From: gordon brown (gbrown@euclid.colorado.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 29 2003 - 18:11:46 EST
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Vernon Jenkins wrote:
> VJ had written:
>
> "It is worth observing that the Christian evolutionist has a second problem
> with these verses (Gen.9:8-17): since Noah's time many _local_ floods have
> occurred - in some cases, wiping out complete populations; ergo, if we
> believe the covenant of the rainbow to be true, the Mabbul could not have
> been _local_!
> This conclusion is reinforced by the ludicrous notion that a large
> ocean-going vessel (built over a period of 100 years) was needed to take
> Noah, his family and menagerie from A to B, when a leisurely walk (occupying
> a few months, perhaps), taken before the big event, would have achieved the
> same result."
>
> GB replied:
>
> "What on earth does this have to do with evolution? The Flood, although not
> global, was very large, much larger than these other local floods. The point
> B to which Noah was transported was flooded, and he could not have survived
> the Flood there without the ark."
>
> I suggest our discussion has everything to do with evolution, for it is a
> doctrine that you clearly feel obliged to defend at all cost.
Vernon,
When have I ever defended evolution? It is a topic I have endeavored to
stay clear of. What I have defended are an old earth and a less than
geographically global Flood. You must have a very broad definition of
evolution if you think that these views necessarily imply evolution. These
opinions predate Darwin by quite a bit, and it isn't just evolutionists
who hold them today. They have plenty of support that is totally
independent of biological evolution.
Flood geology, on the other hand, was little known outside Seventh
Day Adventist circles before 1961, when Morris and Whitcomb published
their book.
Gordon Brown
Department of Mathematics
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0395
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