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"Uncle Davey" <noway@jose.com> wrote ...
> Peleg refers in my humble reading of Genesis, looking at the context, and
in
> particular to the positioning of the Babel event narrative in between the
> two mentions of his generation, to the diffusion of the population of
earth
> at the time of Babel, but I think it is fair to say that there could have
> still been significantly accelerated continental drift for a while even
> after the waters had subsided.
Slightly accelerated?! You're not kidding this kind of "accelerated
continental drift" would produce worldwide earthquakes and had the seas
boiling!!
The continents didn't break apart a few thousand years ago!
>Apart from anything else, large earth
> movements were an integral part of that drainage, and that is what gives
us
> the massive 'oligocene' water deposits that we are still drinking today.
for
> example there is one 450 metres beneath where I am sitting right now. It
is
> a massive underwater lake of good drinking water. During that latest drift
> the salts were also released into the seas that had not been salty up
until
> that time, and direct intervention was needed to enable certain kinds to
> begin osmoregulation, which is a feature that could never have evolved,
> because it is complex, you need to have it only if you are in a certain
> environment, and if you are in that environment without it, you die.
What you are saying is partly true, some of the salt did come from the
breaking up of the rocks/mountains but this was a very gradual process...not
something that just happened recently [< 4000 years].
> God also decided what eco-systems were going to be used where, and led
> certain of the animals in that direction just as he had led them to the
ark
> from various places in the first place. If the three toed sloth was not
> going fast enough for God's liking, either he could have made some
> generations extremely large, so that we have the giant sloths that were
> around for a while and then unaccountably vanished, or else he could have
> got an angel to carry them there.
You've ignored 90% of the post...there are many more problems than just the
sloth. The marsupial mole is not the kind of animal that is going to make a
worldwide trek...it burrows in the sand....plenty of that RIGHT WHERE IT
WAS!! But we only find it in Australia.
My question to you is...does it pain you to think that there is a story in
the bible that is myth/fable?
>I don't discount such a possibility, and I
> find it easier to believe that some of the big holes in evolutionary
> thinking, such as hyraxes to elephants, and four footed animals to
> cetaceans, etc etc. Also, if we are talking about evolving into niches,
why
> is it from an evolutionary perspective that all across Eurasia there is a
> belt about 100 miles wide where there are no bears; it's too cold fro the
> brown bear, but not cold enough for the white bear. Why did nothing evolve
> to fill that gap?
>
> In fact as we know nature abhors a vacuum, so that in an empty planet
> migrations of both men and animals happened at a rate much quicker than
that
> we could expect today. Business likewise will develop fast if there is no
> competition, but once the market in a new area settles it becomes far
harder
> to enter. We've seen that in East europe illustrated before our very eyes
> over the last twelve years.
>
> Best,
>
> Uncle Davey
I don't support macro-evolution either, this is also off topic.
>
> PS. It is also possible that the first divisions of earth were pre Babel,
> but that even though they owned lands further afield the tribes of man
> preferred congregating there anyway.
> I'm thinking of writing a novel about a fictional family living at that
time
> and learning to cope with the language division, but that's as far as it
> ever gets, thinking about it.
>
Not sure what you're saying here.
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