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Question for young earth creationists
November 8, 2011 at 4:09 pm
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This question is directed at young earth creationists, specifically those who accept Genesis as literal fact. This is an honest question that I don't recall ever being answered by any theist I've spoken to on the subject. I'm not baiting you.
Non-theists: I'd like to keep this thread free of debate and/or refutation - if you'd like to comment, please do so in a separate thread.
On to the question:
Assuming that the accounts of creation and the global flood in Genesis are historical fact, how did the aboriginal people of the American and Australian continents come to be there? When did this occur?
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RE: Question for young earth creationists
November 8, 2011 at 4:53 pm
(November 8, 2011 at 4:09 pm)I_Blaspheme Wrote: This question is directed at young earth creationists, specifically those who accept Genesis as literal fact.
Statler is the man for this. 
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RE: Question for young earth creationists
November 8, 2011 at 4:53 pm
(November 8, 2011 at 4:09 pm)I_Blaspheme Wrote: On to the question:
Assuming that the accounts of creation and the global flood in Genesis are historical fact, how did the aboriginal people of the American and Australian continents come to be there? When did this occur?
I can answer that question from a YEC perspective and I think it's bullshit too: Apparently, in the days of Peleg (one of Noah's great-great-great grandkids, several hundred years after the flood) the supercontinent of Pangea finally split into the continents we all know today.
Genesis 10:25
And unto Eber were born two sons; the name of the one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.
The real problem is in squaring the glacial state of continental drift today with the state of continental drift that would have had to occur then.
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RE: Question for young earth creationists
November 8, 2011 at 11:18 pm
Could it be the same way the Polynesians found their way to Hawaii. Just sayin'.
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RE: Question for young earth creationists
November 8, 2011 at 11:42 pm
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(November 8, 2011 at 4:53 pm)Rayaan Wrote: Statler is the man for this.
Statler is definitely for it, but whether he is a man is extremely questionable.
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RE: Question for young earth creationists
November 9, 2011 at 12:05 am
Aw man, no fair. I might want in on this at some point.
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RE: Question for young earth creationists
November 9, 2011 at 12:07 am
Feel free to join the "Companion Thread."
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RE: Question for young earth creationists
November 9, 2011 at 4:30 am
(November 9, 2011 at 12:07 am)Minimalist Wrote: Feel free to join the "Companion Thread."
Min - thanks for opening the companion thread.
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RE: Question for young earth creationists
November 9, 2011 at 2:39 pm
(November 8, 2011 at 4:53 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: I can answer that question from a YEC perspective and I think it's bullshit too: Apparently, in the days of Peleg (one of Noah's great-great-great grandkids, several hundred years after the flood) the supercontinent of Pangea finally split into the continents we all know today.
But based on the creationist deluded view, there was never a Pangea. Continental shift never happened in a creationist's world view. Because it takes millions of years, they think the earth is only 6 thousand years old. 
My question or 2 for the creationists would be, how would the huge ark idea even work and how do you overcome genetic disorders due to inbreeding?
Haven't been given a proper response to that one yet.
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RE: Question for young earth creationists
November 9, 2011 at 3:45 pm
(November 9, 2011 at 2:39 pm)Ace Otana Wrote: (November 8, 2011 at 4:53 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: I can answer that question from a YEC perspective and I think it's bullshit too: Apparently, in the days of Peleg (one of Noah's great-great-great grandkids, several hundred years after the flood) the supercontinent of Pangea finally split into the continents we all know today.
But based on the creationist deluded view, there was never a Pangea. Continental shift never happened in a creationist's world view. Because it takes millions of years, they think the earth is only 6 thousand years old.
My question or 2 for the creationists would be, how would the huge ark idea even work and how do you overcome genetic disorders due to inbreeding?
Haven't been given a proper response to that one yet.
Not true creationist do support Pangea. Genetic disorders were far less then, the gene pool was rather pure.
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