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That's a tad caustic, no?
Noah's Ark unseaworthy
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That's a tad caustic, no?
Looked like the "ark" sits on top of some kind of barge and not an actual ground up boat design.
IIRC the voyage so to speak was a year and 10 days or something - it was 40 days and nights which it rained for.
When you point out the slight issue in respect to the amount of fodder for just 200 pairs of animals for that long requiring a super-tanker full in tow it becomes a miracle (feeding the 5000 style) - which also raises a lot of questions due to consistency with the reporting of other miracles in the Bible - or a parable - which raises even more problems in respect to Noah.
I remember a funny take on that someone mentioned when questioning about the feeding side and apparently some old lady's take on it was the animals feed on the carcasses of all the unbelievers floating in the flood.
IIRC the voyage so to speak was a year and 10 days or something - it was 40 days and nights which it rained for.
When you point out the slight issue in respect to the amount of fodder for just 200 pairs of animals for that long requiring a super-tanker full in tow it becomes a miracle (feeding the 5000 style) - which also raises a lot of questions due to consistency with the reporting of other miracles in the Bible - or a parable - which raises even more problems in respect to Noah.
I remember a funny take on that someone mentioned when questioning about the feeding side and apparently some old lady's take on it was the animals feed on the carcasses of all the unbelievers floating in the flood.
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There are more "slight issues". Millions of animals would produce a lot of waste. How would that be dealt with? What about water? That would be an even larger requirement than food. Not to mention the issue of housing millions of animals on a wooden boat, given the rather small limitations of size of a wooden boat that's seaworthy. How did all the animals of the world get to the boat? How many of each were there, anyway? Most people think two of each, but that's not at all clear. In reality, it would have to be a viable genetic pool and that would be at least hundreds of each animal. Then there's the multitude of animals that eat other animals, so you'd need even more of most animals so you had enough surplus animals to be food for the other animals.
In short, it's nonsense. The only "explanation" I've seen that comes even vaguely close to being maybe possible at a stretch is that it was a huge spaceship bringing embryoes in stasis to Earth from some other planet.
In short, it's nonsense. The only "explanation" I've seen that comes even vaguely close to being maybe possible at a stretch is that it was a huge spaceship bringing embryoes in stasis to Earth from some other planet.
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And if Noah had tried to run a radio station from the boat, the government killjoys would have been down on him like a ton of bricks quoting the Marine offences act.
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As someone who has to deal with the mca this probably means they filled in a wrong box on the paperwork, or maybe a spelling mistake.
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Thats a 1960's reference if I ever did see one.
And Hank Mizell was playing Jungle Rock all night long.
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does this mean float planes have to be both?
It’s probably fair to say that, in the UK, even those who follow Christianity know that the Flood story is allegorical. Unlike the US, Young Earth/Creationists are a tiny minority. The hugely and comically convoluted attempts provide a “scientific” explanation for much such tales, despite vast amounts of evidence to the contrary, must have Mr Occam spinning in his grave.
What I don’t quite get is that once you accept that this is the nature of that myth, then really the next logical progression is that it’s all made up (as well as competing and contradicting belief systems). But then, a lot of people believe that 5G spreads COVID, so it’s clearly human nature to want to believe wild and crazy stuff purely on the basis of someone telling you.
What I don’t quite get is that once you accept that this is the nature of that myth, then really the next logical progression is that it’s all made up (as well as competing and contradicting belief systems). But then, a lot of people believe that 5G spreads COVID, so it’s clearly human nature to want to believe wild and crazy stuff purely on the basis of someone telling you.
Took me a second but got a lol from me.
Writing it off as allegorical/parable creates huge problems for the rest of the Bible dealing with Noah (which does come around to it's all made up). Though an easy way to try and deflect people who don't know the Bible.
On another note
Much like Noel Edmonds.
his grandfather lived to 969 apparently
Probably was made up, then altered and added to over the ages. Most people couldn't read when this stuff was written and just believed whatever someone told them it said.
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I’ll just leave this here.