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Coragyps

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Message 5 of 66 (465893)
05-11-2008 11:44 AM

Reply to: Message 1 by Jenifer
05-10-2008 6:12 PM

but still give the individuals, both animal and human, enough genetic diversity to repopulate the Earth and end up with healthy populations.

You'll need a way for that to work, Jenifer. Two mice have at most four genes for some particular protein. But we now have several hundred species of mice with scads of varying genes. Were ark-mice equipped with hundreds of chromosomes to hold all that "genetic diversity?"

He chose the smaller birds, leaving the dinosaurs to become extinct.

Well, except that there is not so much as a milligram of evidence that nonavian dinosaurs and any modern mammal ever coexisted. And there is literally tons of evidence that humans and nonavian dinosaurs never coexisted.

If that second point is too geological, I'll drop it right now.

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Message 13 of 66 (466028)
05-12-2008 3:23 PM

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05-12-2008 1:41 PM

is that God changed the entire world while it was covered up.

"...while it was covered up" with what? Water? All evidence to date shows that not only has that never been the case in the last ten thousand years, but also never in the last couple of billion. That "global flood" deal didn't happen! The Genesis version of it is a reworking of older stories from the Tigris-Euphrates area - about Tigris/Euphrates floods, most likely. And it's there in Genesis to convey some arcane moral point or the other, not to record any history.

"The wretched world lies now under the tyranny of foolishness; things are believed by Christians of such absurdity as no one ever could aforetime induce the heathen to believe." - Agobard of Lyons, ca. 830 AD

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Message 20 of 66 (466748)
05-16-2008 7:46 PM

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05-16-2008 6:43 PM

Re: Hello Jennifer

Hello to you, too, DbaF!! Welcome to EvC!

Rats and mice breed very fast. One single rat can give birth to 20 young a year, that’s 4 to six every 4 to 5 weeks.

Don't you think that might have been a little problem for thia Noah guy? All those smallish critters having population explosions?

...how could Noah get dinosaurs on the ark with him.

A far bigger problem is the 65,000,000 years between the last non-avian dinosaur and the first Homo sapiens.

Juvenile animals of any kind are usually less aggressive, they are smaller, they eat less, which also means they crap less, and typically they tend to sleep more.

And many of them really need their mommies to survive, too.

"Hope I helped you think about it more."

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Message 35 of 66 (467080)
05-19-2008 1:27 PM

Reply to: Message 34 by Dont Be a Flea
05-19-2008 1:17 PM

Re: Taking Care of Those Unclean Animals

but would love to dig a bit deeper on the scripture so that it is clear on whether or not insects were included in the term "all flesh".

And I'd love for you to do that digging - remembering, of course, that locusts, bald locusts, crickets, and grasshoppers are "clean" and edible critters, according to Leviticus.

And you still have the problem of where today's fleas, lice, Guinea worms, and liver flukes cam from if they all missed the boat.

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