If it was by Shakespeare, it would be waaaaay less boring.

Ugh, why do people propagate this nonsense? Please stop taking everything your religious friends tell you as gospel truth. There has been no ark found, this is not even debatable. It's yet another Ron Wyatt fraud.

http://www.snopes.com/religion/noahsark.asp

Even Answers in Genesis website tells you to stop spreading this bullshit:

https://answersingenesis.org/blogs/ken-ham/2013/12/19/has-noahs-ark-been-found/

To some. I find the retranslations very interesting. Especially Acts and Revelations. Many of the current world happenings have been outlined in these two books. What get's my attention is the reality of it all. The thing predicted the nuclear meltdown of chernobyl. Now that's interesting.

Even if these non-viable sources are right, you ignore the hard hitting points I mentioned about the Roman Empire and Jesus. This stuff is documented. Jesus wasn't fake. His miracles were documented. Speaking in tongues, it's real. It's the sign of the holy spirit living within you. You think millions of people just act like they all can speak a different tongue all of a sudden?

I've witnessed a friend, who I've never even thought would be demonic, have a spirit cast out of her body and when the pastor asked the demon what its name was, it spoke through her and said "Legion". I was scared as hell that day.

There was a recorded happening in which a teenager was hit by a vehicle and pronounced dead on the scene. His brain was on the freaking street. He was taken to the morgue where his mother, with prayer and power, called him back and sure enough he woke up and told his mother that he was sorry. The doctors and nurses ran out the room, in disbelief in what they saw.

I was born with a defect in which I could not urinate. It was destroying my body. The doctors had no idea what to do, all the treatments failed. But my mother told me that one night, she had been crying about my situation and was praying that a miracle would come my way and that night, she said a figure sat down on her bed and told her that I would have a wet diaper in the morning. Sure enough, she woke up and I no longer had the complication.

When my brother was born, the doctors said he wouldn't live to see a year of age. My parents were distraught but they called a good friend of theirs to pray for him. When the friend arrived, all of the newborn babies that were crying at the hospital...just stopped when he walked in. Every single one of them. He prayed for my brother and the complication resolved shortly there after. 

You can't tell me that God isn't real. There are things that not even science can prove.

Who do you think wrote the Bible?

You're right, no one can tell you that god isn't real because you can't prove a negative, but that's just about the only thing you're right about. You're not bringing up any hard hitting evidence at all, it's all claptrap pushed by religious zealots with no real science behind it.

The general consensus was that moses didn't exist. There is little to no evidence that Abraham existed. The Noah story was just a rip of of The Epic of Gilgamesh, which came way before the Noah story, and no, no one has found an ark. Jesus's existence is debateable, though the consensus seems to lean towards him existing.

If you want to believe for personal reasons that's cool, and no one can take that away from you, but don't try to bring all these made up facts to the table.

The tale of Noah's ark is likely based on the flooding of the black sea; (several cultures have similar tales of the deluge, all having had contact with the area at some time.

If something is hydrophobic , it distances itself from water, by a distance of a few nanometers. Not a distance you could walk through, or see, for that matter.

I was pretty sure numerous people wrote the thing, including David and Abraham. Who do you think wrote it?

Jesus did exist; the romans kept good records of any disturbances in an area, including any supposed messiahs (which there where hundreds of at the time. The people of Judea where waiting for an occasion to revolt, and took the first chance they got to declare a prophet of God sent to get rid of the occupants)

Thanks, you saved me a lot of work.

From what I can gather, Frank, your singular argument for God is "only God could have created a universe with rules."

If you want to credit God for the creation of the universe, fine. We have evidence for the evolution of the universe leading all the way up to the "Big Bang" but nothing beyond that (at least as far as I know. I'm no scientist). You want to credit God with the big bang? Go right on ahead. No one in the scientific community is stopping you right now. Just know that not knowing something isn't "proof" of something's existence.

Man has been wrong plenty of time when he used assumptions or superstition to fill in the gaps in his knowledge. We used to think the world was flat, because that's how it appeared to us. In reality, when greek mathmeticians applied math to the idea, they discovered that the Earth was curved, and therefor must be round. We used to assume that the Earth was the center of the universe and everything revolved around us. But then through astronomy we discovered moons around other bodies, came to realize we were orbiting the sun, and eventualyl realized our solar system sat in the spiral arm of a milky way galaxy. We assumed that was the only galaxy until we discovered other galaxies in the 1930s. We once assumed that the universe was created by God as described in the Bible, until we eventually began to discover evidence for a "big bang" which culminated in our discovery in the background radiation that gave us a look at how the universe was near the very beginning.

And now, you are assuming that only God could have created a universe this complex. But you have no scientific evidence. No evidence beyond your faith and the Bible. Why does it have to be YOUR God who created the universe? How can you be so sure that, out of ALL the religions in the world, your specific form of Christianity is the right one? I'm fairly sure I know the answer, but I want to hear it from you.

Evolution isn't what you think it is either. It isn't about "one animal completely changing into another animal". It is gradual change. The larger the time scale, the greater the change, but the physical differences between descendents and recent ancestors/cousins isn't typically that great. So two species of bear that diverged from a common ancestor will have only been a few million years ago. Humans and Chimpanzees have diverged far more recently thant humans from non-ape primates (which is evident in similarities and differences in our DNA).

Mammals didn't just pop out of reptiles. First, there were the synapsids, or "mammal-like reptiles". Then there were the egg laying mammals, monotremes (some of which still exist today, like the echidna and platypus). Eventually, modern mammals as know them came about.

But even mammals and reptiles aren't really that dissimilar, even these days. Most (though not all) of them have four legs, a tail, two eyes, two nostrils, a mouth. We all got these features from a common ancestor, hundreds of millions of years ago.

And yes, birds ARE dinosaurs. I tell peope that all the time, because it's true. Ask an archeologist, and that's what they'll tell you. That article I gave you didn't just pull it out of nowhere. Though I get the impression you didn't read that awesome article about scientists using genetic manipulationt to revive ancient features in modern chicken embryos all the way through.

I'll never understand why some hardcore christians can't accept things like evolution. Even the VATICAN accepts evolution. Why can't that just be a mechanism god utilizes to create new life?