Genesis, chapter 1
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NIV Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

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The existence, wisdom, and greatness of
God are shown by the things that He has made so that none are without excuse to believe that there is a Divine Architect to all things. On the Last Day, no one will be able to say that they did not know a
Divine Being was out there.

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NIV Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world
God's invisible qualities-- his eternal power and divine nature-- have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.
NIV Acts 17:26 From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. 27 God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.

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We make.
We manufacture.
We manipulate.
God alone truly creates.
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is a common term in theology that only the Lord can create out of nothing.

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We see a formless mass (of the waters) by which all things will be made.
God uses water to mightily bless His people throughout the Bible.
Creation. Flood. Red Sea. Jordan
Crossing. Ceremonial washing. Jesus’ baptism.
Notice each water is drastically less in external amount so that the focus is on the internal.

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Note: These waters decrease in physical power and quantity through His-story,
BUT…
They increase in the pledge of a good conscious towards God.

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NIV 1 Peter 3:21 and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also-- not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a good conscience toward God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

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3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning-- the first day.

Let there be light!

Day means Day -- Yom
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NIV Exodus 20:11 For in six days the
LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the
LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

There was evening, and there was morning-
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In many places and in the Bible, the day does not begin and end at midnight. It begins and ends at the setting of the sun.
The repetition of this phrase clarifies the
24 hour time period ascribed to each step to create all things in perfect harmony.
The image of God (mankind) would reflect this in his/her own lives on earth.

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NIV John 8:12 When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."

Light
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The nature of God (the Deity) is beyond human understanding. He needs to make himself known in a way that we can understand. Jesus is the Light and the
Word. He is the revelation of the incomprehensible God.
NIV John 14:9 Jesus answered: "Don't you know me,
Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father.
How can you say, 'Show us the Father'?

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For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.

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From the very start, Christ was part of the
God-head by which we can perceive Him
(light) and through whom all things were made.

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NIV John 1:1 In the beginning was the
Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of men.

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6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse "sky."
And there was evening, and there was morning-- the second day.

The Second Day

Water seperated from Water?
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Genesis 2:6 says, “but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.”

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Before the flood (Genesis chapters 6-9), the earth was surrounded by a firmament of water. These are the waters that God released, causing the flood. It seems that before the flood, the dew and ample water supply was enough to keep creation watered.

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The Bible does not specifically tell us whether if it had rained before the flood or not. Noah seemed to understand what rain was when God mentioned it to him
(Genesis 7:4-5). Genesis 2:4-6 mentions that God did not send rain on the earth until after He created Adam and Eve.

Noah understood rain…
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But the rain patterns that we experience in a post-flood world may be different than the pre-flood world experienced.
Our rains might not be as “gentle” as the daily watering.

Water FROM ABOVE separated from Water FROM BELOW?
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NIV Genesis 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month-- on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. 12 And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.

The Floodgates
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Streams came up to water creation.
And a major river came up also.
Genesis 2:10 A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters.

The Floodgates
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From Eden came a river that branched out into other rivers to water creation. We know rivers normally form from smaller tributaries. The pre-Flood world may have seen this in part, but the major river of
Eden broke into smaller ones to irrigate a large portion of the world at that time.

Many creationists believe a stratus of water surrounded the earth protecting it from harmful radiation and creating a more uniform climate.
Evolutionists are baffled as to how dinosaurs lived near the North Pole.
Wouldn’t they freeze in the dark months? But the vegetation along with fossils indicate year round warmth.

Creationism notes that the foundations of the single continent were broken
Up and shifted across the globe in the Flood. And a stratosphere would create a more mild global climate. This would also solve the mystery of the great size of many creatures if the stratosphere made the earth to be like a hyperbaric chamber. Perhaps, we also have experienced atmospheric loss.

Hyperbaric World?
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A related effect is the increased oxygen transport capacity of the blood. Under [present] atmospheric pressure, oxygen transport is limited by the oxygen binding capacity of hemoglobin in red blood cells and a dramatically decreased amount of oxygen is actually transported by blood plasma . Oxygen transport by plasma, however is significantly increased under HBOT. Wikipedia.

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A new study shows autism may be improved by using hyperbaric oxygen chambers. This is the first study of autistic children and hyperbaric oxygen chambers using a tightly monitored group.
Researchers from BioMed Pediatrics gathered 62 children from different centers who had been diagnosed with autism, from ages two to seven, and gave them 40 hours worth of oxygen treatments.

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The results were surprisingly good. 80% improved, while the other 8% in the control group showed no difference.
It is not known yet whether or not the improvements this brought about in social development, cognitive behavior, language skills, and eye contact are long term, or if they are short term treatments that would have to be done frequently.

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9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good. 11 Then God said,
"Let the land produce vegetation: seedbearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so.

The Third Day

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12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning-- the third day.

