Biogeography falsifies the worldwide flood.

So, TB, how many "kinds" were present on Noah's Ark? What was the speciation rate to produce the current level number of species over a period of about 4,500 years? Why was this dramatic speciation rate not mentioned in the bible or other historical documents? Don't you think that nomadic goatherders might have noticed the dramatic biological changes going on before their eyes?When did this hyperspeciation process decline to its current slow, barely perceptible rate? Just before Linnaeus started classifying living organisms? It seems that creationism is full of processes occurring at dramatically different rates in the past (speed of light, radioactive decay, speciation, plate tectonics etc) which mysteriously change to the current rates when humans are able to measure the rates accurately.It appears that TB has now given up all pretense of offering rational, scientifically verifiable postulations for supporting his particular religious beliefs and now simply plugs in any old miraculous process where necessary to reconcile the literal interpretation of scripture with the problems posed by the laws of nature.

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Originally posted by Tranquility Base:
^ When Scripture quite clearly indicates a miracle I will not try and construct scientific theories to account for it!

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On the other hand when Scripture indicates a process I will not pretend that a global event (eg the flood) will not leave evidence!

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PS - some have estimated that there were 2200 kinds on the ark, mostly below sheep size. I think these may correspond to the Linnean terrestial families. Your hyper-speciation may have primarily been hybridization and then Galapogos type microevoltuion.
[This message has been edited by Tranquility Base, 08-22-2002]

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So this miraculous hyperspeciation after the flood didn't warrant a mention in the bible? Noah didn't notice such events after babysitting all of the surviving pairs for a year?