It's Always Sunny - evolution versus Christianity

[Huggy Bear]

And Huggy, no, I have never read the bible cover to cover, nor would I ever claim to have expert knowledge of its contents, but I DO know that the theory of evolution is not contained within it.

In a way it does... I'll explain.

Everyone is familiar with the story of Noah's ark. The problem is everyone ASSUMES Noah had to fit 2 (or seven depending on if the animal was clean or unclean, but for the purposes of this example i'll just say 2) of every single animal on the planet in the ark.

In the bible Noah is explicitly instructed to take two of every "sort" of animal.

Genesis 6:19
And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.

The words "sort", "kind" and "species" are synonomous.

spe·cies
/ˈspēsēz,ˈspēSHēz/
noun
noun: species; plural noun: species; noun: sp.; plural noun: spp.

1. Biology
a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding. The species is the principal natural taxonomic unit, ranking below a genus and denoted by a Latin binomial, e.g., Homo sapiens.
synonyms: type, kind, sort;

How the bible determines what belongs to a species is whether or not they can produce fertile offspring.

Genesis 1:11
And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

Genesis 1:24
And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.

remember kind = species

So each species must produce offspring "whose seed is in itself", in other words, fertile.

For example a wolf and a dog can produce fertile offspring, but a horse and donkey cannot, and therefore would be of different "sorts", meaning the wolf and dog would qualify as belonging to the same "sort" and Noah would only need to take one of each.

This means Noah didn't need to take very many animals on to the ark at all, he just took a few and evolution did the rest... I mean come on, science even tells you that a bunch of animals went extinct all at once, but when the bible says it, it's ridiculous.