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Thread #152125   Message #3592728
Posted By: Jack the Sailor
16-Jan-14 - 02:07 PM
Thread Name: BS: Militant atheism has become a religion p
Subject: RE: BS: Militant atheism has become a religion p
" We are talking distribution in modern and living or recorded memory. Between Noah and historical record there would be innumerable generations in which men and animals spread out to repopulate the earth, by the means of which I formerly discussed. "

I am afraid you are incorrect sir. The generations between Noah and historical times are not innumerable at all but they are indeed chronicled in the Bible. They have indeed been "numerated" (counted) by Biblical scholars. That the major reason that many people who share your faith in what you would call a literal interpretation of the Bible seem to believe in so called "young Earth" theories.

You seem to be saying to me that it is more plausible that in less than 3,000 years (estimated time from Noah to Moses by Biblical time line) that Noah, some how went to Australia and everywhere else with different fauna than North Africa and East Asia and gathered up a few thousand breeding pairs of species of Biblically "unclean" marsupials and reptiles and what not unique to that land brought them to the Levant where his boat was, then gathered them into the boat, sailed around for a month and a half, left them to survive somewhere near where they made land fall then somehow at a much later time some unnamed and unchronicled "men", gathered up at least a breeding pair of each species unique to each geographic area and returned it there by raft with little side trips to places like Komodo for the dragons, Tasmania for the devils and each Galapogos for the tortoises: than for the animals to have evolved separately in these places because of the pressures of each unique environment?

I feel like you are mocking me to expect me to accept that.

I am sorry if you thought you were being mocked. It is very difficult for me to even contemplate such absurdity without rolling on the floor and laughing. I don't mean to mock. But the inherent contradictions even of the Bible itself in these stories is uproariously funny when combined even with a grade school understanding of science.

So God created light on the Earth three days before he created the Sun? I am imaging Terry Gilliam's cartoon of God using a large articulating work lamp and saying "this won't do! they will notice the lamp stand" then whipping up the Sun and stars and putting the lamp under his desk.