[__ Science __ ] How Could the Ark Have Survived the Stresses of the Flood?

[Uncle J]

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That's an interesting perspective, and it makes me wonder what it's based on.

I'm in a bit of a unique situation, where I grew up in an evangelical church, studied the biological sciences in college, and have worked as a biologist for over 25 years. And I have to say, my experiences were pretty much the opposite of what Ham describes.

I've never once had a professor, colleague, supervisor, or anyone else in either the academic or scientific realm tell me that a person cannot accept the conclusions of science about the age of the universe/earth, or the evolutionary history of life on earth, and also be a Christian. I've asked some of my colleagues who are Christian if they ever heard that from a professor or scientist and they haven't either.

On the other hand, I regularly heard that from the pastor of our church, my Sunday School teacher, our youth leader, and some of my Christian family members.

So from my perspective, the "you can't be a Christian if you accept the conclusions of science" message isn't coming from professors and scientists, it's coming from evangelical Christians.

Are you experiences different? Have you had professors and/or scientists tell you that? If so, I'd be very interested to hear who they were and what they said.

 

[Uncle J]

Oil and organic-based fuel resources were made in mass quantities by the Flood.

If that were so, you'd think the oil and gas companies would utilize a flood-based model to find and extract those resources. Instead, they have always based their exploration and extraction work on standard old earth, evolution based models (e.g., using index fossils to age and identify strata).

So if the young earth creationists think a flood based model would be more accurate and would therefore work better, they should develop one and demonstrate its superiority to the oil and gas companies. They'd jump on it in a heartbeat.