Surely kangaroos hopped all the way from Australia to Mesopotamia,croosing
each island in Indonesia in one hop. (One also had baby Jon Clarke in her
pouch), Penguins swam from the Antartic, Sloths crawled across the Atlantic
and Polar bears from the Arctic. A couple of skunks made it from Wenham, Ms,
and a pair of Black Mambas from Africa. The worst were the two woodworm who
bred like mad and caused a few structural problems to the ark.
These are the arguments used against a global flood by evangelicals in the
early 19th century.
Michael
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Eisele" <jeisele@starpower.net>
To: <asa@calvin.edu>
Cc: "Dick Fischer" <dickfischer@earthlink.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 5:04 PM
Subject: Re: The "global flood" - was a lot of other things previously
> >>>The overflowing Euphrates river from Spring rain
>
> >>Dick, I must take exception to this. If this is
> >>"all the flood was" then how do you explain the ark?
>
> >As a boatload of local animals indigenous to southern Mesopotamia. No
> lemurs from Madagascar. No marsupials from Australia. No penguins from
> Antarctica or polar bears from the Arctic region. No monkeys from Africa
or
> South America. No elephants from Africa or India. No alligators from
> Florida.>
>
> I agree (and thanks for adding to the discussion).
>
> >And no dodos from the Institute for Creation Research.
>
> I find the ICR very creepy, myself.
>
> My objection, however, was "your anti-supernatural" bias. The Bible
> (as we all know) states that God warned Noah. If (and maybe I
> misinterpret) the flood was a purely natural event, why the
> need "for a big honkin':) ark?
>
> Jim
>
>
>
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