From: utzoo!decvax!duke!unc!tim
Newsgroups: net.religion
Title: Re: A few questions
Article-I.D.: unc.4869
Posted: Wed Mar 30 20:29:48 1983
Received: Thu Mar 31 02:33:14 1983
References: tekmdp.1868


Another good question about the Flood story in Genesis comes from
Mark Twain's "Letters from the Earth".

	"[Noah] had no kangaroo, and no 'possum, and no
	ornithorhynchus, and lacked a multitude of other
	indispensable blessings which a loving Creator
	had provided for man and forgotten about, they
	having long ago wandered to a side of this world
	which he had never seen and with whose affairs he
	was not acquainted. And so everyone of them came
	within a hair of getting drowned.

	"They only escaped by an accident. There was not
	water enough to go around. Only enough was provided
	to flood one small corner of the globe -- the rest
	of the globe was not then known, and was considered
	nonexistent."

If you haven't read this book, you should. You can get it at any
decent library or bookstore. It should be required reading for
Christians: it raises multitudes of questions which have no
easy solution, but which are at the heart of the faith. It is a
"dangerous book" -- it forces thought.

Tim Maroney