Live
Science
reports that mankind may have begun using boats and engaging in seafaring
expeditions as far back as 1.04 million years [1] based the discovery of primitive
man-made artifacts discovered on the Islands of Indonesia only for the fact
that many evolutionists don’t seem to have any other explanation as to how
mankind would have arrived to those Island locations aside from using some kind
of water craft despite the fact that the oldest known water vessel discovered
is a primitive canoe dating back to 8,000 years. [2]
However,
some scientists have other theories as to how mankind ended up settling on the
Indonesian Islands. John Cherry, a
professor emeritus of archaeology at Brown University, theorized, “Basically, a
chunk of land with vegetation on it breaks away from the mainland.” [3]
He
then went on to state, “We know it happened with thousands of other species,
including primates such as monkeys and lemurs, so why not humans?” He proposes this theory because he cannot
believe that mankind would have had the intellectual capacity or innovative
skills for boat building a million years ago but what he doesn’t realize is
that his theory as to how mankind ended up on Island locations a million years
ago answers a challenge quite commonly posed to those who take the Genesis
account of creation as actual history; how animals like the Kangaroo got
Australia or how Lemurs ended up on Madagascar.
Creationists,
Young Earth Creationists more specifically, are asked quite often that if the
Genesis account of origins is true and if the global flood written about in the
book of Genesis actually happened, how did animals like the Kangaroo manage to
get to Australia?
Paul
F. Taylor, of Answers In Genesis gave the following explanations
Many
of them could have floated on vast floating logs, left-overs from the massive
pre-Flood forests that were ripped up during the Flood and likely remained
afloat for many decades on the world’s oceans, transported by world currents… animals could have crossed land bridges. This is,
after all, how it is supposed by evolutionists that many animals and people
migrated from Asia to the Americas—over a land bridge at the Bering Straits.
[4]
Taylor’s
answer for how animals like the Kangaroo managed to get to isolated places like
Australia after the flood does not seem much different from how Cherry thinks
that some primitive peoples ended up on the Islands of Indonesia. But what both men would disagree would be as
to their arrival of those peoples, as well as some animals, to the isolated
regions in which they now reside presently as John Cherry is an evolutionist
who believes that the earth is billions of years old and that mankind came into
existence farther back in time than Paul F. Taylor does since Taylor believes
the universe to be no more than roughly 6,000 years old and that the dispersal
of all life throughout the earth happened far more rapidly than what
evolutionists claim.
Despite being at odds with one another pertaining to the origins of life and the age of the earth,
what both evolutionists and Creationists will agree on is that there once
existed a vast supercontinent that eventually broke apart into the continental
masses that we see today.
Interestingly enough, the
first chapter in the book of Genesis states that when God created the dry land,
He called for the waters to be “gathered together into one place, and let the
dry land appear”; (Gen. 1:9) the gathering of the waters together in one place
clearly implying the existence of a once vast single super continent until
shortly after the global flood; Genesis 10:25 implying the dividing of this
supercontinent:
And
unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was
the earth divided
While
most would think this was speaking of the confusing of the tongues at the tower
of Babel which resulted in the forced dispersion of the people there, (Gen. 11)
the preceding passage of Genesis 10:25 implies that more took place in the days
of Peleg than just the confusion of tongues; that the earth (meaning the land itself) was divided which would have resulted in the destruction of any land
bridges by which the continents were still connected but which would have taken
place after the animals, which had left the ark built by Noah by which they
were all preserved from being consumed by the flood, had spread out to their
respective regions, habitats, and ecosystems.
A
second thing that evolutionists and creationists seem to agree on is that
mankind possessed seafaring capabilities almost since day one of their
existence because now, evolutionists are being forced to admit that mankind may
not have started out as primitive as they had once thought, but what
evolutionists and creationists disagree on is what they were capable of
building first: Large vessels or small vessels.
According
to the evolutionary timeframe, small vessels such as rafts and canoes were
crafted before the construction of larger vessels such as ships, but according
to the biblical account of origins, the first known water vessel ever recorded
to have been built and used was the Ark which Noah had built to save himself,
his family, and all of the animals he had taken aboard from an impending
devastating global flood. (Gen. 6-8)
That is not to say that there were not other water or seafaring vessels
in use at that time, but it is the first known vessel on historical record and
when we read about the dimensions of the Ark; its height, length, and width, it
was not a small vessel, but a very large one and built for a specific purpose
and that was to save any and all who would enter the Ark from impending
foretold disaster.
