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Moreover, it did not need to have happened. It's about some theological ax the Fundamentalists are grinding which has nothing to do with essential Christian doctrine.
I reckon a lot more people would be interested in Christianity but for fundamentalists.
A DNA bottle neck is when a species is nearly driven to extinction and a consequent dramatic reduction of the genetic variation in the remaining population is found (see the Cheetah for an example).
I was referring to the Fundamentalist "genesis flood" the one which covered the entire terrestrial globe to the height of Mt. Everest (or in which Mt. Everest rose to its present height in a few hours right after, take your pick) in which sliding tectonic plates reached sonic velocities and the "Fountains of the Deep" erupted with such force as blast chunks of the Earth into space to form the Asteroid Belt, all in 2304 BC. OK, it was a miracle, but there is no science for it, nor historical evidence outside the Bible. Moreover, there is nothing of theology in the Bible story which would fail to be satisfied by a large regional flood (of which geology provides evidence of several at the end of the last ice age) in which a proto-Noah rescued his own livestock and a reasonable selection of local wild fauna in a barge of his own construction. You need the "genesis flood" to prop up your own view of scripture, but Christian doctrine doesn't need it.
And there are a number of theories of what that means, of which yours is only one.
So the recasting under divine inspiration of an ancient flood story to convey a theological message is a "lie?"
Only if it is presented as truth and accepted as truth by others mainly the apostles and Jesus then to say it didn't happen is to say Jesus and Peter lied about it or at least were deceptive.
Who says it's a 20th century text book? Just because it was written by ancient Hebrews doesn't mean its not history. They might have written different than the way we write doesn't mean it's not factual. To make the claim that it's not factual has no basis in fact. There is no evidence other than man made science that Genesis isn't true. The belief that Genesis is not true is based not on Scripture but on science. Science which has only made made theories and man made suppositions of an ancient time.
Who said it didn't happen? We're talking about the text of the story, not the event itself. We're talking about a claim about the text which allows one to infallibly conclude from it, for instance, that sliding tectonic plates reached sonic velocities and the "Fountains of the Deep" erupted with such force as to blast chunks of the Earth into space to form the Asteroid Belt, all in exactly 2304 BC, "because it says so in the Bible," or otherwise the Bible is a lie and Jesus died for nothing.
That's a pretty bald dichotomy you've got there--either 100% accurate literal history or a lie. In fact, whenever history is written as a narrative, there is tension between facticity and the literary purpose of the author. They way this is handled varies even today and has varied considerably over time. Ancient writers handled it differently than we do today, but it was still history to them and their readers.
Pardon me, but that's the way you people insist that it be treated; we're just throwing it back to you.
It's not speculation. We know it happened in the Cheetah. But not in other animals (like whales and dolphins and other air breathers).
