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Message 10 of 226 (645814)
12-30-2011 9:59 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Portillo
12-29-2011 9:05 PM


Compared with the more usual critters, the Kangaroo is a quite remarkable animal.
It is implausible that there could have been a Kangaroo in the middle East at the time of Noah, but that no mention was made of such a remarkable animal. Yet there is no mention of it in the Bible.
Having grown up in Australia, I can tell you that it is pretty much impossible for an Australian to believe that Noah's flood extended to Australia. For that matter, it is pretty much impossible for an Australian to believe that the Australian aborigines are descendents of Adam.
Ken Ham is the exception that proves this rule
On a related note, I recently saw this in the blog of Peter Enns:
quote:
Nearly twenty years ago, my oldest was six years old. One of our bedtime routines was a brief Bible reading.
One evening we found ourselves in the Garden of Eden storyAdam and Eve, a piece of fruit, and a snake with vocal chords.
As I read, my son kept sighing, as if impatient with my reading. Being the only Old Testament expert in the room, I ignored him and kept going.
But he kept sighing. He even had the audacity to interrupt me.
Daddy, snakes can’t talk.
The woman said to the serpent, we may eat fruit from the tr.
Daddy. Snakes. Can’t. Talk.
http://www.patheos.com/...r-on-the-raising-of-young-heretics
A six year old child, even though raised in an evangelical family, can tell that the Adam and Eve story is a fable, a "Just So" story. Apparenty, you have to be grown up to be stupid enough to believe that the Adam and Eve story and the Noah's Ark story are actual descriptions of historical events.

Christianity claims the moral high ground in its rhetoric. It has long since abandoned the moral high ground in its practices

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Message 15 of 226 (645840)
12-30-2011 3:44 PM
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12-30-2011 2:03 PM


Is there some reason to believe that aborigines do not have a common origin with the rest of us?
No, none at all. It's just that the aborigines have been around for a long time and predate the middle east civilizations. So the common ancestry would have to be from earlier than Adam.

Christianity claims the moral high ground in its rhetoric. It has long since abandoned the moral high ground in its practices

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Message 24 of 226 (645966)
01-01-2012 1:06 AM
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01-01-2012 12:42 AM


There are still a few marsupials in the Americas. We see opossums as occasional road kill around here (Chicago suburbs).
This BBC page is particularly interesting.

Jesus was a liberal hippie

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