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Old 04-10-2004, 08:19 AM   #1
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Default Noah's family-the source of all people?

Some theist explain me : After the Flood when all the humans were dead except for Noah, his three sons and their wives
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9:18 And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.

9:19 These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread. Genesis
In order for them to reproduce, incest had to be made. What did God think about that?

If they reproduced within this very small population there would have been an accumulation of genetic diseases and eventualy the population couldn't have survived. Or the result would have been a population of idiots: us.

Maybe I'm not too far from the truth: I know I'm pretty crazy to post this.
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Standard YEC answer: the gene pool was still without significant errors in Noah’s time, so incest was allowed. By Moses’ time, so many genetic mistakes had accumulated (because of sin) that incest was prohibited.

Of course that makes them moral relativists, but well...
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In order for them to reproduce, incest had to be made. What did God think about that?
It's possible he was happy with it, after all it was a sacred tradition as at the start there were Adam and Eve only!

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But if all the different races of the world are descended from this small group of brothers then to get six foot tall red headed Irishmen and three foot tall woolly hair pygmies we must have evolved. So the Noah story supports evolution
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But if all the different races of the world are descended from this small group of brothers then to get six foot tall red headed Irishmen and three foot tall woolly hair pygmies we must have evolved. So the Noah story supports evolution
So evolution is irefutable! It is based on God's work and word! My oh my what a relief!
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So evolution is irefutable! It is based on God's work and word! My oh my what a relief!
But, of course, races of humans aren't different species. They are those pesky "transitional forms" that Creationists say don't exist. The many "slight" changes that you would expect to find if evolution were true. So Creationists don't actually need fossils to see transitional types, just a mirror.
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But if all the different races of the world are descended from this small group of brothers then to get six foot tall red headed Irishmen and three foot tall woolly hair pygmies we must have evolved. So the Noah story supports evolution
In that sense you are right. Just a differing timeframe.
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So evolution is irefutable! It is based on God's work and word! My oh my what a relief!
The time frame could be in question, but if a person believes that Noah was the last or first human to spawn humanity, after the annhilation of humanity then one would have to wonder about the many races and the time frame of evolution.

Of course considering the concept of the Christian God, then it could be a belief that God directed this evolution (except that all humans regardless of race are composed of the same basic DNA structure and one race is not more genetically advanced than another) so I am not sure evolution would be the correct word nor mutation.
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In that sense you are right. Just a differing timeframe.
You don't have a Biblical timeframe that can account for the evolution of the races
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