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RE: The story of Noah' s Ark - or - God is dumber than you.
September 20, 2021 at 4:29 pm
The same way you could know it. Go, let wonder lead you to knowledge.
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RE: The story of Noah' s Ark - or - God is dumber than you.
September 20, 2021 at 4:35 pm
(September 20, 2021 at 1:13 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: (September 20, 2021 at 1:03 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Hope of redemption from evil Seems pretty clear to me even if the message appears to be built over a framework of oral story telling and likely incorporates cultural memory of pre-historic tragedy.
Could you flesh that out a little bit?
What seems clear to you as a believer isn't quite so clear to me.
Apparently there's not an answer to my question.
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RE: The story of Noah' s Ark - or - God is dumber than you.
September 20, 2021 at 4:39 pm
(September 20, 2021 at 4:28 pm)Ahriman Wrote: (September 20, 2021 at 4:07 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: People believe all sorts of dumb things.
You, apparently, believed that the above was a good argument, for example. It never happened, but the people who come up with it certainly believed it did, and others after them, for all the usual reasons that anyone believes in any ignorant superstition. The urge to write out what comes to be seen as absurd and counter factual is understandable, but that's all it is.
Meanwhile, your question was one of who was likely to understand herding animals better - those nomads or contemporaries here on these boards. The answer to that is and remains and will always be..contemporary people - right here on these boards. The fact is betrayed when you acknowledge that you see it as absurd, because you do know better. They didn't, because they didn't know better...and you, for your part, won't even allow them the dignity of possessing those beliefs they did hold. All because you feel that it diminishes your equally silly contemporary beliefs, somehow.
No one's trolling you, and those fundies are absolutely right, when it's pointed out that this belief was literal. It's an incontrovertible fact of the history of the religion, it's myths, and it's adherents.
 How would you know that?
It's really sort of amazing how you are able to contribute absolutely nothing to nearly every topic.
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Hey Ricky, your so fine, your logic blows my mind.
September 20, 2021 at 5:00 pm
HEY RICKY, HEY RICKY!
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RE: Hey Ricky, your so fine, your logic blows my mind.
September 20, 2021 at 5:06 pm
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Is there a point to this? Do you have some sort of input other than your dumbass song references?
It's 'you're' not 'your' for the first part of the title...I am going to make a thread for your brain farts...somewhere you can just post them all.
If you are going to post random clips without comment...they are going to get put in their own little dump.
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RE: The story of Noah' s Ark - or - God is dumber than you.
September 20, 2021 at 5:13 pm
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RE: The story of Noah' s Ark - or - God is dumber than you.
September 20, 2021 at 5:14 pm
(September 20, 2021 at 5:13 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Moderator Notice
Merged Brian37’s ‘Oh, Ricky…’ thread into this one.
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You beat me to it...I had another plan.
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RE: The story of Noah' s Ark - or - God is dumber than you.
September 20, 2021 at 5:15 pm
(September 20, 2021 at 5:14 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: (September 20, 2021 at 5:13 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Moderator Notice
Merged Brian37’s ‘Oh, Ricky…’ thread into this one.
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You beat me to it...I had another plan.
Saw that. Check your PM.
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RE: The story of Noah' s Ark - or - God is dumber than you.
September 20, 2021 at 5:16 pm
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Is there Internet Tourette syndrome?
Fernando just might be afflicted with it.
And to answer the initial question, I'm pretty dumb, you're mental faculties would have to be non-existent to be, more dumb than me.
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RE: The story of Noah' s Ark - or - God is dumber than you.
September 21, 2021 at 10:47 am
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In the region of half of American take the Noah's Ark story literally (it was around 60% in 2004, so progress). But let's pretend it's a fringe belief that skeptics shouldn't even bother to address, else they'll be considered to be trolling.
The 2004 poll:
https://abcnews.go.com/images/pdf/947a1V...eBible.pdf
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