Runtu wrote:If the Flood really was global, I have a couple of questions:
1. If Noah emptied the Ark in one place (say, Mt. Ararat or somewhere else in the Middle East, or even somewhere near Missouri), shouldn't we see evidence of all species radiating out from that central place? Why, for example, are penguins only found in Antarctica? How did they migrate there from the place where the Ark landed without leaving any trace between the landing point and Antarctica? Did none of them die in transit between the Ark and Antarctica? The same question applies to the marsupials of Australia. Shouldn't we see some evidence of marsupials migrating from the Ark to Australia? Why not?
2. Why do we see the kind of speciation between, say, islands in an archipelago, and the mainland closest to them? For example, there are clear and close genetic relationships between differing species in the Galapagos, and they in turn are related, though not quite as closely, to species on the South American mainland. In other words, the relationships go in one direction, the one that evolution predicts. If all species had been on the Ark, how do we explain the pretty clear unidirectional relationship between species that are geographically dispersed? Why would differing species have chosen to inhabit precisely those places that evolutionary theory tells us we should find them?
Not picking on you, Runtu, but you asked for it.
In the fast lane of quick study ADD, slot thinking linear logic demands God remain in the box. If he said he created the world and finished THEN he MUST not ever do another single thing like seed continents with unique flora and fauna after they separated in the Days of Peleg when the earth was divided. He did interact by destroying the world, and gee, maybe he would be about fixing things up according to his own good will and pleasure. And not tell us. OOOOOOH that hurts.
Making animals unique in several places should cause us to wonder and perhaps glorify God with better reasons than to deny him. In the end it is not all about us. It is altogether for his name's glory. lol at the proud.