Brachiopods

Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.

(Jeremiah 25:32) KJV

Brachiopods aren’t an evolutionary dead-end which got wiped out in a mass extinction. Well, there was a mass extinction, but it didn’t wipe out the Brachiopods.

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Scorpions and Millipedes, first Air-breathing Animals

Repay them, O Lord, According to the work of their hands. Give them a veiled heart; Your curse be upon them! In Your anger, Pursue and destroy them From under the heavens of the Lord.

(Lamentations 3:64-66) NKJV

By a totally staggering coincidence, the first air-breathing animals to appear in the stratigraphic column just happened to be living on the beach or at the coast during Noah’s flood.

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First Vascular Plants in mid-Silurian

But their minds were blinded. For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Testament, because the veil is taken away in Christ.

(2 Corinthians 3:14) NKJV

The first vascular plants that were buried in Noah’s flood are on top of the beach sand which is full of dead scorpions because they were growing in the dunes inland of the beach.

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Mild Climates

And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.

(Matthew 7:25) KJV

Descriptions of geological periods usually start with a statement on climate. It’s a subtle way to pay homage to the fact that a vast amount of water moved a vast amount of sediment.

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August 6th

Silurian

Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;

(Deuteronomy 8:15) KJV

The Silurian is where popular science (SciPop) has the origin of the first scorpions, supposedly evolved from a primitive branch of the arthropods. However Silurian scorpions are just as developed as the ones alive today.

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