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Did Noah Take Bugs on the Ark?

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5093 S. Orwell Pt., Homosassa, Florida 34446 this question: Did Noah take insects on board the ark? I sus-

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their spiracles. Genesis 7:22 states, "Everything on dry land that

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quite well outside of the Ark. All other types of land animals, those that breathed

through their nostrils, died.

Even if Noah had collected and put representative insects into cages, one

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million different kinds would only fill 12 railroad cars. This is miniscule compared

to the size of the entire Ark (which had a size equivalent to 522 railroad cars). In-

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sects could and did survive Noah's flood.

Everythingon dry that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.

   land 

             

   Genesis (NIV)

  7:22  

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week of 8th, Judicial Circuit Court of Levy County concluded

The  July  the 8th

Aubrey Crews of Inglis was part of this week's reading at Food Ranch. For more information,

casesacceptedand  imposed. by the LCSO. The following guilty

 presented to State Attorney's Office

 the sentences

please call Ruth at 352-447-0236. NEXT WEEK starts the 'dignitaries! (Mayor, other commu-

nity 'notables')! Got town hall folks, county commissioners, school board members, etc. Many

aInvestigationsRodriguez(56)was charged with two law violations LCSO Crimi-

l  Rodriguez

 was sentenced on two cases presented by the in 2015. The

thanks to this weeks 'Reading at the Ranch' volunteers, Terri Norton, Debra Weiss, Adair Duke,

firstcharge, aLewd or Lascivious Molestation on a Person under

  second degree felony, was

Jerry Lawrence, Ken Roy and Sylvia Langdon.

Youth arrested on several charges

12 by an Offender Over 18. Rodriguez was sentenced to 15 years in the Florida Department

 case was for Failure to Comply with Registration

of Corrections on this case. His second

afterCrystal River youth was arrested by the Citrus County Sheriff's Of-

firing gun on roadway

requirements He was sentenced to 5 years in the Florida Department

as a Sexual Offender. 

of Corrections to run concurrent with his first charge.

 on a case presented by LCSO Criminal Inves-

Michael Rader (35) was sentenced

fice, June 28, on several felony and misdemeanor charges.

gionsin 2016 for a Sex Offender violation of Failure to

ti at  Division. Rader was charged

Billy Ramon Dixon, Jr., 6671 W. Abers Ct., was charged with knowingly discharg-

  was sentenced 

ing a firearm in a public place or roadway, carrying a firearm,  can-

concealed   possession

was sentenced on a case presented by LCSO Criminal Inves-

Mark Stringer (59) 

nabis less than 20 grams and possession of drug paraphernalia. bond was at

 His total  set

tigations Division. Stringer was charged in 2016 for Lewd or Lascivious Molestation of a

   

Person 12 YOA or Older but under 16 YOA, Offender 18 or Older. Stringer was sentenced

Deputies were called to a N. Griffith Ave., Crystal River due to a call about shots

to 12 years in the Florida Department of Corrections.

being fired - possibly six - in the roadway of W. Abers Ct.

Larry Young (41) was sentenced on two cases presented by LCSO. Young was

While the deputy was searching the area where the shots were believed to have

charged in 2015 for Possession and Sale of Cocaine by the LCSO Drug Task Force and was

been fired, he came upon a male, later identified as Dixon, riding a bicycle. The deputy

sentenced to 80 months in the Florida Department of Corrections. Young was also charged

asked him to stop, and Dixon complied. He told the deputy he was unarmed, but the deputy

LCSO Criminal Investigations Division in 2015 for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.

found a semi-automatic pistol concealed by his shirt, and has noconcealed  

 he     weapons

He will serve a 77 month sentence concurrently in the Florida Department of Corrections on

license. He said the gun was his, that he'd brought it    said he'd

back from Jacksonville. He 

fired the gun into the air for fun.

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