You don't know me very well, do you? LOL
BeamMeUpScotty said:
First, again, if you allow for miracles, why would you seek naturalistic explanations.
For the third time, you must have me confused with someone else. I never said the Flood was purely naturalistic.
If God performed the miracles, which he would of had to, why do YECs seek to explain the story without God through naturalistic explanations?
I don't know --- I'm not a YEC.
Second, I know the ark had 3 floors. I purposefully left them out to give more room.
This is why God runs the universe, and not us.
Third, I do agree that the ark would have been under extremely hostile conditions, so much so that it could have never survived (without miracles). Where do you get the idea that they wouldn't have been eating as much food? How much food would they have been eating? How do you know? Please provide some numbers and sources.
No thanks --- I only relay what's in the Bible (with a little science attached for good measure).
Fourth, how many animals would have been on board? How do you know?
I don't know --- I wasn't there. I'm not so sure Noah himself knew. He was probably too busy with other things, and didn't care to count. (I certainly wouldn't have.)
How do you explain their distribution afterward?
I would guess they would radiate outward from a central location. Not really sure, of course --- I wasn't there.
How do you explain the extremely rapid speciation that would have had to taken place after the flood? How do you know this?
I don't --- I leave that to the "experts".
I vaguely remember a long time ago seeing a documentary called "The Hellstrom Chronicles" (I think was the name), where they said that if every insect disappeared off the face of the earth but a male and female, they would repopulate the earth in just a very short period of time.
I would say too, that food would be abundant everywhere in the thousands of years afterward, especially for the herbivores.