NO EVIDENCE FOR NOAH'S WORLDWIDE FLOOD
             Evolution or Special Creation? There are two major groups with ideas on the origin of Earth and life on it. Special Creationists are fundamental Christians who believe the Bible is the true and absolute word of God. Creationists believe that God created the entire universe, the Earth and all life on it, in six days between 5,000 and 10,000 years ago exactly as it was written in the Old Testament's Book of Genesis. They also believe that the geological record was the result of a great worldwide flood. In fact Creationists rely almost entirely on a worldwide flood to support their young Earth beliefs. There is no evidence that the entire geological record and fossil record was the result of a single universal flood that happened a few thousand years ago, lasted a little longer than a year and covered the highest mountains.
             There are problems from the beginning of Noah's story. First, how did Noah gather all the animals? Could the animals traveled from some where else? If the animals came from other parts of the world some of them would have faced very great difficulties. Some animals like sloths and penguins can't travel overland very well at all. Some animals like koalas and many insects require a special diet. How did they bring it along?
             Loading all the animals into the ark would have been impossible. Noah only had seven days to load the Ark (Gen. 7:4-10). "Even if only 15764 animals were loaded aboard the Ark, one animal would have to have been loaded every 38 seconds, without letup. Since there were more animals to load, the time pressures would have been even worse."(Fezer, 49) Next, how did Noah fit all the animals onboard the Ark? On the Ark there were over 810,000 different species of life. There were at least two members of each species, which means the Ark has over 1.6 million animals onboard. The measurements of the Ark were 450 feet long, 525 feet ...