You forgot the most obvious one: If it only rained for 40 days and 40 nights, as the story claims, it would have taken rainfall greater than that of a firehose, on every square inch of earth, for the entire time. I'll demonstrate...
40 days and nights (or 40 24-hour periods) is a total of 960 hours of rainfall.
Mt. Everest is 29,029 feet tall, or 348,348 inches.
348,348 in / 960 hrs = 363 inches of rain per hour (or, if you prefer, 6 inches of rain per minute), everywhere on earth.
By comparison, the greatest super-storm ever recorded, Super Typhoon Haiyan, rained at an astonishingly-high 1.9 and 2.3 inches per hour, according to NASA's radar satellites, which tracked it.
http://phys.org/news/2013-11-nasa-typhoo...nfall.html
The world record for a one-hour rainfall is 12" in a single hour, set in 1947 (in Holt, just northeast of Kansas City, Missouri).
http://wmo.asu.edu/world-greatest-sixty-...r-rainfall
Even if you buy the Kent Hovind explanation which says the mountains were "raised up" during the flood from lower original heights, we know Mt. Ararat was at least covered, since that's where the Ark legend says it came to rest as the waters receded.
Mt. Ararat is 16,854 feet tall (202,248 inches). The same math gives us almost 211 inches of rain per hour, or roughly 17 1/2 times stronger than the maximum rainfall ever recorded, and 92 times stronger than the maximum rainfall recorded for Super Typhoon Haiyan (a sustained storm).
40 days and nights (or 40 24-hour periods) is a total of 960 hours of rainfall.
Mt. Everest is 29,029 feet tall, or 348,348 inches.
348,348 in / 960 hrs = 363 inches of rain per hour (or, if you prefer, 6 inches of rain per minute), everywhere on earth.
By comparison, the greatest super-storm ever recorded, Super Typhoon Haiyan, rained at an astonishingly-high 1.9 and 2.3 inches per hour, according to NASA's radar satellites, which tracked it.
http://phys.org/news/2013-11-nasa-typhoo...nfall.html
The world record for a one-hour rainfall is 12" in a single hour, set in 1947 (in Holt, just northeast of Kansas City, Missouri).
http://wmo.asu.edu/world-greatest-sixty-...r-rainfall
Even if you buy the Kent Hovind explanation which says the mountains were "raised up" during the flood from lower original heights, we know Mt. Ararat was at least covered, since that's where the Ark legend says it came to rest as the waters receded.
Mt. Ararat is 16,854 feet tall (202,248 inches). The same math gives us almost 211 inches of rain per hour, or roughly 17 1/2 times stronger than the maximum rainfall ever recorded, and 92 times stronger than the maximum rainfall recorded for Super Typhoon Haiyan (a sustained storm).
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I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
