I don't know. You're impressed with the scholarship on Wiki enough to take that claim at face value?

<How did the bison get to North America, the giant tortoise to the Galapagos, the koalas and kangaroos and echidnas to Australia, starting from Mt. Ararat?>

Yes, simple was exactly the expression I was struggling to convey. Be seeing you.

(1) God supposedly decided to wipe out the vast majority of humankind and land animals because Man had displeased him, correct? What exactly had people done that was so terrible as to warrant such a draconian punishment? Was it worse than the sorts of things people do today? How is it that God, having created Man and being omniscient, hadn't foreseen how Man would behave? Wasn't God's reaction petulant and extreme, to say the least? And why slaughter the animals too - what had they done?

(2) Really basic point: how many of each animal did Noah take on the Ark? Genesis 6:19-20 says two of each kind of animal (one male, one female), while Genesis 7:2-3 (very shortly thereafter) seems to say seven of each "clean beast" and fowl, and two of each "unclean beast."

(3) There are millions of species of animals on Earth, right? And you would contend that all of those species must have been on the Ark or they wouldn't be here today, since species don't evolve, correct? The scientists quoted in this article say between 7.4 million and 10 million species: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/30/s... Of those, only 1.3 million have actually been named and catalogued so far. Id. Now some of those are fish and other aquatic creatures, which presumably wouldn't have been on the Ark. But could an ark (of 300 x 50 x 30 cubits, Genesis 6:15) really hold (at least) two of each of the remaining millions of species?

(4) How did Noah get two of each of those species? As the above-cited article indicates, a majority of species haven't even been named and catalogued yet. Indeed, the concept of "species" didn't exist. How could Noah have gotten all those animals from species a majority of which that scientists even today haven't named and catalogued? And how did he get animals from far-flung areas of the globe that he didn't even know existed?

(5) Did Noah get microbes too? Microbes that only live on land, not the sea, would presumably have died if they weren't on the ark. But microbes weren't even discovered until 1675, by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, many centuries after Noah. http://www.leben.us/index.php/compo... Did Noah know of microbes, if so how, and how did he secure at least a pair of each species of them?

(6) Did any of the members of the species on Noah's Ark die before reproducing, or prove incapable of reproduction?

(7) All of the animals resulting from these matings of just two (or maybe seven in some cases) animals would be very inbred, right? Did problems resulting from that cause any of the species to die out? Did any species did out because there were so few of them, and they did not succeed in reproducing enough animals to sustain the species before it went extinct? (This would seem to be a <very> great danger with just two or seven of each species.)

(8) How did Noah stop the animals from eating each other?

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(10) How did Noah keep enough water on the Ark for these millions of animals? It's not as though the animals could drink sea water.

(11) How did Noah deal with the <massive> quantities of feces and urine that these millions of animals must have generated? Many of us have known people who own eight or ten cats and whose houses smell like a gigantic cat urinal. Similarly with pig farms and so forth. Noah's Ark would have had sanitation problems many orders of magnitude worse, which Noah and his family members could not possibly have dealt with.

(12) What about after the animals got off the ark? The flood must have destroyed almost all of the food these animals ate. There would have been no land animals left for the carnivores to eat, and surely very few plants (if any) could manage to survive being submerged underwater for 40 days. Why didn't the animals starve to death after they left the ark? The natural thing to do would be for them to eat each other, but that would wreck the whole plan, wouldn't it?

(13) As <al wazir> said, how did the non-flying animals get dispersed to all parts of the globe?

You mean what a lightweight who calls interpretations “lies” would call dishonest editing.

(unless you didn’t say or claim anything)

My phrase was "I'm not claiming this can happen on such a huge scale..." You cut it down to "I'm not claiming this can happen..."

The single most important concept in life is sustainability.

It means more than sitting and watching your electric meter run backwards or reducing your use of gasolene from a thousand galleons a year to 12 galleons a year.

The wealthier people have already figured it out. Conservatives won't like it because it means changing the way they think.

The old adage "If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem" has never been more applicatable.

Stop talking about miniscule problems like the existence of God Get off your butt and do something.