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Subject: Curious of your perspective.

Bible Note: Just a comment :) I hope I do not offend you if I make light of the subject of Noah and his wine?

Since I have drank grape juice and have also tasted grape "wine", I find it hard to believe that Noah wouldn't have known the difference between a pre-Flood grape juice and after-Flood wine. I think it more probable that "wine" was also produced pre-Flood and Noah knew what he was raising those grapes for. And it wasn't just to make raisins! :)

The "wine" Noah made comes from "yayin", an unused root meaning to effervesce; wine (as fermented). I suggest that he knew what would happen when he "stored" the grape juice in wineskins (?) long enough to have it smell funny.

Seriously though, it's possible from a Biblical standpoint to think bacteria was not around pre-Flood because the Bible doesn't mention it. But bacteria would have needed to be present pre-Flood just as it is today. Some bacteria causes diseases, but others are necessary for fermentation, nitrogen fixation, etc. Using that last example, all life requires nitrogen, but most forms can't use it in its gaseous form. It is converted to nitrate compounds before certain plants use it to make protein. Unless I have forgotten my biology, that is called nitrogen fixation -- the conversion of atmospheric nitrogen into nitrates by soil bacteria.

It would also take bacteria to "decay" fallen leaves, over-ripe fruit, etc. for their nutrients to go back into the soil, and to decompose other types of waste, etc.

Pre-Flood, the earth would have been a disaster without certain bacteria present. The soil would have been dead, and there would be a carpet of un-decayed vegetation I'm afraid.

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