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uranium_235
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Message 1 of 2 (74331)
12-19-2003 4:08 PM


I’m sorry if this has already been asked, I am new here.
Assuming the flood did occur and Noah had figured out some sort of magical way of feeding and taking care of thousands of animals, how could he have possibly maintained genetic diversity amongst all the different species he brought aboard if only two of each, this question also applies to 8 individuals repopulating the world?

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Message 2 of 2 (74347)
12-19-2003 5:01 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by uranium_235
12-19-2003 4:08 PM


Modern creationists (unlike before) believe in what they call "microevolution" - they think that diversification does occur, but there is some sort of barrier between "kinds". They cannot establish what "kinds" are; pretty much the only thing that they agree on is that there is nothing else in the human "kind", and that there were few enough kinds that you could fit them all on the ark (and that the former "kinds" could live and eat almost anything). The process of debating over what is in what "kind" is called baraminology.
Note that this really amounts to hyperevolution, given their time scale.
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