Posted on 05/12/2018 4:35:00 PM PDT by pcottraux
If Noah and his family are the only ones who survived the flood we are all inbred which would answer a lot of questions in todays world.
The genes of Homo Sapiens have 46 pairs of chromosomes, while all other primate species have 48. That fact indicates that modern humans are a separate species, distinct from all other primates.
Geneticists can use mitochondrial DNA to count the numbers of generations of any species, which yields an approximate date of genesis for that particular species.
Using this method, it’s been determined that all primate species are millions of years old. Not so for Homo Sapiens, whose mitochondrial DNA yields a figure of only 250,000 years at best.
I have the National Geographic which revealed the Woolly findings. It is from the 20’s and is fascinating.
I was describing what the legends say.
I knew it would come across that I'm trying to defend a local flood explanation, but that's really not my goal. I've written other blogs examining the possibility of a global flood. But for this one in particular, I wanted to focus on how it specifically struck lower Mesopotamia, where the story is set.
I often wonder why people expect to find the remains of a 5000 year old wooden boat. Unless it was encased in ice wouldn’t be much left.
Interesting...I’ve only read about it in books; haven’t seen the Nat Geo series!
It’s like the Ark of the Covenant from Indiana Jones...more of an irresistible mystery than anything. Even if they found it I’m not sure it would make believers out of people.
But the fact that so many are looking at the wrong mountain makes it even sillier.
Or so the theory of relativity claims.
That theory was deduced through pure mathematics, not direct observation, as in classical physics. Most modern cosmology is based upon the works of Einstein and other theoretical mathematicians, and its explanations and predictions about the behavior and make-up of our universe show it.
Black holes, dark matter, quasars, expanding universe, the big bang, dark energy, pulsars, gravitational waves, etc., are all inventions proffered by mathematicians to paper over the glaring holes in the Standard Model.
But I digress.
The 250,000 year old figure for the age of Homo Sapiens was arrived at by using 20 years for each generation as a baseline. It's only an approximation, but I think it's close enough to make the case.
A theory I disagree with;in fact, I addressed it in the 16th paragraph. Too old and too slow, when there's a better candidate out there.
Yup.
A cometary impact in North America.
It wiped out, finally, the American rhino and the mastodon.
Go to Alaska and dig for gold. You might not find much gold, but you will find hoards of unarticulated bones, from hundreds of species, many broken and shattered,
Boatloads of bones.
Testimony of the catastrophe.
Also free online book - or can be purchased for a really good price considering the volumes of research referenced:
http://www.creationscience.com/
THX for the info!!
Geologist have proven that there were major floods in several populated areas through out time. Appreciate the water under the mantle news.
A good book to read on a bit of geology and the planet is “A Short History of Nearly Everything” by Bill Bryson.
https://www.amazon.com/Short-History-Nearly-Everything/dp/076790818X
At one point the world was frozen. Later, (Thank God for global warming.) you could walk from Russia to Alaska, from China to Japan, to the U.K. from the “continent”. The Sahara once had river beds.
Read geologist.
Ignore Al Gore and his hair on fire, doom and gloom followers. And the fact he runs around the world on private jets. or not.
I think the flood was caused mostly by liberal’s tears as they realized finally that yup- it’s starting to rain- just like God said it would
That was fascinating read...
Add me to the list please
Concur. I believe the theory, well supported I think, that a fragmenting comet or asteroid hit the northern ice cap at the end of the last ice age, about 12,500 years ago. The result was the great flood and the intense Younger Dryas Ice Age. We were lucky to survive as a species.
How did they feed all those animals on the ark for 7 months?
What did the big carnivorous predators eat for 7 months? Take a pair of lions alone. In captivity, a male/female pair of lions needs 15 pounds of fresh meat a day. That is 450 pounds of meat per month, or 3000 lbs for 7 months. Now add in all the other big predators. That is a lot of food.
I have always had many questions about the flood. For example, did Noah bring with him all 12,000 species of ants and all 35,000 species of spiders with him. Or did all those species of ants evolve out of just 1 pair of them, ditto for the spiders. If Noah had 35,000 species of spiders, how did he keep them all separate so they would not eat each other, and how long did it take to hand feed 35,000 pairs of spiders and what did he feed them with?
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