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To: supercat
You had microevolution after the flood, branching out of animal species of the same basic kind. Moreover, as one notes in Roman, Greek, Chinese literature etc., you also had men and animals surviving on high places and on anything which would float for six months to a year. There's no really big contradiction between those stories and the story told in Genesis.
335 posted on 07/01/2002 8:28:54 PM PDT by medved
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To: medved
You had microevolution after the flood, branching out of animal species of the same basic kind.

Exactly, though exactly how "micro" is perhaps a reasonable topic of debate. I've encountered some people, however, who seem to deny that Darwinian evolution occurs to any significant degree, when--per Genesis--it must.

I wish those who oppose the teaching of evolution would, rather than opposing the theory outright, instead insist that its limitations be made clear. They would appear far less like luddites, while at the same time serving up a much more effective argument against those who would seek to abuse the Theory of Evolution (e.g. by declaring that it shows that mankind is in principle no different from any other animal, when in fact it shows no such thing).

Moreover, as one notes in Roman, Greek, Chinese literature etc., you also had men and animals surviving on high places and on anything which would float for six months to a year. There's no really big contradiction between those stories and the story told in Genesis.

I thought the purpose of the Great Flood was to destroy every living person or animal save for those on the ark. Is there not something amiss with the notion that God would deliberately set out to destroy every living person or animal (save for those on the ark) and then fail to do so? Would that not undercut the notion of God's omnipotence?

339 posted on 07/01/2002 8:45:06 PM PDT by supercat
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