Defend the Noah's Ark narrative

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  1. trevorw2539

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    Can anyone tell me how they contained the woodworm? Or the woodpeckers? What did they use to waterproof the wood?

    I understand where all the water came from but how did they actually get it from Mars? Why didn't they put it back?

    Oh! It's only a story. Silly me, I forgot. I'm going :banana: ;)
     
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    tecoyah Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Mysterious ways dude...mysterious ways.
     
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    That’s because the Rio Grande Valley used to be the edge of an inland sea.
     
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    So when it says God was killing every human except for Noah and his family, it was lying?
     
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    Can God let unapologetic sinners into Heaven without it corrupting Heaven?
     
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    You’ve never heard of “plate tectonics” have you?
     
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    This is what’s hilarious about Young Earthers:

    In order for their insane “Kinds” idea to work, they have to propose speciation that occurs at magnitudes faster speeds than in reality. They have to resort to “Super Evolution” in order to maintain their mindless opposition to evolution.
     
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    Because a 3 meter rise in sea level that could result from the ice caps melting may not flood the world, but it would destroy 9/10ths of the world’s major cities and leave more than a billion people as refugees.
     
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    Why are you conflating evolution and plate tectonics with abiogenesis and the Big Bang? Those are four totally unrelated scientific theories.
     
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    Go figure, every single society formed along floodplains and river valleys integrated floods into their mythologies.
     
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    As far as I am aware no skeptic can explain how the first non-life became life, and none claim they can, "we do not know" is the perfectly respectable answer. I have never yet heard any religious person explain it either, they claim a god did it, but that is who not how! Perhaps you can explain HOW the first non life became life?
     
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    Why don't these pro-flood people stop and think for a moment. Rain is the result of water being drawn from the oceans by heat - thus lowering the ocean level by a miniscule amount. Under the right conditions it falls back to earth and, due to gravity etc, makes its way back to the oceans. Raising the level to its original state. Rain cannot run uphill or stay static on sloping ground, unless it has a barrier, like a dam. A lake may overflow, but its waters will then make for the lowest ground and eventually a river and thus to the ocean again.
    There are vast reserves of water underground, but the same applies. If underground water rose to the surface it would leave a vacuum, or vast empty space beneath filled with air. As water is heavier than air it would immediately fall back again, if it ever rose at all. Of course, if the seabed collapsed and filled the space that would solve the problem of the empty space - except the water level above would fall back to its original level.

    A spring is usually due to water at the source being higher than the spring. I know springs that are literally miles from the source pf their water.
     
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    Was Satan part of Heaven?
    God can do anything, just ask a true believer.
     
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    Certainly don't want to put words into anyone's mouth. But per the story, god created it all. By stating it to be true.
     
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    So sending people to hell is 100% God’s choice?
     
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    Yes, as is everything, everywhere for everyone....didn't you get the memo?
     
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    Lots of Christians say that people choose hell and that God has no choice but to send them there because sin cannot be allowed in heaven.
     
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    Well...those are the fake Christians. Real Christians know GOD is omnipotent and does everything according to his grand plan. It is only mysterious to us pathetic humans because our tiny minds cannot understand it, but real Christians can and then are nice enough to tell us what God is and thinks. They can also tell a fake Christian from a real one so they make different versions of being Christian in order to differentiate who gets a place in what realm when God decides to call them home....or send them to his other place.
     
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    So god is not alive?
     
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    DNA could have been collected from all the animals and stored in a cabinet. No need to feed them and no mess to clean up.
    As for the flood, all of Earth could not have been covered at the same time. The water had to recede somewhere. But it's possible something caused all the water to rush to one side and then come rushing back causing what would seem to be, a global flood.
     
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    There is no religion on the spirit side. It just doesn't matter.
     
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    In biblical speech only Israelites/Hebrews/Jews are considered humans or men. Gentiles are considered animals and beasts. The Bible is an ethnocentric Middle Eastern Jewish religious fairy tale based upon ancient stories (lies). It does not apply to other people unless they want to be deluded.
     
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    So now you're saying that you believe the fairy tale but that it is a lie? Take time to read it.

    Maybe you missed Genesis 6:19-22 (CEB) =
    *19 From all living things—from all creatures—you are to bring a pair, male and female, into the ark with you to keep them alive. 20 From each kind of bird, from each kind of livestock, and from each kind of everything that crawls on the ground—a pair from each will go in with you to stay alive. 21 Take some from every kind of food and stow it as food for you and for the animals.”

    22 Noah did everything exactly as God commanded him.*

    Do you have any idea how much food and water just one adult elephant consumes in a day? Multiply that by two and then by 365. Google it. An then add in the whales and so forth. Only idiots believe in the Noah fable as written. It was just a war story.
     
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    How many islands have you seen get submerged by rising sea levels in your lifetime? Is the Pacific Ocean flooding into Honolulu?
     
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    Well the polar icecaps haven’t melted yet, so I’m not exactly sure how you thought this would be an effective argument.
     
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