[DittoJed2]

First, I don't know that they didn't have the background knowledge. I believe (from the creationist perspective) that pre-flood man was probably pretty technologically advanced. Noah had no problem building an ark that would float for a year and hold all those animals and his family. People lived much longer then as well, and very well could have had much greater understanding of a lot of things. They may not have understood DNA and the like, but I bet they were a lot more advanced than the cave dwellers who just had to survive until the situation could become more stabilized. (Noah's progeny moved all over the place and had to populate many different uninhabited regions. I'm sure the technogical advances of the previous 1,500 or so years took a back seat to survival).

Second, this discussion is assuming that the Bible was supposed to be a book about science. God is God. He can choose to reveal to us what He wants us to know. He also has this tendency to get us to trust Him by faith on some things which we don't understand. He did leave evidence that what He said about creation was true, but there is no reason to believe that if He had caused it to happen some other way that He wouldn't have let man write down, in the beginning I created an amoeba...and from that amoeba....

[RightWingNilla]

He wouldn't have let man write down, in the beginning I created an amoeba...and from that amoeba....

We take the word "Ameoba" and the concept of unicellular creatures for granted. The ancient scribes would have had no clue where to begin with this information. First you would have to describe what a cell is, and a microscope and...(get the idea?)

I am off to bed. I would like to continue this tommorrow. Have a good night.