(February 25, 2016 at 9:18 am)RobbyPants Wrote:(February 24, 2016 at 1:39 pm)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote: However, I had to jump in here... when I worked at the KDHE, the Environment department (mine) shared a floor with the Geology department. Literally every geologist working there whom I met was a Christian, complete with office bibles, pins on lapels, and the various desktop debris that lets them announce their faith to the world. They were among the most religious bunches I met in a science field. All of them knew as much about evolution as I do; in fact, geologists had the timeline and nature of evolutionary history figured out before biologists did.
As for the "flash flood", do a little math, Drich. We'll say that only Mt. Ararat was covered, as a lowball figure, since the story doesn't mention Everest. Mount Ararat is 16,854 feet tall. It rained, according to the story, for 40 days and 40 nights. That's 40 x 24 = 960 hours of rain.
In order for the floodwaters to have covered the mountain in that time, it would have had to rain 17.55 inches of rain per hour that entire time. No flash flood? The heaviest sustained rainfall on record is Tropical Cyclone Denise, at 71" in a 24-hour period, or 2.95 inches per hour, back in 1966.
Even if you say that half the waters were from "the deep", you're still talking 8.775 inches per hour, nonstop, for almost a month and a half, day and night.
No flash flood? Really?
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_we...cords#Rain
I think I've figured out why the flood gets Christians worked up into such a tizzy. It's because it's one of their few claims that's actually 100% falsifiable (and guess what: it turns out to be false). We can actually evaluate their claims and prove them wrong, and saying "but I just have faith" makes them look even more crazy. I imagine this is why most Christians I know in person either say that this story didn't actually happen, or they are much quicker to invoke magic, instead of trying to keep this story all within the realm of science.
Really?!?!?
Because you all came hard with science just one or two pages back, and now for some reason have abandoned it for name calling...
Hmmmm I wonder why that is? I wonder WHO amongst the wolves used the great and powerful science against the said wolves to silence ALL Of them and reduce them to little more than wimpering and name calling now...
Or did you personally skip over that part/went selectively blind to post what you just did?
You people are beyond delusional. You literally are what you claim Christians to be!
