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- Deuteronomy 14:11-20 Of all clean birds ye shall eat. But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind, And every raven after his kind, And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind, The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan, And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant, And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and th bat. And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten. but of all clean fowls ye may eat.
- Ezekiel 47:8-10 Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go int the sea: which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed. And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live whither the river cometh. And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand upon it from Engedi even until Eneglaim; they shall be
a place to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.) 1-12 river from under the threshold of the house eastward, healing the dead sea, except the miry places and the marshes, which shall be given to salt, new fruit because their waters issued out of the sanctuary, and the fruit for meat and the leaf for medicine.
For a document as old as the Penateuch (approximately 600 B.C.)3.241, there is an amazing correlation between the types of biological life referenced as developing "after its own kind," and modern scientific understanding of plants, fish, insects, reptiles and amphibians, birds, and mammals. This correlation is emphasized by Table 4, which lists life specified as developing "after its own kind" in The Old Testament.
The scriptures do not mention microorganisms. Of course, prions3.242 and viruses3.243 and bacteria3.244 and plankton3.245 were not even known about by mankind until centuries after The Holy Bible was compiled. At the other end of the spectrum, The Holy Bible, nor any other scriptures I'm aware of, does not mention Neanderthal Man nor Cro-Magnon Man nor Peking Man nor any of the other old humanoid fossils scientists have discovered over the last century.
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