Noah and Evolution.

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> M.BELL

> An interesting post. First you state, 'IF Bell's going to advance the

> preposterous claim that the evolutionary development of the polar 

> bear could proceed in the short time since the purported Biblical flood,

> the burden of proof ought to be on him', then a little further down

without

> your *if* being verified or denied by myself you state: 'and then WE

> HAVE the Bell Hypothesis: that in the few millenia since Noah all

> evolutionaryprocesses for the polar bear (and, no doubt any other species

> that is inconvenient to the inerrantist position) somehow magically

> accelerated hocus-pocus so that we could have polar bears where none

> were needed before.' (empahsis mine)

> 

> So how did you move from 'if' to 'we have'? 

> 

> As it is your post is presumptous. I have not made, at least directly,

the

> claim you state. It is true that my position as an inerrantist *may* lead

> to

> that being the logical consequence of my question on the polar bear but 

> let's take things one step at a time. April posited the question how

could

> Noah have kept the polar bears cold enough in the ark. I responded by

> asking her to demonstrate first of all that the polar bear was extant to

be

> 

> on the ark. I did this as April was, I think begging the question, not

> because

> I had/have any information on the development of the polar bear. April

said

> she would present the 'evolutionary history of the polar bear'. We still

> await

> for her to do so. When she does then either a) I will be left to answer

her

> 

> initial question, or b) I will be faced with the logical consequence of

my 

> question as noted by yourself. So either way, I have a question to

answer, 

> and will do so when April does as she indicated she would do.

> 

> Thanks

> M.Bell

> 


April

But you've made it clear that you believe the flood was local, which is
what Morton is now trying to argue.  (Nice how you're helping him out,
there.)  So there's no point and showing the evolutionary lineage of the
bear, since, if he did exist 6000 years ago (and I'm sure he did) he didn't
live in the Mediterranean basin.

If you are prepared to argue the details of a GLOBAL flood, let me know.

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