Where does it say during??! Where does it say before? Now if the dividing of people on continents and the continents themselves happened in the days when the earth was divided...well, we know when that was.
Where does the bible say the millions of species we have today were all on the ark? Nowhere. So the animal kinds on the ark had to evolve fast to make what we see today, only 4500 years later. The animals also had to get around the world, and having continents with animals on them move apart fits the evidence. The pushed up high mountains also need to be explained after the flood, because having water cover Everest is basically silly. The life span changes were after the flood. The changes in man's ability to communicate and process language was also after the flood. Why they thought a spiritual level existed in a certain area needs to be explained, when clearly there is none now in this present world and nature. How the animals ate after the flood needs explaining.
Basically Genesis cannot be explained using the present nature. Nor can the Millennium or new earth.
I recognize that yours is an established position, although I think that it is a minority view, Your source said that Plate Tectonics was done for the money but I doubt that that can be proven since most of the money goes to millions and millions of years types and evolution types, who think that they are intellectual. At any rate, your source made mostly an ad hominin attack, as you probably agree.
Here is what Puritan Matthew Henry says about Peleg: "The reason of the name of Peleg (
v. 25): Because
in his days (that is, about the time of his birth, when his name was given him),
was the earth divided among the children of men that were to inhabit it; either when Noah divided it by an orderly distribution of it, as Joshua divided the land of Canaan by lot, or when, upon their refusal to comply with that division, God, in justice, divided them by the confusion of tongues: whichsoever of these was the occasion, pious Heber saw cause to perpetuate the remembrance of it in the name of his son; and justly may our sons be called by the same name, for in our days, in another sense, is the earth, the church, most wretchedly divided."
Plate Tectonics is based upon science and the verse that says that the earth was established on the deep. Genesis 1:9 (KJV) And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry [land] appear: and it was so. So there were vast oceans of water under the land, and at the time of the flood, these waters burst forth, the fountains of the deep. Only so much rain can fall in forty days and forty nights, so most of the flood came from the fountains of the deep shooting water high into the air tens of thousands of feet, which then fell as the deluge that not only destroyed all life but also ripped open great seams in the earth and plates of land began to move.
Plate Tectonics is not necessarily a Creationist idea but also is mainstream geology. So first Adam and Eve were forever expelled from the Garden of Eden, and then Noah's pleasant earth of one continent with low mountains and relatively small inland seas and lakes was destroyed. The continent broke up and reformed briefly as one rearranged continent called Pangaea, which then broke up into today's seven continents.
Now you bring up species, to my surprise, because Scripture only talks about kinds. And, no, 4500 years is more than long enough for the current panoply of species to evolve because most animals have short lives.
Then you bring up the question of animal distribution. Here again you deny that there was an Ice Age after the flood but since there was an Ice Age then, the ice would be a mile thick or more and that would take enough water out of the ocean to lower the sea level 600 feet. This would provide many land bridges between the continents. Plus all the debris left from the flood would have made natural rafts for both humans and animals even if you say that the Tower of Babel, probably a mere ziggurat, built to show defiance at the order to break up and move to all seven continents, was a 100 years or so after the flood. It might take a long time for all of the debris to clear out of the waters by the natural processes of decay.
As for the mountains, it is not necessary to repeat that they were formed when the seven continents, moving at a rapid speed, hit an immovable object. Most mountains tend to be along coastlines if you look at a topographical map.
If you were to see photographs of the Ark Encounter in Kentucky, you would see that it is the size of an ocean liner. There was plenty of room on there for provisions for the animals who were herbivorous for quite some time. Also, the plants must have come back on their own to some extent because the Dove brought Noah an olive branch. Perhaps the carnivorous animals retained herbivorous capabilities temporarily.
The earth was destroyed during the flood. Man was thus allowed to eat animals because conditions for agriculture must have been degraded after the flood. Noah's world was better before the flood but sin had led to this destruction and the earth had to rapidly accept the tens of thousands of corpses of very sinful human beings plus all of the plant and animal life on the globe. Such an upheaval affected every square inch of earth and was almost more catastrophic than the human mind can comprehend. It was so horrible that God set the rainbow in the sky as His promise that never again would there be a global flood. Still the earth is evil and so it must be destroyed by fire at the end of time. Soon and very soon.
