Just for grins, here at the Funderbungalow, we watched the sequel to a shark movie. No, not Jaws 3D. This one was Meg 2. It came out last year, and it’s the sequel to The Meg. And the reason we enjoyed those movies is because of how totally believable the whole storyline is.
And that’s probably because of the star power acting of The Meg.
In case you’re not familiar with The Meg, that’s a nickname for the Megalodon giant shark from down in “The Trench.” And, don’t worry, I’m not gonna give you any spoilers. Because I don’t wanna ruin it for you when you watch it after reading this.
Now, right about here I could start to make up anything I care to about the Meg, which is short for Megalodon. And that’s the largest shark to ever roam the oceans. The reason I could make up anything I want is because apparently that’s what you do when you talk about stuff like the largest shark ever.
For example, look at what one website, that even has the word “science” in its web address said:
“While the popular 2018 movie, “The Meg,” pits modern humans against an enormous megalodon sharks, it’s actually more than likely that the beast died out before humans even evolved. But it’s difficult to pinpoint the exact date that the megalodon went extinct because the fossil record is incomplete.”
Yeah, they say the fossil record “is incomplete.” But they have no problem pinning the extinction dates like this paragraph, from their research, that says:
“…found that most of the fossils date back to the middle Miocene epoch to the Pliocene epoch (15.9 million to 2.6 million years ago). All signs of the creature’s existence ended 2.6 million years ago in the current fossil record, the authors wrote. For comparison, our earliest Homo sapiens ancestors emerged only 2.5 million years ago, during the Pleistocene epoch.”
See what I mean. They just love to make up big numbers. Because the bigger the numbers, the harder they are to disprove. Or so “they” believe. I wish they wouldn’t do that silly stuff.
Well, I won’t just make up stuff like they do.
But I will take you back to another scenario I asked you to “imagine” a few years ago. It went like this:
Imagine you’re a jellyfish…just jellyfishin’ along, mindin’ your own business. Suddenly you look behind you and see a huge cloud of mud coming your way in the water.
You swim with all your might and as fast as you can. But the muddy cloud keeps gaining on you. And you look all around you and all your jellyfish family and jellyfish friends are swimming for their lives, too. But you just can’t outrun the cloud of dirt-filled water. Then you’re all buried alive faster than you can say “yo ho ho, and a bottle of rum”.
What do you think just happened?
Well, it’s probably a whimsical rendition of what happened when the whole world was flooded and only eight people survived. The jellyfish and trillions of other marine life were buried so fast their bodies didn’t even have time to decay. And thousands of years later (yes, thousands) we humans can dig them up and see what they looked like in almost perfect detail. It’s amazing.
Have you ever seen a jellyfish washed up on the beach?
If so, you know it doesn’t take them very long to start to decay and smell bad. If fossilized jellyfish were buried over hundreds of millions, or even just millions of years, their bodies would have decayed or faded away. They wouldn’t have stayed intact for all that time. To think so requires a faith greater than Noah or Abraham or David. And most certainly more than you and me.
Chances are pretty good you’ll never come face to face with The Meg in your lifetime.
But you WILL meet God face to face one day. And I recommend you don’t tell Him any of your millions of years theories. Because you could find yourself with the jellyfish fate. Even worse.
Poor jellyfish, go make a wish
And sadly close your eyes
Because this day you’ll pass away
And quickly fossilize.
I know it’s bad, but don’t be sad.
One day you will be found…
A work of art, not torn apart
Squeezed into solid ground.
Lots of mankind will surely find
Your fossils there quite odd,
But ology will help us see
The mighty hand of God.
© 2014
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