The Essence of Genesis 1

[Roy (Roy (Listener twice correct))]

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I think the kangaroo is represented by the name Shelah.

And I’m laughing with you because this really is God’s sense of humor. I am awestruck by how the meaning of the names and their timeline lines up so well with scientific estimates. In fact, it flips ‘God of the gaps’ on its head as the common decent time line of Arphaxad (monotremes) is 153 mya, Shelah (therians) is 130 mya, and Peleg (placentals) is 106 mya. All science can say is that our common decent with all of these is somewhere between 160-80 mya. So the Bible is filling in the gaps of science.

You seem to think Shelah was the ancestor of wallabies and Arphaxad was the ancestor of platypuses.

Was the tower of Babel built by amphibians? The ark built by fish?