Why does evolution conflict with the Genesis account?
What is the role of death in evolution? Natural.
How will the Bible explain death for human and creature?
Unnatural. People and animals were originally vegetarians.

According to kinds
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14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights-the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars.

Just imagine the glory we were meant to see at night before the Fall.

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17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning-- the fourth day.

When Moses wrote this…
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Many cultures worshipped the heavenly bodies as deities…
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Biblical perspective… the heavenly bodies exist to SERVE US with LIGHT in the night.
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Even today, the heavenly bodies are worshipped as such.

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Song – “We are stars, Fashioned in the flesh and bone” The Pierces.
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The Universe created us.
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Similar train of thought of Carl Sagan mocking the Christian belief in God…
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“The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be .”

Let there be light!
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Imagine filming a grenade exploding. You can rewind the film and see it explode backwards (implode) in time to a finite point. Our universe is expanding out like a grenade explosion. This fits with the
Biblical account and how the Lord made it possible to distinguish the different heavenly bodies as they spread out.

The problems with Big Bang
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The problem with the Big Bang theory is the amazing complexity and cooperative nature that atoms and various particles possess. This obviously could not be from a random explosion to form such (1) complexity and (2) necessarily cooperative properties.

The problems with Big Bang
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Believe it or not, it is immensely difficult in secular science to determine the age of the universe.
The best estimate is that the universe expands 3.2 times faster than the speed of light. There are galaxies that we see that are actually moving away from us faster than the speed of light.

How Old?
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If a galaxy is 13 billion light years from us (or the center of the universe), then the universe must be 13 billion years old???? Note question marks.
The universe is in constant movement that is not constant in speed or time. When you observe a super nova, it did not occur in the place you saw it. You see the light but the remnants of the crab nebula is actually in a whole new place.
Human history has observed supernovas but we weren’t destroyed by them because they had moved by the time the light came to earth.

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The problem.
The grenade explosion occurs. Are all particles travelling at the constant same rate?
But in the universe, the laws of physics aren’t the same.
Imagine individual particles speeding up, slowing down, then speeding up.

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So imagine sitting in the universe, you see a galaxy emitting light that is actually moving away from you faster than the speed of light. What you see is actually in a new spot? How do you figure out where it is?
Well you come up with a formula to determine speed. But it’s not that simple.
The speed is not constant due to various laws at work in the universe.

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As a very rough analogy, the universe behaves like a river with rapids in its expansion. If you put a boat in the river and allow it to be carried by the flow, it will accelerate as it moves downstream and enters the rapids. It will slow down in a wide shallow basin.

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Now imagine that you sit on the bank and see a boat pass by at 10 mph. Close your eyes. Where was the boat an hour before? Where will the boat be in two hours?
You would have to know the speed of the water at each particular point it travelled and will travel (depth, narrows, widening, new tributaries, etc.). The rate of speed is RELATIVE.

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When someone tries to determine the age of the universe, they are trying to figure out a “changing river” formula.
Were there narrows at the beginning for super fast expansion?
With sediment build up, was something fast or a time NOW slow?
Did God pushed the heavenly lights out at faster in the very beginning???

The Expanding Universe
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Again, we can observe that the universe is expanding out from a single point.
God created the light of heavenly bodies starting from that point. In this formation time, God showed special attention to our world and then set it in the solar system and place we know in our galaxy.

On this day of creation…
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The Lord put us in a point where we can observe the heavens, not hazy light in a cluster of heavenly bodies.

Our special place in the heavens

A Neat Observation
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Even though the moon varies in proximity to the earth (making a bit larger or smaller at times), it’s size is pretty much consistent to the size of the sun in our sky. What are the odds??? This is why a total solar eclipse lasts for such a short period of time.

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20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21 So
God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

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22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." 23 And there was evening, and there was morning-- the fifth day.

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24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.

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26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground." 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of
God he created him; male and female he created them.

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28 God blessed them and said to them,
"Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground." 29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.

Idea of Dominion
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This means entrusted.
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We think of dominion as tyranny. But this was not the case before sin, it means entrusted like a baby with a loving mother.

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30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground-- everything that has the breath of life in it-- I give every green plant for food." And it was so. 31
God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning-- the sixth day.

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NIV Genesis 9:2 The fear and dread of you will fall upon all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air, upon every creature that moves along the ground, and upon all the fish of the sea; they are given into your hands. 3
Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything. 4 "But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.

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NIV Isaiah 11:7 The cow will feed with the bear, their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox.

Dominion given
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What is meant by image of God?
REFLECTION
Dominion in the pre-Fall world meant
God’s gracious and loving care, not our own selfish control.

Image and Likeness
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Mankind held a special role (link) in creation.
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Animal – Flesh.
Angel – Spirit.
Mankind – Flesh and spirit.

