Garden of Eden lays in the Persian Gulf? Not a religious thread.

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padib said:

Jumpin said:

All of this arguing about whether Noah's Ark was true or not is silly. Of course this didn't happen. How can people actually consider this a possibility in this day and age? It is ridiculous.

Noah's Ark claimed that there were 2 of every species of animal on board and that Noah was hundreds of years old.

1. It is biologically impossible for a human to reach that age. The oldest people with today's medical technology have not lived much past 110 years, let alone 700 in what was a bronze age civilization.
2. Many species of animals require vast ecosystems that cannot possibly exist on a boat. Not to mention, if the world was flooded, then all marine life would die as well, because the saline levels of water would be incorrect for almost all species of marine life in the world; despite what you may think, a freshwater fish can't live in the ocean.
3. There are about 2 to 3 million species of animal estimated, but some estimates go up to 50 million.
4. There is no evidence of any great flood 4,000 years ago, but we have Civilizations dating back to over 5,000 years, and Neolithic and Paleolithic societies dating back much further. We also have fairly detailed archaeological accounts which detail the migration of modern humans, out of Africa, and into the Western Continents, and this occurred tens of thousands of years ago.
5. Those fossils that are high up are the result of tectonic plate movement, not a whole lot of extra water that mysteriously appeared on Earth.

Please, it is people like you guys with sickeningly primitive beliefs that give ALL religious people a bad name. You focus WAY too much on having obviously mythological and fictional accounts as being "true" that you ignore the true purpose of religion.

Wow, thanks bud I feel tons better about myself all of a sudden.

Well, if you're so adamant about it, here's a challenge. Read the following article, and revise your list, then we'll see if I want to tag along:

http://creation.com/noahs-ark-questions-and-answers

You're actually linking to THAT, and expect to impress him?