BBC Report: Noah's Ark "...more credible version based on Babylonian sources."

BBC On Line ^ | Friday, 19 March, 2004 | Jeremy Bowen

[Modernman]

Huge dinosaurs certainly werent on the ark, they perished in the flood ... their survivors were chosen for extinction by natural selection ...

Why would large dinosaurs be kept off the Ark while smller ones were allowed onboard? Where's the logic in that?

So, the dinosaurs that survived the flood then died out through natural selection? Why would an entire animal group like that die out? It seems strange that God would create species that He knew were not good enough to survive in the long-run. Heck, if He knew that dinosaurs would all die out, why even bother putting them on the Ark?

[longtermmemmory]

somebody at the BBC was watching the History Channel. Reporters are sooooooo lazy.

[Chewbacca]

"How many animal species were aboard the Ark?"

Depends on what your definition of species is.

[GraniteStateConservative]

God probably placed all the animals in suspended animation. Think outside the box!

[Modernman]

God probably placed all the animals in suspended animation. Think outside the box!

The whole idea of an Ark seems incredibly innefficient, as does the flooding of the world. If God was displeased with everyone except Noah, why not simply make the rest of humanity disappear in a flash? God is supposed to be all-powerful: why bother with drowning, a big wooden boat etc.? Seems like God has a really well-inflated sense of theatrics.

[GraniteStateConservative]

Like unicorns?

[GraniteStateConservative]

The whole idea of starting from scratch doesn't seem like God's MO. He didn't do it with mankind after Adam and Eve screwed up and he didn't do it with angels after Lucifer and his gang screwed up.

It's kind of interesting to think that God created angels knowing what would happen and created mankind knowing what would happen. I don't get the point of it. You create things because of the surprise of the finished product. You have the idea in your head, but you don't really know how it will turn out until you're done. God knew exactly how it would turn out. No mystery at all. God must be really bored by his existence. What joy is there?

[Modernman]

God knew exactly how it would turn out. No mystery at all. God must be really bored by his existence. What joy is there?

To take it another step, you could almost say that God has no free will. Since he can see the future, he knows exactly what is going to happen. No matter what decision he makes, the decision has already been made and he knows the result.

So, what's the point of God's existence? He's all powerful, all-knowing. There's no action he can take, nothing he can do, that will in any way please him, surprise him or teach him anything. Seems like a pretty hellish existence, actually.

[GraniteStateConservative]

Can God choose to exist or not? Can he commit suicide?

[FormerRep]

Dinosaurs were just plain naughty, so God, in his mercy, snuffed them out.

Point's moot, really. Divergent and convergent speciation is still occuring - the original plan He set down works, flood or no flood, Noah or Gillgamesh (or Hiawatha, whatever).

[SunkenCiv]

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