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Peter
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Message 59 of 196 (6535)
03-11-2002 7:42 AM
Reply to: Message 50 by no2creation
03-10-2002 2:42 AM


quote:
Originally posted by no2creation:
I will attempt to answer this one for you quicksink.
Please choose the answer that best suits your belief:
1. God put more people on the ship to help Noahs family feed and take care of the animals.
2. God gave Noahs family supernatural powers, so just a few of them could feed and take care of the animals.
3. God looked after them, while Noahs family enjoyed the cruise of their lifetime!
4. The animals were given supernatural powers, and they didn't have to eat. Instead God put them into a deep sleep that lasted the entire flood.
5. Noahs Ark is just a story!

With as much fairness to the biblical account as I am willing to
give (I'm not a beleiver myself), the story says that Noah,
Shem, Ham, and Japhet and their wives were aboard.
It does NOT say how many wives they each had, and there is no
reason to accept monogamy as a norm at that time.
[Just added this bit]
I don't think that the excrement couldn't be dealt with ...
I mean ... what else would they have to do?
It IS a huge stretch of the imagination though ... especially to
suggest (as someone has) that sufficient bedding would do it!!
That said ... the whole story of all those animals on a wooden boat
is overwhelmingly implausible.
[This message has been edited by Peter, 03-11-2002]

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Peter
Member (Idle past 1479 days)
Posts: 2161
From: Cambridgeshire, UK.
Joined: 02-05-2002


Message 60 of 196 (6538)
03-11-2002 8:02 AM
Reply to: Message 59 by Peter
03-11-2002 7:42 AM


quote:
Originally posted by Peter:
With as much fairness to the biblical account as I am willing to
give (I'm not a beleiver myself), the story says that Noah,
Shem, Ham, and Japhet and their wives were aboard.
It does NOT say how many wives they each had, and there is no
reason to accept monogamy as a norm at that time.
[Just added this bit]
I don't think that the excrement couldn't be dealt with ...
I mean ... what else would they have to do?
It IS a huge stretch of the imagination though ... especially to
suggest (as someone has) that sufficient bedding would do it!!
That said ... the whole story of all those animals on a wooden boat
is overwhelmingly implausible.
[This message has been edited by Peter, 03-11-2002]

I've just noticed a biblical quote that numbers the wives ...
I apologise I had misremebered this... always best to look
it up
My problem with the flood story is not actually its implausibility.
It is a little more fundamental::
Why would an omnipotent God, who could create an entire universe
from the void require a flood at all.
He could simply have said 'Let there be none but the righteous
and all the beasts.' and it would have happened.
This alone points to an exaggerated tale of a large flood in the
dim and distant past of the WRITER(s) of genesis. Perhaps the
Ice Age flooding that destroyed some of the Indus valley civilisation's cities and lead to the Hindu Veda's.

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Peter
Member (Idle past 1479 days)
Posts: 2161
From: Cambridgeshire, UK.
Joined: 02-05-2002


Message 66 of 196 (6566)
03-11-2002 10:16 AM
Reply to: Message 65 by Percy
03-11-2002 9:34 AM


quote:
Originally posted by Percipient:
Hi Quicksink!
Are you having some kind of difficulty that I can help with?
--Percy

I think quicksink might be having a similar problem to one I
experience on my PC at home ...
To see messages I have posted I have to navigate with the function
buttons, and even then my cached version gets loaded instead of
the updated page.
I just keep trying and eventually see it ... I have faith in the
boards ability to put my posts in place

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