Noah, his children, and humanity today.

[ajb]

But the Judeo-Christian God is a diety of law. Thus he established the laws of genetics and hence if he somehow twisted them to allow for all the races and people today in a mere few centurys he is a law breaker. A better question is, why even do that in the first place? Is having all these different races that important that he would break his own rules?

 

I guess that might be interpreted differently by different groups and sects. And certainly, that is a very modern interpretation. I though that "God" the omnipotent could do what ever he wanted?

[CDarwin]

A few good points to get from the story:

Right after exiting the ark, Noah sacrificed a few animals to God. Whoops.

Genesis 8:20 And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt-offerings on the altar.

Considering the fact God doesn't accept the unholy animals (seven of each were supposed to be taken) and that there were supposed to be only two of each holy animal, I would say that was quite ruining the point of saving them in the first place (extinction by godly-sacrifice, anyone?). Wouldn't you?

 

I think you've got that backwards. It was seven of the clean animals (and all fowl), and two of all the unclean (except some fowl). So there would have been some clean animals left after the sacrifice. I'd be a lot more concerned for all the unclean animals Noah dumps on Mount Ararat. Those two, poor little koalas had to successively crawl then swim all the way back to Australia. Where a lot of other marsupials also decided to go, for no particular reason.

[ydoaPs]

I think you've got that backwards. It was seven of the clean animals (and all fowl), and two of all the unclean (except some fowl). So there would have been some clean animals left after the sacrifice. I'd be a lot more concerned for all the unclean animals Noah dumps on Mount Ararat. Those two, poor little koalas had to successively crawl then swim all the way back to Australia. Where a lot of other marsupials also decided to go, for no particular reason.

The continents weren't that far away then. The flood is what caused the continents to break up!