Okay... Noah was told to build a boat and put 2 of EVERY animal on it right? Well... 1) How'd he get the material to make a boat that big, let alone operate it through a flood that big with just him, his wife, and animals? 2) Say he lived in Israel. How'd he get north american animals on the boat? Or if he lived in North america, howd he get european animals on the boat? 3) Wheres the evidence of such a water displacement as to flood all of mankind? What caused the flood, because the water had to've been moved by something? 4) How'd he keep the bugs and birds from flying away? 5) what'd he feed the animals and his family? 6) How the hell did he keep the animals from eating eachother? 7) How'd he build a boat that would've had to have been bigger than mississippi without anyone questioning him? Let alone, build it himself... How does noah make ANY sense??! :leaving:
1. noah took more than 2 of each animal 2. it's a fairy tale and meant to teach a lesson. 3. reading the bible literally is dangerous and leads to radical interpretations
I'm not a christian, nore do i take the bible for word, but ill give it a go. Can i just say though that most christians today dont take the old testimant as literal as the feel it is mostly exagerated stories, and instead they take the stories as examples of faith. Im pretty sure that at those times there where ALOT more trees around that their are now, so getting wood would really not be that big of a problem. Especially - if we go by the story exactly - the fact that he has God on his side, who could make trees grow quicker, etc. They HAVE found out that the size the boat was made, is big enough for the animals that he had and all the other things he needed to do. from wikipedia: Theres many different theories on this. For example theyve found now that during the type they think noah was about, that the whole mediteranean would have been dry land. Think how much water there IS on the earth. Imagine if all the water in our houses, all the snow in mountains melted, both poles melted, al lthe snow and ice in north canada, russia, etc. I reckon theres more than enough water out there. And according to the bible, God cause the flood. By 40 days and 40 nights of torrential rain. The same way we would if we kept them as pet - cages. food that he could have kept, including plants, etc. as the article i quoted said there was room for "Noah's grinding mills and smokeless ovens," cages again. people did quetsion him according to teh story, but they laughed at him. Noah lived for hundreds of years according to the bible. I reckon building a boat all day, everyday, being a carpenter - if you work for a hundred years or so you could build a boat too. well it doesnt really. BUT, if your a christian, you already believe that there is an all powerful God on Noahs side. And if you have an all powerful God in the story it makes PERFECT sense.
If you tried to build a wooden boat to the dimensions given in the bible, it would break up in the water. It is not possible to build a wooden craft that big. Yet another absurdity in an absurd tale. Also don't forget that if the story were true, within a few generations the human population would have degenerated into a race of in-bred morons, as we'd all be descended from the same family.
They get out of the inbreeding argument here through one of the fundamental pieces of nonsense in the bible, because after killing able, cain goes off and gets a wife from..somewhere....
