(August 20, 2014 at 10:56 pm)snowtracks Wrote:(August 17, 2014 at 7:54 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: If the flood was restricted to a relatively small area wouldn't that make the entire point of the story pointless?no, confined to deprave humanity who were confined to a relatively small area. humans defined here have a spiritual dimension; bipedal primates do not. if they did, the flood would have been more encompassing.
Then why gather all the animals to the ark, couldn't "god" have nudged them to a non-flooded area before the flood. he could even have told Noah where the non-flooded bits were and got him to go there without having to denude a forrest and ransack the area for all the relevant food.
Not one part of the Ark story holds up to even a small amount of prodding it is just STUPID from start to finish.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.