for a whale you cannot search for a whale in a pond. You must go to deep waters. (Prashant Iyengar)
19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day. 20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. 21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. (Genesis 1:19-21 KJV)
2. Genesis 1:23-25:
I think I’d like to be remembered as someone who really helped people to have a little humility and realize that we are part of the animal kingdom not separated from it. (Jane Goodall)
23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. 24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. 25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. (Genesis 1:123-25 KJV)
3. Genesis 1:26-28:
Humanity’s true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. (Milan Kundera)
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. (Genesis 1:126-28 KJV)
4. Genesis 1:29-31:
We should all be eating fruits and vegetables as if our lives depend on it – because they do. (Michael Greger)
29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. 30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. 31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day. (Genesis 1:23-31 KJV)
5. Genesis 6:13:
Nothing good ever comes of violence. (Martin Luther)
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth. (Genesis 6:13 KJV)
6. Genesis 7:2-3:
We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something beautiful. (Aristotle)
2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female. 3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth. (Genesis 7:2-3 KJV)
7. Genesis 7:8-9:
We are all passengers aboard one ship, the Earth, and we must not allow it to be wrecked. There will be no second Noah’s Ark. (Mikhail Gorbachev)
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, 9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah. (Genesis 7:8-9 KJV)
8. Genesis 7:20:
I always liked the story of Noah’s Ark and the idea of starting anew by rescuing the things you like and leaving the rest behind. (Zach Braff)
20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered. (Genesis 7:20 KJV)
9. Exodus 20:11:
A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week. (Henry Ward Beecher)
11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. (Exodus 20:11 KJV)
10. Psalm 74:13-14:
But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them. (Ursula K. Le Guin)
13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters. 14 Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness. (Psalm 74:13-14 KJV)
11. Psalm 104:25-26:
In the belly of Leviathan…one can either despair and perish, or be cheerful and persevere. (Dean Koontz)
25 So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts. 26 There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein. (Psalm 104:25-26 KJV)
12. Psalm 148:7:
It simply isn’t an adventure worth telling if there aren’t any dragons. (J. R. R. Tolkien)
7 Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps: (Psalm 148:7 KJV)
13. Isaiah 27:1:
There are trials in life that feel as tremendous as a quest to slay dragons. These trials are daunting. They require hard work, determination, and courage. But when the dragon is finally slain, the relief is immense. (Richelle E. Goodrich)
In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea. (Isaiah 27:1 KJV)
14. Isaiah 51:8-9:
So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings. J.R.R. Tolkien
8 For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation. 9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon? (Isaiah 51:8-9 KJV)
15. Ezekiel 29:2-3:
Anyone who makes the life of Jewish people difficult or grievous, as did the Pharaoh, as did Hitler, will be cursed by God. (John Hagee)
2 Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt: 3 Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself. (Ezekiel 29:2-3 KJV)
16. Jonah 1:15-17:
When down in the mouth, remember Jonah. He came out all right. (Thomas A. Edison)
15 So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging. 16 Then the men feared the Lord exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto the Lord, and made vows. 17 Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. (Jonah 1:13-17 KJV)
Never laugh at live dragons. (J. R. R. Tolkien)
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority. (Revelation 13:2 KJV)
And there you have it.
17 sets of bible verses found in the Genesis to Revelation, whose focus can be considered under the scientific branch of paleontology.
If one of these verses is read independently, then it is possible to assume the reader may not come to this conclusion:
While the Holy Bible is of course a religious book first and foremost, clearly, it is much more than that.
I would submit to you that in regards to the Holy Bible and the scientific field of paleontology…
The reliability is more than coincidence.
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