RE: paleonet Faith and skepticism

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>  Sure, and the total biomass of all the world's animal species x2 is 
>  unlikely to fit in an ark of known dimensions.

Ironically, some young earthers have suggested extremely rapid evolution from a small set of ancestral forms (which were on the ark) to diminish this problem.  They generally (and incorrectly) assert that things other than a select set of terrestrial vertebrates would survive their flood outside the ark.  
  
>  >  And had an even larger
>  > problem with the story of Noah & the survivors. We are all Jews, right,
>  > since the Jews were the only people in the Ark? But just a little bit
>  > further in the Bible, the Egyptians are introduced. Where did they come
>  > from? Another non-Jewish ark? 

No, the Bible claims that both the Egyptians and the Jews, as well as a long list covering most of the nations known to the Jews, all descended from Noah after the Flood.  

It's important to get claims about the Bible right in that a large proportion of those likely to be taken in by antievolutionary claims do so because they think antievolutionary views are Biblical.  Making inaccurate claims about the Bible will thus tend to label you as unreliable.  On the other hand, careful examination of young-earth claims about what the Bible says can often reveal errors that might be more effective at discrediting them than much science. 

    Dr. David Campbell 
    Old Seashells 
    University of Alabama 
    Biodiversity & Systematics 
    Dept. Biological Sciences 
    Box 870345 
    Tuscaloosa, AL  35487-0345 USA
    bivalve@mail.davidson.alumlink.com

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