A little more about evolution by the experts.

[Hollie]

Rainfall runs downhill, tidelike floods go uphill.

A global flood is not tidelike. A global flood would be floodlike.

 

[Woodznutz]

Your understanding must be wrong because it conflicts with others who have read the story and the real unique understanding.

Why don't you read the story and then make your own judgment regarding my knowledge.

 

[Woodznutz]

A global flood is not tidelike. A global flood would be floodlike.

A global flood would have to be tidelike. The water has to come in from the sea and cover the land. Watching daily tides gives a good indication about how it happened. Here's video that demonstrates that a tide can also be a flood.

youtube daily tides - Recherche Vidéos

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[Hollie]

Why don't you read the story and then make your own judgment regarding my knowledge.

I did. I read the fable and have a unique understanding. Mine is the correct understanding.

 

[Hollie]

A global flood would have to be tidelike. The water has to come in from the sea and cover the land. Watching daily tides gives a good indication about how it happened.

The fable says the water came from rainfall. Nothing in the fable suggests the rainfall was exclusively over the sea. What version of the Bible are you reading?

 

[Woodznutz]

I did. I read the fable and have a unique understanding. Mine is the correct understanding.

Now that...is facetious.

 

[Woodznutz]

The fable says the water came from rainfall. Nothing in the fable suggests the rainfall was exclusively over the sea. What version of the Bible are you reading?

KJV.
Genesis 7:11
"In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened."

Notice the primacy of the seas regarding the flood. The rainfall had a function but was not the cause of the flood itself.

 

[buttercup]

Wow. I can see you're the kind of religious extremist who projects their hate and intolerance onto others. Not having the intellectual or emotional maturity to engage in the topic without having your tender sensibilities offended suggests you might want to limit your participation to threads with an audience that shares your extremism.

Apparently I touched a nerve. What did I say that triggered you? My main point was simply that we weren’t talking about the existence of God but you always try to make that the topic no matter what someone else is talking about.

But that caused you to lash out at me in a projecting type of way. (And in a childish parroting way, but I digress ) Anyway, wrong again. I don’t hate you Hollie. I don’t hate Colin either, despite him also lashing out at me with such venom and personal attacks. Hating people is against my beliefs. It’s against what Jesus taught. What I will do is pray for you. And Colin.

 

[Hollie]

KJV.
Genesis 7:11
"In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened."

Notice the primacy of the seas regarding the flood. The rainfall had a function but was not the cause of the flood itself.

The language of the fable has it the "fountains of the deep" and "windows of heaven" brought the flood.

The "primacy of the seas" is your Bible editing. Who authorized you to edit the bible?

Was Noah really 600 years old? If you divide by 7 (for dog years), that would put him at 85. A bit of a stretch.

 

[Hollie]

Apparently I touched a nerve. What did I say that triggered you? My main point was simply that we weren’t talking about the existence of God but you always try to make that the topic no matter what someone else is talking about.

But that caused you to lash out at me in a projecting type of way. (And in a childish parroting way, but I digress ) Anyway, wrong again. I don’t hate you Hollie. I don’t hate Colin either, despite him also lashing out at me with such venom and personal attacks. Hating people is against my beliefs. It’s against what Jesus taught. What I will do is pray for you. And Colin.

I was responding to your angry, frantic rant. Nothing triggered about my post. Have a conversation with your gods about managing your anger and frustration.

 

[Natural Citizen]

Gosh. I don't often tread into this sub-forum, but the atheists in here are some nasty little sht fkrs, aren't they?

My goodness.

 

[marvin martian]

Thought you believers might like to argue that god was responsible.

Evolution: Ancient Britons rapidly adapted to cope with lack of sunlight | New Scientist

www-newscientist-com.cdn.ampproject.org

Looks like you're trying to convince yourself more than anyone else. Good luck with that.

 

[Woodznutz]

The "primacy of the seas" is your Bible editing. Who authorized you to edit the bible?

The "fountains of the deep" was first in the sentence/statement. Also recall that rainfall is the water cycle in action and could not cause a global flood. It would be like trying to cause a bathtub to overflow by taking water from one end of the tub and pouring into the other end.

 

[Woodznutz]

The language of the fable has it the "fountains of the deep" and "windows of heaven" brought the flood.

Poetic language not to be taken literally. However, it did rain, and the sea did come up.

 

[Hollie]

The "fountains of the deep" was first in the sentence/statement. Also recall that rainfall is the water cycle in action and could not cause a global flood. It would be like trying to cause a bathtub to overflow by taking water from one end of the tub and pouring into the other end.

I think the gods need to step in with their whistles and black and white striped shirts to referree the match. If they can make Noah 600 years old, create universes and condemn all mankind for fruit theft, why do they need both fountains and rainfall for a little global drowning?

 

[Hollie]

Poetic language not to be taken literally. However, it did rain, and the sea did come up.

Which language is poetic and which isn’t? There's no geologic evidence of a global flood. Maybe the entire fable is to be taken as just that?

Are you to decide? Such a weighty burden you bear.

The tree and fruit theft thing. Kinda', sorta' true?

 

[Woodznutz]

I think the gods need to step in with their whistles and black and white striped shirts to referree the match. If they can make Noah 600 years old, create universes and condemn all mankind for fruit theft, why do they need both fountains and rainfall for a little global drowning?

There's a metaphor in the story that explains this. It has to do with "the waters above" purified by distillation, and the "waters below" which contain the filth of the earth. The rainfall was lifegiving to Noah and those on the ark, the corrupt seawater was death to the wicked. Each got the water that was fitting for them.

 

[Woodznutz]

Which language is poetic and which isn’t? There's no geologic evidence of a global flood. Maybe the entire fable is to be taken as just that?

Are you to decide? Such a weighty burden you bear.

The tree and fruit theft thing. Kinda', sorta' true?

The "windows of heaven opening" is poetic language for it rained .
The "fountains of the deep breaking up" is poetic language for the actual cause of the flood, and that I can only speculate about.

 

[surada]

A f

I said like a tide.

A flood that covers the mountains by 22 feet isn't a tide. BTW, Saudi Arabia never flooded.

 

[surada]

There's a metaphor in the story that explains this. It has to do with "the waters above" purified by distillation, and the "waters below" which contain the filth of the earth. The rainfall was lifegiving to Noah and those on the ark, the corrupt seawater was death to the wicked. Each got the water that was fitting for them.

It sure doesn't say that in scripture.