In 2807 BC a three mile wide comet hit the South Indian Ocean making an eighteen mile wide crater and sending all that water into the atmosphere causing torrential rains across the globe, and everybody wishes they had an ark. Besides evidence in the atmosphere told the race that such were a regular occurrence, and so they all wrote their stories.So what do you think? Could the Great Flood and Noah's Ark actually have occurred? I don't think so. There are flood stories long before the bible was written. The Epic of Gilgamesh immediately comes to mind. Biblical stories like the Flood seem borrowed from other sources and expanded upon and/or exaggerated.
I'll let you in on a little secretA huge amount of Biblical stories were passed down by ancient society's fables. Yeah, nobody, not even Charlton Heston actually separated the sea.
That is certainly true with DARWINISM. It sounds "scientific," but it's all fabricated under a wrong assumption.A myth is a myth regardless of what book or oral tradition it's in.
This is the equivalent of right wings people saying there is a communist plot with in our government. Are there communist in America? Sure. Do they constitute a decent percentage to actually be a political threat? no."People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers." ---Neil deGrasse Tyson
This article is the first in a series of articles I plan to write (depending on my available time and interest) objectively examining popular biblical stories to establish their veracity or likelihood of having actually occurred. While many people might view the stories as fables and allegories, some do view them as actual, literal events that have occurred (Looking at you Ken Hamm, lol). These stories have significantly influenced people and societies throughout the centuries. So I will analyze the empirical evidence which either supports or refutes the stories as portrayed. For this Part 1, I will examine the biblical Great Flood and Noah's Ark mythos.
In a nutshell, the Great Flood/Noah's Ark goes like this: God was ticked off at humanity's shenanigans and decided the best way to deal with the situation was genocide via mass drowning (save for Noah & few of his followers, along with certain animals). So God instructed Noah to gather two of every animal and build a great ark to house them during the 40-day/night deluge that would flood the world and kill virtually every living thing on the planet. Afterwards, he would release the animals and themselves to repopulate their respective species.
This story has so many problems with it, it's difficult to know where to begin. To simplify, I will not be focusing on other cultures earlier flood myths, which probably influenced the creation of the biblical flood myth. Neither will I be focusing on God's own imperfection (or incompetence), as his Creation had some major design flaws forcing him to essentially reboot Creation over again. I also won't delve into the implausibility of rapid repopulation over a short time after the flood either. So here are some problems with the Flood story:
I don't think the story as in the Bible is true but it seems to come from a true source, this doesn't mean that all or even the overwhelming vast majority of claims and statistics behind it are real.Due to character limitations, I have to post the rest of the article in the discussion forum. Here are the rest of the points:
2. The lack of paleontological evidence :
3. The lack of geological evidence : So if a worldwide flood did indeed happen, there would be geological evidence of the event. However, geologists have not discovered any evidence to support the flood story.
4. The amount of water needed to flood the earth does not exist on earth :
It's allegorical. What really happened is a comet was about to strike the earth and an advanced alien race came to earth and rescued the DNA of every animal including humans and the story is kinda like a genetic memory of the whole incident."People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers." ---Neil deGrasse Tyson
This article is the first in a series of articles I plan to write (depending on my available time and interest) objectively examining popular biblical stories to establish their veracity or likelihood of having actually occurred. While many people might view the stories as fables and allegories, some do view them as actual, literal events that have occurred (Looking at you Ken Hamm, lol). These stories have significantly influenced people and societies throughout the centuries. So I will analyze the empirical evidence which either supports or refutes the stories as portrayed. For this Part 1, I will examine the biblical Great Flood and Noah's Ark mythos.
In a nutshell, the Great Flood/Noah's Ark goes like this: God was ticked off at humanity's shenanigans and decided the best way to deal with the situation was genocide via mass drowning (save for Noah & few of his followers, along with certain animals). So God instructed Noah to gather two of every animal and build a great ark to house them during the 40-day/night deluge that would flood the world and kill virtually every living thing on the planet. Afterwards, he would release the animals and themselves to repopulate their respective species.
