Camels—confirmation of creation

[Camels—Confirmation of Creation by Paula Weston]  "Many features of the camel point to amazing design. The features include the ability to go without food and water for extended periods, to avoid sweating by increasing body temperature, and to consume large amounts of water to rehydrate. The alleged evolutionary series of the camel is only possible because we have living examples today. If assembling fossils in a sequence is like a puzzle, you need to know what the picture looks like before you start, or you are just randomly placing the pieces. The Camelops fossils of 3.5 million years ago are described as true camels, but even they haven’t changed much in the supposed expanse of time." Evolution Exposed, Second Ed. Camels—Confirmation of Creation, Weston.

Response to comment [from an atheist]:  "Was the camel kind created in the knowledge that at some point there would be a catastrophic flood that would destroy the paradise of the water canopy and result in deserts appearing on the Earth? Or did one kind acquire adaptations and change into another kind?"

There was a change after the Fall: thorns developed on plants, spider's spun a new web, animals ate meat rather than plants. All that God created was very good (Ge 1:31). After the fall, it was bad.

Animals have adapted to a harsh world but they were intended to live well (Jn 10:10).

"The Garden of Eden represented God’s ideal environment for man. Special characteristics of Eden were its wide variety of trees (Gen. 2:9; Ezek. 31:8–9), its precious stones and metals (Gen. 2:11–12; Ezek. 28:13–14), and its rivers (Gen. 2:10–14; Rev. 22:1–2), all of them portraying its richness and fertility. Eden is also sometimes referred to in the Bible as the garden of the Lord (Gen. 13:10; Is. 51:3) or the garden of God (Ezek. 28:13; 31:8–9). Some of this garden’s features, especially its rivers and the Tree of Life, are also used to portray God’s final blessings for His people (Ezek. 47:12; Rev. 22:1–2, 14)."
Youngblood, Ronald F. ; Bruce, F. F. ; Harrison, R. K. ; Thomas Nelson Publishers: Nelson's New Illustrated Bible Dictionary. Nashville : T. Nelson, 1995

Response to comment [from other]:  "So are you predicting that you would find the same job done in the same way in different species because of common design?"

Adaptations have not developed through evolution.

"...same job done in the same way in different species because of common design...

"There are literally thousands of examples of the unique adaptations that suit each type of organism for its special role in the web of life..."  Full text:  Adaptation and ecology: the marvelous fit of organisms to their environment

Response to comment [from an atheist]:  "Did God know the Fall was going to happen?"

If you created beings with a will, would you know that they could sin?  God can be more than us but he cannot be less.  He knew that his children could disobey.  He wanted nothing but the best for them (Jn 10:10).  He wants the best for us.  We get his best when we trust and obey him (Pr 14:26). 

Response to comment [from a Catholic]:  "Which of these adaptations do you think impossible to have evolved?"

Species adapt.  Naturalists and Creationists agree on that.  But the point remains:  "Not even one mutation has been observed that adds a little information to the genome [Ibid., 159–160]..." Full text:  Is There Really a God?

"...[Y]ou'll find that new information has been created."

This has not been observed.

Response to comment [from an atheist]:  "Knowing that somebody can sin/disobey is not the same as knowing if somebody will sin/disobey."

Are you asking if God can see into the future?  No, that's a Greek pagan concept.  God cannot see a future that does not exist.  It is like asking:  "How many hairs are on the head of the boogie man."  Enyart. 

Does God have a plan and is he calling out a people for his namesake?  Yes.  

"I'm not asking if God knew it could happen, I'm asking if He knew it would happen."

God knew they could sin.  Did he want them to?  No (Jn 10:10).  God will do all he can to save us.    

And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:
Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it [Gen. 18:27–28].
"In other words, Abraham says, “If there are forty-five righteous left, would You destroy the city for forty-five?” And God tells him, “If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.” This makes the man a little bit bolder, and he says to the Lord, “Suppose there are forty?” The very interesting thing is that God says, “I will not destroy it for forty.” And Abraham keeps on bringing the number down. He says, “How about thirty?” God says, “If there are thirty there, I still won’t do it.” Abraham says, “Suppose there are twenty there?” God says, “I’ll not destroy it.” Abraham is overwhelmed now, and he takes another plunge: “Suppose there are ten righteous there. Would You destroy it if there are ten?” And God says, 'If there are ten righteous in the city, I will not destroy it.'"
And the Lord went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place [Gen. 18:33].
"Now the question arises: Why didn’t Abraham come on down below ten? I’ll tell you why: At this point he is afraid that Lot is lost, and this disturbs him a great deal; so he is not going to come down any further. But he could have come down to one. He could have said, “Lord, if there is one in that city who is righteous, would You destroy the city?” Do you know what God would have said? He would have said, “If there is one who is righteous in that city, I am going to get him out of that city, because I would not destroy a righteous man with the city.” How do I know that is the way it would have been? Because that is the way it worked out. There was one righteous man there—Abraham didn’t believe it, but God knew him—and that one was Lot. God said to Lot, “Get out of the city. I cannot destroy it until you are out.”
Do you know that the Great Tribulation Period cannot come as long as the church is in the world? It just cannot come, my friend, because Christ bore our judgment, and the great tribulation is part of the judgment that is coming. This is the reason that the church cannot go through it. This is a glorious picture of that truth. We are going to see that Sodom and Gomorrah are a picture of the world—and what a picture! What a condition the world is in today—it is very much like Sodom and Gomorrah. That does not mean that the Lord is going to come tomorrow. I do not know—and no one else knows—when He will come. But He could come tomorrow, and it certainly would be in keeping with the carrying out of the picture which is before us here in Genesis."
McGee, J. Vernon: Thru the Bible Commentary. electronic ed. Nashville : Thomas Nelson, 1997, c1981, S. 1:ix-80

Response to comment [from an atheist]:  "I was wondering about changes that occurred after the flood caused the perfection of the water-canopy environment to disappear."

"The psalmist wrote this in a post-Flood world in the context of other post-Flood aspects. So, it appears that the windows of heaven still exist at this point (see also 2 Kings 7:2, 19 and Malachi 3:10). And this is complemented by:

Genesis 8:2
The fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were also stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained.
This verse merely points out that the two sources were stopped and restrained, not necessarily done away with. These two verses suggest that the windows of heaven remained after the Flood. The canopy model would have to explain when and how they suddenly dissipated, and without any basis for this in Scripture.

Temperatures
To answer the question about how the earth regulates its temperature without a canopy, consider that it may not have been that much different than the way it regulates it today—atmosphere and oceans. Although there may have been much water underground prior to the Flood, there was obviously enough at or near the surface to sustain immense amounts of sea life. We know this because nearly 95% of the fossil record consists of marine organisms. Was the earth’s surface around 70% water or not before the Flood? That is a question researchers still debate over.

A canopy, on the other hand, would cause major problems for the regulation of earth’s temperature. A canopy would trap and retain heat that would normally radiate to space."  Full text:  The Collapse of the Canopy Model by Bodie Hodge

Response to comment [from a "Christian"]:  "if sin involved a literal tree, maybe God should have taken the precaution of removing the tree from the garden.

I don't leave sharp knives around for my kids to play with."

Was God responsible for the sin of Adam and Eve?  Is he responsible for our sin?  Are we free to continue to act as we please?  1 Cor 6:20.

An allegory is an earthly story of a heavenly truth.  Can you give an example of a bible verse that is to be taken literally and one that is allegorical? What hermeneutic do you use to tell the difference?

Camels—confirmation of creation