DESTROY NOAH'S ARK

[Rev. Rye]

Here are just a few problems with the ark.

• It's 450 feet long by 300 feet high by 75 feet wide. I would like to point out that at a certain length (something less than 300 feet), ships invariably begin to get less and less seaworthy. You simply cannot entrust something you can't expect to stay afloat with the preservation of life on Earth.
  
• By simple calculation, the Ark had a volume of 10,125,000 cubic feet, which is not likely to contain all 8.7 million species estimated to live on Earth.
  
• To get around this, some creationists note that Noah did not take two of every species, but two of every "kind". Apart from the fact that they have never given an adequate definition of "kind," even if they could get the number small enough to fit on the ark, this would, ironically enough, not only actually require evolution (and speciation specifically) to happen, but to happen at such an alarming rate that nobody could deny it.
  

[Cato]

Anyone who wants to debate the historicity of Noah's Ark is not worth the kJ of energy it takes to formulate a thought in order to tell them how stupid they are.

And then you tell them they owe you a kJ.

Also, be prepared to explain what a Joule is. If you're in the U.S., a kilo will also need to be explained to this crowd.

[FreeTony]

God does come up with such a convoluted way of killing the entire population of the Earth.

It's almost as if ancient people made up a story about a local flood they experienced.

[Chas]

How did they keep from freezing or suffocating to death in high altitudes, which would need to be higher than Mount Everest?

It would be nice if people would stop trotting this one out. It's utterly wrong.

All of the atmosphere would be above the water. Think about it.

[Chad32]

How did they keep from freezing or suffocating to death in high altitudes, which would need to be higher than Mount Everest?

It would be nice if people would stop trotting this one out. It's utterly wrong.

All of the atmosphere would be above the water. Think about it.

The oxygen would get pushed up with the water? I'm not sure if that would really work. Can you give a citation or something?

[Mudhammam]

"Noah's Ark 2: The Awkward Untold Story of Repopulation"

Lolololol.

[Chas]

It would be nice if people would stop trotting this one out. It's utterly wrong.

All of the atmosphere would be above the water. Think about it.

The oxygen would get pushed up with the water? I'm not sure if that would really work. Can you give a citation or something?

Seriously? Do you even science?

Where do you think the atmosphere ends up? Underwater?

It's called density. The atmosphere floats above the more dense ocean due to gravity.

[Chad32]

The oxygen would get pushed up with the water? I'm not sure if that would really work. Can you give a citation or something?

Seriously? Do you even science?

Where do you think the atmosphere ends up? Underwater?

It's called density. The atmosphere floats above the more dense ocean due to gravity.

forced into outer space. I figure the world holds as much atmosphere as it does because that's about as much as it can. If you push all the air up like that, it gets pushed out of the gravitational field and scatters into space. Not that I have anything hard to back it up. That's just was I think would happen.

[Drich]

[Mudhammam]

Watching Drich defend the Noah's Ark story in utter seriousness is a like a watching a slow motion train wreck. God's willing to drown babies to show his support for one man's faith? And you people wonder why you are quickly losing your credibility on social issues and public policy (grown up stuff).