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In reply to the discussion: Creationists Try to Outsmart Neil deGrasse Tyson on the Great Flood and Climate Change [View all]mwooldri
(10,303 posts)If one did accept the Noah's Ark story as truth, and since all humans would have descended from Noah... then evolution must be a fact too. Humans are of different races and nothing can really explain the differences unless there was some form of divine intervention that caused people to look different all of a sudden.
Evolution alone explains racial changes as we grew out from somewhere in Africa.
The Noah's Ark tale is just that - a tale. Does it have meanings for Christians? Yes. My belief is that the Old Testament is inspired by God, written by humans, which got relegated to a history/reference book with the coming of Jesus. The Old Testament isn't the Gospel... and my faith is that Jesus gave all humans a new covenant - which superceded the earlier covenant in the tale of Noah's Ark. You may or may not agree with my religious beliefs but I am definitely not a creationist and the Bible was written by humans, not God. The book of Genesis isn't factual - there are too many things in life today that contradict that book. As for the first bit of that book.... the 7 day timeline is more like billions of years and not exactly correct. But it does support the Big Bang Theory and evolution perfectly.
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