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Noah Built More Than One Ark.

Camillus said:
Becuse God has never gone down the quick and painless route for disposing of those he didn't like. Why go for a quick "poof" when you can enjoy a bit of screaming, running about, begging for mercy (especially the pleading of parents for their innocent children) and general mayhem. Also I don't think he could pass up the oppurtnity for a few "drowning not waving" jokes.
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sinclairmcevoy said:
Good point. Surely there were other boats available to some. Things that make you go Hmmmmmmmm.......
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Personally I think that what god made go "poof" was all the other boats. ;) Even funnier for god when all the panic struck people were running around looking for their boats.

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OP = Spam? Drive by poster?? Long gone?
 
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fishkr said:
When thinking about life on the ark, I've often thought about who would have cleaned out the grizzly bear and rhino stables, how they popped over to the other side of the world to gather up the weasels and yaks, down to Oz for the kangas, all that kinda stuff.

So do they think maybe Noah built 2000 arks, staffed them and sent them to every corner of the world and recovered every one of the 50,000 species of beetle? etc. etc. etc. Yeesh.
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How they all got back is pretty amazing too. You would think that the S American tree sloth would have made it to the first tree and said "sod it that will do". An alternative view might be that the writer of the story didn't know there were Kangas and Kiwis and Sloths and Llamas - just a thought like.

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Given enough rain to cover Everest in 40 days and nights - 6 inches of rain per minute - no boat could possibly stay afloat. You'd have to bail something like 5 litres a second out of a six by three foot boat just to keep up with it.

Hell, it wouldn't surprise me if the sheer weight of water falling on it was more than enough to smash the Ark itself.
 
This just shows that there's no stupid story that can't be made more stupid over time.
 
What did the herbivores eat after the flood subsided? How many species were eaten into extinction by the carnivores in the time between the end of the flood and the time it took them to reproduce? Why is there no evidence of a global flood? Why is there plenty of evidence that there was no global flood? How many millions of years would it have taken Noah to collect all of the estimated 1 million to 30 million species on earth? How did he even know that he had them all since we don't know today how many species there are? How did he find the microscopic animals? How come the saltwater fish and other animals weren't killed by the huge reduction in salinity caused by the rain? Why weren't the freshwater fish killed by the salt that remained in their lakes after the flood? How can people grow to adulthood without any concept of reality or common sense? :bwall
 
So Noah was sort of an antediluvean Johnny Appleseed, wandering the Earth and planting little arks all over the place?

Cool. Makes about as much sense as the original myth ...
 
moen333 said:
It would explain how all the animals were saved, and it would explain why there are flood myths around the world. Search for "Noah's Ark, Discover the Science of Man's Oldest Mystery" on Amazon.
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This whole argument seems the height of silliness. To believe there was a flood and a Noah and an ark at all depends on the essential starting belief that the Bible is factual. To believe that there was more than one ark requires you to deny that the Bible is factual.

We need to start a new category of religious nut: the revisionist fundamentalist.
 
Charlie Monoxide said:
Noah also had a dehydrating animal compactor that was able to re-animate the animals after the floods subsided ....

Charlie (must add water) Monoxide
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Yahweh also took one hell of a risk that the boat wouldn't capsize or break open due to flaws in the wood or whatnot. I suppose He could have protected the vessel from large waves, but by that point, why not just put everything into suspended animation until the waters went away.

Better yet, why not just burst the aorta of every evil human, then send mini angels to eat up the bodies? With a fraction of Yahweh's power, and a computer, I could do that in an afternoon. No need to have the evil moms screaming in terror and cursing Yahweh's name as the waters rose to drown their evil children

and stuff.
 
bruto said:
This whole argument seems the height of silliness. To believe there was a flood and a Noah and an ark at all depends on the essential starting belief that the Bible is factual. To believe that there was more than one ark requires you to deny that the Bible is factual.

We need to start a new category of religious nut: the revisionist fundamentalist.
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Ssssshhhh! Say that three times and some will appear. :eye-poppi
 
dacium2007 said:
Not only that, but its extremely unlikly that the animals would survive the inbreeding, son's would have to breed with daughters etc.
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Already covered. It's a residual effect from the Garden of Eden. Why didn't Adam and Eve's kids, who must have mated with each other, have high rates of deformities? Obviously, because their genes were direct creations of god and didn't have any errors or genetic diseases, yet.

By Noah's time, genetics were still "perfect" enough that Noah's descendents (and those of the animals) could mate with each other without producing abominations.

Oh, and the devil introduced genetic disease, at least what didn't come about from cumulative deviation from the Garden of Eden's perfection, away from the guiding hand of God.

There, all nice and tidy! Explained away!
 
Beerina said:
Yahweh also took one hell of a risk that the boat wouldn't capsize or break open due to flaws in the wood or whatnot. I suppose He could have protected the vessel from large waves, but by that point, why not just put everything into suspended animation until the waters went away.

Better yet, why not just burst the aorta of every evil human, then send mini angels to eat up the bodies? With a fraction of Yahweh's power, and a computer, I could do that in an afternoon. No need to have the evil moms screaming in terror and cursing Yahweh's name as the waters rose to drown their evil children

and stuff.
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don't forget though that God told Noah how to build it, what do build it of, etc. Carpentry is one of his hobbies.
 
kmortis said:
I'm thinking that a dehydrator isn't the smartest thing to use before a flood.
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But. . . if you used, like a whole bunch of dehydrators when the rain started, it would have prevented the flood! 'Cause, like, dehydrators. . . dehydrate!

Am I a genius or what?


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*snicker, snicker*
 
moen333 said:
It would explain how all the animals were saved, and it would explain why there are flood myths around the world. Search for "Noah's Ark, Discover the Science of Man's Oldest Mystery" on Amazon.
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Mr. Moen, I will remind you that commercial advertisements are against forum rules. If you wish to discuss the topic, that is fine, but do not hock your wares.
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Upchurch said:
Mr. Moen, I will remind you that commercial advertisements are against forum rules. If you wish to discuss the topic, that is fine, but do not hock your wares.
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[pedant]I'd rather see him hock them than hawk them[/pedant]
 
Another thing I question about the flood myth, is how did the animals get from North America to Noah's location? Surely not all of them were indigenous the the Middle East.
 
moen333 said:
It would explain how all the animals were saved, and it would explain why there are flood myths around the world. Search for "Noah's Ark, Discover the Science of Man's Oldest Mystery" on Amazon.
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Probably the better explanation for global flood myth, well one of the better explanations, is a rather simple one. Everyone knows what flooding is like, and they just have to expand it to a grander scale where the world is flooded.
 
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