Noah's Ark with two of EVERY animal

[rylah]

My argument was, "several lifetimes", as you may recall. And by several, I mean hundreds.

And my question remains simple -

How much ice expands/melts in 80 years
under conditions of global average at 4 degrees?

 

[hobelim]

Possibly yes, and nobody would have known it was a global event, because they didn't even know there was a globe. I can see the Noah myth arising from older flood tales with a seed of truth. Floods do happen. I don't think that's an extraordinary claim.

By the time the story of Noah was written it would have been well known that it was a global event covering the known world. So what if they didn't know about the americas or australia whose people all recorded this unprecedented flood in their traditions and stories of the past.

BTW, the story of Noah did not exaggerate the devastation. And the animals on the ark could be just metaphors for human archetypes just like the deeper hidden meaning of Kosher law.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Is that what you believe?

Irrelevant. The scientific method is well defined. You confuse yourself, as your paradigm places primacy on personal belief.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

How much ice expands/melts in 80 years
under conditions of global average at 4 degrees?

I am not your assistant. If you have a point, make it.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

By the time the story of Noah was written it would have been well known that it was a global event covering the known world.

Well that's laughably absurd, and I can't believe you just posted that with a straight face.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

BTW, the story of Noah did not exaggerate the devastation.

hahahaha

Even worse

Embarrassing

 

[surada]

archetypes just like the deeper hidden meaning of Kosher law.

It was written in Sumer, Babylon, Ras Shamra and Dilmun that we know of because of thousands of clay tablets. The myth changed after the Babylonian exile.

 

[hobelim]

Well that's laughably absurd, and I can't believe you just posted that with a straight face.

Get this hilarious fantasy out of the science section, thanks.

You said yourself that the flood story was older than the story of Noah.

So yeah, ha ha. hilarious!

 

[surada]

You said yourself that the flood story was older than the story of Noah.

So yeah, ha ha. hilarious!

Noah was a recent version of the myth. Written down after Leviticus and Deuteronomy.

 

[hobelim]

hahahaha

Even worse

Embarrassing

The waters covered the mountains. A mountain, as in the mountains of Israel, is a metaphor for big shots who were like immovable mountains on the human landscape. So the flood was at least 7 feet high and swept them all away.Not an exaggeration.....

You are just a dunce. You should be embarrassed.

 

[alang1216]

Read the verses leading up to God's decision.
The entire human race became extremely selfish and the only way to survive to be extremely giving.
If Noach failed the test, God would have had to create everything all over again.
There are, in fact, opinions that there were many creations until Noach succeeded.

So you're saying God wanted to kill almost every human but the only way to do it was to kill all the animals too? Too bad the Wuhan lab didn't exist yet.

 

[Indeependent]

So you're saying God wanted to kill almost every human but the only way to do it was to kill all the animals too? Too bad the Wuhan lab didn't exist yet.

You read it exactly the opposite of God's true intention.
God was done with almost the entire human race and Noach spent 120 years building the Ark and no one got the message that they were acting like predators.
You also didn't read the verses before God speaks to Noach...no surprise as you probably feel your membership in the Atheist Club will expire if you actually read anything in context.
The verse says that even the animals corrupted their ways; such is the power of perverse human behavior.
It could be the people were forcing inter-breeding in a manner antithetical to the laws set down by Adam.

Sounds like today, doesn't it?

 

[DudleySmith]

Genesis 6​

11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

Ah well, now you cheated and actually read the writings. That's not fair for the illiterates and lazy. And, it still doesn't include Flying Spacemen N Stuff either.

 

[DudleySmith]

They are not two different versions. They only had 7 pairs of the "clean" animals. 2 of the rest.

Hi, Stupid!!! Long time no see!!!

 

[frigidweirdo]

This is the "Religion" forum.

Yes, and?

Does believing suddenly change in the religious forum? Does truth and reality suddenly become something different?

 

[frigidweirdo]

The purpose of the flood was to kill everything that was 'corrupted' by the hand of man. That wouldn't include fish.

But included birds, spiders etc?

Makes no sense.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

the Babylonian exile.

Where the Hebrews encountered and misappropriated the flood myth.

 

[Woodznutz]

Yes, and?

Does believing suddenly change in the religious forum? Does truth and reality suddenly become something different?

You objected to believers even being here. What's that all about?

 

[Woodznutz]

But included birds, spiders etc?

Makes no sense.

Made sense to God.

 

[Mr Natural]

But included birds, spiders etc?

Makes no sense.

Most fairytales don't.