Posted on 06/14/2002 7:32:58 AM PDT by aculeus
What's all this obsession I'm reading about R&P trying to prove the Bible wrong? If one looks at the book, one finds that they simply suggested that the Black Sea flood may have contributed to the flood stories existing in the entire region within a thousand miles of the Black Sea.
As for the theory of a sudden flood, there is a great deal of evidence for it, and only this latest research in the Sea of Marmara against it. I don't see it as terribly significant.
If you are talking about birds, mammals, and reptiles, I beleive there are about 30,000 species worldwide alive today. Subtract from that those that are water-adapted, mix in the idea speciation occurs when one group splits into two with a loss of information in the gene pool let's estimate how many species would actually have to have been on board. Your guess is as good as mine, 10,000 maybe?
That is not an impossible number. And for every large animal there are many small ones, so that the average size might be close to a chicken. I've seen one chicken house that had that many animals in it, and one family care for four or five such houses. The reptiles can go much longer without care, one good meal can keep a snake going for months, and many animals can hibernate or estivate.
If Noah's ark is a fable, it is NOT because it the science demands it be.
...to say nothing of their evil infants and children...
Gen 8:11 And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. (KJV)
Lets get our facts strait....big difference between a branch and a leaf...
Olive trees have a long life and are believed to live 300 to 600 years but perhaps even longer. Even when its trunk and branches may die (such as being killed by a flood), the olive tree sprouts once again bringing life into a new tree.
It would only take a very short time for a new leaf to be produced from a sprout once the flood water receded.
Our frame of reference is that, if you belong to God, if you will be with Christ when you die, then death is better than life.
If your frame of reference is such that death is bad no matter what, you have a point, but with someone like me, you don't. I'm explaining here, not criticizing.
There physically isn't enough water on Earth to do it. And if somehow it happened anyway, 100,000 years would not suffice for its effects to be overcome.
Frankly, it's embarrassing to see adults seriously entertain the notion of a worldwide flood as a historical fact.
Me, I believe God.
According to the Bible, these kids were stained with the original sin, and therefore bound for hell. This was before the absolution that was supposed to flow from the death of Christ, so there's no help for it.
If your frame of reference is such that death is bad no matter what, you have a point, but with someone like me, you don't.
So your position on abortion is...?
I believe the Bible is 100% accurate. I believe the words are inspired by God. The Bible is the word of God.
I don't believe a person can be a Christian and reject the Bible. I don't believe accepting only 80% or 90% of the scriptures is God's will. The Bible is not a cafeteria plan. The whole Bible is the truth.
In two places it gives the value of pi as being 3.0, to two significant digits. Do you believe that?
According to the Bible, the Flood covered the entire earth for about a year. Any flood of that magnitude would indeed strip all vegetation from the earth. That amount of vegetation under the pressure of so much water and earth churn is likely where the present day off-shore coal deposits came from.
Lest we forget, only land animals needed to apply. All other seagoing and many air species were largely unaffected.
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