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.
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I'm just reposting this post. Since the people who believe in Noah's ark are focusing on some sort of Genetic Science fiction story, which I should add was NOT MENTIONED IN THE BIBLE. You would think that something that important would have been mentioned? Has anyone pointed out that the very idea of arguing in favour of Noah's Ark is A) Primitive Thinking, or B) Borderline retarded?
Use your head: A 700 year old man (this guy isn't even in his 50's anymore) building a collosal ship capable of, not just supporting breeding populations, but the ecosystems required for them to live in (remember, Fresh and Salt water environments would be destroyed too, and all of those freshwater fish and other organisms have to go back into the correct ponds and lakes). Not to mention, they fit all of this on a 135 meter long wooden Ark, which is dwarfed in size by today's modern Cruise ships, which they struggle to get 3000 people on let alone millions of animals and all the required ecosystems and food sources.
