[On lists of impossibilities with Noah's ark]
What nonbelievers fail to realize, or at least accept, is the God-factor. Who shut the door of the ark? Who sealed it? God. So we see very clearly that the ark had God's divine hand on it which eliminates any such problem.
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"Gets his Lil Detective Kit out and dusts for prints"
Nope, no sign of God's fingerprints on the ark, of course, I haven't found the ark either...
brandon: Nobody NEEDS to disprove the ark story; it has already been disproved by mountains of evidence that shows it to be quite impossible.
But if you want to try to prove it somehow, there are two things you can do:
(1) Find the ark, and prove that that is what it is.
(2) Show how the laws of physics, chemistry, and biology failed to apply.
Do both of those, and I guarantee you that your Nobel Prize will be in the bag.
Remember, the burden of proof isn't on the person who disbelieves a positive claim; it is on the person making the positive claim. So it's your job to prove this, not ours to disprove it.
Oh, and while you're at it, please learn basic punctuation skills. Thanks.
~David D.G.
Um, yeah. That's a fact. I do not accept the 'Jor-El-fact0r.'
I mean, I do know that when you ask, 'Who was the biological father of Superman?' the answer is 'Jor-El.' Sure. I also know 'Who built the space-crib that delivered Superman to Earth?' is 'Jor-El' again. The whole story of Jor-El's scientific prediction, political duty, and tragic sacrifice is very clear.
But the story being CLEAR doesn't change the fact that there's just no fucking reason to think Krypton was not fictional. Eliminating any plot holes does not move the story any closer to factual.
So, the lists of things like the lack of evidence for Krypton, the lack of evidence of Kryptonians (living or dead), the lack of dead-planet-Kryptonite in the Earth's core, all are still problems for those who want the story of Superman to be taken as historical.
It must be nice to be able to rely on such intellectual laziness as "it was a miracle, duh, the rules of reality don't have to apply" every time there's a logical inconsistency in the Bible. Even in cases where God explicitly states that humans are on their own and would not be granting any supernatural benefits like with Noah.
And then there's the math on the timeline of the flood. 40 days of rain followed by 150 days of the water receding. That adds to 190 days, but the Bible explicitly says the flood started on the 17th day of the 2nd month and ended the 17th day of the 7th month. Even if we take those two figures concurrently instead of consecutively the date doesn't match. Not every month contains 30 days. And despite the Ark coming to rest on mount Ararat on that date somehow it was only in the 10th month that the mountaintops emerged from the water. Despite the previous statement about the flood ending on the 150th day the waters still required more time to recede and the ark was somehow resting on a mountaintop when the mountains were still underwater. And Ararat isn't the tallest mountain on Earth. It's not even internally consistent.
But hey, "it was a miracle, duh, time and dates don't have to work the same any more" right?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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