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Noah’s Ark could have floated with the weight of 70,000 animals inside, researchers calculate
National Post ^ | 04/04/2014 | Sarah Knapton, The Telegraph

Posted on 04/04/2014 11:57:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: OneWingedShark
I think the only wood that last that long is redwood. He would have had to turn the entire wooden structure into some sort of polyethylene debacle.

Perhaps the entire Noah story was a teaching tool. For us folks it was just entertainment.

The flood scenes WERE spectacular. But then, that's what Hollyweird does very well.

61 posted on 04/04/2014 5:25:14 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: Jack of all Trades

“How did the various breeds survive?”

Do you mean like Holstein and Angus cattle? Draft horses and ponies? Dalmations and dingoes?

Breeds were developed by humans over the years. For instance, a lot of people believe all modern breeds of horses came from two or three orgininal breeds. Ditto for European cattle.

I wonder if Noah took young animals on board. A calf, for instance, can weigh less than 100 pounds at birth but grow to 1,400 as a mature cow.


62 posted on 04/04/2014 5:58:53 PM PDT by Cloverfarm
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To: Hot Tabasco

RE: To try to explain the unexplainable, you’re bringing in divine intervention and I still can’t come to accept that.

Well, I am not saying that you are wrong in your not accepting what cannot be explained. All I am saying is that is the creationist view of things. If you accept the premise that God is the all powerful creator who can do as He pleases, then the explanation makes sense.

If you insist on no supernatural intervention, I guess you’ll have to come up with other explanations, including how life came about from non-life....


63 posted on 04/04/2014 6:01:41 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (uestion)
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To: Hot Tabasco

“... assuming Adam and Eve were Caucasian ...”

Well, no, I don’t think anyone assumes Adam and Eve were Caucasian. Why would anyone think so? Why wouldn’t they look Middle Eastern or North African?

If we assume that God created a perfect world, and Adam and Eve were perfect when created, then there would be no defects for them to pass on at first. If we assume corruption entered the world at the Fall then disease and defects would start to appear. So there might not have been enough generations for many defects to develop by the time Noah’s family came along.


64 posted on 04/04/2014 6:03:34 PM PDT by Cloverfarm
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To: Hot Tabasco
I've had a theory on this for some time.
The Flood was caused by the rising of Sea levels at the end of the last Ice age.
There is evidence of civilisations being wiped out during this time.
A culture involved with this tumultuous change would create a history of these events passed down orally until the written word was created.
The contents probably are accurately recorded, just human imagination has expanded the meaning from a major localised event to a global all encompassing cataclysm. It would appear to be global to those involved.
Africa was not totally covered in water, only coastal areas.
The story does appear in cultures all around the planet, there are other “anomalies” to the original story not just Africa.
Just my take on the story.
65 posted on 04/04/2014 6:31:23 PM PDT by moose07 (the truth will out ,one day.)
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To: CatherineofAragon

There is no such thing as a dead atheist.

:)


66 posted on 04/04/2014 8:18:42 PM PDT by Salamander (Agent Of Fortune)
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To: Salamander

Can I get an amen.....


67 posted on 04/05/2014 8:14:31 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
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To: CatherineofAragon

Amen

;]


68 posted on 04/05/2014 8:47:58 AM PDT by Salamander (Agent Of Fortune)
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To: Neidermeyer

Noah also spent 120 years warning people,and asking them to repent. Call me arrogant, but IMHO, very few people have the kind of faith in God that Noah did.


69 posted on 04/06/2014 1:35:19 PM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: Hot Tabasco

Maybe they weren’t. They are portrayed as Caucasian by artists. Nothing says tbat they were any race in particular, they could have been black or asian for all we know.


70 posted on 04/06/2014 1:38:26 PM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: cloudmountain

The problem with that is the first planks put in would have already ROTTED away long before the 500 years needed to build it.
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Language has changed and in particular numbers and time in the bible are symbolic to a great degree ,, I’m not the brightest bible scholar but I know enough to understand that the number “40” doesn’t mean 40 ,, it simply means A LONG TIME ,, my 500 year guesstimate was just based on the sheer immensity of the job , that it was one families work , they couldn’t devote all their energy to it and the lack of modern tools. You should take it to mean “a long time”.


71 posted on 04/07/2014 3:24:21 AM PDT by Neidermeyer (I used to be disgusted , now I try to be amused.)
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To: Neidermeyer
Language has changed and in particular numbers and time in the bible are symbolic to a great degree ,, I’m not the brightest bible scholar but I know enough to understand that the number “40” doesn’t mean 40 ,, it simply means A LONG TIME ,, my 500 year guesstimate was just based on the sheer immensity of the job , that it was one families work , they couldn’t devote all their energy to it and the lack of modern tools. You should take it to mean “a long time”.

Oh, okay, I'll do that.

72 posted on 04/07/2014 5:37:54 AM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: Cloverfarm

Since every human extant came from Adam and Eve,

they had to have all the necessary genetic information to produce every human trait we see.

“Caucasian” is simply one of the resulting trait combinations after the split at Babel.


73 posted on 04/07/2014 5:40:28 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: CatherineofAragon

“I believe the Holy Spirit covered that boat and brought peace to everyone and every thing aboard it; otherwise there WOULD have been bloodshed. I think, too, that God’s power enabled Noah and His sons to build such an enormous vessel in the first place.”

This is the most logical explanation I have read.


74 posted on 04/20/2014 9:33:46 PM PDT by SarahPalinForPresident2012 (And 2016 as well)
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Note: this topic is from 4/04/2014. Not pinging, just adding to the catalog. Ludicrous.

75 posted on 05/31/2015 6:31:30 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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All that's required is, all 70,000 animals be fed into a juicer and stored in one large container, then the cubic feet figures will work. That would also solve the problem of having to feed them for six months. Of course, all of them would be dead...
With modern power tools it took over 300 man-years of labor to build each of the Ark 'replicas'.

76 posted on 10/28/2018 11:32:47 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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