And
the reason for the foretold disaster, which was the flood, was due to the moral
and spiritual state of mankind. The
Bible says that at that time, the evil of mankind had reached such a state that
there was no other solution except to wipe them all off the face of the earth
except for Noah and his family who had found grace in the eyes of the Almighty,
which is why He had commanded Noah to build the Ark to preserve him and all who
were with him inside the Ark from the coming judgment and just as the world has
faced cataclysmic judgment before due to the wickedness of mankind, so it will
face judgment again when the evil of the world has reached such a state that
makes no other remedy possible because never intended for the world to be a
place abounding with evil, death, and suffering the way that it is today.
When
God had created the heavens and the earth, the world was intended to be a good
place filled with happiness, peace, joy, and contentment in which existed a
perfect and uninterrupted harmony between God, man, and nature until the first
man Adam and the first woman Eve, who was Adam’s wife committed a very fateful
and consequential act of astronomical proportions which had to do with the
eating of a fruit from a certain tree that was not intended for human
consumption called the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, having been
warned of God that in the day that they ate of that fruit, they would surely
die (Gen.2:16-17, 3:3) and when they had eaten of that forbidden fruit, sin
entered into them and corrupted their entire inward being and as a consequence
for their disobedience, the sentence of death came upon them just as they were
warned (Gen. 3:19) but the consequences of the transgression that caused sin to
enter into Adam and Eve which then led to their eventual deaths did not stop
with just them because the sin which entered into them was also passed down to
all of mankind for all of us are descendants of that first man and that first
woman and because we are their descendants, we have also inherited the sin that
entered into them (Rom. 5:12) and because of that sin which we have inherited,
we all sin in some form or fashion and as a consequence we all die for as it is
written, the wages of sin is death (Rom. 6:23) but sin is not merely confined
to outward behavior or performance or even the words we speak, but it is rather
the inherent inward corruption of our very nature defiling our thoughts,
hardening and darkening our hearts, and corrupting our very motives which is
why it is written that we are not defiled from that which comes from without,
but that which comes from within (Mt. 15:11, 18-20) and which is why it is
written that all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God (Rom. 3:23)
which demands of us nothing less than moral perfection and not just in our
outward acts but also in our inward as well which is why it is impossible by
our own efforts and our own goodness to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, for
sin taints, corrupts, defiles, twists, and distorts more than we can comprehend
and the effects of sin are not merely confined to mankind, but all of creation
is subjected to a curse because of sin which is why it is written that the
entire creation groans and travails in pain to this day (Rom. 8:19-22) and it
is due to what sin has done and is doing to what God created that judgment must
eventually come and when it does, it will require the elimination of all who
remain in their sin as that which is sin or is living in sin will not be able
to dwell in the Kingdom of God or in the new and better world to come.
But
if judgment is withheld, then the reason why judgment is withheld is because
God takes no pleasure in punishment or judgment but in mercy, grace, and love
and He would rather show love and mercy instead of wrath which is why He is not
willing that any should perish but that all would come to repentance (2 Pet.
3:9) He offers redemption to all who are willing to receive it and submit to
His authority and the redemption that He offers is in Jesus Christ who is our
Lord and Savior and the only begotten Son of God, (Jn. 3:16) who came to us in
the flesh, (Jn. 1:14) and being without any sin (2 Cor. 5:21) was made that
perfect sacrifice (Heb. 7:26-27) that was needed to take away the sins of the
world and because of His perfect goodness, He was able to offer Himself up on
our behalf to satisfy the demanded penalty for all sin and granting mercy and
grace through the shedding of His blood on the cross and after having died,
rose again from the dead three days later that we might be justified in Him
(Rom. 4:25) if we will but call upon His name so that we might be saved from
what would otherwise be a terrifying everlasting punishment if we will but call
upon His name (Rom. 10:9, 13) and believe in our hearts that God raised Him
from the dead (Rom. 10:9) for it is by calling upon His name in sincere
repentance that salvation is granted and our souls made clean from sin thereby
liberating us from the threat of eternal damnation and with that cleansing
comes a new spiritual transformation (2 Cor. 5:17) that causes us to no longer
desire to follow after selfish and worldly pursuits but after those things that
pertain to the Kingdom of Heaven,
to
no longer take pleasure in those things that are evil and displeasing in the
sight of the Lord, but in that which is good, right, and pleasing in His sight,
to
no longer desire to walk in the lies of this present world, but only in the
truth that comes from Christ Almighty who is the source of all truth, (Jn.
