> On 4/13/2011 7:24 AM, Warp wrote:
>> (For example, what possible reason
>> can a creationist have to believe that genetic mutations are rare and
>> always destructive and cannot possibly explain the diversity of life?
>> There is no reason other than that they are just expanding their aversion
>> to the entirety of the theory and perceive it to be *entirely* wrong
>> in all
>> possible aspects, even in aspects that don't really matter from a
>> religious
>> point of view.)
>>
> Standard trope for them is that there are only a small number of
> "Kinds", of which humans are the unique one, without any kin, and that
> all the diversity came about shortly after the flood, when god simply
> "poofed" all the variations into existence. They need this to be true,
> otherwise the Ark and Noah's flood are not possible.

It seems like Noa was in fact Gilgamesh, modified in some romantic way 
making him older and whiser, and the Great Flood realy an exeptional, 
but still localised, flood in Mesopotamia. That "All Animals Of 
Creation" was rather "most commonly domesticated animals".

Viewed that way, the Ark was rather a compound rafts ship: A ship made 
up of a collection of several rafts linked together to reduce the 
manpower needed for navigation and increase the cargo capacity.



Alain

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