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Rather than answer your assertions in detail, I simple offer the following alternative hypothesis: the Robot Monkey Flood Hypothesis.1. Noah did not actually have to do most of the labor building the Ark. Robot monkeys are easily programmed to do basic construction work.2. Likewise gathering all the animals two by two. Robot monkeys equipped with jet packs cound have traveled quickly around the globe to collect all necessary "kinds."3. Robot monkeys doen't need to sleep, so they can take care of all the animals around the clock.4. Robot monkeys can also use their jet packs to fly out to all the floating vegetation mats to tend to insects too.5. If the Ark were also equipped with a Matter-Antimatter Transmutation Fabricator (which the Robot Monkeys would also be able to build), then it would be easy to recycle waste matter back into fresh, nutritious food.6. Radiation leakage from a broken Robot Monkey Atomic Power Pack could also have affected atomic decay rates around the globe, rendering all radiometric dating techniques invalid. This indicates to me that at least one Robot Monkey did not survive the whole voyage.7. Robot Monkeys could also have a combined data storage capacity big enough to contain all the information they'd need to retrain young animals that were raised on the Ark to return to life in the wild.So I believe that the Robot Monkey Hypothesis is more than suffiient to answer all atheistical objections to the truth of the Flood story. And it doesn't say anywhere that Noah didn't have Robot Monkey helpers. So case closed.

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Hah! Well if there were even half the evidence to support your robot monkey theory as there is the actual Ark then you might have a point.Oh wait a minute......

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This is written by Professor Walter J. Veith, PhD. Is his PhD in a relevant field? I placed my bet before checking. What a surprise - he's a zoologist!

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implying this means anything. What if a 4 years old girl put forward these false assumptions what difference does it make? Does it make it less valid? Do those assumptions belong to him?

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I'll allow the experts to debunk your content in detail (if they want to). But you need to consider why, if a zoologist can think of these questions, the experts in the field have not considered them and resolved them?

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This is the difference. I try not to put much faith in elitism. If you have nothing to provide as for the substance I've raised why did you bother answering?

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You are forced to consider scientists incompetent or dishonest because of your fixed belief system.

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Isn't that ironic considering you're relegated answering this to others?

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They are neither of course.

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You wouldn't know, you've admittedly said you will leave it to others to answer me. The "experts"

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The problem is your fixed belief system.

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Seething arrogance and irony as well considering the erstwhile lecture you gave me about believing in what others say you've relegated this answer to others.

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Seems some have slipped into cognitive dissonance. Are these the experts you're referring to Peepul.Edited by Manifest, : No reason given.

Fossils can not be carbon dated because they no longer contain organic material to be dated. Because of your statement the ToE assumes that you don't actually know what a fossil is. The ToE assumes nothing of the sort. The ToE states that a process of natural selection and compounding of random copying errors of are sufficient to explain the observed biodiversity. Observations do indicate that the processes of diversification aren't in any hurry, but it's not assumed.Observations also indicate the the processes of fossilization aren't in any hurry either. But the ToE doesn't even assume fossils yet alone how long they take to form. Not quite. I, if I may be so bold as to assume I know more me about than do you, do not accept evolution as a reflection of reality by not knowing about it. I pulled my head out, examined the evidence and arguments, and found them to be undeniable. "Faith" is a belief unsupported by evidence which you, if I may be so bold as to assume I know more about you than do you, rationalize after the fact.Furthermore, do you really think a machine that counts ¹⁴C atoms gets differing values dependant upon the assumptions of its operator? How does the machine know the assumptions of the operator? Does the operator tell the machine or does the machine sense them somehow? Is so. So if I were to take your fantasies seriously the ligament attaching the fish's head wouldn't rot away and the head wouldn't fall off. Why wouldn't it? This fish died in the process of giving the smaller fish a purple-nurple with its tail. Seriously, there isn't any other possible explanation. Superposition isn't something that just happens. Oh sure, if one looks at dozens and dozens of fish fossils maybe it can happen once. What are the odds of that; like, 24:1?

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If you enter [IMG]image address[/IMG] you'll get the image on your page instead of the address.Oh! And welcome to EvC. Hope you like taking a beating.

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You are now a million miles away from where you were in space-time when you started reading this sentence.

I responded to your cut-and-paste concerning radiocarbon dating on an appropriate thread.Come on over and let's see what you know about the subject.

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Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.

