Given that he thinks that:
There was a planetary flood that was so severe, that even the tallest mountains were under water
The Ark was not only built, but seaworthy, capable of not only holding the animals, but their food and waste
That nothing went wrong on this boat, even though predator and prey were living in close quarters (no redundancies with only a single mating pair)
That, even if we go by “kinds” (l-o-fucking-l), it only takes a single mating pair several thousand years to repopulate the planet with all of the different breeds
That humanity on the whole would be repopulated through incest, which has the same exact problems as the animal repopulation
I don’t think he thinks much, period.
Of course, even if it’s a parable, metaphor, or whatever else apologists try to wave the story away as, none of that negates the larger point behind it. That god, in his infinite power and wisdom, fucked up so badly he had to hit the reset button on his own creation.
So, it’s not only woefully unscientific, it paints the entity we’re supposed to be in awe of and fearful of as a loser who cannot get it right on the first try.
And, of course, that’s what hell is for, isn’t it? The flood seems wholly unnecessary when there’s an apparatus in place to deal with the wicked. Why, it’s almost as if these stories were sloppily combined into something nonsensical!
There was a planetary flood that was so severe, that even the tallest mountains were under water
The Ark was not only built, but seaworthy, capable of not only holding the animals, but their food and waste
That nothing went wrong on this boat, even though predator and prey were living in close quarters (no redundancies with only a single mating pair)
That, even if we go by “kinds” (l-o-fucking-l), it only takes a single mating pair several thousand years to repopulate the planet with all of the different breeds
That humanity on the whole would be repopulated through incest, which has the same exact problems as the animal repopulation
I don’t think he thinks much, period.
Of course, even if it’s a parable, metaphor, or whatever else apologists try to wave the story away as, none of that negates the larger point behind it. That god, in his infinite power and wisdom, fucked up so badly he had to hit the reset button on his own creation.
So, it’s not only woefully unscientific, it paints the entity we’re supposed to be in awe of and fearful of as a loser who cannot get it right on the first try.
And, of course, that’s what hell is for, isn’t it? The flood seems wholly unnecessary when there’s an apparatus in place to deal with the wicked. Why, it’s almost as if these stories were sloppily combined into something nonsensical!
