The Statler Waldorf Balcony

[Rev. Rye]

All right, I take it that you take the Bible literally, presumably saying that the earth is roughly 6000 years old. According to the Bible, it took place some 1600 or so years after the creation, and if Ussher's work is still used around Creationist circles, it happened around 2348 BC. Here's the Problem: The great Pyramid of Giza was built about 200 years before that, and somehow remained pretty much intact; come to think of it, it appeared that the entirety of Egyptian Culture remained intact. Granted, there was probably a dynastic change around that same time, with the Pharaoh Teti, but if you're going to say that one of Noah's sons took over Egypt and somehow rebuilt the entire civilisation from scratch in the matter of a few years, why would he have recreated their old religion, since monotheism wouldn't come to Egypt again for at least a millennium?

And for that matter, can you explain to us what actually constitutes a Biblical "Kind" anyway? And even then, I don't think all the speciation necessary would be possible in just a few thousand years. Millions I can guess, but less than 5000? If speciation happened so quick, people wouldn't be so quick to deny Darwin.