BreezeWood
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Is your handlename a reference to Brezilwood? And Jean Cousin?Horseshit. The surface of the earth was not covered in water. All life was not extinguished.Here's the thing though. Noah's family was probably just in an area, such as the Persian Gulf or Red Sea that was previously not water as the Glaciers began to melt at the end of the last Ice Age. The high chance that species and people survived the Glacial melt is how so many animals survived the flooding waters from the ice melting. Stories such as the Emperor Yao and the Walum Olum of the Delaware show that many survived the floods, but that the floods lasted for a couple generations; and the Hindu Indian legend matches the Algonquin legend by the Indian scripture mentioning the World upon Turtle's Back that saved people during the flood, and the Algonquin name for the North Atlantic Island being called Turtle Island or Hahnunah.Well, considering Humankind is a part of Universal Evolution, and Humans are lying, I suppose in a way the title of this thread could be interpreted in that way, that Humans. But there are plenty of ancient scriptures, including the Book of Genesis that discuss evolution. One great text on this topic, besides Hesiod's Works and Days, and Ovid's Metamorphosis, is the Corpus Hermeticum, Chapter X specifically.
But, I have an evolutionary traits, besides hair and eye color; where I can manipulate and generate magnetic fields to vibrate water, and atoms, telekenesis and utilize telepathy.
To clarify - Genesis teaches micro-evolution not macro-evolution.
Speciation within a Biblical kind help us understand how all kinds of land animals survived the Noachian flood on Noah's ark. Commenting on post flood speciation of the kinds of animals on the ark, our Bible dictionary notes:
Ark — Watchtower ONLINE LIBRARY
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"The “kinds” of animals selected had reference to the clear-cut and unalterable boundaries or limits set by the Creator, within which boundaries creatures are capable of breeding “according to their kinds.” It has been estimated by some that the hundreds of thousands of species of animals today could be reduced to a comparatively few family “kinds”—the horse kind and the cow kind, to mention but two. The breeding boundaries according to “kind” established by Jehovah were not and could not be crossed. With this in mind some investigators have said that, had there been as few as 43 “kinds” of mammals, 74 “kinds” of birds, and 10 “kinds” of reptiles in the ark, they could have produced the variety of species known today. Others have been more liberal in estimating that 72 “kinds” of quadrupeds and less than 200 bird “kinds” were all that were required. That the great variety of animal life known today could have come from inbreeding within so few “kinds” following the Flood is proved by the endless variety of humankind—short, tall, fat, thin, with countless variations in the color of hair, eyes, and skin—all of whom sprang from the one family of Noah."
Flood of Noah’s Day — Watchtower ONLINE LIBRARY
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"It is true that encyclopedias refer to over a million species of animals. But Noah was instructed to preserve only representatives of every “kind” of land animal and flying creature. Some investigators have said that just 43 “kinds” of mammals, 74 “kinds” of birds, and 10 “kinds” of reptiles could have produced the great variety of species of these creatures that are known today. The ark had about 40,000 cu m (1,400,000 cu ft) of usable space—ample for the passenger list"
Bottom line, we believe the ball park estimate of 150-600 kinds of animals on Noah's ark have evolved by micro-evolution into as many as 1 million species. For example, there are many cat species - but likely only 1 kind. Probably only 2 cats on Noah's ark.
On your off topic tangent - if you have a fever and wear a hat you will increase the vibration of atoms in that hat - its called heat.
Places such as Doggerland, are other pieces of evidence that those lands may have flooded quickly by the number of land animal fossils found there, and Human remains have been found there also.
I would have to agree that Noah's family was just in an area!
It makes sense that the elephant kind survived the flood while the mammoths went extinct since Mammoths did not live in that area so elephants but not mammoths were on the ark.
Flood legends are not just from one area though - see the charts here:
Flood of Noah’s Day — Watchtower ONLINE LIBRARY
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One of the many in the chart:
Bolivia - Chiriguano
Destruction by Water
Divine Cause
Warning Given
Humans Spared
Preserved in a Vessel
Bolivia is not a coastal country btw..Flood legends are not just from one area though - see the charts here:
there are no records for the flood establishing the religion of antiquity there were no survivors to pass down the lore. than the lineage not found guilty - of evil.
unless you are claiming that lineage was everywhere to be found - and would agree to establishing the correct accounting of the episode that presently does not exist. for your records to be correct if for that flood..Horseshit. The surface of the earth was not covered in water. All life was not extinguished.
do you ever read posts you reply to.
there were no survivors, people - was the point of the episode but those that adhered to the religion of antiquity - obviously not yours.
that would be all beings, the religion of antiquity not just "2 of each kind" on a boat.
.Is your handlename a reference to Brezilwood? And Jean Cousin?
I looked them up too bad but no not related to the artist or brazilian tree -
in an earlier life as a carpenter in florida I noticed there was seldom a breeze in august ... name of my building / design company.