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God Created Camels
How could camels evolve in the dessert?
Genesis 1.24–25
Don Ruhl • Savage Street, Grants Pass, Oregon • August 4, In the year of our Lord Christ, 2019
Prelude:
- Many people asked whether we got to ride camels during our Middle-East trip.
- Yes, we did and
- it made me think of them as yet another demonstration of creation.
- These animals fit their environment perfectly,
- although they may have been able to live in other environments.
- For example, we have uncovered fossil evidence of camels in
- Lake and Wheeler Counties in Oregon!
- Interestingly, even as we have signs warning of deer or other animals crossing the road,
- so in Israel at least we saw signs warning of camels.
Persuasion:
- Some Unique Features of Camels
- The hump
- Their feet
- the way their legs bend
- How long they can go without eating or drinking
- How much and how fast they can drink
- Double eye lashes
- How does something like that evolve?
- God Created Camels
- Some Think the Patriarchs Could Not Have Had Camels
- They believe that when the Bible says Abraham and other early biblical people had camels,
- that the Bible was not right.
- They would argue that camels were not domesticated that early.
- Why do they believe that?
- Because they have not found archaeological or paleontological evidence of it.
- What they believe is
- “absence of evidence is evidence of absence.”
- They do this to undermine Moses as the writer of Genesis.
- The Bible affirms in both the Old and New Testaments
- that Moses wrote the first five Books of the Bible,
- including Jesus.
- If you can prove that the Bible is wrong on the “authorship” of Moses,
- then you cannot rely on the Bible.
- They hence declare that it is not inspired,
- that it is a fairy tale and that you should discard it.
- including Jesus.
- However, that is a bad argument to make.
- Should you argue that since we have not found any proof of it,
- that means your argument is sound?
- That assumes that everything that archaeologists and paleontologists
- will discover has been discovered.
- What will happen is that we will find evidence of the domestication of camels in Abraham’s time, and
- the skeptics shall again be proven wrong.
- Matthew 12.36–37
- They believe that when the Bible says Abraham and other early biblical people had camels,
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