(January 11, 2016 at 3:09 pm)athrock Wrote:(January 11, 2016 at 2:36 pm)Stimbo Wrote: The absence of evidence when such evidence ought to be present. Otherwise we might just as well be talking about Jack and the beanstalk.
Are you saying that there ought to be the remains of a wooden boat that didn't rot or get turned into firewood by the locals? And because there isn't, we can be certain that the Ark never existed?
Why would you even suspect there was an ark without evidence to suggest it? Besides which, you don't need the lack of physical remains to be certain that the ark never existed. The puerile impossibility of the whole story manages to sink the boat all by itself.
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.'
