evolution is for monkeys, page-383

benbradley

Personally I find it amazing that some still believe in the literal interpretation of the flood. Just a few factors make this interpretation highly unlikely.

1. To cover the mountains would require the sea level to rise by more that 8,000 metres. To be conservative let's call it a global rise of 4,000 metres to take land into account and to consider that not all the highest peaks would have to be covered to wipe all animals.

In order to flood the planet in 40 days would require an average of 100 metres of rain on every location of the planet for 40 days. That works out to be approx 2.7 inches for each and every minute on the entire globe for 40 days. The volume of water to fall would be more than twice the volume in the oceans.

Not only that, but where did all that water go after the flood? It could not run off into the oceans; they would have been full. This is clearly a ridiculous proposition.

2. To have collected a pair of every animal species by a handful of people who were only aware of a small portion of the globe would also clearly be impossible.

That doesn't even cover the challenges of feeding and caring for them in the confined space of a boat built at the time and returning them to their original locations. The problem has been explained away by saying that only a pair of each kind (translated by some to be a pair of each family) was all that was needed.

Even then finding an example of one of each kind by a small number of people confined to a small area of the planet doesn't sound feasible. Even if an example of each kind were saved frown destruction, the the current diversity of life would have to have evolved into a the large number of species from a saved example of each kind we see today in the short period of time since the date of the flood.

This doesn't consider the problems related to ensuring that each pair survives and breeds to produce healthy populations from a severely reduced gene pool for each saved species. There is no evidence that this has happened. Either way the story of current species being saved from the destruction of a worldwide flood is clearly a ridiculous proposition.