Re: A reaction to ID

The other problem was getting all the animals on the ark, which was
humorously described by Pye Smith back in 1839 who pointed out (p115) that
greater miracles than the resurrection were required to get the animals on
the ark!
The problem is the sloth, it has a top speed of 0.068 m.p.h. so it took a
long time to get from S America to Mesopotamia.
H Morris argued for rapid evolution in the Genesis Record p 125.

Michael
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Subject: Re: A reaction to ID

>
> On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 20:35:30 -0500 "Ted Davis" <tdavis@messiah.edu>
> writes: [quoting George]
> > <snip>
> > 4) I think that one reason some people insist so strongly on a
> > young earth
> > is that it makes significant evolution impossible. If the earth is
> > only ~
> > 10^4 yr old then there just wasn't time for evolution to occur & any
> >
> > putative evidence for evolution must be spurious.
> >
> > Ted:
> > Well, sure, this is true at the popular level. But look again at
> > the
> > "thinkers" in the YEC movement, and look at what Hitchcock was
> > writing in
> > the 1840s--his comments had to be directed at someone--and Hitchcock
> > was
> > absolutely dead against evolution (in its pre-Darwinian form of the
> > Vestiges
> > of the Natural History of Creation). Above all, take a look at
> > what Henry
> > and John Morris say about this in their Modern Creation Trilogy. A
> > real
> > eye-opener, that one.
> >
> > ted
> >
> >
> There's another matter which is being overlooked, which I find humorous.
> Since the number of animals which the Ark could carry has had to be
> revised downward from the early estimates, which did not consider the
> need for feed and water for the cretures aboard, more recent claims
> suppose only one representative pair of a genus or family was carried
> aboard. Since Abraham had asses and horses are mentioned in connection
> with Joseph, within about 5 and 7 centuries, respectively, from the
> flood, the two species had evolved from the ancestral pair. I can't be
> sure about the several species of zebra, which are not mentioned in
> scripture, but it is reasonable to assume that they had skedaddled to
> Africa and differentiated during the same time. I am compelled to
> conclude that the species Chaucer observed must have generated numerous
> distinct species which we observe around us today. We do, don't we?
> Unless the flood geologists err in not shrinking all the species to near
> microscopic size on entering the Ark, extremely fast macroevolution is an
> essential part of YEC theory.
> Dave
>
>
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