You seem to have the misunderstanding of timing. The Flood was pre-Abraham and the selection of the "Chosen People".
What most likely will be the Destruction of Humankind?
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Actually it happened before that. When Adam and Eve were banished from the Garden of Eden they begat Cain and Abel. After Cain murdered Abel, he was banished from the family. He then went and married a woman from Nod, which was east of Eden. (not to be confused with the movie)
This "other tribe" was already there. Adam & Eve's family line were already the "chosen" people.
As were other cultures on the earth. The lythology of Noah is great. But to actually think that every land animal on earth was saved in one boat is a bit of a stretch.
My point is. That Noah's brood could be (if God Magic is taken into effect) the sole progenitors of new cultures before Abraham ever walked the Earth. That Cain was able to find a mate doesn't change that everybody except Noah's family could have died and there still could have been a whole new world....
Later one of Noah's Grandkids tried to create a one-world government and build a tower that reached into "heaven"...
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Except that there is evidence man living well away from the area of Noah before this time. There is evidence of tribes following herds of wild animals across central asia and north america before the time of noah.
And the variety of species (many of which were never described by anyone until more modern times) would not have evolved in so short a time.
And as progenitors of all the races, they would have had to conveniently follow the races and cultures that died out in the flood that never happened.
But I can believe it was one of those who believed all this that would try and create a one-world government.
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I was going to post some smartass remark.
But I read Don Quixote's "In Memoriam" post, and saw the stark contrast between someone who lost a loved one in a war and someone who sees war as a means of elevating human evolution.
Talking with people who have lost family members should teach us the value of war. Talking to war veterans about their experiences should teach us the true lessons learned in war. Talking to the survivors who lived in a war zone should teach us what lessons we need to learn.
But for the best lesson about war, go watch a group of veterans visit the Vietnam War Memorial. Watch their faces and watch what they leave behind. Watch the tough looking bikers stroll along the black wall until they find a name they know. Watch the chance on their face. Watch what they share with a cold piece of marble.
If you ever get a chance to see it, the National Archives maintains a huge collection of items left at the wall. Love letters that are decades old and water stained, teddy bears, photographs of comrades-in-arms, medals, pictures of families and sweethearts, yearbooks with smiling young faces in them, beer bottle caps from far away, unit patches, birthday cards and more.
I know that there are times when war is the only answer. But why must we continue to ask those questions that are best answered by sending our young men and women to die in agony so far from home.
We have put a man on the moon, arranged atoms to form the letters IBM, cured poli and smallpox, broken down racial barriers farther than have ever been broken, created technology that puts more information in the hands of more people than could have been dreamed of just a few decades ago. We have saved infants and children that would never have survived just 2 decades ago. We have advanced medicine to the point that what was a certain death sentence just a few years ago is now treatable and the person saveable.
And yet the only way we can solve many of our problems is by gathering our heros, putting them in uniform, and sending them off to war with young heros gathered in another land and sent to war with us.
With all our advances and our wisdom, we still cannot avoid organized murder as an option.
It a damn shame for all of humanity.
Again this discounts God Magic. Creation "scientists" believe that Pangea was broken up at the time of Babylon thus explaining the "spread" of humanity across the world so quickly.
To a creature that is "omnipotent" nothing is impossible.
They even try to explain coal deposits and oil as products of the Great Flood.
The events, in the times that they were set, would not stop Noah's brood from being the sole progenitors of the new cultures if you add a dash of God Magic into play.
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It reminds me of a cartoon I saw years ago. It showed some scientists looking at a complex formula on three blackboards. The first board was full of complicated mathematics, the second board simply said "A Miracle Occurs", and then the third board showed more mathematics. One scientist was saying "I think you need to be a little more specific in step two".
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What about bees?
Not those nicely brought up bees that Damo makes in his garden but those nasty homicidal killer bees, from Brazil, with their big stings and buzzing foulness?
The plan is to pack those up and send them to France where they'll fit right in.
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Mankind is our own worst enemy. And we are also the worst enemy of virtually every other living thing on the planet.
Well, except for cockroaches and rats.
Well, except for cockroaches and rats.
And seagulls.
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I'll join in too! Boy I hate mankind, we are the enemy!
Sometimes I reflect on how on earth the compassionate ideology of the left in the 20th century could have resulted in so many tens of millions of deaths. Then you see posts like this and remember how they really see man...