This is actually the point that I was going to bring up.
As a EE I was working on a project that would put active RFID tags in cattle. Also, my parents own a cattle ranch and I grew up working with cattle.
In most of the midwest there are many small ranchers with a few hundred acres and just a few hundred head of cattle. They operate on a very slim margin, looking for a few cents gain per pound. To implement a tagging system, even at a cost of a mere $20 per head would put many of these ranchers out of business. They already have to deal with vaccines, winter hay etc. Plus, the cattle are spread out fairly wide.
Where this system makes far more sense is inside feed lots where one reader could service an entire pen and the cattle are routinely sent through the chutes for weekly or monthly weighings and could be scanned as they went through.
I just want to point out that there is a tremendous difference between saying that evolution is undoubtedly false (and one should believe creationism), and saying that evolution might NOT be true.
We could never say for sure that all life came from a single organism. We can never go back in time and see whether animals did evolve the way we think they did.
I mean, being willing to question our theories is what makes science, science. If no one had questioned Newtonian physics (though it had been established and universally accepted for years) then we never would have developed to the state we are now.
This topic isn't about the Flood so I hesitate to reply here, but in case you are actually interested:
1. The Bible does not go into technical details but it is not inconceivable to imagine that at one point the earth did not have such high mountains. The point of mentioning that the mountains were covered was not to show the amount of water, but to show that no one could have survived.
2. I'm also told that there is a huge amount of water underground these days. Possibly there was not so before the Flood.
3. Shortly after the Flood account there is mentioned a man named "Peleg because in his days the earth was divided." This could possibly be a reference to violent upheavals when earth's plates actually shifted considerably. This could have given some of the high mountains we see today.
4. Nearly every major civilization has a "flood" account somewhere, perhaps as legend or on a cave wall or something. This would be expected if these races actually did all descend from the Ark's survivors, as the Bible claims.
I don't know which "God" you are referring to, but the Bible actually explains this with the Great Flood.
I personally have found sand dollar and clamshells on the top of a mountain I was hiking. These got there somehow. Only some cataclysmic event would seem to explain it.
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This is actually the point that I was going to bring up. As a EE I was working on a project that would put active RFID tags in cattle. Also, my parents own a cattle ranch and I grew up working with cattle. In most of the midwest there are many small ranchers with a few hundred acres and just a few hundred head of cattle. They operate on a very slim margin, looking for a few cents gain per pound. To implement a tagging system, even at a cost of a mere $20 per head would put many of these ranchers out of business. They already have to deal with vaccines, winter hay etc. Plus, the cattle are spread out fairly wide. Where this system makes far more sense is inside feed lots where one reader could service an entire pen and the cattle are routinely sent through the chutes for weekly or monthly weighings and could be scanned as they went through.
I just want to point out that there is a tremendous difference between saying that evolution is undoubtedly false (and one should believe creationism), and saying that evolution might NOT be true.
We could never say for sure that all life came from a single organism. We can never go back in time and see whether animals did evolve the way we think they did.
I mean, being willing to question our theories is what makes science, science. If no one had questioned Newtonian physics (though it had been established and universally accepted for years) then we never would have developed to the state we are now.
This topic isn't about the Flood so I hesitate to reply here, but in case you are actually interested:
1. The Bible does not go into technical details but it is not inconceivable to imagine that at one point the earth did not have such high mountains. The point of mentioning that the mountains were covered was not to show the amount of water, but to show that no one could have survived.
2. I'm also told that there is a huge amount of water underground these days. Possibly there was not so before the Flood.
3. Shortly after the Flood account there is mentioned a man named "Peleg because in his days the earth was divided." This could possibly be a reference to violent upheavals when earth's plates actually shifted considerably. This could have given some of the high mountains we see today.
4. Nearly every major civilization has a "flood" account somewhere, perhaps as legend or on a cave wall or something. This would be expected if these races actually did all descend from the Ark's survivors, as the Bible claims.
I don't know which "God" you are referring to, but the Bible actually explains this with the Great Flood. I personally have found sand dollar and clamshells on the top of a mountain I was hiking. These got there somehow. Only some cataclysmic event would seem to explain it.