Biblical evidence for evolution?

Question

Leviticus 11: 13-19, the bat was a bird, now it is a mammal.
Leviticus 11:20, birds had four legs, now they have two.
Leviticus 11:21-22, locusts, beetles and grasshoppers had four legs, now they have six.
Genesis 3:1, serpents talked, they don't any longer.
Genesis 3:14, serpents ate dust, now they are carnivores.

Perhaps someone can explain how insects went from four legs to six, or how a bat went from being a bird to being a mammal, without evolution.

I'm pretty sure Creationists have no problem with extinctions.

But changing four legs into six is evidence for evolution.

Native: Gos was the one who described these animals in this way. Either God was mistaken, or they were, in fact, as described.

That should be "God", not "Gos"

Native: "We all know that whales aren't carnivores", actually, they all are. Either they eat krill, or they eat fish, seals, etc. The Killer Whale did not get its name from eating seaweed.

Darlene: conceding for the sake of argument your take on the word "fowl", you've yet to explain why "locusts...beetles" had four legs, as well as four-legged birds.

Answer 1

The Bible states that 1 day to God is like a 1000 yrs. Why not a billion or more. This is just to say time has no meaning to God. When he created the earth and heavens. He did it in 6 days. Right? God's days and ours are not the same. If darkness was on the face of the deep. There was no sun to measure days as we see them. So, therefore evolution is possible. Altho possible, it was still done by God.

Answer 2

Have you looked at what the Old English words meant? Fowl originally denoted all flying creatures. (reference: International Bible Encyclopedia definition) I am sure that this can be affirmed from other language sources as well. Another instance of the definition of words changing from the Old English to what we use now is the word "shambles" - it used to mean a meat market, but now we consider it to mean a big mess. So the evolution here is in connection with the English language. :)

Also, it would be good to examine the original Hebrew word that was used there and what it meant, since that was how it was originally written.

Your reference to Genesis 3:1 : That is a description of a ventriloquist act - Revelation 12:9 identifies the speaker as the devil.

I would have to do more research on your reference to Genesis 3:14 before I could attempt to address it. It is something that I would like to know myself as to what was meant when God condemned the serpent to eating dust.

Someone said something about an earlier race of giants before the flood being an earlier race of man? You are mixing the Bible with something else, aren't you? The Bible explains who the giants are that it refers to - hybrid offspring of humans and disobedient angels.

Answer 3

Lots of animals were confused for a different species back then.They didn't really have a way to categorize them correctly like we do now. Bats flew so they were mistaken for birds. I'm sure that snakes didn't really eat dirt and it was just a reference to the fact that they slither around on there stomachs. Like in the story on Jonah. The Bible says that he was eaten by a whale. We all know that whales aren't carnivores. Now we know that more then likely, considering the location it took place it was probably a Mediterranean Great White Shark.

Answer 4

so youre saying in 6000 years that animals grew 2 more legs?

wow, now im seeing ignorance of ignorance

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i know what you are trying to do. but there are many problems with evolution that need to be ironed out, changed, or thrown out before you can start believing it, otherwise its just a religion based on faith.

punctuated equilibrium.... where is there evidence of this? and by evidence, something beyond, this is what we observed, so here is something ot explain it. by that very same logic, if evolution can happen so quickly, wouldnt a young earth be possible since you dont need as much time to evolve?

if competition is reduced, what do organsims have to evolve for? what advantage is there to change when there is no problem staying the same?

for mutations, thousands of generations of fruit flys have been bombarded with xrays creating mutations... how many have actually worked, or how many have survived, could survive out on there own? how many new species of fruit flys have been created?

Answer 5

Don't forget that there was a race of giants before the flood. Wouldn't they have been earlier races of man?

Answer 6

I think that creation and evolution can co-exist. Must they be mutually exclusive?

Answer 7

And from what did all those things evolve,
in the beginning?

Answer 8

Look this up