Fire Jack

I don't understand why this has been going on so long, all the fundy has to say is God did it.

Q:How did the ark stay together?
A:God did it.

Q:How did all those animals fit/stay alive/live afterwards/etc
A:God did it.

Q:Why did God flood the world when he could have simply killed the offenders, especially when it accomplished nothing since once the population grew evil came back.
A:Mysteries of God.

It's uselss to point out anything becuase fundy's can simply say god did it if no cheap excuses come to mind.

The Lone Ranger

Oh, of course they will. But it's kind of fun to point out that there's absolutely no way that they can claim the Ark story could possibly be true without supernatural intervention.

An awful lot of "Creation Scientists" insist quite strenuously that the Ark story is utterly plausible -- that Noah could have built such a boat, that it would have been seaworthy, that he could have gathered all the animals and gotten them onto the boat, etc. etc.

There are a frighteningly large number of people who actually believe that the Noah's Ark story is a scientifically-plausible one. It's instructive to point out why such a thing could never have happened without divine intervention. It utterly destroys the claim that Creation "Science" is anything at all like real science.

Cheers,

Michael

Answerer

Really? Why don't those people try and create another 'ark'(including all the different species of animals and insects in the world) by using the modern technology to prove to everyone that such an ark was possible within a few years?

atheist_in_foxhole

The worst part of it is that the Republican party (the party that controls the presidency, Senate, House, and judiciary) is on the record supporting "equal time" for this creationinst crap. All it takes is a two vote shift on the Supreme Court and it will be legal to teach about Noah and the Flood in high school biology.

Sometimes I just hate this country. <img src="graemlins/banghead.gif" border="0" alt="[Bang Head]" />

Camaban

*Would hate to see the US in 50 years*

Albion

Is the sort of pitch that comes from pines sufficient to seal a boat like the ark? Cos bituminous pitch is one of those things that would have been laid down during the flood, so it wouldn't have been available as a building material.

Albion

Well, I voiced that concern on another board, since I assumed that Thomas would have voted with Scalia and Rehnquist on Edwards v Aguillard if he'd been around, and I was told that he often votes against them on religious matters. So maybe they'll need three more? I suppose we can always hope.

Quetzal

Albion, I've thought about this problem (for about five minutes), and have solved the entire ark problem: rubber. Or rather, natural latex.

See, even Noah could figure out that there was no way a wooden boat would survive the coming Flud. So he got the Egyptians to trade with the Nubians to trade with southern tribes for latex. Picture it: thousands of camel caravans carrying barrels of latex from tropical forests to where Noah was building his boat. He coated everything with latex. During the Flud, when the termites and beavers ate through the wooden boat frame, all that was left was the latex coating. He and all his critters comfortably rode out the Flud waters in a giant Zodiac. Neatly solves the engineering problem, no?

I just wonder why the creationists couldn't come up with this one.

Duvenoy

The Bible failed to spell it out, and modern Creationists are not famous for original thinking (creative lying talents aside).

I think it probably was a conifer sap of some sort. Yes, and everybody and every thing lived shut up in a ship that reeked of flatulence, presperation, feces, vomit, rotting meat, and turpentine. It don't get no better than that, praise God!

doov

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Coragyps

A 300-cubit-long condom??