Dear David,
what utter nonsense.
I find it amazing that no doubt good honest Christian people that actually believe evolution is real resort to calling those who know that evolution is a FALSE TEACHING, as LIARS, without ever once stating what those lies are!
These reprehensible claims haves been made on this site over and over again, and I have politely asked for examples, but those requests are ignored and the attack continues.
David, I expect from what you have stated that you actually believe the Bible is inaccurate, that we are the end result of billions of years of pain, suffering and death, even when the Bible tells us ever so clearly that death entered the creation through the sin of Adam and Eve.
Yes, I know you will undoubtedly have a nice neat story to account for that, and all the other glaring inconsistencies, but please answer me this one thing:
Do you really believe that God would have had Noah and his sons build the enormous Ark by applying an almost unimaginable amount of hard manual work if the flood was only local?
They all, (i.e., Noah, his family and the animals), could have simply traveled the necessary distance to out of the flood zone.
God is a God of purpose, He is Love, He is Righteous, He is Just, and He had Noah construct the Ark as the Bible so plainly tells us, because it was necessary, because outside the Ark there was no land anywhere under heaven that was not flooded!
Please take a long hard look at the Replica Ark above and consider the enormous difficulty of building it from scratch without chainsaws, timber jinkers (log trucks), lumber yards, powered cranes, power tools such as drills, thicknessers, planers, circular saws, routers, or other powered machinery etc…
With regard to the reality of the flood of Noah being absolute over ALL the land on Earth under heaven, the translations all say the same thing, that God promises to never again cause a flood to destroy the Earth.
יא וַהֲקִמֹתִי אֶת-בְּרִיתִי אִתְּכֶם, וְלֹא-יִכָּרֵת כָּל-בָּשָׂר עוֹד מִמֵּי הַמַּבּוּל; וְלֹא-יִהְיֶה עוֹד מַבּוּל, לְשַׁחֵת הָאָרֶץ. 11 And I will establish My covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of the flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.’ Genesis 9:11 Torah
OR if you prefer:
וַהֲקִמֹתִ֤י אֶת־בְּרִיתִי֙ אִתְּכֶ֔ם וְלֹֽא־יִכָּרֵ֧ת כׇּל־בָּשָׂ֛ר ע֖וֹד מִמֵּ֣י הַמַּבּ֑וּל וְלֹֽא־יִהְיֶ֥ה ע֛וֹד מַבּ֖וּל לְשַׁחֵ֥ת הָאָֽרֶץ׃ 11
I will maintain My covenant with you: never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.” Genesis 9:11 The Contemporary Torah, JPS, 2006
BUT we still observe local floods all over the world regularly today!
I expect, you like others on this site believe that the Flood of Noah was a LOCAL FLOOD,not a GLOBAL FLOOD.
So, I would be grateful if you could please explain to me the anomaly that exists here; i.e., on one hand we have **God promising He will NEVER again send a FLOOD to DESTROY ALL FLESH,**and on the other hand (if what you say is true and the Flood was only LOCAL), why we STILL OBSERVE LOCAL FLOODS regularly all over the Earth today?
Yes, I agree, of course God knows what He is doing, that is always a given.
The parts of the creation that are unpleasant are the result of sin entering the world through the events in the Garden of Eden by Adam and Eve as the Bible so clearly states in both Testaments.
The Bible also reliably tells us that the whole of creation groans and travails awaiting the restoration of the Heavens and Earth where there no longer will be sorrow or pain or death.
God bless,
jon