Iridescence
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- #81
Ridiculous...
Besides the dubious evidence presented, the story in Genesis 6-9 is just plain silly.
To start with, if the way that animals survived was by taking a pair of every species, you would need to have a boat big enough to contain one million terrestrial animal species. And you would need hundreds of people to tend to them, and lots of space for one years worth of food for them. You see the logistical problem.
Yet we are to believe that 8 people tended to 2 million animals in a huge boat. (By way of comparison, Brookfeild Zoo in Chicago has a staff of 400 people to tend to only a few thousand animals.)
Of course, if the flood produced enough rain to cover every mountain, then the air would be so thin that Noah and all his animals would suffocate.
Then you have the problem of after the flood. All the animals get out... Which means each animal species (including the people) would then descend from a single pair of parents... you'd have those inbreeding problems. And the predators would start picking off the herbivores... The herbivores would have nothing to eat because all the plants drowned, and the saline content of the soild would have increased as the waters receded...
Do I need to go on?
But here's my biggest problem, and it's the one that started with the nun who said that it was right for God to drown every baby in the world because they were "wiiiiiicked".
What kind of God drowns fucking babies and still expects to be called "good"? He just comes off like a Cosmic Andrea Yates, and that woman was crazy.
How about you think a little deeper about what Genesis is saying that led up to the flood... do you really interpret the 'wickedness' written about is a mere 'state of man's heart'... Could you possibly expand your understanding to better realize that the genetics of the people within the land was beyond the help of God, the love of God... and not because He could not or would not deliver them from their condition, it was instead because their insist rejection of Him and His aide?
Really, it is said to be the shame of 'us' that so many seem to stop thinking at the mere first sight of scripture... but once it has been given to them to see further, to understand better... it is then on their own heads. We have an amazing world within our grasp and so much is given freely...
How about you just post proving your point and/or disproving mine... Instead of name calling and net repping. :-*