The Glory We Were
Meant to Have
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There are two allusions to this glorious body that we possessed.
NIV Matthew 13:43 Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.

The Glory We Were
Meant to Have
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The Mount of Transfiguration also alludes to this glory that saints in paradise have with the Lord. Jesus is in glory with
Moses and Elijah. In the Book of
Revelation, Jesus is shown in this glorious light. And we hear:

The Glory We Were
Meant to Have
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NIV 1 John 3:2 Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known.
But we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

1 2 3
Forming Light for all heavens
Filling
Earth / Seas / Sky
Sun, moon, stars
Sea and air creatures
Land/Plants
Land animals and man
Man
Woman
4 5
6

Flood – 2459 BC
4000 BC
4115 BC
3000 BC
2000 BC
1000 BC
0 AD
0 BC
1000 AD 2000 AD

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Adam
Seth
Enosh
Kenan
Mahalalel
Jared
Enoch
Methusaleh
Reu
0 AC – 930 AC 
1788 AC – 1995 AC
Serug 1820 AC – 2020 AC
130 AC -1042 AC 
Nahor 1850 AC – 1969 AC
235 AC-1140AC 
Terah 1879 AC – 2084 AC
325 AC -1235 AC 
Abram 1949 AC – 2124 AC
395 AC -1290 AC 
Isaac 2049 AC – 2229 AC
460 AC -1422 AC 
Jacob 2109 AC – 2256 AC
622 AC - 987 AC 
687 AC – 1656 AC
Life in Egypt begins 2239 AC.
Compare with year of flood. His name means “when he dies, it shall be sent.” Enoch used his son’s name as prophecy.
Lamech
Noah
874 AC – 1651 AC
1056 AC – 2006 AC
Moses born 2589 AC or 1528 BC.
Exodus occurs 2669 AC or 1448 BC.
First born after Adam’s death.
Flood Event
Shem
Arphaxad
Shelah
Eber
Peleg
1656 AC (2459 BC)
1559 AC – 2058 AC
1659 AC – 2062 AC
1694 AC – 2097 AC
1724 AC – 2154 AC
1758 AC – 1967 AC
These match up to 1 Kings 6:1.
This puts the year of creation at 4117 BC.
This date is dependent on the construction date of the Temple
(1 Kings 6:1).
Tower of Babel.

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Adam
Seth
Enosh
Kenan
Mahalalel
Jared
930
912
905
910
895
962
Reu
Serug
Nahor
Terah
Abram
Isaac
Jacob
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180
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Methusaleh 969
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Lamech
Noah
777
950
Over time, earth has become less hospitable for human life. The
Flood drastically changed the ability for long life with the Spirit limiting life to a maximum of about 120 years.
First born after Adam’s death.
Flood Event
Shem
Arphaxad
Shelah
Eber
Peleg
1656 AC (2459 BC)
499
403
403
430
209
NIV Genesis 6:3 Then the
LORD said, "My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days will be a hundred and twenty years."
Tower of Babel.

Genealogy of Cain and Seth
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Cain - Made
Enoch - Disciplined
Irad – Quick / Zeal
Mehujael – Proclaims God
Methushael – Who is of God
Lamech – Humble
Acquire discipline to be zealous to proclaim God. The one who belongs to God is humble.
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Seth – (re)placement, appointed
Enosh - man
Kenan - possession
Mahalalel – God’s praise
Jared – Descendent
Enoch - Disciplined
Methusaleh – When he dies, it shall be sent
Lamech – Humbled
Noah – Rest / Comfort
He sets man apart to possess praise of God for the Seed will teach us that when he dies the humbled will be comforted.
John 16:7.

Where were the dinosaurs?
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Scientist find dino meat!!!

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Scientists recover T. rex soft tissue
70 million-year-old fossil yields preserved blood vessels

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Science via AP

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Malachite Man
Fossil remains from at least 10 perfectly modern humans (5 males, 4 females, 1 infant) have been excavated fifty feet down from the surface, within the Dakota
Sandstone, the same formation found at
Dinosaur National Monument, famous for its dinosaurs.

Taylor Trail

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Fossilized Hammer
This unique iron hammer with partially coalified wooden handle was found in
Lower Cretaceous Limestone, supposedly
140 million years old (the time of the dinosaurs).

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Fossilized Human Finger
This amazing fossil was found along the banks of the Paluxy River, famous for its dinosaur and human tracks. The dramatic three-dimensional shape is unmistakable. (Many three-dimension fossils are found near by.) This fossil has been carefully analyzed, x-rayed, CT-scanned and found perfectly consistent with a human finger.

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Fossilized Hand Print
This fossil which corresponds perfectly to a human handprint shows astounding detail. Even the print of the thumb nail can be seen. It is found in the Glen Rose limestone which is designated as Middle
Cretaceous, supposedly 110 million years old and contemporary with the dinosaurs!