Quite a Gish Gallop you got going there. Full of unsupported assertions and errors. I'm particularly irritated by your quote from someone who has no clue how radiometric dating works, just as you have no clue. Sorry, no. A constant rate of decay is concluded from vast mountains of evidence. Even the RATE group acknowledges (and tries to minimize the importance of) the show-stopping problems with any theory that tries to introduce non-constant decay rates. Decay rates are a consequence of some very fundamental properties of the Universe; if they changed all sorts of other things would change too ... and those other things haven't changed. Let's see exactly how this would work. Hint: it wouldn't. Show the math. No scientists argue that the magnetic field of the Earth has decreased. A few loons do. This is another PRATT.Carbon dating is calibrated against other methods. Other radiometric dating methods are not affected by cosmic rays. Let's see the math. Especially show how this "model" explains the dating of objects of known age, such as the bread found in Pompeii. Hint: it would show that the bread was baked from wheat grown centuries after Vesuvius erupted. That's why the method is calibrated against other methods. Not relevant to carbon dating. For geological dating methods, it's just false. For example, even the RATE group acknowledges that zircons form with no significant lead content. Argon-argon and isochron dating produce the amount of initial daughter product as a byproduct of the method. False. The most commonly used dating methods indicate when the system has been open, and most of them often yield a valid date even when the system has not remained closed.

Hmmm. Me too. But knowledge isn't particularly "elitist," except from a post-2007 American Republican point of view.

Well, speaking for myself, I must admit that I am not an expert in Robot Monkeys and the technology behind them. However, I do have a basic layperson's understanding of how they work. And I contend that the Robot Monkey Flood Hypothesis is a valid one for explaining many of the discrepancies and apparent scientific impossibilities in the traditional Flood account. In fact, I believe that Robot Monkeys are a better explanation than the ones you've offered, such as insects on floating vegetation mats and the effect of water on radioactive decay rates.I'd be glad to debate the matter with you in a separate thread. Or at least please offer me the evidence upon which you would deny the validity of the Robot Monkey Flood Hypothesis.

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I direct you to the second last line of my sig.

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First up, could you direct your replies to individual posts, rather than collating your replies to different posters into a single long reply, please? It makes it easier to follow the thread of the conversation Most wild animals do, in fact, die. Otherwise we'd be up to our ears in them by now. Have you noticed how many offspring a rabbit has? How many do you think live, on average, to reproduce themselves? (Hint: it's the same number as they have parents). The same is true for other animals - many more offspring are produced than survive to reproduce themselves. Excellent! So they'll be released with no experience of looking after themselves - that'll help! Zoos constantly struggle to successfully raise animals in captivity, the Ark is under far worse conditions - tossing and turning in a violent sea, thousands of animals cramped into dark conditions, lacking the modern technology to maintain the correct humidity and temperature for them, being fed a completely unnatural diet. And, remember, not a single one of these animals can die because there's no back up here.Also: while they may be young animals at the start of the year, most of them won't be by the end of the year. Huge numbers of animals complete their entire lifespan inside of a year, while the longer lived creatures can often get big and unruly in that time - a year old bull, rhino, bison or elephant is a big animal. It's a problem because you suggested you could just pile up food, rather than needing to feed and clean them out. This is a fantasy, ask any zoo keeper. So you have 8 people, and - by your absurd underestimate of the required number of animals - 8000 animals to look after, that's 36 seconds each by your own numbers. 36 seconds is not long enough to clean out and feed an animal. It just isn't.As for hay, dried fruit, etc. that's fine for that small proportion of the animal population that will thrive on such feed. The rest of them are going to be a bigger problem. And let me remind you: this is a year long trip, you've said you have young, growing animals, they're in cramped conditions in a boat probably at unsuitable temperatures and humidities - the odds are already stacked against these animals and you can't afford to have even a single one. Feeding them unsuitable food is going to be the final straw. Right, so the bible that spells out in intricate detail how big the boat is, neglected to mention that they should be young animals. Of course. The literality of your reading is obvious.It's also not that logical a decision to make, young animals take up less space but they also require more care, and are less able to look after themselves when you reach the otherside. If your elephants are young (presumably you're at least letting them wean first so you don't have to hand feed them?) then you'll have to wait years after the Ark lands before you can get the first offspring. Well, you've got two rabbits and two foxes. How many rabbits does a fox need to raise a cub? You have two antelope and two lions? How many antelope does a lion need to eat to raise a cub?That's problem one: how do you manage to keep your carnivores alive long enough to establish a population of herbivores large enough to support them.And you've dumped all these animals in one small part of the Middle East. Animals, you may have noticed, don't all live in the Middle East they're spread all across the world in a non-uniform fashion. Kangaroos are found no where but Australia, for example, and the only placental mammals in all Australia when we arrived were bats. How, exactly, did this modern pattern of biodiversity arise from a single dumping of species in the Middle East?That's problem two: how do you explain modern biogeography?And, let's not forget, there's just been a global flood, the entire world is covered in a thick layer of salty sediment from the flood. There's no trees, no grass, no bushes, no plant life at all. It'll all be dead from the flood. Now, let's bend reality again and pretend that seeds from all these things could survive the flood and begin repopulating the land - how long do you think that will take? How long before fruit trees begin fruiting again? How long before the humming birds can draw nectar from flowers again? And, remember, until you've got your herbivores happily re-established you're going to have to keep care of your carnivores (see problem one).So that's problem three: the entire world has no vegetation, how do you maintain your Ark of Life until it's all re-established. An exponential rate of replication only applies until perfect conditions; all life on Earth has just been destroyed in a flood, you have thousands of hungry predators to feed. Exponential growth under those conditions is a joke. And that's before we role on your super-evolution as the millions of species alive today somehow emerge from your 8000 ark species.