This story has so many problems with it, it's difficult to know where to begin. To simplify, I will not be focusing on other cultures earlier flood myths, which probably influenced the creation of the biblical flood myth. Neither will I be focusing on God's own imperfection (or incompetence), as his Creation had some major design flaws forcing him to essentially reboot Creation over again. I also won't delve into the implausibility of rapid repopulation over a short time after the flood either. So here are some problems with the Flood story:
1. The sheer number of animals that had to be aboard the Ark : For this, I'm going to assume that the animals on the ark were all land animals. According to the California Academy of Sciences, there are approximately 6.5 million species of land animals. I'll be conservative and round down to 6 million, give or take a million. Since we have two of every animal, the ark must be capable of holding and supporting 12 MILLION animals for an extended duration, without additional support. That alone makes the Flood story quite implausible (even more so if one includes dinosaurs as passengers). Anyone who has been in a pet store will know housing many animals takes up quite a lot of space and resources. To put that into perspective, a single adult elephant (the largest land mammal in the world) can weigh upwards of 14,000 pounds, grow up to 35 feet long, and eat 200-600 pounds of food and drink 50 gallons of water PER DAY! And Noah had 12 million animals to feed and water daily, which is an impossible task for the relatively few people aboard the ark (never mind cleaning up after the animals too). In addition, it is supposed to believed that many of those animals traveled thousands of miles, some over the ocean, and from remote places like Antarctica, outside of their natural environments and ecosystems, in time to board the ark before the flood. Really?
The Smithsonian Magazine had a very scientific article regarding whether Noah's Ark could even float. And the consensus was as follows: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/could-noahs-ark-float-theory-yes-180950385/
What is a KIND and what is a species. The answer may surprise you: https://answersingenesis.org/noahs-ark/species-and-kinds-and-the-ark/
This is to keep honest secular scientists out --- meaning those who really only believe in evolution and abiogenesis. And do you know that Creation researchers must be willing to accept evolution as entirely the only way or they cannot get a job at most secular science laboratories and institutions of higher learning?You realize Answers In Genesis requires its "researchers" to sign a pledge that they will never publish anything that contradicts the Bible, right?
This is to keep honest secular scientists out --- meaning those who really only believe in evolution and abiogenesis. And do you know that Creation researchers must be willing to accept evolution as entirely the only way or they cannot get a job at most secular science laboratories and institutions of higher learning?
God doesn't sent anyone to hell for sinning. GOD turns people away from heaven because they never accepted CHRIST as their personal SAVIOR. Have you done that?Please show where that requirement exists in any secular laboratory or college. Provide a quote or admit you are lying. And lying is one of those things that your God will send you to Hell for, isn't it?
God doesn't sent anyone to hell for sinning. GOD turns people away from heaven because they never accepted CHRIST as their personal SAVIOR. Have you done that?
AND I'm sure that if you wrote on your resume' that you didn't believe in Darwinism or that Evolution is the means from which life became diverse from one living thing, or such a belief came up in an interview ----you most likely wouldn't get the job. There are too many willing to accept anything to land a career.
Does GOD know everything? Did HE see them as already corrupt and evil? I can imagine if one attends a Christian University, it may just go without saying. You keep bringing up slavery; however the primary reason slavery ended in England and the US was primarily a Bible Believing Christian Movement and not an atheistic one. In fact, I can imagine an atheist who doesn't believe in GOD and has selfish ambitions would likely make an excellent slavery Taskmaster. I feel that pangs of conscience are GOD's way of softening one's heart... Perhaps you lack that also.Is this the same Jesus that is also the God who was cool with people owning other people as slaves and who ordered his followers to kill children? Why would I accept such an evil being as anything?
What resume requires writing one's beliefs about Evolution? Do you think beliefs are a normal section to include in a resume?
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