mark9950

A moon cause a tide(flood)?

Don't forget if you have 100 people in a line and tell the first person a sentence and they pass the sentence to the rest of the 99 people.

When you hear the sentence from the 100th person it is totally different.

I think the flood was due to high tide.overexaggerated.

SecularFuture

Thats an interesting theory.

openeyes

Hey, I bit since I didn't know you from before. Besides, as I've mentioned on other threads, I was in a churchful of people (2000 of them maybe) a few weeks ago that treated Hovind like a respected celebrity. I sat behind a very earnest family with three teens that kept rolling their eyeballs at anything Michael Shermer said and nodded, laughed and clapped at everything Hovind said. I'm still traumatized by the experience. You could've been real!

SecularFuture

:banghead:

Kilgore Trout

Here are some more problems with the Biblical flood story.

One thing the bible forgot to take into account is that the water dwelling creatures would not have survived the flood. Obviously god forgot that the fish and other creatures in lakes and streams need fresh water and the fish whales etc in the ocean need salt water with a certain concentration of salt. During the flood the fresh water would be too salty and the salt water would be too fresh so none of them would be able to survive. The water ecosystem would also be thrown off by all the mud etc in the water, thanks to this onlaught of rain. Also the trees and plants couldn't survive being under water for a year or so.

The Jewish calendar starts in the year 3761 b.c.e. That is the year Adam was supposed to be born. Using the the geneology in Genesis 5 you can then compute that the flood was around the year 2100 b.c.e. How can it possibly be that as recent as that the whole world was obliterated in a flood and every civililzation had to start from scratch using just Noah's three sons?
Noah's son Ham had a son named Egypt and of course he is said in Genesis 10:6 to be the ancestor of the Egyptians. So I guess they were building pyramids before the flood, then starting with one ancestor built another thriving civilization! They even say that Egypt's sons were the ancestors of other tribes. So how did Egypt the country ever get started if his sons had to leave and form their own countries?

Add to that there were supposed to be no rainbows before the flood. I've seen lots of christian websites that say it didn't need to rain before because there was some sort of water canopy above the earth that provided all the needed moisture. They also claim there were no animals that ate meat and other amazing facts. So the people in like 2200 b.c.e. got to watch lions sitting around eating grass with those big sharp teeth! One of the classic ones I've seen was that the way the animals got to Australia, South America, etc was that the continental plates moved AFTER the flood. All the continents were together until 2100 b.c.e and then the continental drift ripped them apart. That must have been a fun one to witness! There might even have been a slight earthquake during that one!

By the way... Christian fundamentalists do agree more or less when the flood occurred there will be disagreement by a few hundred years or so but they do know it happened 1656 years after the world began and that the world began around 4000 b.c.e.

SecularFuture

AHHH CHOO!