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indeed cottons, this is a friendly debate. we are not calling eachother names here, we are only arguing wether or not *everyhing* in the bible is correct or not. i say no, cottons says yes.
i do respect cottons view, but i do not agree (obviously) with them.
and also cottons: i think we have beat the noah thing to death. if you still believe 30 million animals, with food fitted into an oversized barge, please do. but a you cannot count species they way you do. cross breeding do not create new species, merely variations of the same. this is examplified by cats, dogs and horses, of which crossbreeding have resulted in animals with different attributes, but still beeing the same species.
a polar bear is radically different from say a panda bear. you cannot produce a polar bear (or panda for that matter) by crossbreeding other kinds of bears.
and how would you crossbreed an aardvark, the funniest animal alive. much less transport it back and forth in biblical times.
and you have still not explained how these animals survived after the assumed flood. many of these species require a higly evolved eco-system around them. all the species living in rain forests for example. these forests use hundreds, if not thousands of years to develop fully.
your representation of pangea and plate-tectonics is wrong. plate tectonics work due to magma centered around the earths core flowing in currents due to the magnetic field. the surface of the earth floats on this magma, moving with it. this process takes thousands of years moving a continent only a few meters.
the salt deserts you mention are perfectly natural occuring, and have been explained long ago using, among others, plate-tectonics. no need for flood theories there. in fact, the entire US east-coast, running nearly up to the rocky's was once seabed before magma pressure forced it higher up and thus it became dry land.
as for part two, and its followup, yes all the quotes are from the king james version. the one you claimed perfect. and there can be no "translation error" when the gospels disagree so much. even the first greek and hebrew versions contain these same discrepancies in their narrative of the gospel.
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