And as I have said before, the Ark could have been made of plastic* and would have still survived the Flood.
In addition, as I have said before, God could have sent twice as much water as He did, and we'd never find it.
I'll guarantee it.
*Assuming God would have told Noah to make it of plastic.
p.s. I believe Noah dismantled it to build his home.
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If so, how many things may have happened without our knowledge?, that the earth is 6 billion years old at least?, that dinosaurs existed and now we´re starting to unearth them?. Why is it only true if it appears in a book?
.....plastic.
You know, even assuming that Noah & co. possessed the sufficient chemical knowledge to create a sturdy polymer (which is already a silly notion), where would there be the facility necessary to build the gigantic plastic ark?
Of course, the easiest solution is "Goddidit," and I wouldn't put it past some Fundies arguing with that logic.
I believe Noah dismantled it to build his home.
(smacks forehead) Of course! Who wouldn't want a house made of wood saturated with animal waste?
p.s. I believe Noah dismantled it to build his home." Plastic house! Yay!
So, you believe the Bible is in error when it says that God told Noah to build the ark from gopherwood?
The assumption that God can do anything surely is a convenience as it relieves dinkwads, like you, from having to explain anything.
The whole concept of a global flood is flawed beyond belief. If God was pissed with mankind, why not simply destroy mankind? Why go through the whole flood the earth crap?
The ancients who wrote about it wanted to tell a story of faith and used allegory.
You fundie twits wouldn't understand that, though...
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Tablet XI
The Story of the Flood
Gilgamesh spoke to Utanapishtim, the Faraway:
"I have been looking at you,
but your appearance is not strange--you are like me!
You yourself are not different--you are like me!
My mind was resolved to fight with you,
(but instead?) my arm lies useless over you.
Tell me, how is it that you stand in the Assembly of the Gods,
and have found life!"
Utanapishtim spoke to Gilgamesh, saying:
"I will reveal to you, Gilgamesh, a thing that is hidden,
a secret of the gods I will tell you!
Shuruppak, a city that you surely know,
situated on the banks of the Euphrates,
that city was very old, and there were gods inside it.
The hearts of the Great Gods moved them to inflict the Flood.
Their Father Anu uttered the oath (of secrecy),
Valiant Enlil was their Adviser,
Ninurta was their Chamberlain,
Ennugi was their Minister of Canals.
Ea, the Clever Prince(?), was under oath with them
so he repeated their talk to the reed house:
'Reed house, reed house! Wall, wall!
O man of Shuruppak, son of Ubartutu:
Tear down the house and build a boat!
Abandon wealth and seek living beings!
Spurn possessions and keep alive living beings!
Make all living beings go up into the boat.
The boat which you are to build,
its dimensions must measure equal to each other:
its length must correspond to its width.
Roof it over like the Apsu.
I understood and spoke to my lord, Ea:
'My lord, thus is the command which you have uttered
I will heed and will do it.
But what shall I answer the city, the populace, and the
Elders!'
God could have sent twice as much water as He did, and we'd never find it. I'll guarantee it.
Once you assume unlimited magic, anything's possible - including the possibility that the whole universe was created last Thursday by a wad of spaghetti and meatballs.
Dear anonymous,
Scads of people have searched Mt. Ararat (and a few other places) for the ark. None of them have found jack shit, though a cottage industry of fleecing gullible Christians to fund further searches continues. If you honestly believe that somebody found the ark on Ararat, I hope somebody else minds your finances because you're ripe for the picking by one of the many con artists who specialize in working Christian marks.
"The Ark is on Mt Ararat in Turkey. The US Air Force photographed it in the 1950s as they were concerned it might be a Russian missile base. Noah did not need it to build his house as they were not staying on top of the mountain. The Ark is completely frozen in ice, and 2 out of every 7 years it melts just enough for a small portion of the Ark to be exposed. Some decades ago there was an earthquake that produced a huge gash in the side of the mountain, thus making it distinguishible from the other mountains in that range, and also it caused a portion of the Ark, perhaps a quarter of it, to slide several hundred meters down the mountainside. This is all well documented, so don't bother asking me for sources. Do your own research."
...and Tom Bearden is a REAL Col. and expert on "free-energy" physics. The MEG (M otionless E lectric G enerator) really does work. This is all well documented, so don't bother asking me for sources. Do your own research.
@NonProphet - fucking hilarious.
"And thou shalt make it a hundred cubits long, and sixty cubits tall, and twenty cubits wide, and thou shalt make it from high-density polyethylene."
No...no, the Bible's pretty clear. It's gopher wood, if I'm not mistaken. At the very least, it is definitely timber...
And the absence of proof isn't proof.
Confused?
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