Last month we introduced the puzzle regarding the Philistines being mentioned in Genesis 21 and 26. It seems that the Bible references them being in Canaan during the patriarchal age—at least 500 years before they are supposed to have migrated into the region...
In reading through Genesis recently, I became puzzled by the references to the "Philistines" in the patriarchal age. Genesis 21:34 says, "And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days." But wait, didn't the Philistines first come into the land of Israel...
Living fossils are really cool. They are basically extant (living) species that have remained morphologically the same as their ancient fossil ancestors. In the evolutionary view this morphological stasis over a long geological time span is hard to believe. Could it...