WHAT IS JW view on trilobithes(sp?)

by badboy 16 Replies latest jw friends

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  badboy

  Those creatures that lived millions of years ago.
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  Gopher

  TRILOBITE (part of the entry on Wikipedia)

  Trilobites are extinctarthropods that form the class Trilobita. They appeared in the 2nd Epoch (Series 2) of the Cambrian period and flourished throughout the lower Paleozoic era before beginning a drawn-out decline to extinction when, during the Late Devonian extinction , all trilobite orders, with the sole exception of Proetida , died out. The last of the trilobites disappeared in the mass extinction at the end of the Permian about 250 million years ago ( m.y.a. ).

  Trilobites are very well-known, and possibly the second-most famous fossil group, after the dinosaurs . When trilobites appear in the fossil record of the Lower Cambrian they are already highly diverse and geographically dispersed. Because of their diversity and an easily fossilized exoskeleton, they left an extensive fossil record with some 17,000 known species spanning Paleozoic time.
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  Gopher

  I never heard or read the WTS specifically say anything to address trilobites. They did talk about dinosaurs, and whether they went extinct before the flood. (Duh!)

  I'd guess that, since such creatures were extinct long before man arrived on the scene, the JW's would say that trilobites were part of God's preparation of planet earth leading up to the time when it would be inhabited by mankind.
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  BurnTheShips

  The Questions From Readers says it is not a Christian practice and that 'hover will afflict your naughty bits with plague if you do it.
  
  THIS ALSO APPLIES TO MARRIED COUPLES.
  
  Burn
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  sspo

  They say that according to Rom 14, it's ok to practice it as long it's done in moderation and does not stumble anyone.
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  BurnTheShips

  Thats "old light" sspo.
  
  I'm going to the elders.
  
  Burn
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  Awakened07

  Hmm... This brings up a semi-important point; now that the JW view of each creation day is "thousands of years", and not 1000 or 7000 anymore - does that mean that they very well can now support ages of several hundred million years? Evolution is out, of course, but I'd guess they could now say Jehovah spent several hundred million years creating? Perhaps I'm too tired and am missing the finer points here, but I'd think so.
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  MissingLink

  The line is that a DAY could be any length of time. Like an era. (hence why we're in the last days)

  Before Adam and Eve were created I'm picturing God and Michael each sitting on a mountain kicked back and drinking massive beers and cheering on the dinosaurs they created to rip each other apart.

  Michael: Yo G, Did you see that? My T-Rex just ripped the throat out of your lame ass Brachiosaurus!

  God: Next round is mine dog!

  Michael: This is getting lame, let's whack these things and make some people.

  God: Word, Word!
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  onacruse

  *** Creation chap. 5 pp. 60-61 par. 19 Letting the Fossil Record Speak ***

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  Thus, at the start of what is called the Cambrian period, the fossil record takes an unexplained dramatic turn. A great variety of fully developed, complex sea creatures, many with hard outer shells, appear so suddenly that this time is often called an "explosion" of living things. AViewofLife describes it: "Beginning at the base of the Cambrian period and extending for about 10 million years, all the major groups of skeletonized invertebrates made their first appearance in the most spectacular rise in diversity ever recorded on our planet." Snails, sponges, starfish, lobsterlike animals called trilobites, and many other complex sea creatures appeared. Interestingly, the same book observes: "Some extinct trilobites, in fact, developed more complex and efficient eyes than any living arthropod possesses." 20

  [ Pictures on page 61]

  Early in what is called the Cambrian period, fossils of the major groups of invertebrates appear in a spectacular "explosion" of living things, unconnected to any evolutionary ancestors:

  Sponge

  Trilobite

  Jellyfish

  And like Awakened07 says, the WTS just shuffles back, looking at the sky and whistling distractedly, while they abandon the long-cherished belief that all life on this planet appeared within 49,000 years.
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  worldtraveller

  I thought it was 6000 years, no wait, someone here said 6 billion years, and now 1 day is a thousand years. I am as confused as a Witness on an operating table.