Question 2 for Amigo

This topic was created by caz
[Wed 26 May, 7:06 Tasmanian Standard Time]

I read with great interest your discussion before about
Noah's ark and Adam and Eve. You got round the insest
question but how, if all mankind started from just one
couple, did black white and Asian people devel

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  1. Actually, Added by: Amigo
    [Timestamp: Wed 26 May, 9:23 Tasmanian Standard Time]

    according to the Scriptures, eight people comprising four
    couples survived the Great Flood appox. 4,300 years ago as
    described in Biblical chronology. So you see that it was
    Noah's family who repopulated the earth comprising 'four'
    couples not one couple.



  2. I have a question too! Added by: student
    [Timestamp: Wed 26 May, 9:23 Tasmanian Standard Time]

    I think my question will be kind of similar to caz's
    question, caz you are hinting toward an evolution question
    right(your talking about different races)? If so my
    question will tie in with yours.
    Amigo, I believe in some kind of change in mankind over the
    centuries but not evolution, what is the difference between
    change or adaptation and evolution(is evolution possible)?



  3. Oh dear! Added by: Bingo
    [Timestamp: Wed 26 May, 10:10 Tasmanian Standard Time]

    Evolution refers to the ongoing accumulation of adaptation
    and divergence of different species, genii, families,
    orders etc. An adaptation describes a particular trait that
    is suited to a particular situation. The mechanism for
    evolution, at least in Darwinian theory, is natural
    selection, which takes place at a generation level. The
    principle of natural selection is that if, among a
    population, there are individuals with inherited advantages
    over other individuals, these individuals will leave more
    offspring. The offspring will inherit the advantage and
    from generation to generation the advantage will
    accumulate. This can eventually give rise to new species.
    In my view, you can't believe in simple change in mankind,
    without believing in the fact that changes accumulate over
    time resulting in evolution. You can't look at say a fossil
    of early humans and say 'Oh humans have changed over time
    but they haven't evolved'. It doesn't make sense.



  4. To Student Added by: Amigo
    [Timestamp: Wed 26 May, 10:18 Tasmanian Standard Time]

    The difference between change and evolution is that changes
    within the created kind don't need the addition on new
    genetic information. Upward evolution would, and this
    cannot happen. There is no known way for new information to
    be introduced.



  5. let peace begin with me Added by: Zeno Blah (jackbronte@hotmail)
    [Timestamp: Wed 26 May, 10:18 Tasmanian Standard Time]

    The question of a person's skin color has nothing to do with
    anything besides the nearness or remoteness to the equator
    of a person's ancestors. So to make judgments based on a
    person's skin color is absurd. Peace.



  6. Wait a minute, Amigo Added by: Delver
    [Timestamp: Wed 26 May, 10:47 Tasmanian Standard Time]

    Do you propose that Noah and his wife had a mixed race
    marriage 4,300 years ago and that accounts for the skeletal
    differences in races as well as skin coloration that we see
    today? What about Egyptian genealogical charts defining
    epochs of kings that seem to stretch back further than 4,500
    years and are tied into historical benchmarks that have been
    proven through archeological corroboration? I am not
    referring to sedimentation records and carbon dating but to
    recorded history of various cultures.

    The lineage time table that you use from the Bible is open
    to much interpretation and the accounting of years could be
    off by factors of ten.Don't forget that the pentateuch
    writings were oral tradition for eons before they were
    actually transcribed. Stories pick up the personalies of the
    tellers over great periods of time.



  7. Roentgen Added by: Mr Apostrophe
    [Timestamp: Wed 26 May, 11:22 Tasmanian Standard Time]

    Um "no known way for new iformation to be introduced"? What
    about mutation (the basis of evolution). Mutation is not a
    theory Amigo, it is a fact. It can be demonstrated in the
    laboratory and the natural world. Sorry.
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