A quite disturbing absurdity in Christianity

[The Grand Nudger]

Like a literal interpretation of the Geneses creation story, you can't have a world wide flood and stay within the realm of the remotely possible.

Even a regional flood as described is beyond the realm of what is remotely possible. It's just a "big bad storm of '05" story, the kind old men have been telling for eons, and continue to tell. I've always wondered whether there might be a correlation between geographic location and a persons willingness to believe in the deluge. I'm trying to think of a single buddy of mine, growing up in florida, that assumed the deluge was factual - and I'm drawing a blank. My suspicion is that it had something to do with all the storm stories we'd hear from our parents and grandparents, Key West, 1919 sort of stuff-combined with actual experience re big bad storms. Take a look at Francis, 2004. The entire state was covered tip to tip...and it kept on raining, and the levees did break......but the land stubbornly remained. Jeanne, 2004, 4 hurricanes in 6 weeks. There's forty days and forty nights of rain for you. Again, the land stubbornly refused to disappear. I don't think that anyone with any experience of severe storms can believe that shit. Conversely, it's easy for me to see how people who might not be used to severe storms could imagine such a thing. When the sky is jet black, and there are dozen tornadoes in any direction you look - illuminated by constant lightning, the wind is steady over 100mph, and rain isn't so much falling as it is travelling laterally - it does seem like the whole world is being consumed in a storm.