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Talk:Essay:Noah's Ark Was Real (view source)
Revision as of 21:23, October 29, 2009
, 21:23, October 29, 2009→In answer to Mr. MacKenzie
:As for my questions being answered I cannot find that in the essay or the article, particularly the parasite question and the point about specialised food supplies (koala bears). Also I’d like to add another question – If Noah and his family of 8 were the only human survivors then how come such a population bottleneck is not shown in human DNA evidence? [[User:Jamesmackenzie|Jamesmackenzie]] 14:55, 29 October 2009 (EDT)
:As for my questions being answered I cannot find that in the essay or the article, particularly the parasite question and the point about specialised food supplies (koala bears). Also I’d like to add another question – If Noah and his family of 8 were the only human survivors then how come such a population bottleneck is not shown in human DNA evidence? [[User:Jamesmackenzie|Jamesmackenzie]] 14:55, 29 October 2009 (EDT)
If you're going to dismiss the Bible ''a priori'', then we have nothing to discuss. ''You'' question the "verisimilitude" (I think you mean "veracity") of the Bible, but I do not. We address [[Biblical inerrancy]] in another article on this site, and I can also direct you to [http://creationwiki.org/Biblical_inerrancy this article] that discusses the subject in somewhat greater detail.
Let me take just one aspect of the issue: prerdictions of future events. For centuries, skeptics believed that the Book of Daniel, for example, must have been written long after [[Alexander the Great]] conquered the [[Middle East]]. Then in 1947, in the middle of the high drama surrounding the establishment of the Republic of [[Israel]], a small boy threw a rock into a cave near Qumran, and the rock's impact produced the sound of breaking pottery. The little boy checked it out, and then showed up in [[Jerusalem]] hawking what he found. These were the first of the [[Dead Sea Scrolls]]. Those scrolls include manuscripts of Daniel that clearly predate Alexander, and predict his conquest of the Holy Land exactly as it occurred. And Daniel isn't the only one.
There, by the way, is a modern miracle for you. The finding of those scrolls persuaded the [[United States]] to grant diplomatic recognition to the Republic of Israel, and made the difference between Jewish statehood and a Second Holocaust.
As I said, Daniel isn't the only one. Isaiah is another. And Isaiah predicted the most striking event of all: the ministry, death and resurrection of [[Jesus Christ]].
Any text that can get all these things absolutely right, four hundred years or more ahead of time (and against odds of ten thousand quinquagintillion to one, by the way), can certainly be trusted on other events that it recorded. Like the genealogy of Adam, and the tremendous average lifespans, and the genealogy of Shem and the tremendous decline in lifespan. And like the [[Great Flood]] and the plans of [[Noah's Ark]].
I have no trouble accepting the assembly of the animals. The same God Who gave [[Noah]] his instructions for building the [[Noah's Ark|Ark]] was certainly capable of assembling the menagerie that Noah would carry. Nor is that necessarily as difficult as you are attempting to portray. Are you assuming that the continents in Noah's day were distributed as they are today? They weren't. Initially they all fit together, like a gigantic jigsaw puzzle. The Flood got started with a hairline crack that appeared in this landmass and then went all the way through it. That crack persists as the Mid-Oceanic Ridge System. See [[Hydroplate Theory]] for some further details, and a link to an outside source that explains it in far greater detail than I have space to use here.
How can free will exist without randomness? Well, it can't. But that does not mean, by the way, that we need to accept the authority of any [[Barack Hussein Obama|one human being who is trying to pretend that he's God]]. It does mean that God not only knows what is going to happen well before it happens (and can give memoranda of instructions to whomever He chooses, whenever He chooses), but that He has ''decided ahead of time'' what is going to happen. Perhaps He has decided ahead of time to bring you to me, figuratively speaking, so that I may testify to you concerning His Existence, His Pre-eminence, and His Role in human affairs, ancient and modern.--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]]<sup>[[User talk:TerryH|Talk]]</sup> 17:23, 29 October 2009 (EDT)
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