Unveiling the Ruse

By Lynne Fox

Two-thousand years ago, the apostle Peter wrote in his second epistle that in the last days, people would "scoff" at the notion of Christ's second coming. He also wrote that the same would be willingly ignorant of the creator God who made the universe, and of the Genesis flood that overtook the entire world.

True to Peter's prophecy, Charles Darwin's theory of evolution has replaced the biblical account of man's origins, and the global cataclysm to which Noah was witness has been reduced to a fable. However, the candor of Genesis is beginning to emerge as scientists find evidences in geology, paleontology, and genetics painting a different picture than naturalism; the same substances which are crowned as scientific proofs of deep time and of goo-to-you evolution showcase the very catastrophe and the account of creation that secular academia aims to censor.

Following evidence of the supernatural acting upon the natural, one discovers both God and his adversary in their conflict over man. But the Word of God has revealed its predetermined end, and it may come sooner than many would expect.

Inversely, we might have little reason to fear archaic ideas - let the Judeo-Christian God be a bygone already, some say. With our knowledge increasing exponentially, our future is bright. As scientists unlock the secrets of DNA and develop technology beyond our forefathers' wildest dreams, humankind may even have a shot at achieving immortality one day, leaving worries of heaven and hell behind. And considering the vastness of the universe in which we hope to expand, there could be intelligent life already among the stars that might one day make contact and aid us in our aspirations - or, this is all just part of the ruse.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Mar 16, 2022
• ISBN: 9781635757163

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UNVEILING

THE

RUSE

LYNNE FOX

ISBN 978-1-63575-715-6 (paperback)

ISBN 978-1-63575-716-3 (digital)

Copyright © 2022 by Lynne Fox

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Evidence of a Global Flood

Dinosaurs and the Fossil Record

Of Apes and Men

Matter of Fact

Aiming towards Immortality

The Nephilim Fringe

The Lamb of God

Israel in Prophecy

Conclusion

Footnotes

Image Credits

Introduction

This book addresses the rivalry between themes of evolutionary theory and of the creative process executed by God as recorded in the Bible; this is known as the creation vs. evolution controversy. Amid the margins of this controversy are Christians who uphold that God may have used evolution as the mechanism that resulted in the array of life on Earth, and non-Christians believing that an alternative supernatural force must have driven evolution which otherwise could not have happened on its own. Apart from these, emphasis is placed here on the opposite stances of the debate, which are the literal interpretation of God’s creation narrative in Genesis vs. no supernatural God at all.

Random-chance evolution devoid of any spiritual influence is the accepted curriculum in the American public school system; there is apparently no space for intelligent design in the classroom, not even in subtle consideration of evolution’s scientific incongruities which are, instead, effectively obscured. A so-called Divine Foot in the door¹ may suggest that strictly material rationalizations of origins are insufficient, and that there is more to this world than what fallible man can measure. Such a suggestion is frequently met with sneering, belabored hostility from conventional scientists who imagine that dissimilar interpretations to naturalism should be disallowed and disparaged.

Hence the query arises: Does current evidence reliably indicate that Darwinian macroevolution is fact? And, can the account of the biblical flood be rationally substantiated to compete? If the latter is so, then why was the global cataclysm accomplished to begin with, and would evidence for it bear any significance in the modern age? If evidence for it exists and we are at present in a position to recognize it, perhaps it is ordained as a suggestion to put stock in things to come.

Separate from biblical tribulation said to be coming our way, multitudes across the world maintain varying perceptions of doomsday scenarios, with a scope including extinction by nuclear fallout, super volcanoes, meteors, climate change, and a growing Hollywood favorite: alien invasion. Though many films and other entertainments have presented the arrival of otherworldly beings as destructive, there have been equally as many that exhibit intermingling along the lines of romantic involvement and/or sharing of DNA. With thousands of reports of UFOs since Roswell 1947—according to data from the National UFO Reporting Center—it would seem that these fancies are fixed in a real prospect of contact with extraterrestrials. (Hopes of enthusiasts were further braced in December of 2017 when the Pentagon admitted to spending $22 million on secret UFO research from 2007–2012.)

Not everyone believes that there is life on other planets of course, but over half of the world population does, according to a Glocalities survey.² Demonstrably, the intrigue of interaction with cosmic beings is mounting, and surprisingly so, there are biblical cues to what these interests denote. But with biblical geneses chalked up as allegory upon crediting Darwin’s theory of evolution instead to the presence of life—both here and maybe across the cosmos—those cues are given little recognition. Meanwhile, biblical prophecy which has proven its accuracy over the course of millennia continues on a track of fulfillment relevant to the present day, insomuch that it seems unwise to ignore.

