The Noahs ark and why it didn't happen

[Fidel_Castronaut]

I thought the biblical flood story itself was already the very nadir of human ignorance and wishful thinking. But I was wrong. Every christain can sink even lower trying to defend it.

I just don't get it.

I don't understand how there are real, human beings that actually seek to defend such an obviously un-true story. Call it allegory, metaphor, whatever.

But an actual event?

Shit, I can only conclude that people who defend it aren't real, as per the general rule of eliminating all possibilities that aren't true.

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13) I can't quite remember how many people were on board the ark but do you know when the pyramids were supposedly built? Wasn't it something like a few hundred years after the flood. Are you telling me that Noah's family multiplied so fast that they managed to create hundreds of thousands of people in a few hundred years? Enough jews to make the pyramids?

This is actually one of my favourite arguments against the ark story.

The fine folks over at Talk Origins determined that, if we take 2350 BCE as the date of the flood, that meant that:

1. They pyramids were constructed by 13 people.

2. When Moses lead the 600 000 Children of Israel on the Exodus, the world population was 736 people.

3. In 481 BCE, when Xerxes the Great assembled an army of more than 2.5 million soldiers, the world's population was a little less than 87 000.

Boru

Yeah, but Jesus, Brian. Jesus.

Can't explain that.