(August 23, 2014 at 2:06 am)snowtracks Wrote: God always gives ample warning of impeding judgment delivered by His spokesperson,
A week, wasn't it? Or am I thinking of Evan Almighty..?
Regardless, why bother with a deadline at all? It's not as if "God" was warning of some imminent disaster beyond its control. "God" supposedly was pulling all the strings the whole time and could just as easily have waited until the ark project was completed and stocked before wiping out all life.
(August 23, 2014 at 2:06 am)snowtracks Wrote: the text says the ark was build with 'gopher wood' (this type of wood is unidentified today) but we do know that certain hardwoods can match the tensile strength of some metals at least by weight.
If we don't know anything about the wood supposedly used, beyond the name, speculating about its properties is nothing more than fanfap. You might as well say it was magic and have just as much foundation. However, since you're trying to shoehorn scientific principles into a mythology that relies on miracles to bail itself out, let's see how far you get before you do resort to magic.
(August 23, 2014 at 2:06 am)snowtracks Wrote: today the warning is that the book of life at the great white throng judgment will be open, and those names not written therein (appears that every person name was originally written there but names are expunged upon death) will face judgment, but here again, God offers rescue to those that want it.
Why did you bother with this paragraph? Threats and intimidation won't make something true. Only reality can do that. Do you think Stephen Hawking threatens the Royal Society with burning down the building if they don't take his work seriously?
Grow up.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'