re: - evolution - for flats
Yes it is very viable as an explanation. In terms of population numbers it is exactly the amount of time needed to generate the population numbers generally accepted at different times in the world's history (such as Roman times and in the modern day). If evolution were true there should be vast numbers of skeletal remains all over the place and man's evolutionary development would be beyond doubt due to the vast number of missing link specimens lying around (of course they wouldn't be called that in that case!), rather than the sobering fact that the entire case for ape to human evolution relies on bones (mostly clearly ape and including some famous frauds) that would comfortably fit in a single coffin. Incest was not an issue since it only relates to the joining of faulty genes which initially there weren't any of. Cain could marry a sister or a cousin with no problem. The children would not be identical (even identical twins aren't!) as they would get differing combinations of the original genes and the original set would have the info for any kind of person (skin colour, physical features etc). There is no impediment to developing all the variation we see today over that period of time. The process was significantly sped up by the dispersion of the peoples at Babel since that divided up the gene pool and from then on people began to mate only within their group. This eventually led to the injunction against incest (as instructed to Moses) as by this time dangerous mutations were accumulating making this a real threat, which it hadn't been to that time. Evolution would have us believe that. improbable as it may be that man could have evolved once, it actually happened several times around the world (yeah, right). Racism therefore is a natural product of evolutionary theory but not in Creationism because we are all one race (and related at some stage). Mind you, with the concept of Mitochondrial Eve even the evolutionists are getting dangerously close to the truth (except for the long time spans).
