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Originally posted by Philip:
I'm a YEC.
The 40-day global flood seemed a complete physical impossibility based on the data, but the ark with all its room might easily hold all the kinds of necessary gene pools of life-forms on just 2 of the 3 levels (stories) within.
Yet, perhaps, it was a supernatural event, as you sarcastically ridicule, like:
1) Realizing you and I are hell-deserving sinners, fleeing for salvation at a cross-alter, knowing all sins are purged from your conscience forever, etc.
2) Feeding 5000 with several loaves and fishes.
3) Daniel surviving in a lion's den.
4) Jonah in a fish 3 days and 3 nights, before converting Ninevah.
5) A Christ-God fulfilling all Jewish prophecies then raising up to the right hand of God with all power.
6) A cosmos that repeatedly manifests cursed-events and redemptive-events.
7) A lot of things scientists, you, and I don't understand.
Certainly, based on the geological strata studies, the fortuitous concreteness (relatively fixed appearing irreducible complexities) of higher life-forms, and other scientific proofs, this global catastrophy may be postulated/hypothesized and possibly theorized ... albeit, a veritable unexplainable rift in evolution (if you will).
Yes, the Ark story was completely impossible if you are brave (some might say foolish) enough to take it literally, it is interesting how you stress the word 'might' when claiming (without refering to the number of animals) that the Ark would be able to house the animals on 2 of its three levels. Then, (as the creationist usually does) you make an irrefutable appeal to the supernatural in case the reader (having developed a special organ called a brain) sees the fallacy of your claim.
Then as if that were not enough, you make references to several other 'supernatural' ark-like statements used by creationists as if in an attempt to prove your ark-presuppositions by boring the reader to death with yet more irrefutable and purely circumstantial random statements. Indeed, all you have achieved is to inform the reader that there is no reason why he or she should believe anything that you have to say on the ark question whatsoever.
Ever played lemmings?
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