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Forum: Theological Expressions
Re:

Question on Noah's Ark story (CH)
Date: 2001, Apr 21
From: <Anonymous>

Gen 10 lists seventy ethnic groups which dispersed from the Tower of Babel. Noah had three sons - Shem, Ham and Japheth. The descendents of Japheth migrated westward to the Aegean, northward to Europe and eastward into the Asian subcontinent. They are the Indo-Europeans. 65% of the Japhethine lines retain their identity today. Name of Japheth is found in ancient literature such as Iapetos (Greek) and Iyapeti (Aryans in India). In Australian aboriginal legend, he was Yaperi.
Descendents of Ham migrated mainly into Africa. Some Hamites migrated to Oriental countries. Some crossed the land bridge (Bering Strait) into North and South America. Muslims, non-Hamite, have conquered parts of Africa and settled there. 20% of the 30 Hamite lines retained their identity.
Descendents of Shem are the Semitic people.
Book by Dr Frank Lewis Marsh - EVOLUTION, CREATION AND SCIENCE :
The journeys from the mountains of Arafat to their present habitats were made in an intermittent fashion, each generation sending representatives a little farther from the original home. The presence of tapirs only in South America and Malaysia, opposite sides of the earth, is indicative that animals migrated in more than one direction.... Increase in number of individuals of any one kind causes a necessity for spreading outward toward the horizon in search of food and homes....
It is quite unnessary to assume that hundreds or thousands of years were required for animals to attain their present geographical distribution. In 1883, the island of Krakatoa was left destroyed by a volcanic eruption. For 25 years, nothing lived. When the colonists came with a few mammals in 1908,.... 90% of Krakatoa's new inhabitants, Dutch scientists found, were forms that could have arrived by air.
Also in times of flood, large masses of earth and vegetation, including trees, could be torn loose from the banks of the rivers and swept out to sea. Such masses, sometimes are encountered floating in the ocean out of sight of land, still lush and green, with palms 20 to 30 feet tall. It is entirely probable that land animals may be transported long distances in this manner.