Originally Posted by Jerthunter
Wow, it appears that after several days of debate that this thread finally died. Unfortunately I am bringing it up again.
I have a question and it is only for those people who insist on viewing the creation account as completely literal. I was thinking about the global flood and all and I started to wonder. Noah took two of each kind of animal on the ark and I was wondering if that included two of EVERY species of animal. Does that include everything from the smallest protozoans to the largest mammals?
Ok, I am not trying to disprove anyone's faith but what I am attempting to do is learn where the breakdown of belief in evolution occurs. Many people have stated that they believe in adaptation or microevolution but say macroevolution is completely different. So, I am hoping the answers to this question I asked, again only to those who believe in a completely literal understanding of Genesis, will help me figure out where the problem comes up for understanding the theory of evolution.
I figure one answer I might see is that some species have 'adapted' into seperate groups after the flood, but that sounds almost the same as believeing in macroevolution.
I remember a long time ago in church I was taught that Noah only needed to take land animals. But I was thinking, with a flood the covers all the land, all the freshwater lakes would mix with all the saltwater oceans and the excess water would be freshwater. This would seem deadly to most marine organisms, like using hyposalinity on our tanks but on a worldwide scale. Freshwater organisms wouldn't care to much for the high salinity from the oceans and the all the corals would be wided out. So that doesn't seem like it would work. So did the ark have giant freshwater, saltwater, and reef tanks to keep all these organisms alive during a worldwide flood? How about plants, did Noah take them with also? From my understanding of plants they don't do so well underwater.
The most common answer I expect to hear is that God can do anything. Of course with that answer it doesn't seem like it makes sense to try to scientifically explain anything about creation.
Of course there could be other answers and I would like to hear them, I like to learn what people think so I can figure out their thought processes and maybe develope new ideas.
My personal belief is this. To my knowledge, there was no word in Bible times meaning "World." The term used meant basically land. In fact , in Biblical times no one knew just how vast the size of the world was. Now archaelologists have found proof of a great deluge that flooded the whole Mesopatamian region. That proof lies in the Matrix of the earth.
So I personally believe that the flood did not cover the earth as a whole.
