Dead Fish Make No Babies

After unsuccessfully attempting to calculate the volume of every species of animal on the planet, I started to look for alternative methods for determining whether or not the Biblical account of Noah's flood could have actually happened.

It was not long before my thoughts turned towards what would be going on everywhere else in the world, as opposed to just the happenings on the ark itself.

If a gigantic flood occurred which covered the highest mountain in the world (Mt. Everest, 5.5 miles high), or even if a somewhat less cataclysmic flood took place which covered the highest peak in the region (Mt. Ararat, 3.2 miles high), then all of the bodies of water below these elevations would unite into a single super-ocean.

All of the fish in the oceans, lakes, streams, rivers, ponds, estuaries, etc. would now be swimming in the same body of water, which would have a fairly uniform concentration of salt.

If this super-ocean was high in it's salt concentration, then most of the freshwater fish would die. If the super-ocean had a low salt concentration, then most of the saltwater fish would die. Either way, diverse species which require differing concentrations of salt in their environments in order to survive would all now be clumped into a single gigantic puddle.
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But what does this mean? Well, first you have to decide whether or not you agree with evolution.

First let's examine the scenario if you don't agree with evolution:

Scenario #1: No Macro-Evolution

• Huge categories of fish would have died during the flood.
• Let's say that the flood happened to have a high salt concentration, and all the fresh water fish died (although the same scenario applies with super low, low, moderate, high, and super high concentrations of salt- no matter what, the salt concentration would be about the same throughout the super puddle and this would cause someone to lose).
• There is a mass extinction of all fresh water fish (except for the few that already have the ability to survive in various levels of salinity).
• The flood recedes.
• From that point on, there would be essentially no more fresh water fish anywhere beneith the level of the flood (either 3.2 or 5.5 miles), because species do not change.

This is obviously false, because I myself have caught and eaten fresh-water fish at low elevations many times.

Conclusion: If you don't believe in evolution, then it is impossible for the account in Genesis concerning the flood to be factual. This would be considered an error in the Bible.

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Scenario #2: Yes Macro-Evolution

• Once again, let's say that the salt concentration of the super puddle remains at about the same level as the ocean before the flood.
• Once again, most of the fresh water fish die.
• The flood recedes, and we are left with just salt water species, and an extreme minority of freshwater fish that pulled through.
• Now, because it is possible for species to undergo macro-evolution, they are subject to slow changes over time.
• Unfortunately, 6000 years is not even close to enough time for speciation to occur (take humans for example- we haven't changed that much in 6000 years). This is especially true when we consider the huge number of species of fresh water fish that would have had to evolve.

Conclusion: Even if macro-evolution occurs, there is not enough time for the diversity of fresh water species to evolve. Because we have a great diversity of fresh water fish, the account in Genesis concerning the flood cannot be factual. The account of the flood in Genesis is an error in the Bible.
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