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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
The fish would have been basically fresh water and developed a tolerance for salt water as the oceans became saltier. This sediment you speak of would not have been so sever in a young earth. Our fresh water species do quite well in high water today. Some would have been lost but, others would have thrived with the increased food supply.
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And who did Noah's children marry to continue the human race? And how is that newborn babies were judged "evil" enough to need drowning along with everyone else? And why would God bother with having Noah save the animals when he could just wave his magic god-wand and put them all into suspended animation or something similar?
You should just answer "Magic" every time someone asks a question about impossible things that happen in the Bible. Trying to use logic to explain the inexplicable is just a waste of time: as long as God is drowning the world in water that he has created ex nihilo and then draining it all offstage when he's done, there's no point in trying to logically explain anything else about the story either.
Do you consider yourself a Biblical literalist - do you claim that everything noted in the Bible is true? If so, how do you reconcile one of the (but not only) direct contradictions of one part of the Bible with another - the last words of Jesus, which are variously rendered as "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" (Matthew); "Father, unto thy hands I commend my spirit"(Luke); "It is finished" (John). Which (if any) of these is the truth - because they can't all be LITERALLY true.
This isn't a matter of faith, it's a matter of direct experience - if you can read, you can look and see that it is impossible - I repeat, impossible - for the entirety of the Bible to be literally true. Therefore, if you claim that it IS so, nothing else you say can be taken seriously; you have already as much as admitted that you prefer your unsupported and errant beliefs about what you THINK the bible says to the actual things it DOES say.