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Understand.So you're proposing this classification scheme just to make miracles a little easier to swallow?
May I assume you've lost interest in the epistemological side of this thread, and now it's time to cross over to ridicule?
Understand.
I may be wrong, but I don't think anyone has ever come up with a solid picture of just how 'scarcely-populated' the Ark really was.
it was really scarce compared to the vast amount of animals that have ever existed.Understand.
I may be wrong, but I don't think anyone has ever come up with a solid picture of just how 'scarcely-populated' the Ark really was.
Sure. Unicorns came out of the ark and gave birth to hippos, aardvarks and lions. Just keep making stuff up and call it "God's Word."I'm hoping to show that not nearly -- (not even close to...) -- as many animals had to board the Ark as some think.
Picture this as an oversimplified example:
The Ark comes to rest with just the aforementioned animals (plus Noah and his family) aboard.
The unicorns disembark -- go out -- get pregnant and give birth to another unicorn, a horse, a cow, a lion and a tiger.
They get pregnant again and give birth to a hippopotamus, a platypus, an aardvark, etc.
See where I'm coming with this?
A kind is an animal with DNA specially encoded for punctuated equilibrium; and because of them, you don't need the Ark crammed full of every living creature in existence at the time, and you don't need long explanations as to how tree sloths got from the Ark to where they're found today, etc.
No, thanks.Just keep making stuff up and call it "God's Word."
No, thanks.
I'll call it what I called it in my post: 'an oversimplified example'.
Understand.
I may be wrong, but I don't think anyone has ever come up with a solid picture of just how 'scarcely-populated' the Ark really was.
Right -- that's what you want, isn't it?(Why is it not ok to see that the flood story could be an allegorical exaggeration with a spiritual or moral meaning but does not indeed have to be literal?...)
May I assume you've lost interest in the epistemological side of this thread, and now it's time to cross over to ridicule?
If so, okay if I just ignore you?
Just how big do you want the Bible to be, anyway?I'm kind of uncomfortable with the thought that god would perform several other miracles, which Noah and his company witnessed, yet did not record, only to explain science that we've discovered millenia later. If these 6 kinds did evolve into every sort of animal on the planet, wouldn't we see evidence of that radiation the same way we see evidence of adaptive radiation that occurs currently? Wouldn't there be recorded accounts of these organisms turning into other organisms in the Bible? I'd think that we'd get a great many "Watch yourself, Jebediah discovered that satyrs in Australia now have the ability to sting the living daylights out of you!" type remarks somewhere. Why do you think that none of these occurrences were recorded, especially in light of the fact that they would certainly rank up there on the miracle scale?
I'm not talking about species, I'm talking about genera.If it occurred in bursts, why do we see no historical records (as far as I'm aware) of millions of new species being created?
Where does it stop?
Ad lib questions deserve ad lib answers.Where does your adding to scripture stop?
I'm not talking about species, I'm talking about genera.
One kind can give birth to several different genera at once; then give birth to another "set" of different genera during the next gestation period.
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