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RE: Giant Noah's Ark likely landing in Kentucky
December 8, 2010 at 11:44 am
If you think about it why would god have bothered going through all the time and trouble explaining to Noah what he wanted. It's god. Couldn't the magic word man have just uttered the spell to clear the earth and then utter more words to recreate.
What logical purpose was there to expending all of this energy when a do over and a tweaking of the new Adam and Eve could have resolved god's original mistakes.
Further, how can one state that god is infallible when he did such a botched up job on creating humanity that he had to destroy his own creation?
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RE: Giant Noah's Ark likely landing in Kentucky
December 8, 2010 at 11:45 am
(December 8, 2010 at 11:44 am)lilyannerose Wrote: If you think about it why would god have bothered going through all the time and trouble explaining to Noah what he wanted. It's god. Couldn't the magic word man have just uttered the spell to clear the earth and then utter more words to recreate.
What logical purpose was there to expending all of this energy when a do over and a tweaking of the new Adam and Eve could have resolved god's original mistakes.
Further, how can one state that god is infallible when he did such a botched up job on creating humanity that he had to destroy his own creation?
The mind of god fearing morons work in mysterious ways.
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RE: Giant Noah's Ark likely landing in Kentucky
December 8, 2010 at 11:47 am
(December 8, 2010 at 11:38 am)Chuck Wrote: Easily solved through experimental biblical archeology. Let them build their arc to their specification, and then load the ark with a pair of bible literalist for each pair of animals the literalists thinks was on the original ark, and set the packet adrift for 140 days.
I'd like to see what kind of food they could load on the boat that would last for 140 days. No refrigeration! No canned goods! Nothing freeze dried! No packaged items!
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RE: Giant Noah's Ark likely landing in Kentucky
December 8, 2010 at 11:52 am
They can all eat dried grass.
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RE: Giant Noah's Ark likely landing in Kentucky
December 8, 2010 at 11:58 am
Noah must have been a hell of a plumber!
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RE: Giant Noah's Ark likely landing in Kentucky
December 8, 2010 at 12:07 pm
(December 8, 2010 at 11:47 am)Thor Wrote: (December 8, 2010 at 11:38 am)Chuck Wrote: Easily solved through experimental biblical archeology. Let them build their arc to their specification, and then load the ark with a pair of bible literalist for each pair of animals the literalists thinks was on the original ark, and set the packet adrift for 140 days.
I'd like to see what kind of food they could load on the boat that would last for 140 days. No refrigeration! No canned goods! Nothing freeze dried! No packaged items!
To fully address all the problems with the ark story, I think you'd need to produce a research paper worthy of a doctoral thesis in any number of fields of study, ranging from meteorology to geology to zoology.
You'd think that Christian leaders would avoid the topic of Noah's Ark rather than try to build a life size version of it which only draws attention to the logistical problems.
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RE: Giant Noah's Ark likely landing in Kentucky
December 8, 2010 at 12:23 pm
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(December 8, 2010 at 12:07 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: (December 8, 2010 at 11:47 am)Thor Wrote: (December 8, 2010 at 11:38 am)Chuck Wrote: Easily solved through experimental biblical archeology. Let them build their arc to their specification, and then load the ark with a pair of bible literalist for each pair of animals the literalists thinks was on the original ark, and set the packet adrift for 140 days.
I'd like to see what kind of food they could load on the boat that would last for 140 days. No refrigeration! No canned goods! Nothing freeze dried! No packaged items! To fully address all the problems with the ark story, I think you'd need to produce a research paper worthy of a doctoral thesis in any number of fields of study, ranging from meteorology to geology to zoology.
You'd think that Christian leaders would avoid the topic of Noah's Ark rather than try to build a life size version of it which only draws attention to the logistical problems.
But "the ark sank" won't fill a 4 th grade report much less a PhD thesis, although Hollywood can probably make a 4 hour movie out of it.
(December 8, 2010 at 11:58 am)orogenicman Wrote: Noah must have been a hell of a plumber!
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RE: Giant Noah's Ark likely landing in Kentucky
December 8, 2010 at 1:05 pm
(December 8, 2010 at 11:52 am)Chuck Wrote: They can all eat dried grass.
Yeah, and no dressing!
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RE: Giant Noah's Ark likely landing in Kentucky
December 8, 2010 at 1:06 pm
(December 8, 2010 at 12:23 pm)Chuck Wrote: But "the ark sank" won't fill a 4 th grade report much less a PhD thesis,
Not if you include every single flaw in the story, ranging from the massive fish kill when you mix the fresh water with the salt water to the genetic issues of how insufficient even seven of each animal are to create a viable species. I think you could really generate a massive paper cataloging each and every plausibility problem.
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RE: Giant Noah's Ark likely landing in Kentucky
December 8, 2010 at 1:08 pm
(December 8, 2010 at 1:06 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: (December 8, 2010 at 12:23 pm)Chuck Wrote: But "the ark sank" won't fill a 4 th grade report much less a PhD thesis,
Not if you include every single flaw in the story, ranging from the massive fish kill when you mix the fresh water with the salt water to the genetic issues of how insufficient even seven of each animal are to create a viable species. I think you could really generate a massive paper cataloging each and every plausibility problem.
The sinking puts an end to all those problems.
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