The Noahs ark and why it didn't happen

[Fidel_Castronaut]

You forgot one thing, Hoopington.

Magic.

[Hoopington]

You forgot one thing, Hoopington.

Magic.

That would be a better explanation, in that, like all magic, it didn't actually happen, it was an illusion.... an illusion that lasted 107 days.

How in the name of Dawkins does anyone believe this shit?

[Minimalist]

How in the name of Dawkins does anyone believe this shit?

They are dumb fucks.

[Rampant.A.I.]

High on Jesus?

[Clueless Morgan]

The Noahs ark and why it didn't happen

End of discussion.

[Michael Schubert]

I realise that this subject has been done to death and that any reasonable person with the most basic scientific knowledge would accept that the biblical world wide flood didn't happen. We know it didn't happen, not just because it is physically impossible but also there is no evidence on earth that it happened except in a centuries old book.

That, and the Holy Bible's writers plagiarized that story from The Epic of Gilgamesh, and the name, Noah's Ark is derived from the ancient Egyptian term for "wet moon", Argah Noah. Egyptians said that on the day when floods came.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy8E1Ltk...5_gSByMyr7

[BlackMason]

3) Even if we accept the nonsense that two of every species of animal fitted on the ark. What did they eat and drink for 40 days? Are you telling me that there was 40 days worth of food on the ark for each animal.

40 days? No no bro, they were on water for much longer than that. I think it would've taken about 7 months before the first signs of land appeared. It would've taken a year for ALL the water to disappear. So they would've needed at least 7 months of food for everyone.

Another thing that doesn't get much attention is the genetic diversity we see in the world. An experiment was done on cheetahs. They performed skin grafts on them. These were cheetahs taken from different places. The sample size was 30. Only 4 cheetahs didn't accept the skin of other cheetahs. Ever heard in medical cases where the doctor says that the patient rejected the organ donated? The experiment was based on this. There are proteins called HGC cells that do the accepting and rejecting. If the cells don't match, then the body recognises the donated organ as a foreign body.

So most cheetahs accepted the skin of the others. That's bad because this means that the cheetah is poorly genetically diverse. Scientists believe that the cheetah population suffered a severe bottle neck in their species. As a result they have issues like low sperm count because of the great inbreeding they've done.

But we don't see the same pattern with other animals. So the Noah story is crap because it claims that all species were reduced to just a male and female couple. This simply can't be true because there is great genetic diversity in other animals. Even we humans couldn't have come from 2 people. We were not reduced to 8 people because our genetic diversity is great!

[Bad Wolf]

You obviously didn't read the rest of my post.

[BlackMason]

You obviously didn't read the rest of my post.

My bad. Got lazy there.

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RMS TITANIC

Height: 175 ft
Length: 882 ft
Width: 92 ft
Construction: Steel
Capacity: 3547 people and enough provisions for a couple weeks.
Time at sea: 5 days

Noah's Ark

Height: 45 ft
Length: 450 ft
Width: 75 ft
Construction: Wood
Capacity: Over 50,000 animals, 2 million insects, 8 people, a 600 year old man and enough provisions for 1 year.
Time at sea: 7 months

Perspective
San Diego Wild Animal Park
3000 animals
1800 acres
500 employees

Noah's Ark
50,000+ animals
1 boat
8 people

I guess the authors of the bible weren't very good with logistics. Logistics is also another issue with the exodus. How would you coordinate 2 million people wandering around the desert for 40 years?

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1: Agreed on the name of their ancestor who built it and not called him Atra-hasis or Utnapishtim (in the Epic Of Gilgamesh) or Noah in the Bible.

I thought the dude's name was Ziusudra.

[Twiger]

There are billions of species of animals.

Really? Can you support that?

2) How did all the animals get to the ark?
Firstly, it is impossible that two of every species travelled to the ark. Period. How did they get across the oceans? How did they know where to go? How did they travel millions of miles across unfamiliar land?

Millions? Gee, just how big do you think the earth is? I guess it would need to be millions of miles around in order to fit those billions of species.

Yeah, of course those are the REAL inconsistencies in the story....No matter the point that´s made when one can find flaws in numbers. Is that really the best response you could come up with?