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This is written by Professor Walter J. Veith, PhD. Is his PhD in a relevant field? I placed my bet before checking. What a surprise - he's a zoologist!

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implying this means anything. What if a 4 years old girl put forward these false assumptions what difference does it make? Does it make it less valid? Do those assumptions belong to him?

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It means, as usual, that creationist material is written by someone who is not an expert in the field and clearly has not studied it. It means, as is common among creationist sites, there's a clear attempt to imply that the information is authoritative because the author is a professor and a PhD. Prof Veith played the argument from authority card, deceptively - I'm calling him on it.

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I try not to put much faith in elitism.

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So you don't put faith in the people who know most about a subject? You trust your health care to a lawyer and your legal advice to a doctor?

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Isn't that ironic considering you're relegated answering this to others?

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Oh, I know enough to know that every one of the points you raised is invalid. But I also know there are people here who understand this as professional users of carbon dating - as you've seen. Their answers carry more weight than mine.

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You wouldn't know, you've admittedly said you will leave it to others to answer me. The "experts"

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This doesn't make sense. I've left answering it to the experts because I know from experience they are competent and honest.

Hi ManifestI realise I'm a bit late joining in this particular debate, but there's one obvious and important question I need to get off my chest regarding the building of Noah's Ark.I used to think the whole concept of the story was ridiculous because, regardless of whether or not it was possible to build a boat to house 2 of every species and feed them, etc, it would have been impossible for anyone in those days to travel around the world and collect 2 of every species.I now understand the creationist argument is that Noah did not have to circumnavigate the world to find 2 of every species, but rather that God safely delivered 2 of every species to the Ark. Brilliant! I'd never have thought of doing it that way!But that then begs the question: if God was able to lift a pair of Kangeroos out of the Australian outback, a pair of orangutans out of the jungles of south-east Asia, pairs of tapirs and llamas from South America, along with thousands of other species, and deliver them all effortlessly and safely across the globe to Bibleland, why was it then necessary to build an Ark to put them in? God had already found a way of safely transporting them across the oceans! Did God suddenly run out of strength? Was he only able to hold them up in the air for a limited amount of time?If God has limitless magical power, why didn't he just zap all but 2 of every species with a bolt of lightning? Why bother at all with a flood and a boat?But then, probably the biggest question of all is, after all the culling, he was still left with a pair of all the same species that he started with - including humans. So what changed afterwards? What was achieved by the whole exercise? Absolutely nothing!!!The story doesn't make any sense at any level.

It was a test of Noah's faith and a test for humankind as a whole. Sure it does. It makes complete sense as a moral tale about a new god emerging within a cult in Mesopotamia. The relationship between man and this new god were told through age-old stories that already existed in the area, namely Babylonian myths. But in a historical, factual sense, no it doesn't make any sense at all.

Test for humankind as a whole? You mean he tested how long on average it took for a human to drown, or did he just want to see who would survive the longest? Did the strongest guy at least receive a prize?

Doesn't that negate the entire reason for recreating the ark? Isn't the reason for doing so to show that it was physically possible? So, once you throw a 'goddidit" in there, all need for it being physically possible are moot, yes? Am I being too logical?

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