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created things mirroring the things that are created in the time- historical context of everyday life; things like snakes, almonds, and bread. Investigating these relationships using modern scientific tools would, therefore, always bring the investigator to a wrong conclusion as to their origin. This doesn’t mean God is lying. If God tells us beforehand where and how these objects came from, then it is up to us to believe him. Consider the miracle of the incarnation and the biological constituents of Jesus’ DNA. Jesus is fully God, but he is also fully human (Hebrews 2:17). This means Jesus would have diploid somatic cells. If a biologist could run a test on Jesus’ blood, the results would indicate a chromosomal blueprint that was biologically indistinguishable from any other human. For those who only look at things in the natural, this would indicate that Jesus was nothing more than a man. He was the product of the union of two haploid gametes just like everybody else. Looking at Jesus in terms of natural, biological processes will only lead to a natural origin. Does this mean God is lying about Jesus’ virgin birth and divine nature? Of course not. Why? Because he told us these things, despite what the biological evidence might suggest. There is no difference between this, the greatest miracle of all time, and the one discussed by God in the early chapters of Genesis. Consequently, “by faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible” Hebrews 11:3, ESV. CONCLUSION The presence of in situ microbialites in upper Cambrian deposits around the world is problematic for Flood models that correlate the pre-Flood/Flood boundary with the Precambrian/Cambrian boundary. It seems more reasonable to propose that the Great Unconformity be associated with non-natural, maturated processes that took place during the creationweek. 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