[phoenix_fire]

Quote by: Chris how can you be rational and believe that we a) all descended frome one man and one woman including all Africans, Europeans, Asians (who - oddly enough were doing fine for thousands of years before even hearing about a bloke called Jesus) and Aborigine peoples. b) There was a rain that lasted 40 days and nights causing the entire Earth to be covered with water including Mt. Everest, and that every living thing on earth (everfything that creepeth) was murdered by God for being "evil" and one man and his family were the sole survivors and were the caretakers of millions of species of animals, wno were careful enough to return all the marsupials and unique animals to Australia and all the unique species of animals to the Galapogos Islands. All the Pandas in China (despite no record of this in China) And somehow repopulated the earth to the diversity we see today (i.e. Asians, Africans, etc) from one family. I could go on all night and into tomorrow but I am typing this on my N810 and I only have 5 hours of battery power. can someone be rational and still believe these fairy tales?

Interesting that you should pick those two precise aspects.

a.) Google "mitochondrial Eve". I've made this point before and I used an evolutionary biology site to prove it. Mitochondrial evidence projects that it is highly likely that all of humanity descended from a single female progenitress. Or is mitochondria now considered a fairy tale as well? I tell you, I can't keep up.

b.) There are actually accounts of the flood in other historical sources. And if you don't think that kind of rain can happen, go to India in monsoon season. The flood didn't necessarily need to cover "even Mt. Everest". You have to remember that this story is being written by people whose concept of "the whole world" was quite a bit smaller than what the world actually is. Also, as we cannot put a date on the flood (some people try, but their methods are not terribly reliable), we have no evidence as to where the continents were at this time. You forget there used to be just one megacontinent. Although we do not know where things were at this point, you can be assured that the continents weren't where they are now. Lots and lots of drift to account for.