My Creationist friend

[Thor]

Great one Thor! I never did the math on that story problem.

Thanks! You have to examine some of these claims and you'll discover that they are utter nonsense. The Noah's Ark fable is a good one to pick apart because the math reveals the claim for what it is - bullshit! Of course, some creationists will try to tell you that the flood was "localized" and it didn't cover the entire planet (these twits can't even be consistent in their beliefs). If someone throws this at you, all you have to do is point out that the water obviously covered Mount Ararat. Well, Mount Ararat is 16,495 feet high. Therefore, there had to be at least 16,496 feet of rain. Doing the same math using 40 days of rain reveals that a little over 17 feet of rain would have had to fall every hour! This is roughly 3 and a half inches of rain a minute! Or, an inch every 17 seconds! Yeah, Mount Everest or Mount Ararat, it makes no difference. It's still ridiculously impossible. And water falling at this volume would destroy any boat made of wood.

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In one of the old threads we had some discussions with Daystar who claimed a thick ice layer above the atmosphere was the water source for the flood.

I believe Kent Hovind made a similar claim.

What a retarded claim! Where did this "ice layer" come from? And how could a layer of ice form in the atmosphere with nothing to support it? Not to mention the incredible amount of water that would be needed to flood the planet! This "ice layer" would need to be several MILES thick! This is a perfect example of ad hoc reasoning!