This book is by no means an in-depth study of any of the subjects within. Rather, it is a synopsis of curiosities that personally led me to believe that the Word of God is exactly what it is claimed to be.

Chapter 1

Evidence of a Global Flood

Conventional science teaches that sequential layers of rock, called geological strata, confirm an evolutionary process of life on Earth through millions of years. Science textbooks explain that the earliest strata contain fossilized prokaryotes (single celled organisms without nuclei), followed by early eukaryotes (single or multicellular organisms which do contain nuclei), and moving up through these strata paleontologists find that organisms become larger and more diverse. The first of these are animals like segmented worms, sea sponges and crustaceans. Later come fishes, evolving afterward into lizards, which eventually develop into early mammals. Dinosaurs too appear on the scene, whose remnants evolve into birds.

Some crucial factors of these depictions are often overlooked. To start, how have copious fossils been preserved so well, untouched by hungry scavengers or routine processes of decomposition?

Set in Stone

As one contemplates how dead organisms decay, it becomes a curious thing that thousands of specimens have been found safeguarded in rock. After all, organic matter breaks down in natural conditions and eventually loses its form entirely. But with fossilization, the opposite occurs: even some fine details of organic matter can be preserved in stone forever, like fern fronds which appear to have been flattened as if left between the pages of a book.

When flash floods or localized mudslides take place, living things that are caught in the torrent can be buried by sedimentary debris. Fossilization then transpires over time as organic material is replaced by inorganic material as minerals fill the voids within a deteriorating specimen, because water leaches minerals such as silica and calcite into decaying matter. The prompt encasement of wet sediment around organic matter is the ordinary cause of fossilization, apart from other causes such as burial in volcanic ash flows, entrapment in amber or preservation by freezing.

Concerning fossils in sedimentary rock, rapid burial by floodwater is primarily responsible. Localized floods occurring here and there over a span of millions of years might clarify the existence of some fossils strewn across the globe, but one global flood as recorded in the Bible is markedly supported by this evidence. The biblical flood account may also shed better light on the more peculiar of fossil and geologic discoveries.

Polystrate fossils, which are usually trees, are defined as fossils that reach through two or more geologic layers. Numerous polystrate fossils have been uncovered in the Eastern United States, Germany, France, and England, but the best specimens are found in Nova Scotia along the edge of the eroding cliffs in Joggins. Strata have allegedly been deposited throughout a timeframe of millions of years, so these fossils raise the question of how exposed portions of half-buried organic matter would avoid decomposition as they wait for thousands to millions of years for new layers to bury them completely. Albeit these could be attributed to regularly erupting stratovolcanoes, actively subsiding coastal plains, or sediments of river floodplains. In such cases millions of years are not required to lay down strata, nor is a global flood, and the evidence can be argued several ways.

Polystrate tree in the Joggins Formation, Nova Scotia

Aside from these, many fossil bearing layers are not confined to relatively small areas but stretch across continents, indicating that neither small scale catastrophe nor gradual erosion and deposition could be responsible.³ On that note, geologist Dr. Tim Clarey with the Institute for Creation Research explains his own verdicts in a broadcast of ICR’s Science, Scripture and Salvation radio ministry. Clarey’s research involved a continent by continent study of sedimentary rock, collecting data from cores, rock outcrops and more, and in one of his radio segments he explains that the geologic layout he observes indeed displays that there was a real global flood.

Secular scientists admit that there were six floods, and they call these megasequences, or six different flooding events that came in and across the continents each time…in the first three, the Sauk, Tippecanoe and Kaskaskia we see very similar things. We see evidence of huge tsunami-like waves that crashed across the continent from one end to the other. He goes on to explain how massive sheets of limestone and sandstone reach across North America, some layers even touching Greenland.⁴ This is what we would expect if raging waters were to progressively overtake the continents, depositing massive layers of sediment that had been stirred up in the process of a global deluge; megasequences, known better as cratonic sequences, can be straightforwardly rationalized by the biblical flood, which trapped countless living things in multiple layers of strata as it raged and finally receded over the course of one year as the Bible describes. These vast geological layers could hardly be caused by localized events, and other geological evidence too supports this premise of a worldwide flood.

Doldenhorn nappe, Gasteretal, Switzerland

Secular geophysicists are puzzled by how some strata are folded on each other, though these are thought to have occurred several years apart. Folding indicates that every stratum was laid down quickly and that each was still malleable, having not yet solidified over time, so that they could bend concurrently without breaking. Geophysicist David Allen expands on this in an article published by Creation Magazine. Recounting his time at university Allen states, "The lecturers also wanted