Posted on 06/14/2002 7:32:58 AM PDT by aculeus
and more than forty days for it to die
Ergo, your Bible does in fact contain some errors.
So this means one of two things. Either the Bible has been translated, and re-trabslated by faliable men. Or God is a liar.
You decide.
Well, I wasn't going to mention it, but there are many Bible literalists that believe that the Earth is only approx 6,000 years old. To subscribe to that notion means that dinosaurs lived during the past 6,000 years and that they, too, (at least two of each species) must have also been on the ark.
Fourty days under salt water would. Besides, read your Bible. It was closer to a year.
Right...let's say, for the sake of conversation, that the ark did contain only land-based species.
How would Noah & his helpers keep the animals from fighting & killing each other? It seems like quite a lot to ask an ark full of rhinos, gorillas, ostriches, gila monsters, ocelots, & three-toed sloths to play nicely. And what about the animals that must have been unknown to that region of the world? And how many tons of food would the ark have to hold, not to mention the diversity of each species' diets? How would they have gotten rid of what must have been tons & tons of waste a day?
Science is unnecessary when common sense will do.
Ever heard of Hybernation?
When you gaze into their eyes, you can see all the way to their toes.
np...my brain often hic-cups. Hic....
The issue is that the Earth would not have the characteristics it has now, had the flood actually occurred. It would take a geologically long time for the Earth to recover from such a cataclysm, assuming of course that the excess water could be destroyed somehow.
But if there were some magic means of destroying the excess water without destroying the Earth beneath it, one wonders why God did not simply bring it to bear against the evil men and babies, who were themselves two-thirds water, rather than the more ham-handed technique he used.
C'mon. You'll have to do better than that.
Yes, and they clearly did not. I believe that even cheetahs, among the least genetically diverse vertebrates, are more diverse than that.
And freshwater fish as well. They would have all been killed by the salination of their water. So even though it's not mentioned in the Bible, Noah would have had to have tanks for fish.
An international team? Good grief.
I agree with the fundamental teachings that lie in the text, and I am lover of the King James Version. However, there is so much allegory and interpretation in these texts that it is impossible to understand the true, untranslated, intent.
In the times of "the flood", the "whole world" consisted of where you lived and the twenty miles around it. We must keep all of this in proper context. It is not God's word--but man's perception of Gods word. I think it is a big difference. Three thousand years from now, people will be trying to figure out our constitution from a paradigm they know nothing about. That should be interesting.
I think we can all agree that sometime, a long time ago, some big water event happened. I think it is interesting to determine the cause and figure if the whole Ark thing is plausible. For me, it doesnt impact my faith or understanding of the message.
Blind interpretation of some English King's version of the original Greek, translated from the Hebrew, is just silly when you think about it.
Thanks.
I'd say that about proves it, then, doesn't it?
And yet, somehow, we both know it's not that simple.
* Asteriod/Comet Collision
* Polar Shifts
* Global warming from all of the camel methane
* A wicked big thunderstorm.
According to the Bible, it came from the rains, and when God opened "the fountains of the deep".
As far as where it went...apparently, the pre-flood earth had more land and shallow seas. Under the great pressure of a global flood, the Earth buckled...areas (now the deapest parts of the Oceans) were lowered, and mountains and other high lands were raised, leading to the flood water catastrophically receding. This explains many things we see today, including the continental shelf areas (with canyons, similar to the grand canyon)and sea shells on high mountains.
C'mon. You'll have to do better than that
And why is that?
Ah, yes. But the problem for many is that they see the Bible as black & white or "inerrant". And to cast doubts on the vaildity of any single part of it calls into question what other parts of it might not be valid.
For many people, their faith leaves no room for such questioning or analysis.
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