If you go to any and I mean anyone with knowledge of genetics, ask them what the viability of any species is when reduced to a gene pool of two (male and female) individuals.
The probability of that species surviving is 0. How do you explain the wide variety of species on the planet today?
2007-10-16 08:32:52 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2007-10-16 08:36:29 · answer #1 · answered by kenny p 7 · 2⤊ 8⤋
I don't believe in Noah and the Ark as a literally true story. But remember there are two different stories about Noah gathering the animals, both included, one after the other (just as there are two different stories about God creating the earth!)
In one account Noah gathers two of every species. In the other, Noah gathers seven of every 'clean' animal and two of every 'unclean' animal.
While you're at it, scientists tell us that over 90% of the species that have ever been alive on earth are now extinct. If this is part of God's plan, you'd think he'd design into the earth a mechanism for new species to form!
2007-10-16 15:40:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not true. The probability is low, but not 0. Many islands have become overrun by cats that originated from a single introduced female. That fallacy aside, evolution would have to be very fast for all the terrestrial biodiversity of the Earth to derive from a box of the given dimensions.
2007-10-16 15:40:25 · answer #3 · answered by novangelis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Molecular geneticists can construct a clock to measure how many generations were required to result in the observed genetic diversity in a population, and so you are correct, the idea that so much diversity within species could be achieved within a few thousands years is a genetic fantasy.
2007-10-16 15:49:19 · answer #4 · answered by Dendronbat Crocoduck 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You're absolutely correct, if you refer to the knowledge of Man about stats and probabilites of species survival from Noah's Ark. BUT...if God gave such explicit instructions, His hand must have been involved from construction to land fall. So...in God's plan, there are no flaws, and 100% survival rate, He is good!
2007-10-16 15:39:36 · answer #5 · answered by Mookie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Every species that is on Earth now was here when God first created them. They are so many still here because of God and only because of Him.
2007-10-16 15:38:59 · answer #6 · answered by martin.keli 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
See God Shew Org's
'Revelation about Noah's Ark'
for the solution to the "mystery".
2007-10-16 15:42:25 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hebrew rendering of Genesis chapter 6 reads that the flood was NOT worldwide.
2007-10-16 15:36:48 · answer #8 · answered by Royal Racer Hell=Grave © 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Interbreeding
2007-10-16 15:36:14 · answer #9 · answered by Happy2bAlive 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
God made the animals in the first place. So he enabled them to reproduce successfully after the flood.
You can't always apply science & logic to a miracle. Either you believe, or you don't.
2007-10-16 15:36:50 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
magic!
same way you get 1.6 billion species on a single boat, and not have the predators eating the others.
2007-10-16 15:36:22 · answer #11 · answered by kent_shakespear 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