But, they are hiding something they don't like to talk about. Here goes;
The fossil record contains evidence of about 500,000,000 species of land animals. That is a lot...especially if you have to fit them all on the ark, along with enough food for a year. This raises several problems.
No need to hide from this issue. The explanation is straight-forward. The Bible says that Noah took onto the ark two of every
kind of animal (male and female), and seven pair of every clean animal, and seven pair of every bird.
So he took a pair of each kind of animal - a pair of cats, a pair of dogs, a pair of elephants, a pair of each kind of dinosaur, a pair of zebras, a pair of eagles, etc. as well as food for each and had room to spare. The Bible refers to the different types of animals as "kind" or "sort".
The 500,000 species that you are referring to today are variations within kinds, and not kinds themselves. "Kind" in the Bible is probably closer to "Family" (of which there are about 160 known families today) in the Linnean system of taxonomy that is used today.
You see what happened after the flood is that the animals migrated all throughout the earth and adapted to their environments. A dog didn't come from a banana--like some evolutionists claim--rather the creature that was the dog kind that Noah took onto the boat adapted and bred through many generations and now we have pit bulls, St. Bernards, Chihuahuas, Terriers, etc. and wolves, coyote's and fox's probably had the same ancestor on Noah's boat.
This "microevolution" is the only form of "evolution" (if you can call it that) that is directly observable and reproducable today. As a matter of fact, it is done all the time today by breeders.
It is a variation within a kind, not producing a whole new kind of animal!!! You can not get a cat out of a dog given "millions of years" like some evolutionists claim ("Origin of Species")!
Also, note that you
do not gain genetic information when you do selective breeding, rather
genetic information is lost. In other words, you can't breed back to the original dog kind that Noah brought on board. It's genetic information is spread throughout all the variations that we see today.
The thought that all species came from some primordial soup is preposterous and goes against the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Nothing that has been observed in science gives any indication that life spontaneously generates out of non-life (unless God says so, which he did in the beginning, hence Creation --but that is not billions of years of death and mutation that evolutionists claim--only 6 days like he said, and it was good
. Rather, everything that scientists observe clearly shows that things are wearing down, loosing energy, loosing genetic information, etc.
The ordering and naming of plants and animals that is in use today is the Linnean system, arranged by Carl Linnaeus -- the Father of Taxonomy. Interesting to note that he was a creationist who saw the beauty and wonder in God's creation. He wrote in his books:
Systema Naturae: Creationis telluris est gloria Dei ex opere Naturae per Hominem solum - The Earth's creation is the glory of God, as seen from the works of Nature by Man alone.
Also, Linnaeus wrote,
Unitas in omni specie ordinem ducit (The invariability of species is the condition for order [in nature]).
You see that he believed, as the Bible says, that God made each creature according to its kind, and that boundary cannot be crossed.
Here are the verses for reference:
Gen 6
17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die. 18 But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee. 19 And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every
sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female. 20 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every
sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive. 21 And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them. 22 Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.
Gen 7
13 In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; 14 They, and every beast after his
kind, and all the cattle after their
kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his
kind, and every fowl after his
kind, every bird of every
sort. 15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life. 16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.
Also in, Gen 1, we see that God originally made them according to their kind:
21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their
kind, and every winged fowl after his
kind: and God saw that it was good. 22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. 23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. 24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his
kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his
kind: and it was so. 25 And God made the beast of the earth after his
kind, and cattle after their
kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his
kind: and God saw that it was good.
