You know, I just had an original thought

While trying to refute those who claim the Bible is 100% literal and infallible, one of my favorite contententions is that there is 'no way' Noah's arc actually happened. I mean, the fact that there is NO evidence, in geology, of a world wide flood, the many animals, etc, in areas that were never connected to Mt Arrarat by a land bridge, and who CAN'T SWIM. The fact that if it was salt water used to do the flooding all fresh water fish would have died, and vice versa. The sheer, impossible size the arc would have had to have been to contain all those animals, birds, reptiles, bugs, etc, and all the FOOD they would have needed, and so on. BUT, an argument I have never heard, but would like to put out there, IS. Let's say it is all true, and 40 days later the arc finds a piece of dry ground, a total stretch, I think, but go with me. OK, THEN what does everything eat?? Water would have detroyed all the grass for the grass eaters and all the animals for the carnivores and bugs and stuff for the birds. How long does it take for everything to grow again? Think about it folks, then give me a break on the Noah's arc story being real. Not that it will deter the "true believers". Facts never do....

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Anonymous said…
You must take into consideration the word usage of that time, as I've tried to explain to other "literal" Bible believers. World & Earth did NOT mean the entire globe! Few, if any people knew of anywhere outside of their own habitate in that day. The story of Noah goes hand in hand with the story of Gilgamesh (no doubt my spelling is way off), however the story is the same. Very few stories were written down; most were told from one generation to another. There was a flood...a local flood. There, no doubt, were more local floods and people perished. If any animals were saved, it would be animals indigenous to that area. Common sense would prove that it didn't occur. Exploration of that area written about in the Bible by Scientific minds show that a minor flood did occur,but not in the proportion of an world wide, all destructive flood, as most religious zealots proclaim. Just as so many things natural occur, early believers thought it to be an Act of GOD. I'll expound on that in the context of present day Bible thumper, Pat Robertson and his Doom's Day ideas of bad weather due to Homosexuals and 9/11because..what? we got up on the wrong side of the bed? It's always gonna be somethin', folks. We can bury our heads in the sand knowing that a bunch of pious men put together a book, added to it, deleted from it, took some Jewish laws, a majority of Roman laws a made a Word of God. One cannot take it literally!
6:07 PM
Fam Guy said…
Oh, but MANY do take it literally. They use it to PROVE that HE will wipe out the entire world population, if they are sinners, and deserve to be killed.
6:53 PM
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