14:6)
no
longer placing our hopes in the things of this present world, but looking
forward to that new and better world to come, (Rev. 21-22)
to
no longer rely on worldly resources, men, or even our own power, abilities,
skills, and wisdom for our needs and provision but upon God who is able to meet
all of our needs, recognizing that the resources of this world and even the
people He brings into our lives are but instruments and vessels through which
God meets our needs and that the skills, power, knowledge, and wisdom by which
we might acquire our provision are provided and instilled in us by God, (Mt.
6:25-33)
to
no longer fear what men can do to us, but rather fearing the God before whom we
will have to one day give an account for how we lived our lives, (Mt. 10:28)
to
no longer look to corruptible institutions within our society for direction and
order in our lives but to God who, by His written Word has given us laws and
precepts to be applied to our lives and which serve to produce and maintain an
ordered life, and who, by His Holy Spirit which comes to dwell within us upon
repentance, establishes in our lives a course and direction in our lives to
pursue for His glory,
to
no longer seek our own glory but the glory of God,
to
no longer rally behind corruptible men, but instead behind the incorruptible
God in Heaven bearing in mind that those men and women God raises up for our
edification are but instruments and servants of His for that respective purpose
to which He has called them,
to
no longer seek to align ourselves with the things of darkness but only with the
things of the light,
to
no longer trust in the wisdom of the world but only on the wisdom and knowledge
that comes from above, (Jas. 1:5) nor depend on corruptible earthly authorities
to swiftly administer justice, but only in the power of God to deliver us from
evil.
And
it is this new inward transformation that reconciles us to our Creator (2 Cor.
5:18) from whom we had once been estranged and just as our souls are cleansed
from sin and our spirits regenerated in Christ Jesus thereby liberating us from
the eternal tormenting punishment that must come upon all who remain in their
sins, so one day we look forward to the liberation of our bodies from death
itself when our mortal and corruptible forms are transformed into that which is
immortal and incorruptible and from that which is imperfect to that which is
perfect (1 Cor. 15:51-55, 1 Thess. 4:13-18) and lastly, creation itself will be
delivered from the curse placed upon it because of sin when it is made into a
new and better world (Rev. 21-22) and in that new world which will be made,
there will be no sin, no death, no decay, nor any curse, nor any evil, or
violence, suffering, misery, grief, sorrow, mourning, pain, or hardship of any
sort for all of these will pass away with this present world. Instead, there will only be light, life,
happiness, joy, contentment, peace, and rest before the Lord God Almighty.
If
you have not done so already and sense the call to repentance and
transformation, then I urge you reader to call upon the name of the Lord Jesus
for the forgiveness of sins today. It is
but a simple sincere heartfelt prayer of repentance away:
"Lord
Jesus I need you.
I
realize that I am a sinner
who
has fallen short of the glory of God
and
that my goodness falls short
of
your standard of Moral perfection.
Please
forgive me of all of my sins.
Come
into my heart and into my life
to
be the Savior and Lord of my life.
Make
me into the servant and follower
that
you want me to be.
In
your name Lord Jesus, I pray.
Amen."
Know
that God is not concerned with the words that you use to call upon Him
forgiveness, but with the attitude of your heart and if you have, with all
sincerity, have asked Christ to forgive you of your sins, placing your trust in
Him only for your salvation and in nothing else, then your sins are forgiven
and your place in Heaven is certain.
End
notes:
1. Jesse Steinmetz, “When were boats invented?”
Live Science, February 1, 2026
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/when-were-boats-invented?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=Archaeology
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Paul F. Taylor, “How Did Animals Spread All
Over the World from Where the Ark Landed?” Answers In Genesis, October 18, 2007
https://answersingenesis.org/animal-behavior/migration/how-did-animals-spread-from-where-ark-landed/
Scripture
references:
1. Genesis 1:9
2. Genesis 10:25
3. Genesis 11
4. Genesis 6-8
5. Genesis 2:16-17, 3:3
6. Genesis 3:19
7. Romans 5:12
8. Romans 6:23
9. Matthew 15:11, 18-20
10. Romans 3:23
11. Romans 8:19-22
12. 2 Peter 3:9
13. John 3:16
14. John 1:14
15. 2 Corinthians 5:21
16. Hebrews 7:26-27
17. Romans 4:25
18. Romans 10:9, 13
19. 2 Corinthians 5:17
20. John 14:6
21. Revelation 21-22
22. Matthew 6:25-33
23. Matthew 10:28
24. James 1:5
25. 2 Corinthians 5:18
26. 1 Corinthians 15:51-55, 1 Thessalonians
4:13-18
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