I can't drive my Mustang across the ocean. Is that a design flaw?
Posted on 01/29/2002 7:23:19 PM PST by Sabertooth
You should be in marketing. You can sweep inbred mutants under the rug as if there were no underlying design flaw.
LOL! Yes, we humans are so shameful - we should be punished severely. . .(/sarcasm)
Maybe this is why we have to put up with the likes of Jesse JackA**, little tommy dashHole, et al? LOL!
I can't drive my Mustang across the ocean. Is that a design flaw?
Please see the scripture in post 19. Chimps are clean animals so they were taken by sevens, male and female. So there were 14 Chimps, not 2.
Likewise there were 3 breeding couples of humans. Noah and his wife had only three sons so his (and her) genes are represented in each of those couples. So you really only have the genetic makeup of one family and 3 other people. (who as noted in later posts were probably closely related anyway)
God Save America (Please)
BTW, you should know better than to toss the red herring concept of mutagenic inbreeding into this debate. No one claims mutation arises from inbreeding.
Good catch on the sevens, I missed it and that was my post.
But I don't think the "sevens" can mean "seven pairs" any more than the "twos" mean "two pairs." If the chimps are "clean animals," then there were seven of them in that story, not fourteen.
Let's cut to the chase. You aren't prepared to admit there are any "flaws" in nature. Everything is perfect -- everything MUST be perfect -- otherwise God screwed up.
I seem to recall a TV show some years back that laid out a scenario that had the Mediterranean basin, dry, well below sea level. Plate movements (possibly as a manifestation of Devine wrath) resulted in Gibraltar being opened up rather suddenly, cataclysmicaly flooding the area. If any men, or all men were living there at that time, the remnant would certainly have been scattered and isolated. The evidence showed was of damage to the sea floor inside the strait as from a tremendous waterfall type event.
Its probably reasonable to assume that an event does not have to be global to nearly exterminate a population that is not global. 70,000 years is nowhere near long enough to get to where we are today in terms of the differences between the races of men.
Those of us old enough, and dweeby enough, to have read the Conan series in print back in the 60s may recall the maps that showed just this geography.
Alternately, Buckminster Fuller wrote in his book Critical Path, published sometime in the late 70s, that his fave theory in fact DID involve global flooding, caused naturally enough by the Ice Ages. It this scenario, the cradle of humanity was the archipelagos of southeast asia. Successive waves of humanity were flooded out of the area by periods of rising and lowering sea levels.
Are you projecting? That ain't my chase.
If God created things that either aren't initially perfect, or are capable of imperfection, does that mean He "screwed up?"
How can we determine if something has a design flaw if we don't know the purpose of the design?
I don't have any trouble getting my mind around the notion that God created a Universe that may well be 12 to 16 billion years old, and that for reasons of His own, He has allowed imperfections exist in it.
Look at the phrasing in verse 2. " ... by sevens, the male and his female". Obviously taking about couples (mated pairs) here. If there were only seven individuals it would be impossible to have the male and his female because you'd always have an odd male or female.
Note also that the word used to define the quantity of clean beasts is plural (sevens) while the word used to define the quantity of unclean beast is singular (two)
GSA(P)
Sounds more like devolution than evolution, eh?
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