Outdoor Ministries No 2

[mortensen]

God Nature & Serpents.

Let's take snakes and lizards and begin with snakes. Would it be fair to say that snakes evolved from lizards? No, contrary to what the evolution theory states there is no evidence to support this theory and there is no fosil evidence to support this assertion as the evolution people continually ignore the lack of evidence. Plain and simple, God created all living things. Can snakes hear? And the unanimous responce is; "of course they can't silly, they have no ears!" But the Bible says they can! Science has always led us to believe that they could not hear and have gone to great lengths to show the Bible isn't scientifically accurate, and some compromising Christians who say passages in Genesis shouldn't be considered scientifically accurate have pointed to this passage as an example to show that the Bible shouldn't be taken 'literally'. Is the Bible wrong? Or are the scientists?

Recent research has now shown that snakes do hear. Their quadrate bones (in the jaw) move slightly in responce to vibrations and transmit this to a pair of inner ears. And it's been shown snakes respond to both airborn and ground vibrations. In fact, the auditory responce of snakes in the range of 200 to 300 Hz is superior to that of cats.

As Christians we should always start from Scripture because the Bible reveals itself as the infalliable Word of the One that cannot lie. It can't be wrong. When someone says the Bible can't be trusted, remember that scientisys now know that snakes can hear, and never lay down your belief in God's Word! Science changes all the time, God's word never does.

Many creatures that lived in the enviroment before Noah's flood seemed to reach huge sizes. Fossils of gigantic monitors have been discovered that show todays isolated colonies have come from much larger and more wideranging monitors of earlier times. Fossils of Varanus, the lizard group to which Komodo Dragons belong, have been found in Australia measuring an incredible nine meters (30 feet) long! Yet these fossils give no indication that the giant reptiles evolved from any other type of creature and indisputable proof that reptiles (Komodo Dragon) did not evolve from non-reptiles.

The Komodo Dragon is pretty aggressive and carries a body full of bacteria. Much of his diet comes from other dead animals that may have been dead for days or even weeks. The quanity of bacteria this lizard digests has mystified doctors and scientists for years. Even if the Komodo Dragon should brush against your flesh, it could possibly make you extremely ill or even kill you if not treated. They can run fairly fast in short bursts, good swimmers, have bone-crushing jaws, and are known for using their tail to knock their prey down. They can easily be over ten feet long and weigh over 300 pounds. This king size lizard is now considered a endangered species. However, if you could go hunting this giant lizard, it may be conforting to know that you won't have to go looking for him... he'll find you!

Woody Mortensen

5-23-09

[Ravin R10 man]

Genesis

1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

[This is written as if "the heaven and the earth" were created sometime before creation week. Notice the first part of verse 2 says that "the earth was". It was "without form", empty, dark and covered by "the face of the deep". It could not be covered by "the face of the deep" if it did not already exist. The last part of verse 2 begins to tell us what God did with this earth that He had already created.]

1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness [was] upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

1:4 And God saw the light, that [it was] good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

1:6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

1:7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which [were] under the firmament from the waters which [were] above the firmament: and it was so.

1:8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

1:9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry [land] appear: and it was so.

1:10 And God called the dry [land] Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that [it was] good.

1:11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, [and] the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed [is] in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

1:12 And the earth brought forth grass, [and] herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed [was] in itself, after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good.

1:13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.

1:14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

1:15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

1:16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: [he made] the stars also.

1:17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,

1:18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that [it was] good.

1:19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

1:20 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.

1:21 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.

1:22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

1:23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

1:24 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.

1:25 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.

1:26 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.

1:27 So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

1:28 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.

1:29 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.

1:30 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.

1:31 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.

2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

2:2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

2:3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

[buckee]

COOL..love it. Praise the Lord