Nope. I’m suggesting no such thing. I take the bible literally. Are you aware of how many species of animals there are in the world and how long it would take to gather one of each gender (except for the hermaphroditic species) and how much space they would take up? We’re talking about every single species of every single animal in the entire world: the oceans (as the flood was caused by rain water the saline content of the oceans would decrease, killing the sea life; how would Noah take care of this? Build a huge saline aquarium?)…fresh water lakes, rivers, creeks, streams, the forests, jungles, woodlands, tundra, every single island with animals (and they all have animals), every insect, bird, mammal, amphibian, reptile? Every animal from planarium to penguin to a Portuguese Man-o-War to a fly no bigger than a speck to Indian elephants, African elephants, every single animal without missing one, even if Noah couldn’t see it he collected it, male and female. Are you aware of how long this would take?
Please provide links to back up your assertions that “the possibility and feasibility could be checked out. This has been done and the results are affirmative.” Cuz you haven’t provided any yet.
"There are about
1,250,000 identified species of animal. This includes 1,190,200 invertebrates, among them 950,000 insects, 70,000 mollusks, 40,000 crustaceans, and 130,200 others. There are about 58,800 identified vertebrates, including 29,300 fish, 5,743 amphibians, 8,240 reptiles, 9,800 birds, and 5,416 mammals. As a comparison, almost 300,000 plant species are known.
"Importantly, the numbers above do not account for species which have not yet been captured or described scientifically. Scientists estimate
there may be as many as 10 - 30 million unidentified insect species, many of them living in the rainforest, and up to 1 million mite species. Mites are small arthropods, a group of animals related to but not the same as insects.
wisegeek.com/how-many-species-of-animal-are-there.htm
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Add it all together and what have you got? 32,250,000 species of animals in the world. And you are telling me that Noah was able to not only obtain male and female specimens of each of these (with the exception of hermaphroditic species), fit them on a large boat, and feed them, keep them from eating each other, cleaning their pens, etc. for however long it took for the waters to recede enough? Just in case it isn’t clear, that number is thirty two million, two hundred fifty thousand species of animals. That is a lot of animals, many of which can’t even be seen without a microscope, which obviously had not been invented when Noah was around.
Can’t be done. Taken literally the bible makes much more sense.
Do you actually think that the Church, founded by God, is lying to us when Church teaching is clear that the faithful can believe in a theistic theory of evolution that meets Church criteria? Are you claiming that YOU know more than the Church?
You know, I don’t care at all if you don’t believe in evolution. It has no bearing on your salvation nor on mine. What I care about is that people deny Church teaching. The Church has made it clear that I can believe in a theistic theory of evolution that meets her criteria. And I do. OK?
We are not supposed to be discussing evolution in this forum. I’ve tried to not respond but I haven’t been able to. But I am backing out of this discussion right now. I apologize to the moderator. Now I know why there is a ban on evolution threads.
