About Noah And That Wooden Boat

There are presently over 4000 species of termite on the planet. Makes one wonder what they were feeding on while that 5 mile deep water was evaporating and receding doesn't it?

 

Well, knowing that wood floats, I am quite confident that there would have been sufficient quantities of wood debris floating around for the 5000 species of termites to feast on during that 40 day, 40 night venture.

 

That was just the start. Then there were the months of drifting around till the waters went down. Supposedly.

 

I want to know why God made all those weird creatures that live below 10,000 feet in the sea. Or those worms that live on vents in the pacific. Or microbes that live 1000 feet below the surface of the earth. Why did God make a virus?

 

So that the arrogance of man could not lead man to conceivably think that man was so ingenuous as to create such things.

 

gibberish. I know of no man who said they created such things.

 

Well, it is conceivably possible that some man might want to make such a claim. Anything is a possibility and therefore cannot be arbitrarily dismissed.

 

The ark story is a bunch of nonsense.

Population bottleneck disproves the story of Noahs Ark.

If the story of the Ark were true, we would see a population bottleneck in every single specie on this Earth that would easily trace back only a few thousand years. We don't see a population bottleneck in ANY specie going back 2,000 years, let alone all of the species on Earth.

Just another fanciful imaginary story to go along with a fanciful creature known as 'god'.

 

hmmm maybe the virus is gods favorite and we are just the food for the virus. Just because we a bigger doesn't mean we are better. Seems viruses routinely outsmart us and they don't even have brains.

 

Evolution in action. Thank you for proving Evolution once again.

 

How ironic is it that this can even be considered a legitimate question in the 21st Century?

 

The Bible is a book of morality plays and it was never meant to be anything other than that. If you believe someone actually built a boat and brought every creature aborad, then I've got a bridge to sell you.

There has been a flood fable in every culture and the one in the Christian bible is one of the latter ones.

 

Cowboys Bob, get your bridges ready:

Noah's Ark Found in Turkey?. There are people actually looking for this imaginary vessel.

 

The Noah story is just the use of Language Art to describe something only we, in this Age, could understand.

The "flood" refers to Modern Homo sapiens coming Out-of-Africa 40 thousand "days and nights" ago.
The "ark" was our Brain/Nervous System which actually did carry out all the animals we knew about.




www. anthro.palomar.edu/homo2/mod_homo_4.htm
The replacement model of Christopher Stringer and Peter Andrews, Paleontologists:
This hypothesis is also referred to as the "out of Africa", "Noah's ark" and "African replacement" model.

All other lines of humans that had descended from Homo erectus presumably became extinct.
From this view, the regional anatomical differences that we see among humans today are recent developments--evolving mostly in the last 40,000 years.

Professor Gran Burenhult (1994) of Gotland University in Sweden elucidates: "Humans migrated into Europe about 40,000 years ago.
They used two different tool traditions at this time.
People south of the Sahara had the same Middle Stone Age tools between 200,000 and 40,000 years ago.

The first migrants into Europe transmitted this tradition.
In North Africa and Western Europe, a new tool tradition started 35,000 years ago.
These are associated with early Cro-Magnon cultures, (Noah's species), called the Aterian culture in Tunisia and Libya."
(And the Auragnacian in Western Europe, I might add.)
http://www.atlantisquest.com/Anthropology.html

 

Per usual:

 

Per usual... what does the graphic have to do with the topic being discussed?

 

one of my kids was recently asked "there must be a god .... how could man have made the stars?" by an elderly woman. this demonstrates a fascinating incapacity to imagine the zillion other possibilities, and a total dependence on the idea of things being 'made'. that a grown woman thinks the only two possibilities are that humans or the Abrahamic god made the stars is quite astonishing. she's clearly taken great pains throughout her life to avoid learning anything, about anything.

edited to add that I've not met anyone who thinks man created stars or viruses. I'd wager no one else has, either, unless they're spending a lot of time at the local mental health facility. how DO you come up with these notions?

 

That is not necessarily true. She learned how to live a relatively long life, and how to communicate with others, so she had to have learned something.

 

Have you not met live, walking, talking, presumably thinking, adults who actually believe it happened? I have, and it's difficult to think of them as fellow humans. It feels more like you're talking to a poodle, or an 8 year old.

 

she ain't that old yet she won't earn the honour of "Long Life" for another decade or so. and communication skills are not generally exemplified by telling someone else's kids, when the parents aren't looking, that the THERE MUST BE A GOD - just like that, without so much as a how-do-you-do.

 

Leaning on emotionalism again I see.

 

Tell your daughter that Noah's story is preceded by a list of the 22 species that modern Paleontologists recognize as our forefathers:







This same story is reported in this book:



The Genesis story clearly explains the facts as our own science people are discovering today.

 

Hmmm,...

Smart little Jewish girl.
That is basically The First Cause Argument for a God/creator.

 

I understood it.

 

Good for you... some people relate to pictures more so than words...