RE: Literal belief in the flood story
May 6, 2014 at 3:08 am
(This post was last modified: May 6, 2014 at 4:49 am by Esquilax.)
(May 5, 2014 at 4:03 pm)Godschild Wrote: Wolves eat fish and will take even a long dead animal from bears if they can and who knows maybe they did kill some animals that were on the ark, those that God desired to go into extinction and feed the wolves, there's nothing wrong with my biology nor my population mechanics.
GC
That'd be a really good point if Noah had set sail with an ark full of wolves. Do you believe Noah survived the flood on a wolf-ark, GC?

There are more animals than just wolves. Some of them eat plant life that literally could not be found in the area the ark set down, and would have starved to death on a journey back to where their food actually grows. Some species exclusively predate land animals; those hawks that Noah took with him still have hunting instincts to chase rabbits, you know. As I said- and you didn't even attempt to address- it would only take a single kill to utterly devastate a species for a period of at least a few weeks.
What about the parasites, GC? The ones that require a living host for them to kill in order to survive? What about the insects that gestate inside the corpse of another insect that they kill as part of their breeding cycle? What about praying mantises, who kill their mate once coupling is completed? That's a breeding cycle of diminishing returns, there; they would definitely go extinct. What about all the tree dwelling creatures that would be out of a home, bound to the ground since a flood of that size would decimate plant life, and well outside of their niche? Easy prey, those would be.
See, this is the problem when you have an infantile story that can't stand up to the scrutiny of a globalized, scientific world, and you're forced to defend it. You have to zoom in on single issues so hard that you ignore even the contradictions present there, because the moment you look at the full picture, or even how certain aspects of it interplay with one another, the entire story falls apart.
And in the middle of it all is you, GC, claiming that your knowledge of biology is okay because you've solved the wolf problem, assuming all the wolves played exactly as nicely as you want them to, with no reason to do so.

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