There is so much observable evidence supporting evolution and practically nothing opposing the theory except assuming that god would be intentionally deceiving. In light of the abortion issue; may I remind you that embryos in the first stage of nearly
any species (millions) have identical shape and form? It's really just scientists being scientists by not establishing the whole as being a work of fact. Not every single dot has been connected yet because hey, stuff in the ground decays. If you find remains of some species that lived 60 million years ago you are one lucky man; thus, even though we already have a staggering mountain of information it's really hard to try and wrap it up. Especially because the process is so slow we won't ever be able to observe its most far reaching changes on life (such as the coming into existance of new species) unless humanity will be around for another couple million years. Denying its credibility is just intentional ignorance, but anyway let's leave that for another debate.
Yes, many civilisations have stories of big floods because
civilisations started and existed mostly around coastal areas for the better part of history. Rivers and seas flood. This is a natural cycle. Noah however, if he even existed probably living about some 5-10.000+ years ago really had no idea of what the world actually entailed. A tsunami like the one in Japan sweeping over his direct vicinity was effectively his entire world flooding, not to mention that the very notion of all land being covered in water is just incredibly strange.
Also, the whole 'noah took two of each' just doesn't make sense, as there was no way he could build a boat large enough to accomodate every single fucking species on the planet. Even modern science won't be able to pull of something like that. Not to mention that he had no way of knowing all species as he didn't / couldn't know the extent of this world.
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