Counsels on Secular Worldview

Counsel #6 — A Speedy Demise Saved The Record

Picture: Counsel #6 — A Speedy Demise Saved The Record CSe 46.1

Many fossils are broken and scattered, reflecting what happens to dead animals today (like the wildebeests in Counsel #4). However, many others are wonderfully preserved, as shown in the pictures above. Some even retain soft tissue or skin impressions, indicating rapid, catastrophic burial. The photos above and in Counsels #1, 3, 4, and 5 illustrate these well-preserved fossils. CSe 46.2

If these fossils were buried quickly, the sediment could not have accumulated a millimeter per year, as radiometric dating requires. The rocks and fossils together tell the story of the biblical flood.^[45] Next, let’s examine fossils interpreted as evolutionary ancestors. CSe 46.3

“Who can measure the wealth and wisdom and knowledge of God? Who can understand his decisions or explain what he does?” Romans 11:33 CEV CSe 46.4

“Nature is not self-acting; she is the servant of her Creator. God does not annul his laws nor work contrary to them; but he is continually using them as his instruments. Nature testifies of an intelligence, a presence, an active agency, that works in, and through, and above her laws.” Ellen White in The Signs of the Times, March 20, 1884, par. 5 CSe 46.5

Reflect: How does the concept of God as the active Creator and sustainer of the universe inform our understanding of geological processes? CSe 46.6