(October 19, 2017 at 12:04 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:(October 19, 2017 at 11:20 am)Mathilda Wrote: Ah right now you're moving the goal posts. You asked:*Emphasis mine*
You didn't ask us to name one thing in the Bible given careful and selective interpretation to mean something that could possibly be answered.
But no matter, by saying this you then exacerbate another existing problem. A wooden ark could not have been big enough to two of each species, yet alone many specimens of the same species sorted into similar "kinds".
Because yet again science has falsified the Bible, this time by demonstrating that wooden ships can only be built so large before they sink.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyoming_(schooner)
Strange how the ark conveniently dropped all the animals off back to the same parts of the world from where they came from. Or did they all manage to walk back after the floods receded without leaving behind any fossils?
According to your article, the Wyoming appears to measure 450 ft. overall.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_treasure_ship
Quote:The size and dimensions of the treasures are heavily debated. According to British scientist, historian and sinologist Joseph Needham, the purported dimensions of the largest of these ships were 137 m (450 ft) by 55 m (180 ft), which would make them at least twice as long as the largest European ships at the end of the sixteenth century. These dimensions have been challenged on engineering grounds and on the reliability of their sources; some have claimed they could not have been more than 61–76 m (200–250 feet) or that they could only have been used on special occasions in the relative safety of the lower Yangtze River. However, in 1962 a large rudder was unearthed in the Treasure Ship Yard in Nanjing with dimensions corresponding with a 600-ft long ship.
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(October 19, 2017 at 11:53 am)Minimalist Wrote: The bible uses the words "kind" and "sort" because the primitive shits who wrote it had no concept of what a "species" meant, dumbass.
"Kind" and "sort" are synonymous with "species" buddy.
Only to desperate morons like you trying to salvage a shred of dignity because you believe proudly in total fucking bullshit stories. Grow up, man.