Sudden dramatic uplift somehow totally unnoticed by all of the humans inhabiting the planet. How could that be? ;-)
hmm...maybe because there weren't all that many humans inhabiting the planet shortly after the worldwide flood began (about which there are stories from ~240 different cultures)...most of this rapid plate tectonic activity that i propose as a serious possibility (after others, though this model is contested by still others that propose alternate flood/post flood scenarios...and i remain in the skeptic mode regarding all geochronologies) would have occurred during and shortly after the flood...it would have taken folks perhaps a few hundred years to get out to those other areas...nobody there to witness it; no stories
the one family (8 folks) that did survive the flood (along with many kinds of animals) in the ark...probably didn't see much of it either (although their boat is said to have landed in the mountains of ararat)...and they were likely more concerned with transmitting the story of the awful flood...rather than describing new mountains since mountains also existed before the flood...but the flood was a ONE TIME event and worthy of repeating and recording
Not a single story about the mountains growing, the rivers beginning to flow, what mountain goats did before there were mountains.
mountains growing...see above
you may forget or, like so many that believe as you do, just don't know that young earth science proposes/predicts RAPID variation/speciation, particularly in the first several hundred to a thousand or so years after the flood
mountain goats are of the same family (bovidae) and subfamily (caprinae) as currently classified by taxonomists (taxonomy is just another of many of the sciences that we enjoy thanks to creationary scientist founders) as common sheep and goats
i use the terms species, speciation, genus, genera, family, etc in deference to those terms commonly used
i much prefer the term *variation*
we don't even have a solid definition of *species,* much less clearly defined genera, families, etc (if you'd like to dispute that, take a look inside the science of taxonomy where there is a raging and not seldom bitter debate between the old school and the cladists and the numerical taxonomists, etc...there is a regular call for a whole new system, but no one has anything yet better to offer :-)
there are regularly reassessments called for regarding various species and genera, etc (not to mention that the number of total species on the earth was recently revised downward from as high as 40+ million to as few as 5million :-)...then among the taxonomists, etc you have your *splitters* and *lumpers* (those who want to claim a new species every time they find something are *splitters* while the *lumpers* disagree and even suggest that there are already far too many species)...then you have the molecular biologists that prefer to classify via molecular data rather than anatomical data (and there's a whole lotta mess goin' on there! :-)
domestic sheep (ovis), domestic goats (capra), and mountain goats (oreamnos) are all of different genera (as presently and generally classified), but at least domestic sheep and goats have interbred producing viable offspring (though we are not yet certain whether or not they are sterile...one hybrid was isolated because he kept trying to mount the other sheep and goats and there was a concern for the herd)...could one or the other interbreed with mountain goats...not sure, but as uncle al is fond of saying "someone ought to take a look" :-)
in other words, mountain goats may not have been an original variety but rather may be a variation of an original kind
original kind = anything that was once able to reproduce itself...it may be as narrow as what is commonly called a species and as broad as what is generally called a genus, sub family, family, or perhaps in some cases even broader...for the most part we would put it around the genus or maybe family level
i said "was once able to reproduce" because *kinds* may in some sense be shrinking while varieties grow, thus the past tense...i mean that some variations have become more specialized (via the
LOSS of genetic info, ie, dog, horse, bird, etc varieties) that they are no longer able to interbreed or perhaps are just not interested in interbreeding with one another or perhaps have been isolated from one another or perhaps have grown to such disparate sizes that it is no longer practical to interbreed, etc, etc, etc
that aside who says there weren't mountains before the flood (there were, they just may not have been as high as some today, then again maybe they were, or maybe they were seriously rearranged...either way it's not a real problem (go ahead and ask about the amount of water on the earth, i'm waitin' fer ya :-)
It is a miracle don't you think?
well...uhmm...yeah...and no
and mostly no to the objections that you have thus far raised
i have little doubt that some aspects of the flood and the resultant modification of the earth's geosphere were indeed due to miraculous cause...(i mean noah didn't need to go out looking for all the critters, his boss caused them to come to him :-)
but most of it is just plain ol' good geology, geophysics, and molecular genetics :-)
remember...you asked :-)
the good news is...we all gonna know the answers someday :-)
btw -- there are lots of other questions on the board that i'd like to answer/should answer, and many of which can answer; just ain't got the time to get to all of them...too bad, so sad :-(
wouldn't have the time to get to all of them even if i had nothing else to do...so just because i don't answer doesn't mean i can't answer or that no answer exists...and then there is the caveat: just because we don't know the answer now doesn't mean we won't tomorrow or 5000yrs from now :-)
