Scientific errors in the Bible

Hi Arachnophile! Welcome to evcforum. From your pseudonym, I'm hoping you're an entomologist. We have a YEC here who has been arguing that insects could have survived the year-long putative Flood by hanging on to hypothetical vegetation mats . This, of course, to preclude having to have several million additional species on the Ark. It's on one of the Flood threads (sorry, you'll have to dig through them.) Maybe you could show possibly how few species could conceivably have survived in this manner. The argument was getting tiresome.

One off-topic post and then I'll let you get back to your thread.

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Well, actually I am an arachnologist.

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Outstanding! Spiders are too cool. I think this must be evidence of the existence of god - or karma or something. I am at this very moment attempting to counter an argument on another bb about the evolutionary pathway (err, lack thereof according to my opponent) that led to web spinning behavior in modern orb spiders. Do you have any good on-line articles I can peruse? (I've already checked out Zschokke's page on Araneus diadematus and Vanuytven's "Arachnology Home Page" links. I'm looking for some refereed journal articles on-line that I don't have to pay for ).Thanks for your help.

Thanks a million for the links and references, Arachnophile.Now back to your regularly scheduled thread...

Hi coragyps,Welcome to evcforum! Assuming you're the same coragyps from II, double welcome. I look forward to seeing some of your famous incisive posts. (Check out the "Faith and Belief" forum - you'll have a ball.)

Hey Tami,I think the response was that, according to some very stretched exegesis, insects don't "breathe" as vertebrates do, hence would not have fallen under the Gen 7:22 "kill 'em all, I'll sort 'em out later" description of the Flud. This also lets off things like earthworms. IIRC, when confronted with the fact that, yes, insects DO breath, the response was something along the lines of "But the Israelites wouldn't have understood that, and since the Bible was written for them..." etc etc. There was also an argument about whether or not fish breathe "air". It got fairly convoluted there for awhile.It always amazes me the contortions literalists will undertake to "prove" the Bible is true from the very first word.