8.7 Million Species

[_karl61]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2 ... scientists

It's an interesting and beautiful planet.

[_Everybody Wang Chung]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/aug/23/species-earth-estimate-scientists

It's an interesting and beautiful planet.

It's truly amazing that scientists have been able to catalogue all of these millions of species on earth (including over 8,000 butterfly species), but still no evidence for Bigfoot.

[_Tarski]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/aug/23/species-earth-estimate-scientists

It's an interesting and beautiful planet.

It must have been a very big and well equipped ark.

[Guest]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/aug/23/species-earth-estimate-scientists

It's an interesting and beautiful planet.

It must have been a very big and well equipped ark.

I think they just had 10 million DNA samples in the ARK and flew around the Universe for a couple billion years when the earth was covered with water and then came back, planted everything and we all grew back.

[_Quasimodo]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/aug/23/species-earth-estimate-scientists

It's an interesting and beautiful planet.

It must have been a very big and well equipped ark.

Just all the plant pots alone would have taken up acres of space. No one talks about the the plants (all of which would have died in a world wide flood).

Noah would have had to gather these himself. Plants couldn't have walked to the ark.

[_Hoops]

Do you guys even know the story of the ark?

[_Quasimodo]

Do you guys even know the story of the ark?

I think I do. Were am I straying from the gospel?

[_Hoops]

Plants were not required to be on the ark. Many plants could certainly survive long enough through the flood.

[Guest]

Plants were not required to be on the ark. Many plants could certainly survive long enough through the flood.

Didn't the flood last 1+ year? How long did it take for the waters to fully recede? How exactly do plants survive this long without sunlight?

EDIT: I'm extremely skeptical that plants adapted to surviving at atmospheric pressures could tolerate the pressure imposed at that depth of water.

[_Quasimodo]

Plants were not required to be on the ark. Many plants could certainly survive long enough through the flood.

You might try a test. Go to the local garden shop and buy the cheapest little plant there (50 cents?). Drop it in a bucket full of water. Check back in a month and see how it's doing. Since it's obviously a descendant of the plants from the flood times, it should still be alive.

No land plants could survive forty days under water. Of course, you could say that god protected the plants so they would survive. But then, why wouldn't god have done the same for all the animals? Better yet, why not just skip the flood and kill all the humans that god was unhappy with and save all the trouble?