| 12 February 2004 at 06.27.15 ZuluTime
|
Posted by Gremlin [24.8.31.52 - c-24-8-31-52.client.comcast.net] on 12 February 2004 at 06.27.15 ZuluTime:
In Reply to: Noah's Ark posted by Stoner on 12 February 2004 at 02.55.39 ZuluTime:
There's a lot of geological evidence disproving the flood myth, as well as simple physical impossibilities--that the rain required to submerge all land on the planet in just forty days would be travelling at supersonic speeds, well beyond terminal velocity. But, probably the simplest proof against this silly little story is the fact that, for example, the indians [in America] have histories dating back, uninterrupted, to points well before the approximate date of this bullshit event. Not only did the indians neglect to mention that the entirety of North America was underwater, they neglected to die out, as they were libelled to have in the bible.
Beyond all that, the whole myth begs the question of distribution both before and after the fictional event. Noah had to get two or fourteen of each 'kind' of animal to put on a boat with 1.5million cubic feet of volume, which is impossible if each 'kind' of animal was a modern species. If not--if, as various creationists pretend, these 'kinds' of animals were 'cats', 'dogs', 'horses', and 'monkeys'--then the assertion is that, in the last few thousand years, a dozen 'kinds' of animals have evolved out into millions of current species, which is also pretty unlikely--particularly factoring that we can trace back more modern animals to times before this flood was supposed to have occurred than anyone could fit into 1.5million cubic feet in any plausible fashion.
Incidentally, the ark was reportedly made of gopherwood, which hadn't been discovered at the time, and which grows only in North America; that's a bit of a hint, I suppose.
Of course, all that aside, the flood is mythical simply because--obviously--no one's ever produced any evidence that it occurred; it begins and ends in a badly-written novel containing unicorns, dragons, and talking snakes.
--Gremlin