(March 19, 2014 at 9:58 pm)Lek Wrote: I'll stir the pot a bit here by saying that if God wanted Noah to build an ark and put all the animals on it, he could. If God is who we say he is he can do anything he wants. If God could create the universe this task would be a breeze.
He can do anything he wants, indeed. And yet, his solution to this particular problem was "kill almost all the humans and almost all the animals". Given his lack of limitations, the only two logical explanations are that God's intelligence is far smaller than his capabilities, or that he knows exactly what he is doing and he just wants a lot of living things to die, and the punishment angle is just an excuse. God really just wants to kill a lot of things, but he also wants people to think that it isn't just capricious malice at work. So he blames them for it.
The Ark story is a prime example of why you don't want bloodthirsty idiots in charge of important things. Honesty, the best argument against the Abrahamic god is that a being whose only solution is to kill everything is a being who is too crazy and/or stupid to have created anything.
