Why do you think global flood would case single layer of silt? Single layer can be formed only, if the material comes from the same source. In global flood, material could come from different sources, and therefore cause different layers.
Interesting thing is, there is no Biblical reason to think God would not have wanted people to know. People could have asked anything directly from God. Also, it is the serpent, who lied, who told that people will know by eating the fruit.
If people can believe that from Noah's family we have the variety of people that we can see nowadays, why would it be difficult to accept that in animal families similar differentiation has happened?
The crucial thing is, in Biblical point of view, everything was good when it was created. Then...
By creative counting. :D
Why do you think "black" and "white" people are not called different species, when in animal kingdom similar difference would mean different species?
The differences for example in bear kind are not very big. It could be compared to African, American and European people.
And, I think all evidence points to that everything is getting corrupted, or degenerates/erodes. For example DNA is accumulating more errors each year. And allegedly for...
If it has information that shows it is not from humans only, it is evidence for God.
Nothing that comes even close to the Jesus story. When people imagine, it is much simpler and something that has an example.
I think those could be true, at least partially. But, for example Hercules doesn't...
By what I know, pandas can eat also other food, they just nowadays choose to eat bamboo normally.
But, I think in that time, there were no pandas as we know them, there were the ancestor of pandas, that was also the ancestor of all other bears. And the ancestor bear probably could have eaten...
I don't see any reason why spiritual body could not be on earth also.
For example in Matt. 11:19 Jesus is calling himself son of man. That is one reason why I think he is referring to himself, when he speaks about son of man.
The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold, a...
The other options are basically in my opinion the same as worshiping a big stone on the backyard. I don't think I would have done that, even if we would not have the Bible.
I think, what is the reason why some people don't have food. For example Africa is one of the best places on earth to become prosperous, so, why it seems they have big problems in getting food.
Bible tells the animals went to the Ark, Noah didn't have to get them. And, it is probable that in the Ark there was just one kind of bears and all modern bears are offspring of those that were in the ark. Similarly as we now have about 7 billion different looking people, all though in the ark...
Take a DNA sample? :D
I think God can be known by the description in the Bible. Bible tells God is spirit. That way it can be quite easy to see who is not the God.
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.
John 4:24
He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God...
My point was, I rather use the definition Jesus gives for his disciples. Your definition is probably ok for your disciples. And I think so, because I think it is the most reasonable way to see it. I don't see why you would be the authority rather than Jesus, in case of disciples of Jesus...