An “unknown ancient reptile roamed the Pyrenees mountains” according to a BBC News article published on April 20, 2017.
“The footprints of a mysterious reptile that lived about 250 million years ago have been identified in fossils from the Pyrenees mountains.”
“Footprints” have been found, now an entirely new species has been discovered? And it’s “a member of the group that gave rise to crocodiles and dinosaurs?”
All from “footprints?”
The robber fly is a powerfully built, bristly fly with a short, stout proboscis enclosing the sharp, sucking hypopharynx. The name “robber fly” reflects its notoriously aggressive predatory habits; it feeds mainly or exclusively on other insects and as a rule it waits in ambush and catches its prey in flight.
“God said, ‘Let the waters swarm with living creatures, and let birds and other winged creatures fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky’” (Genesis 1:20 EHV).
On February 13, 2017, BBC published an article entitled “How the Universe can expand if there is no extra space.”
The 2017 BBC Earth article asserted that the universe is not expanding into an external void. Instead, it explained that the “fabric” of space itself is stretching, meaning there is no outside edge or extra space for the universe to grow into.]DO WE REALLY UNDERSTAND THE UNIVERSE?
As God asked Job 3,500 years ago: “Have you grasped the celestial laws?” (Job 38:33 NJB)
We know much more today than Job did then, but our answer would also be: “not really.”
However, the Bible does enlighten us far beyond science, although we appreciate good science.
THE BIBLE REFERS TO THE EXPANSION OF THE UNIVERSE
Is the Bible just another one of many ancient creation stories, or is it different?
“Yahweh God, the Almighty . . . created all things”—Revelaation 4:8,11 LSB
ANCIENT PAGAN CREATION STORIES
In contrast to the Biblical creation narratives, ancient creation stories from Mesopotamia, Egypt and Syria-Palestine do far more than try to explain how the physical world came into being. Creation myths often elevated the particular god of a particular shrine to supremacy over all other gods in order to validate the prestige of that deity, that shrine or the city in which the shrine was located.