http://christiananswers.net/q-eden/edn-c013.html
And this page on the site, in particular, smacks of Monty Python.
If it’s a joke, nice one !
If it’s not, WTF ?
http://christiananswers.net/q-eden/edn-c013.html
And this page on the site, in particular, smacks of Monty Python.
If it’s a joke, nice one !
If it’s not, WTF ?
I think I have a pretty good b.s. detector, but nothing on that site leads me to believe that the authors are taking the piss. Sounds like a fairly standard explanation about the ark from the viewpoint of a believer.
Furthermore, if it’s a piss-take, it’s a fairly elaborate one. Why would anyone go through the trouble of translating it into Japanese, Hungarian, and Spanish? Seems not worth the extra effort if it’s satire.
I mean, haven’t you ever spoken with Christians who believe in the ark as a historical truth? These are the explanations they try to come up with for how it could have been feasible.
What particular part are you concerned about?
Sounds like they crunched the numbers in a conservative and reasonable way.
Since the site is probably a fundamentalist guided site, the information and the results can be stretched to come to a conclusion that is desirable to their preconcieved wishes.
Another clue to the author being a genuine literalist is that he took his calculator’s (or unit conversion site’s) output
45 ft= 13.716000000000001 meters
at face value
Uncommon Sense - Yeah, maybe. It’s just the whole thing about Noah taking 35,000 animals on the Ark et cetera, et cetera…
I don’t have to point out all the idiocy, do I ??
Anyway, it still scares me that there are people out there (literally) who believe this shite.
That site is very tame as far as how wildly ridiculous creationists get. Very tame, so it is very easy to believe it takes it self seriously.
I find it cute that their preferred version of the Ark story is somehow sensible and SO obviously true while the Babylonian version is somehow “mythical”.
I find it cute that their preferred version of the Ark story is somehow sensible and SO obviously true while the Babylonian version is somehow “mythical”.
[not really a hijack]
:rolleyes:
:rolleyes: :rolleyes:
… for God so loved Barney…
[/not really a hijack]
every variety that had developed since Creation?
developed? as in evolved?
:rolleyes: :rolleyes:
In case you’re wondering what happened to the dinosaurs after disembarking from the Ark, check out http://christiananswers.net/dinosaurs/j-fate2.html on the same site:
Brilliant.
Hee hee:
Earnest or not, it sure reads like deadpan humour.
Could you point out the really funny parts? I must not be getting something here…
So they brought whales and dolphins on board, too?
Of course, if you actually read those verses, it says nothing of the sort about “every kind of air-breathing animal”. Just another case of selective interpretation on the part of the website creators.
The heck with dinosaurs. How did they split up the venereal diseases and parasites?
“Okay, me and the missus have the clap and body lice covered, Shem, you and your wife take syphilis and the crabs, Ham, we’ll need to get you malaria, herpes, and a tapeworm…”
Well, the monkeys brought the AIDs.
I love how they are at pains to point out that the Babylonian version of the Ark would have been unstable and couldn’t possibly have floated on its own. Then they have nice scientific estimates about the actual number of animals that would have needed to have been brought on board. Then, when they realize that a small group of people could not possibly have collected or cared for all those animals, they invoke supernatural assistance!
Why try to prove any part of the story using logic or science when God (according to them) could have just made it happen at will? Kind of reminds me of so-called Scientific Creationism (as soon as you invoke a supernatural entity to explain your theory it is no longer science, by definition).
Obviously, the ark featured a supernaturally enhanced ecosystem which allowed all the two-by-two animals to peacefully live off the seven-by-seven animals. Or else we (planet earth) are the ark, and the cubits thing is as off as the rest.
Obviously, the dinosaurs died trying to climb down Ararat.