fossils in many different locations

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> DJC

> Who said there was fresh water fish at the time of the flood; couldn't

> they have evolved afterwards?  And God had already worked "one" miracle

> by bringing the animals together to the ark couldn't he have worked

> another to keep the water conditions as they needed to be?

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> TERRY

> I don't know about evolving I would prefer to use the word adapting, but

I

> will agree with your point about God bringing the animals together to the

> ark David. 


April
Adapting, eh?  So are you suggesting that you could "adapt" to breathing
underwater, for example?

Terry
 If God is able to create the universe and all the astounding

> things in it, then it would be quite simple for him to keep the water

> conditions needed for fish to survive and also for the animals to be able

to

> return to their natural location and it is not a hocus pocus answer.  It

> simply can't be proven one way or the other that the flood existed or did

> not exist. 


April

OK, but let me ask you this, then.  If God has to do all this hocus-pocus
to make the flood a reality, then why have the flood at all?  Why not just
"vaporize" all the evil humans, and leave the rest of life alone?  It
certainly would have been easier, and made a whole lot more sense (like God
ever made any sense...!).  After all, God didn't have anything against the
plants and animals, did he?  Wasn't it just the evil humans he wanted to
get rid of?

Terry
 Here is a question I would like for

> someone to answer.  Why do you find fossils of animals in many different

> locations in the world that are naturally cold such as Siberia and

northern

> Canada, that under conditions today would be entirely too cold for those

> animals to live. 


April

You have to give me specifics here, before I can answer this.   The fossils
of what have been found where?

Terry
 And here is another question if the flood did not exist,

> why are there legends and stories of it in almost every society and every

> corner of the earth today known to man, they may not be exactly the same

but

> they have enough similarities in these stories that they may have

originated

> from the same source.  Ok now lets see some speculation from you April.

> 


April

Nobody is denying that floods have occurred around the world - we had a
fairly major one here just a few days ago.  (Fortunately I live on the top
of a hill, so was unaffected.  Many of my Christian neighbors, however,
lost some or all of their houses, and belongings.  Maybe God is an
atheist?)  No one is also denying that a lot of our myths and legends have
a common source.  So an early human tribe had a major local flood, which,
as the tribe expanded, moved and dispersed, continued in their history. 
Stories grow with the retelling, so, what, in actuality was a real, but
local flood, becomes, over time, a world (at least as far as the tribe
understands it) wide flood.

And, if I remember correctly, the flood story is not as universal as the
inerrantists would like us to believe.  Many tribal cultures have no flood
story at all.  But I don't have the reference - anybody?

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