by The Holy Spirit on November 20th, 2011

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Do you think Noah wasted his time building the ark or do you think his efforts were necessary for the animals to continue to exist on Earth?

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  • by 23Skidoo on November 20th, 2011

    23Skidoo

    There was no global flood.

    If there was a Noah - he was a guy with some sheep a goat or 3 some chickens... you get the idea. And he and his family survived a flood. If he did anything to prepare for it - then no - he didn't waste his time.

    Do you really think that in 40 days on a huge, un-powered barge he was able to deliver the kangaroos and koalas to Australia, the finches to the Galapagos off western S. America, the chipmunks to the eastern American north east, the pandas to China and the Great Tits to the UK? You couldn't make that trip in the fastest ocean going ship today - let alone one big enough to carry the cargo in question. (Not to mention all those critters getting to the arc on their own in the first place).

    The record for a sailboat sailing around the world is 50 days, 16 hours, 20 minutes, 4 seconds.
    http://35knots.com/sailing-around-world-records.html

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  • by Friartuck on November 20th, 2011

    Friartuck

    It's a story. It didn't happen. There was no global flood. Noah and his ark saved nothing and no-one.

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  • by Magenta on November 20th, 2011

    Magenta

    It was about as necessary as it was for Superman to fly around the Earth in the oposite direction of it's spin to travel back in time and save Lois Lane from Lex Luthor.

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  • by Thadeus Quintus Lesbotron on November 21st, 2011

    Thadeus Quintus Lesbotron

    Neither, it's a myth based upon a previous, and much, much smaller event.
    The sheer dimensions of a boat capable of transport so many animals, plus food and adequate fresh water for even a week, would have been unfeasibly huge, never mind forty days, or indeed an estimate I stumbled across which suggests 370 days.
    Add to this the fact that predator and prey would have needed to coexist, and the staggering amount of inbreeding that would have had to have happened in order to return animal populations to sustainable levels, which would have altered their forms completely, the total lack of any geological evidence for a great flood *ever* happening in the history of our planet, and the fact that kangaroos, amongst many other species, do not appear in the bible, and it's easy to see that Noahs flood did not, in fact, occur at all.
    Which, of course, casts doubt upon the bible being the word of a supreme being, and makes it sound like a game of chinese whispers has got way out of hand.

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  • by Spookburger on November 20th, 2011

    Spookburger

    The story of Noah's Ark is just a symbolic one.

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  • by onewizeman1957 on November 20th, 2011
    voted: Noah's efforts were necessary to maintain the animal population.

    onewizeman1957

    You and i are here so wake up and smell the coffee

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  • by Milner on November 21st, 2011

    Milner

    @THS, well, I see that you have finally succeeded in attracting a group of people, the Atheists, that answer your questions the way you want them answered. You keep them coming back by stroking their egos with a thumbs up which in turn strokes your ego and keeps you asking the questions. Vicious circle isn't it?

  • by canoeguide on November 21st, 2011

    canoeguide

    Meaningless question. Any naval architect will tell you a wooden vessel of those dimensions is physically impossible (it would not float, being unable to support its own weight).

  • by Gone! on November 21st, 2011

    Gone!

    So... you believe there was a Noah THS? Interesting...

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