Evisceration of the mythical Global flood

[goodwithoutgod]

Does the claim that a man took two of every animal on a boat for forty days and nights really need eviscerating?  Disemboweling something that can't stand on its own seems like overkill.

but I do so love to disembowel religion, a pet passion of mine

[goodwithoutgod]

Wow, you went through a lot of work to state the obvious. Also, if you got the time, look at the epic of Gilgamesh. Nothing about the biblical flood story is in any way original.

Very familiar with the biblical mythical global flood and how it plagiarized it from the Epic of Gilgamesh...gotta love mythology

[robvalue]

When listening to the Bible Reloaded, they mentioned that "forty days and forty nights" is a recurring phrase in the bible, and may not be meant literally. Instead it may be a phrase meaning "a long time". I think they had further justification for it as well, but I can't remember.

[Wyrd of Gawd]

The Noah flood story is simply a war story describing how an army swept through the area killing, raping, and pillaging everything in its path from the lowest areas to the highest. The word "flood" is used to describe this event because it was irresistible. The story uses metaphors to describe war and peace. Besides, all of the countries that existed when Adam & Eve were running around naked in the Garden of Eden existed after the "flood" without any harmful effect.

Can we please put some nails in Noah's flood coffin? It's worse than a damn zombie.