Evolution Friday : Jim Miller

A friend of my parents wrote an amusing entry about the Bible and evolution. It was originally available here, from the Rapid City Journal.

Noah and evolution
Does a biblical story support evolution? John Tomasin of New Jersey recently pointed out that the story of Noah and his boat may support the theory of evolution.
Accordingly, all human beings alive today are direct descendants of eight survivors of the great flood. These include Europeans, Africans, Asians, Native Americans, Norwegians, Eskimos, Hebrews, Muslims, Buddhists, Pygmies, and you and me. If we look at the diversity, the results seem to point to an evolutionary process at work.
Can we then conclude that to deny that this diversity is due to evolution is to deny the Holy Scriptures?
JIM MILLER
Rapid City