Job 39 – 40

In starting this reading I cheated and looked ahead … only 2 more chapters!! Sorry, but Job is in my opinion a difficult book to read since it’s a story that is horrible and I have still not reconciled why God would have allowed this much suffering and death to satisfy a “bet” with Satan. Verse 39:1 has God continuing his talk with Job:

Eternal One: Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth?
        Do you attend at the doe’s delivery?

As science and knowledge increases we can actually predict these times closer and closer, but definitely not in the wild, but rather in a controlled environment. The thing I find interesting when I studies science and biology in college is that although it’s not definitive, it’s truth. I look at what is not known and see God, most will not accept a God and assume it’s all the beauty and randomness of nature.

Not to berate this issue, let’s look at what God is saying to Job. Basically, He is showing Job how little he actually knows about life and this world. Now verses 39:13 – 18 point to the ostrich and point out how odd the bird is, yet as dumb it appears it has a purpose. Although it can’t fly, it flies on the ground!

Verse 40:15 gets me back on the subject of science:

But before you undertake My challenge,
        turn your attention to Behemoth,
    The beast which I fashioned along with you.

When describing this beast it appears to only fit one animal in the fossil record and that’s a dinosaur. Now creationists will say the large dinosaurs were only large lizards adapted to their environment and has food became more scares they adapted and became smaller.  Science will say something completely different and claim they were monstrous beasts that roamed the earth millions or even billions of years ago who became extinct because of radical “climate change”. Maybe account proves that man and dinosaurs walked the earth together at one time. Can we prove this?

Yes and no, the only real convincing argument that man and Dino did not walk the earth is because bones of man and Dino do not appear together. We will take away anomalies like Malachite Man assuming they got their either by forgery or through mining which no other evidence was found with the fossils. Also, we will ignore a T-Rex bone that still had marrow in it, since that would imply a recent death or a very well preserved bone over billions of years. Although this data tends to suggest the Bible may be right we cannot prove it since a good theory can be falsifiable and any data that proves the Bible would be considered a forgery. Funny how that works.