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Originally Posted by Highdesertsuby
Just to make a point...the flood account in Genesis does not say "two of every animal". It says two of every KIND of animal (not species). That means two dogs, two horses, two cats, etc. I don't rememebr how "kind" would be classified in taxonomy, but if you run the numbers, Noah would have only had to carry about 5,000-6,000 individual animals on the ark to cover the genetic diversity we have now. With the size of the ark that number could be easily accomidated.
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That's just silly. Using word-play to attempt to establish scientific truth in the Bible is an old trick that still doesn't work. But whatever.
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Originally Posted by Highdesertsuby
The second point is that everyone likes to say that there is no evidence of a global flood...when in fact, there is an entire planet full of evidence. Practically every surface feature we see today is the result of catastrophic water-sourced erosion, or the aftereffects. Only huge floods and rapid sedimentation could be responible for the incredible numbers of fossils we have worldwide (we are talking multiple trillions...with a "T"). Flood hydrology and geomorphology (fancy name for land-changing processes) is what I got my degree in, and I have seen much of this firsthand.
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I'm sorry again, but I'm staggered by the level of twisted meanings and misinformation coming from someone so educated in this field. There is most certainly NOT any evidence of a "global flood." We can probably just start and end that debate by noting there isn't even enough water on the planet to fully cover it. No point even getting into the dizzying array of methods for forming the various geological features of the planet without pretending they're all from "catastrophic water-sourced erosion."
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Originally Posted by Highdesertsuby
I can't speak about the ark, and if it still exists or not, but I can tell you this much...anyone who says that there is no evidence that a global flood occurred simply has not actually looked at the earth and studied what is out there.
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There very well could have been a Noah, who built an ark, and loaded it with his family and lots of animals and survived a wicked flood. There is clear evidence of a MAJOR flood on the Euphrates roughly corresponding to when Noah would have lived. Scholars generally attribute the Noah flood story to another ancient Babylonian king, but it's close enough. Trying to parlay such things into a claim that there was a planetary-scale flood, that all creatures not on Noah's ark perished and that all of humanity is directly descended from him is preposterous, silly, and irresponsible. After seven years of studying geology I find it very, very hard to believe that you can accept what occurs in the book of Genesis as literal scientific fact in any way.