Barfarn, you surprised me. Thank you!
Anyway.....it was noted that "millions of animals died" with Noah's flood, and how crazy that thought is.
Think about this: What would you expect to find all over the world if a earth wide flood happened?
How about millions upon millions of dead things, buried in sediment layers! That is exactly what we see! It's called the "fossil layers!"
Explain how all these things over the entire earth would end up as fossils? Today if something dies, scavengers would eat the remains, decomposition would take a toll, and within a matter of a few weeks, all of the animal would be gone. I have seen this myself when I found a dead deer in a wildlife area a couple years ago. I think it may have been hit by a car, and ran off into the woods to die. I checked back on it every week or so. By the end of a month, there was NOTHING left. You would never have known that a dead deer had ever been laying there. No hair, no bones, NOTHING.
So how did all these creatures end up as fossils??? There were no scavengers to eat them, and they were buried quickly enough that they fossilized.
These layers didn't take "millions of years", it was within one year.
Look at Mount St. Helens. The eruption was like the flood, but on a very small scale. It tore out a miniature Grand Canyon, buried trees standing upright in the surrounding lake, where they are buried through many different layers of sediment (just like we see in the Grand Canyon, where upright trees are seen going through different layers that are supposedly "millions of years" apart.
Trees don't stand up that long, do they?
If people don't choose to believe the Bible, they have free will to do so. I choose to believe. So far, I think I still have that "right".
Smokey, you may not appreciate the religion statements here, but I am not ashamed to share my beliefs. If even ONE person here reads something I write that make them rethink their views, it will be worth the "hassle" I might get.
The only way you can learn is to be willing to listen to both sides of an argument. If all you ever hear is one side, how do you know if your beliefs are correct?
If all you watch is TV, you'd hear how evolution is "fact", not what it really is, which is a theory.
I can't "prove" God to you, but I can show you how to look around, see what there is, and you might conclude that God does exist.
If I am wrong, I will have lost NOTHING. If I am right, those that choose not to believe may have a lot to lose. That's why I write what I do.
If you believed that someone was going to die unless you said something, would YOU remain quiet? Or would you take that chance and speak?