A Baseline of Technologies should be present if the Flood was real

Also from Origins Talk.

This argument illustrates a common flaw in a number of thought processes -- a failure to go beyond what Thomas Sowell calls "stage one".  People spin these marvelous ideas and fail to ask, "and then what happens?"

If Noah's Flood happened, all humanity is descended from people with the technological skills to build a really big boat, then what happens?

 

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From: Randy Crum <carumba17@yahoo.com>

Date: Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:13 AM

Subject: [OriginsTalk] A Baseline of Technologies should be present if the Flood was real

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There should be a baseline of inventions such as the wheel found in all cultures if the Flood was true

 

According to many sources, the wheel was invented in Mesopotamia in about the fourth millennium BCE. By nearly all creationist chronologies, that places it a quite a few centuries ahead of the flood.

 

While there is some question why it took so long to come up with the invention of the wheel, surely once anyone is shown a wheel in use, the concept is so simple and obvious and so clearly beneficial that no one would forget it.

 

But...

 

For some reason, many cultures didn't have the technology of the wheel until Western civilizations showed it to them. Examples: Native Americans and Australian Aborigines.

 

If all civilizations are descended from Noah and his family who surely saw and understood the benefit of wheels, why didn't all civilizations use the wheel after the flood?

 

Identical questions could be asked about many other inventions such as Bronze tools.

 

Of course if Native Americans and the other cultures that didn't use wheels separated from other humans BEFORE the wheel was invented, the problem vanishes.

 

That's just another of the 1001 unsolvable problems related to the Flood account in the Bible. Surely that account is nothing but a myth.

 

Randy C.