(August 17, 2016 at 3:37 pm)Atheist_BG Wrote: Some of you just seem to refuse to think outside the deity's box, so I give up. As a local saying says - the smarter steps down.
"Think outside the deity's box" - what DOES that mean? If you are referring to the Biblical Flood story, it gives clear specific details: that everyone on Earth perished except those in the ark, that the highest mountaintops all over the earth were covered by water 15 cubits (22 ft, give or take a few inches) deep.
This has clearly been proved impossible on many fronts.
Sure, there are loads of flood stories - the Noah story was taken from Sumerian creation stories and the Babylonian Gilgamesh epic. The Tigris-Euphrates flood basin shows archaeological evidence of massive flooding. Sure, huge floods happened. But the exaggerated story given in the Bible never did.
"The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children."- Albert Einstein
