General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, 59th Session

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General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

Yes, Creation!

Kwabena Donkor

Evolutionary thought, Spiritualism and the End of Time

Lee Spencer

How Many Dinosaurs Were On the Ark?

Ariel Roth

Some scientific data that favors a recent creation

Stan Hudson

The Biblical creation is central to the local church

Greg King

Is Biblical Creation Passé?

Nikolaus Satelmajer

Rollin Shoemaker

Sabbath and Creation

Paleontology and the Bible: Science in action

John Baldwin

Why Does a Good Creator Permit Evil?

JoAnn Davidson

...and it WAS good

Jim Gibson

Lions in the Garden of Eden

Richard Davidson

Does Genesis Really Teach a Recent, Literal, Seven-Day Creation Week and a Global Flood?

Tim Standish

DNA and Design

Jacques Doukhan

Creation, the Heart of SDA Theology

How to share creation in outreach on secular campuses

Do millions of years solve the problem?

Ed Zinke

Theistic evolution and the end of Adventism

Ronny Nalin

Dealing with uncertainty

Ted N.C. Wilson

God’s Literal, Six-day, Recent Creation--The Church’s Position

Creation and Evolution: A brief history

Clifford Goldstein

Seventh-day Darwinians

And this is a lesson against procrastination.

Standish sent out an email asking for titles for this and I didn't send it back quick enough.

And my first reaction was how many dinosaurs were on the ark?

But then I got to thinking about it and there's some interesting issues.

There's some Adventists that don't believe there were any on the ark.

Some Adventists that don't believe that God created them at all.

So the first question is, are dinosaurs real?

If dinosaurs are not real, but they're the creation of evolutionary scientists to confuse us, then the answer to how many dinosaurs were on the ark is 0.

In conjunction with Southwestern Adventist University, we have a dinosaur dig site in eastern Wyoming that you all can participate yourselves.

The website is dino dig dot SWAU dot edu.

Every year about a thousand specimens are collected.

Guess how many elephants we found in there?

So that is going to bring up another interesting question.

Why, if it didn't evolve, why are dinosaurs there but no big mammals?

Maybe it's because they were all on the ark.

If you look at a dinosaur jaw, the bone that holds the teeth is the dentary for dentists.

He likes to look at bones that hold teeth.

Notice behind it anyway that there are several bones between the jawbone that holds the teeth and the skull.

And that the jawbone that holds the teeth does not articulate with the skull.

We have a single jaw bone and in it it holds the teeth so the bone that holds the teeth is what 1?

So with mammals we have a dentary squamosal jaw articulation.

So if we find fossils that have more than 1 bone in the jaw and the 1 that holds the teeth doesn't articulate with the jaw, we know we have a reptile.

Hence, we would know that Daspletosaurus, Tyrannosaurus are reptiles.

In fact reptiles, I mean sorry, in fact dinosaurs are reptiles that behave like mammals.

On the left is a triceratops, and on the right is an elephant.

They're both about the same size Notice how the limbs are on the triceratops They come straight down out of the body just like a horse a camel or a person Modern reptiles don't have that Do you anybody everybody seen an alligator or a crocodile?

So these are not big alligators, contrary to what some creationists have said.

You let an iguana live for 900 years and it becomes a dinosaur.

So dinosaurs are real, and they're reptiles behaving like mammals, so were they on...

What if God did not create the dinosaurs?

What if they were created by man or Satan?

If God did not create the dinosaurs then there wouldn't have been any on the ark, right?

How many of you believe that God didn't create dinosaurs?

Huh, fewer than I would guess, about a third.

All right, first of all, can Satan create dinosaurs?

I think it's unlikely that Satan has the power to create life.

1 of the reasons that he rebelled in the first place was he wasn't invited to join Christ and God in the anticipated creation of the earth.

That's found in Story of Redemption pages 13 and 14.

Why then would we think that he could create something as grand as a dinosaur?

Then comes a question, did man create dinosaurs?

Some Adventists believe that dinosaurs are the product of amalgamation.

Ellen White makes this the following statement, Every species of animal which God had created were preserved in the ark.

The confused species, which God did not create, which were the result of amalgamation, were destroyed by the flood.

Since dinosaurs are extinct today, many Adventists believe they must not have been on the Ark.

They must have been the product of amalgamation.

We use the term today in amalgam, which is the blend of metals that dentists use in filling teeth.

What are you going to blend to get a dinosaur?

How do you get it to be 50 or 80 feet long?

Amalgamation doesn't seem to fit, at least as it applies to dinosaurs.

Let me give you a couple other quotes that you might not have heard.

This is from Spiritual Gifts, Volume 4, page 121.

Soon after the flood, the race began to rapidly decrease in size and in length of years.

There was a class of very large animals which perished at the flood.

God knew that the strength of man would decrease and these mammoth animals could not be controlled by feeble man.

Wow, not every animal that God created was on the Ark.

Now, that doesn't mean Ellen White isn't a prophet.

I remember back to the plagues that fell on Egypt.

And in 1 of the plagues, all of the cattle were killed.

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