Kasz216 on 09 February 2008
| CrashMan said: Interesting calculation I just did fo Noah's arc: approx 10 billion species of animals. At an average rate of collecting and loading of 1 species/second (VERY generous in my opinion) we have 10 billion seconds 10 billion seconds = 166666667 mins = 2777778 hours = 115741 days = 317 years Take the dimensions of the arc: 450 ft x 75 ft x 45 fx a volume of 1518750 cubic feet (if it was perfectly rectangular.) with 2 of each species and NO food, that leaves each animal having only 0.00091125 cubic inches of space. Not to mention the mass of water displaced would be MUCH less than the mass of all the animals, causing the boat to sink. How can any one claim this is possible? Apparently 2/3 of all americans feel the story is LITERALLY true. |
2/3rds of all Americans? As far as I know, most christians... (all but the really right wing evangelicals) thing the bible isn't literal in just about every story not involving Jesus or Moses. I don't think even the pope thinks everything in the bible is literal. In fact i know he doesn't. Since he's called people who don't believe in evolution idiots.
That would at least seem to take the "Adam and Eve" story out of the "happened exactly as written" thing... and he's the freakin pope.
