Post flood evolution?

[His son]

What a demonstration of a man leaning to His own understanding. Just one more reason why I am so glad that I got out of that school for fools, as it is identified as in Scripture.

[Guest arkon]

skidd,

First, about faith.

Faith is given by Grace, from God. Gods grace is given to each of us.......

You prayed for salvation. You believed according to your Faith.

Well done. I did the same.

So did Peter. The apostles saw Jesus walking to them on the water in the storm. This storm (read the account again now....I honostly believe this was an attempt by satan ....like he did in the book of Job..... to kill the apostles.) came up out of nowhere. It was very strong. So when they saw Jesus draw near... Peter stood up and called out to Jesus...and said tell me to come to you...and Jesus said it.

Peter stepped out of the boat, with faith in Jesus...and walked...but then....like the cartoon character who steps off a cliff and floats there until realizing what he did...Peter got distracted by the wind and waves in the background.

He got afraid, he doubted. He started to sink.

What did he do next?

This is where you are at skidd.

What will you do next?

Now to help you with your question.

First, there were 3 sons of Noah. We know that Ham was darker skinned then his brothers to begin with. We have no idea by Shem and Japheths names, of what they looked like. We can assume they were not twins.

So we start off with differences. Now lets add some things that will change human appearance.

Climate.

Geography

Diet

Physical routine

Sun

Then, once you have a few differences..add in the random child that has the genes of his great grandfather instead of his father.

We started off with a varied base, and then added these factors to further diversify the races.

Now, what happens when some of this race mix with some of that? More diversity.

Look at americans today, and then goto europe and decide who they look like?

Or asia.

Or afirca.

Hope this helps

[Bread_of_Life]

Skidd

I am really looking for help in solving many of the questions I have about the Bible. First question, How is it possible that there are so many different races of people if we all are decendents of Noah? I have estimated that the flood should have occured about 2500 BC, or about 4500 years ago. even if that time was doubled, I doubt that the specific differences in DNA between races could have developed in such a short period of time. To suggest that the flood was local conflicts with other Genesis verses. Ideas?

Good question, but actually, there's some far more basic problems that the flood account has to tackle. After all, the genetic differences between humans are fairly small. I'm not saying it's not a problem, it is, there is far too much genetic variation in human beings for them to have descended from a set of 8 or 10 humans a few thousand years ago, but there are bigger problems.

A more basic problem is that most modern creationists reckon that only around 10-15 thousand species of animal could fit onto the ark, and be fed. I think this is actually quite a high number, but anyhow. That's one animal for every *genus* we see alive today, not one for every species. In fact, there are over 10 million species on earth today - did these all evolve from 15 thousand species in the last 4500 years? The answer is no, this rate of evolution is ridiculous given the known rates of variation in most creatures.

Another problem is mitochondrial DNA. Let me explain. Mitochondria are tiny cells, adapted from bacteria, that live inside our cells and help us produce energy (they turn glucose (sugar) into ATP, which we burn for energy). However, there are several things that are special about these mitochondria. Firstly, they have their own DNA. Secondly, they only come from your mother. Thirdly, they reproduce asexually, they do not sexually recombine or mix DNA. All this makes them perfect to test for common ancestry within a species. Using mitochrondrial DNA from 200 women around the world, scientists found that the earliest common ancestor to all humans by a female only line of descent lived around 200,000 years ago in Africa (although there is some debate as to whether it is closer to India). If the story of the flood was true, we would only find 4500 years of variation in our mitochrondia, rather than 200,000 years worth.

Of course, there are many other problems with the flood myth, these are just a few biological problems. Hope that helps.

[Guest arkon]

skidd

I present to you , answers. God is not the father of confusion. Satan is.

The first thing satan does when you take the step of repenting and asking forgiveness...and salvation... is to make you doubt

He wants you to doubt your salvation because its easier for him if you move away from Christ, then it is for him to TAKE you away. In fact...he CANT 'take you away from God.

Now if your salvation requires you to believe that Jesus rose from the dead...isnt it a much smaller thing to know that , yes, two of each KIND did go into the ark.