Dave

trying to find this out. if noah's family was responsible for re-populating the earth, how come we have black people, chinese people, and all different races of people? and how come those races of people all originated from the same areas. my dad, a fundy, said that they 'adapted to their environment'. but wouldnt that be an example of evolution taking place? but seriously, if noah's ark took place, and noah's family was the only family left, could it really be possible for all of these totally different races of people and languages to be formed? i really think the answer is no, but i never have found actual evidence to back up either side. im sure there is evidence against it, because it just seems so obvious. but if anyone could post info related to the question id really appreciate it.

patchy

Some of our resident anthropologists, linguists, and other technical experts can provide the scholarly detail you're looking for, but...in the meantime, the answer, as I suspect you already know, simply boils down to this:

The Bronze Age goatherders who first "recorded" the global flood were about as ignorant about the rest of the world as you'd expect Bronze Age goatherders to be, and thus they failed to keep any number of knee-slappingly ridiculous, falsifying contradictions from finding their way into the account--a problem only magnified by willfully stupid people deciding, two thousand years hence, to take the story literally rather than as the poetic allegory it was very possibly meant to be in the first place.

Again--that's the short version; anything on top of it is just gravy.

Roland

Another question I never see dealt with:

At the time of the flood, Noah was around 500 years old, yet he only had three sons?! No daughters? No granchildren? No great-great-great-great-great grandchildren? Doesn't sound like old Noah and his children were very fruitful in the multiplying department.

Or were all of their progeny simply left behind to perish in the flood to make room for all those dinosaurs on the boat?

Dark Virtue

I'm suprised you haven't heard the fundy answer that one son was caucasian, one was asian, and one was black.

Now how he had a white son, a black son and an asian son is beyond me.

Boro Nut

It only says Noah was righteous. His missus was a right dirty bitch. And for someone who's supposed to live in a multicultural melting pot you strike me as surprisingly naive

Boro Nut

Aspirin99

I recall being taught as a kid that the races were created at the Tower of Babel along with the languages.

ecco

Dave,

Did you ever ask your dad why god felt the best way to rid the world of all the bad people was to have it rain for forty days and forty nights? People not only drowned but many must have died in mudslides, from starvation and from hypothermia. None very pleasant. Did you ever ask him why god felt it necessary to slaughter innocent children and even unborn fetuses? Couldn’t a decent, omnipotent god just have zapped all the bad ones to hell and zapped the innocent ones to heaven?

BTW if there was a great flood and the accompanying mudslides, why haven’t we found any bodies encased in dried mud?

Hang in there.

Ecco

Mageth

No, patchy, this is the short version:

The Biblical Flood account is a myth.

John A. Broussard

A somewhat shorter version is: "It's all miracles."

Mageth

Shorter yet:

"Goddidit"