Question: How did Noah fit all the animals on the ark?
Explanation: The flood was only a local flood, not a world-wide flood.

OR: There were less animals back then. Would this contradict the story of creation when ALL the animals were created? How do we explain the creation of more species after Noah? Did God start creating more? Or do we invoke the theory of evolution to explain the creation of more species? Or is it possible God started by creating a small number of plants and animals (creationism) which then evolved into more numerous species (evolution)? [The theory of evolution is currently seen as a threat to a literal interpretation of the Bible. There are still efforts to repress the teaching of evolution as a science in schools.] Noah: What about plants? Were they saved? Did they all survive being submerged under water for forty days? What about the fish?

Genesis 30
At the time it was thought the woman was nothing more than a human incubator. They knew the semen went in, and months later a baby came out. It was unknown at the time that the woman contributed an egg and some of her own genes. It was thought the man contributed everything. Thus it was not so important what woman bore the child, as no matter what woman bore the child it was still thought the man contributed 100% and the resulting baby was 100% his.

If there are any errors in Scripture, no matter how small, the book can no longer be our standard of truth. I become the standard of truth, as I determine which Bible statements are right and which are wrong.

animism pg.22 Among his many experiments, the late Mr. Romanes tells of one upon a Skye terrior, which, "used to play with dry bones by tossing them in the air, throwing them to a distance, and generally giving them the appearance of animation, in order to give himself the ideal pleasure of worrying them. On one occasion I tied a long and fine thread to a dry bone and gave him the latter to play with. After he had tossed it about for a short time, I took the opportunity, when it had fallen at a distance from him and while he was following it up, of gently drawing it away from him by means of the long, invisible thread. Instantly his whole demeanour changed. The bone, which he had previously pretended to be alive, began to look as if it were really alive, and his astonishment knew no bounds. He first approached it with nervous caution, but, as the show receding movement continued and he became quite certain that the movement could not be accounted for by any residuum of force which he had himself communicated, his astonishment developed into dread, and he ran to conceal himself under some articles of furniture, there to behold at a distance the 'uncanny' spectacle of a dry bone coming to life." Here, as Mr. E.P. Evans remarks by way of comment, "we have the exercise of close observation, judgement, reason, and imagination culminating in the exhibition of superstitious fear -- all the elements, in short, which constitute religious sentiment in its crudest form."

Genesis 37:9
The word "Kochab" in the Hebrew means both "star" and "constellation." The significance, therefore, of the reference to the "eleven stars" is clear. Just as Joseph's eleven brethren were eleven outof the twelve sons of Jacob, so Joseph saw eleven constellations out of the twelve come and bown down to him. And the twelve constellations can only mean the twelve of the zodiac. - E. Walter Maunder "The Astronomy Of The Bible" p.186 (1908)

Who wrote Genesis?
Moses could not have written about his own death in the past tense.

Luke 24:27
I find it a weak argument. The word "Genesis" is not mentioned, in fact the word "Genesis" is not mentioned anywhere in the Bible.

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