(May 2, 2014 at 1:19 pm)Bad Wolf Wrote: I realise that this subject has been done to deathLots of religious topics are going to be repeated here, it's just the nature of a forum with any degree of turnover and new visitors. But there's a pretty new thread on this topic open right now, this would probably be better suited as a reply in that topic.
In any event, TalkOrigins has a pretty comprehensive FAQ on the flood myth and the problems with any explanation that doesn't involve "godidit." Without falling back on a supernatural being who could use magic to move things along, the story simply isn't realistic. IMO, the amount of magic required to salvage the story as actually happening is so substantial that you wonder why god didn't do something far less complicated, like make every person on the planet just drop dead on the spot.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
