Deadbeat

I was just reading over WinAce's CSTDT page, and one of the quotes there got me wondering. Apparently, if you work out the geneologies in the Bible, Adam may have lived long enough to have known Noah's dad.

Yeah, right, whatver. But it did get me thinking: how many of Noah's relatives/ancestors would have been alive during the flood, and thus wiped out along with the rest of humanity?

Anyone here ever done the math or know of someone who has?

MrDarwin

I did it once, years and years ago when I was a kid. As I recall, everybody mentioned in the Genesis genealogies dies before the Flood (it would be a bit odd if somebody died after the flood who wasn't in Noah's immediate family, no?) except Methuselah, who I think died the same year as the flood (hmmmm?).

gallo

Mr. Kent Hovind did. He even has a nice chart. Everyone that "matters" died before the FLUD.

Deadbeat

That's DOCTOR Hovind to you, pal...

Oh well. That would have been far too easy, I suppose.

I guess that's just one more piece in an overwhelming mountain of evidence for a global flood...

Coragyps

I don't remember under what title, but Mark Twain wrote some truly hilarious stuff about Adam's extended family just before the Flud. I'll poke around and see if it's online...

Asha'man

Yep, I noticed that too. Methuselah died the same year of the flood. Personally, given his already long life, I think he drowned.

I didn't find anyone else who died that year, and I was checking for another biblical contradiction, someone who lived past the flood that wasn't on the Ark.

Magus55

And did you find someone who lived past the flood that wasn't on the ark?

keyser_soze

Other than all the people of different races, the millions of species of animals and insects, the fresh water fish and mammals....Of course, god could have just microsized everything so it would fit into such a tiny boat(in comparision to even a couple animals...whales anyone....) but I digress, if god did do such a thing, after all he would have basically had to put them in some type of stasis, otherwise there would have been a lot of poop to clean and food to consume, ah hell, come on, we can all see it's a ridiculous story and even as far as religions go, it's pretty ridiculous. I daily marvel at the ability of the human mind to totally disregard rational thought in order to accept some sky daddy. It really is quite shocking.

Kosh

Yes! He (and all his country men) were in Egypt, building the pyramids.

Albert Cipriani

Kyser says:
It's much less ridiculous than a single atom. How an electron can both be and not be is pretty ridiculous, too. Kind of violates the most basic law of logic, the law of non-contradiction.

Then there's that notion of something for nuthin. Daddy always told me that there's no free lunch... but apparently there's this whole free universe that's unaccountably kaboomed out of a singularity (which is just a fancy word for "nothin").

And how about the ridiculous fact that everything, the entire universe (not just a bunch of species) vanishes every femtosecond. Yep. Gone, just like that! And again. Been doing that for 15 billion years we're told. Unbelievable... so we make up a word for it, call it the "past." That's about as convenient as the memory hole was for the tyrants in Orwell's 1984.

Go ahead you guys, laugh on. Dismiss as a ridiculous myth the minor fact of a flood and a boat full of dormant animals while preserving your blind faith in the un-ridiculous fabric of reality you are cloaked in as naked emperors. -- Dismayed, Albert the Traditional Catholic