Coulter says there is as much evidence for Noah's flood as there is for darwinism. What is she talking about?

Question

Anne Coulter says this in the forward to her book "Godless: The Church of liberalism." I didn't read past the forward. Does she ever support this claim or can anyone tell me what she was referring to?

Answer 1

Well, first remember that she is an amoral banshee who only opens her maw if it is to belittle, insult, or spread mis-truth

She is claiming (falsely) that people have just as much reason to believe the events in the Bible as they do in Darwinism. She is neglecting the exhaustive fossil record that supports Darwin's findings. She would have us believe in Santa Claus as easily as we would believe in gravity.

She's a nut. Return the book and get your money back.

Answer 2

Ironic that JCResnick would make the following comment: "Well, first remember that she is an amoral banshee who only opens her maw if it is to belittle, insult, or spread mis-truth" and sees no problem 'belittling, insulting and spreading mis-truth' about Ms Coulter. I am by no means an Anne Coulter apologist, but it seems the credibility of this responder is nil.

The responder also states - "She is claiming (falsely) that people have just as much reason to believe the events in the Bible as they do in Darwinism. She is neglecting the exhaustive fossil record that supports Darwin's findings. She would have us believe in Santa Claus as easily as we would believe in gravity."

It is perhaps false to claim "just as much" reason - it is actually probably "more" reason. The responder is neglecting (or denying) the geological record that does support a worldwide flood - but more importantly the revealed word of God.

Some cite geological data to argue against the Flood. The issue for them, perhaps, revolves around the concept of uniformitarianism, which has been described simply in this way: “The present is the key to the past.” Uniformitarianism, first postulated by James Hutton in 1795, proposes three primary concepts: (a) there were no processes (such as geologic processes) operating in the past which are not operating now; (b) there are no processes operating now which were not operating in the past; and (c) process rates have not changed. Because modern scientists observe geologic change to be relatively slow now, many have naturally concluded that geologic processes have always been slow. Yet uniformitarianism, a premise on which much of geologic science is based, is an idea, not a fact. With our limited knowledge, it presently is a powerful paradigm for examining the earth, and given our ignorance of how the Lord has done things, it does help explain many things. The science that uses the idea has found for us such things as gas, oil, and certain types of minerals.

Yet although uniformitarianism is a powerful perspective, it is still a premise, not a fact. Uniformitarianism cannot explain all of the oddities and anomalies about the earth. Further, it neglects a God who can speak and have the dust of the earth obey, who can move mountains at will, and who can divide the Red Sea. We have scriptural evidence that God has intervened in the affairs of the earth and modified the landscape on numerous occasions. Among other things, he changed the earth’s environment after the Fall, he gave Enoch power to move mountains and rivers before the Deluge, he caused the Flood, and he was the cause of the catastrophic events in America at the Savior’s death.

The Flood is a matter of faith and belief. We believe in many events that today we cannot scientifically explain. Though we cannot yet explain the physics or dynamics behind those events, we look forward to the time when the Lord will come and explain them. In the Millennium—a time of great physical change in the earth—he will “reveal all things—

“Things which have passed, and hidden things which no man knew, things of the earth, by which it was made, and the purpose and the end thereof—

“Things most precious, things that are above, and things that are beneath, things that are in the earth, and upon the earth, and in heaven.”

Answer 3

The human evolutionary chain is missing a few pieces. Although there's mounds of evidence in fossil records showing human-like apes, and ape-like humans, we've yet to find evidence of a human-ape hybrid species that would prove the missing link between our two species beyond any doubt.

Also, there's a flood story in EVERY culture. Does that mean there was absolutely a great flood? No. But, for some reason, people all over the planet have talked about a huge flood since the beginning of recorded history, so you figure it out.