(March 8, 2012 at 10:21 pm)Stimbo Wrote: The problem of getting all the animals to the Middle East isn't half as bad as getting them from the Ararat region to all the different parts of the world we find them today without leaving any trace of their respective journeys. Moreover, there is the question of why particular species (or kinds or whatever label you think works) occupying broadly similar climates chose to stop off in one country instead of another. For example, why are there no panthers to be found in Africa, nor lions in South America? Presumably their Noachian ancestors would have had to pass through the one continent to get to the other, if only in part. Then there's Australia with an ecosystem all its own; presumably all the marsupials which inhabit the particular niches taken up by non-marsupials in every other country had to travel all the way to their continent en masse without leaving behind any traces anywhere else in the world. Not only that but they just happened to be exactly the right creatures to fill the available niches when they got there.
The more you pick at it, the more you come to realise that this flood thing truly is unbelievable.
Edit: Bugger, beaten to the punch again. Ah well, mine's more verbose.
What I really want to know is what happened to all the animal shit (disregarding the 8 humans aboard)?
