Dinosaurs and the bible

[chatpilot]

It rained 40 days and 40 nights but it took approximately a year for the land to dry up.

[Skeptisma]

What exactly is "too long?" If it's more than the time it took for the flood to appear and dissipate then your point definitely isn't being made here. Or, perhaps god gave all of the dolphins wetsuits.

I dunno, exactly how long does it take for bacteria one's body has no inherent immunities for to get into unprotected, irritated skin?

Let's see...

Have you ever taken a bath for long enough that your skin started to wrinkle and get prune-like? That's stage 1. Now, introduce friction to that skin by say, moving it through the water. How long until the top layers start peeling to expose the tender and vulnerable layers beneath? Now how long will it take before that skin meets up with some wandering bacteria?

The 'flood' was supposedly 40 days and 40 nights. I think you'll find the above would happen in considerably less time, but as I've never been inclined to do the experiment nor to torture a dolphin to death to get an exact number, I'm afraid I don't have that information for you.

Even if this were possible, the "mixing" or "layering" didn't fully occur until the end of the rains. In any case, dolphins don't sit at the top of the waterline permanently. It is very easy to go through the fresh water, breathe, then back down into the salt water. So, they wouldn't ever be stewing in the fresh water, simply passing through. Kind of like how you take showers everyday?

[Rhizomorph13]

Lol at arguing the technical details related to the flood! Cheers for sillyness!

[Minimalist]

but that is nothing more than wild guessing.

And wishful thinking.

[In This Mind]

Even if this were possible, the "mixing" or "layering" didn't fully occur until the end of the rains. In any case, dolphins don't sit at the top of the waterline permanently. It is very easy to go through the fresh water, breathe, then back down into the salt water. So, they wouldn't ever be stewing in the fresh water, simply passing through. Kind of like how you take showers everyday?

You'll notice I mentioned the buoyancy issue as well. It is more difficult to swim in fresh water than it is in salt water.

Now, if the fresh water was actually at a depth that would allow fresh water aquatic species to survive, that's actually quite a depth for a sea-dweller to struggle through every time it needs to surface to breath. They would actually be 'stewing'. A dolphin can only stay submerged for 10 minutes, and while swimming breathe 2 or 3 times a minute. That's why dolphins tend to cruise near the surface.

The fact that salt-water air-breathers survived is one more flaw in the whole 'flood' idea.

Biology trumps religion.

[Skeptisma]

Lol at arguing the technical details related to the flood! Cheers for sillyness!

I can't help it, I just like arguiing.

[Minimalist]

Biology trumps religion.

Just about anything trumps religion.

[DiRNiS]

Biology trumps religion.

Just about anything trumps religion.

Except its followers.

[Zen Badger]

The flood is just one more example of gods incompetence.

Any half competent god, pissed off at humanity, would have just inflicted something humorously painful on people

like terminal haemorrhoids or the like.

But the xtian god, like the half witted buffoon that the bible demonstrates him to be, decides to obliterate the entire biosphere.

A bit like dealing with your mouse problem by dynamiting your house.

[theophilus]

OK, the question is completely rhetorical but, being the total nerd that I am, I can't help but ask:

Wouldn't the sudden mixing of such a massive quantity of fresh water (from the "rains from Heaven") mixing with the salt water of the sea effectively kill off all fish, both fresh water and salt water?

Sorry, I couldn't help it.

The sea might not have been as salty then.

Here is an article on the subject of dinosaurs and the Bible:

http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles...fter-babel