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| Strange as it may seem, there are still people
who literally believe in the Noah's flood story. One man,
his family, and a big boat. Onto that boat he's supposed
to take two of every living creature, plus his family, to
save them from a catastrophic world-wide flood. |
| Let's get down to practicalities. Two of every
insect species (how 'bout those fire ants!). Two of every
kind of rodent. Two of every kind of monkey. Not to
mention, of course, the larger animals of all sorts. Was
this before or after the age of the dinosaurs? Hmm-mm-m.
That's gotta be a helluva big boat!! |
And, pray tell, how did he go about collecting
zebras from Africa, and anacondas from South America, and
penguins from the South Pole, and grizzly bears from
North America, etc., ad infinitum?
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| You get the picture? I wonder how he gathered
and stored proper food for everyone for forty days?? ("Japheth,
get those alligators out of the chicken coop!!") |
| Waiving the logical problems of all that,
picture now the scenario when the flood subsides. How do
all those animals get back to their native habitats? And
suppose they do even that. Let's center in on zebras, who
have somehow gotten back to Africa. There are two of
them, one male and one female. They can produce only one
colt at a time. Who's that colt going to mate with when
it grow up? Guess it's going to have to wait for a
sibling, and just hope that sibling is the opposite sex,
and that the inbreeding doesn't produce ghastly
results!!! Give me a major break! |
Now, what archaeologists have discovered
is that the Black Sea was once a small fresh water
lake. Something (perhaps an earthquake in the area?) 7500
ago literally sloshed the waters of the Mediterranean Sea
all over the land to the east of it, to great depths and
for an extended period of time. When the waters finally
subsided, the Black Sea was from then on a large
salt-water lake. Survivors of that flood told some pretty
tall stories about it, and attributed the event to their
gods. Ergo, the story of Noah.
(See http://www.npr.org/programs/RE/index_archive.html for the NPR
"Geographic Expeditions" account of the
Mediterranean/Black Sea
connection.
Also see http://www.nd.edu/~theo/glossary/gilgamesh.epic.html and http://www.holysmoke.org/icr11cul.htm, et al.) |
| Now can anyone still rationally accept the Noah
story as "literal truth"? |
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| P.S.: I wonder how many species he annihilated
when he made those burnt offerings (Gen. 8:20)? |
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