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I don't see the word "White" anywhere in my last post.

Actually , the people of that region of the Middle East I am sure were and are ranging from very light skinned to very dark skinned. I'm talking about race, not colors.

My point WAS, if it has been say some 5500 - 6000 years since the "worldwide flood", how have we gone in that span of time from 8 people (Noah, his wife, his 3 sons and their wives) who were most likely from the same region to how many different races of people there are the world over now?

Then, way back in those days, how would their decendants have made it all the way to such varied places on this Earth as say Iceland, Tahiti, South America, etc. And, who would they have married when they arrived there?

Scientists also know that people who are known as Native Americans once crossed over from Russia on the Bering Straight land bridge thousands and thousands of years ago. If there had been a worldwide flood, wouldn't it have wiped out ALL the people in both North and South America? And especially among all the small and tiny isolated islands all over the world?

If you think about it logically the theory of a "worldwide flood" just doens't make any sense.

loveapple, you are veiwing the world as it is today not during the time of Noah. The world was much smaller at the time as the continents were one land mass. The size of continents today can be attributed to tectonic plate movement and volcanic activity over thousands of years. As well the climate of each area would have been much different. As global warming has proven over the years water temperatures can effect the climates all over the world. For example, when I look at pictures of me during winter as a child there was lots more snow then we have today. This is not due to scale of myself but those things around me in the picture.

God would have lead the animals to Noah and then he and his family would have put them into the arc.

Even if I bought that idea, which of course I don't it still doesn't answer why God would want to drown the world and all the innocent people in it!

Having been the Egypt myself, and stayed in a hotel right next door, people do live right next to the monuments of Luxor and the Giza plateau. Furthermore, the pyramids were never for live bodies.

As for Pangeia, that was not during the time of Noah. The continents were together in Pangeia millions (not thousands) of years ago. In the time of Noah, the continents looked pretty much like they do today. If they were together, surely the Mayans would have been mentioned in the bible. <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

As for flood myths, all cultures have them. The Natives believe we are on the 4th earth (or is it 5th?) Anyway, the world has been flooded and recreated. I believe this is shamanic man's (or prophets or other seers who can sense the past) way of looking to how many times earth has been totally different than it is now. I mean, there was a time when all the earth was jungle, down to Antartica even. And a time in recent history when the ice came well down into Europe, as low as France.

In sum, one should look to the spirit of the story of Noah, and not take it by the letter. I know that here, there are those that believe in the literal truth of the bible, but I believe it has much more meaning if you take it as analogy and can apply it to one's own life and make it modern.

There are some literalists who believe the earth is only 6000 years old, which of course is crazy! The Bible has some good stuff in it, but it does have to be read with a degree of commonsense imo!

If we were to take the bible LITERAL then women could still be stoned or even burned for having sex outside of marriage. Men could still have innumerable wives or even visit temple prostitutes. Slaves could be legally taken, children could be put to death for disobeying their parents. We women would be considered "unclean" for every imaginable thing. YOur husband could take your maidservant and have her bear children for you.

No thanks, I'm not interested in takin the Bible literally.

Good point!

Could you even IMAGINE how big of a space it would taken to have been able to fit 2 of every animal, including those now extinct, within it?

Nothing is too impossible with God.

God doesn't appear to defy the laws of nature, even if he could, which I doubt!