Kevin R. (12/04)
Read the account of the flood and then decide if
the waters were generated only from rain. I don't have my Old Testament with
me, but I know you've omitted about 5 key words, which drastically change
your following arguments.
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> > In addition, who says that he took full
> >grown, highly unmanageable animals aboard that would have required much
> >personal attention, food, and water, etc?
>
> It still wouldn't help. Too many animals with far too specialized
> dietary needs.
>
> Where did he get fresh Eucalyptus for six months for the Koalas?
> Fresh fruit for the the fruit bats? What about insects for the insectovores?
> There could have been enough large mammals to keep a pair of vampire bats
> alive (however they got across the Atlantic), but what did he feed all the
> obligate carnivores for six months? And once released, since the
> predator/prey ratio's were all fouled up, what kept the surviving carnivores
> alive while the surviving herbovores were starving waiting for new vegetation?
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> The problems go on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on
> and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on.
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Only for those who don't read the account properly. Note
that only after the Flood does God give Noah and the animals meat to eat.
Before the Flood, they were all herbivoires, both humans and animals.
> Did Noah take any insects? They were never mentioned. Very many
> plants cannot reproduce without the pollination of very particualarly
> adopted species of insects, which would not have survived a six month flood,
> even if the plants seeds did.
>
> How did the Honeycreepers of Hawaii get to Hawaii and nowhere else?
>
> Howcome mosquitos survived and got to all the continents, but didn't
> make it to the oceanic islands? (unlike the honeycreeper which only made it
> to one island chain)
>
> HOW did those damned Koalas get back to Australia? What did they eat
> on the way? What did they eat when they first got back? Trees take time to grow.
>
> Why are there no genetic markers of passing through such an
> ecological crises? We know that the Cheetah has been on the brink of
> extinction, either several times or by being reduced at one point to a
> single breeding pair because of the profound lack of genetic diversty within
> the Cheetah population.
>
> All surviveing species should exhibit this same lack of genetic
> diversity, yet most populations (no other wild population I'm aware of) do
> NOT have this problem.
I don't know why all these things are so, but I think that's one
of the things that is so wonderful about the Bible, and discovering how
these things came about. I view it as an oppurtunity to increase por
knowledge, scientific or otherwise. Granted, many accounts in the Bible
defy what we think are certain unalterable laws or notions of the Earth's
history, but we have discovered things in the past that have seemingly
gone against what we originally thought and led to grater knowledge.
It's too bad that some people automatically assume that the Flood
would be impossible. I do think it's good that you have actually explored
the apparent problems of it, for i would like to learn, as much as you,
exactly how this occured, and how it was made possible.
In Christ,
Kevin R.