Researchers discover the dawn of animal vision

[forrestkc]

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) -- By peering deep into evolutionary history, scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara have discovered the origins of photosensitivity in animals.

The findings are published in this week

[boblandis]

Hundreds of millions of years.

[Guest]

Hundreds of millions of years.

millions of years of evolution? Nah!

We don't know exactly how much time it took for God to create everything, but maybe He took His time...................

[mrs]

what a joke. They need better evidence if they want to convince anyone.

[Trusting Jesus]

All they really needed to do was read the first chapter of Genesis to find out when the dawn of animal vision was:

"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. 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. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. 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. 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. 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. So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 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. 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. 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. 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 1:20-31

God did it in 6 literal days and He created fish, birds, land animals, and Adam on the fifth and sixth days. And that was less than 7,000 years ago.

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Nathele

[Qun Mang]

All they really needed to do was read the first chapter of Genesis to find out when the dawn of animal vision was:

"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. 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. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. 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. 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. 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. So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 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. 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. 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. 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 1:20-31

God did it in 6 literal days and He created fish, birds, land animals, and Adam on the fifth and sixth days. And that was less than 7,000 years ago.

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Nathele

To this part I say probably because it is my understanding the original word translated as day (yom) could actually mean a different time period other than a 24-hour day. On the flip side of the coin, there must be a reason the different translators translated it the way they all did. In short, I lean toward literal days, but I would not be surprised in the least to find out that they in fact were not.

Of course, please don't take the inevitable step and paint me as a maybe evolutionist- I don't believe in that line they have been trying to sell us at all. Possible belief in old earth does not mean possible belief in macroevolution, even though the reverse must by necessity be true. The LORD did it exactly as the Bible says, whether yom means a day or some other time period.

[Trusting Jesus]

It is true that the word

[Qun Mang]

Who said anything about not believing the Bible?

Not being sure of the exact meaning/context of a single word is quite far off from not believing it.

Fortunately whether or not I believe a yom is a literal day (and I already said I am leaning this way and why) or something else does not hold eternal consequences.

2Tim 2:16-17 says (ESV), "All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work." and I believe it, just as I believe every other part of the Bible.

[Shad]

In the bible it states that 1,000 earth years are as 1 day in Heaven so if God was in the process of creating Earth which to that point didn't exist wouldn't it be reasonable to think that he was working within Heaven time in which case is the equivalent of 6,000 earth years as we call it ??

Also from the time Adam was created to the time Noah died many thousands of years passed but after Noah passes on there doesn't seem to be a clear time table on how long after Noahs death it was until Jesus was born which we know was 2006 human years ago.

So while I personally don't believe the Earth is hundreds of billions of years old as we've always been told I think it's probably a bit older than a lot of us figure.

[Trusting Jesus]

Who said anything about not believing the Bible?

Not being sure of the exact meaning/context of a single word is quite far off from not believing it.

Fortunately whether or not I believe a yom is a literal day (and I already said I am leaning this way and why) or something else does not hold eternal consequences.

2Tim 2:16-17 says (ESV), "All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work." and I believe it, just as I believe every other part of the Bible.

I'm sorry if I made it sound as if you don't believe the Bible. That wasn't my intent.

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Nathele