tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35315805.post116460723345326862..comments2024-01-12T18:27:33.795-05:00Comments on Exercise in Futility: Punishing Humanity the Rube Goldberg Way - Part 2Tommykeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14751182125861177379noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35315805.post-1164855000067535742006-11-29T21:50:00.000-05:002006-11-29T21:50:00.000-05:00What about the many, many species of freshwater fi...<B>What about the many, many species of freshwater fish and creatures that would not survive in a salt water environment? And vice versa, what about all the salt water creatures that would never survive in fresh water? Noah would have needed huge and controlled aquariums to support these life forms.</B><BR/><BR/>I beat that issue to death already. Of course, creationists will always trot out an oldie and moldy from their Book of Bulls---, citing wild speculation by a random scientific non-expert like Kent Hovind.<BR/><BR/>What really interests me is how Noah would have preserved the huge amount of flora that exist today. Submerge your house plants underwater for forty days, and observe dead, rotting plant at the end of this period. Noah could have collected seeds, but seeds can't walk on their own, so he would have had to gone out of his way to gather all of them from across the world. Did Noah pick through the huge volumes of dung produced by his living cargo to complete his collection? I suppose plants could survive on floes of earth---I don't have the physics chops to say whether such alleged floes and the ark itself would be smashed to bits by the turbulent downpour and flooding, though I suspect they would---but that would obviate the need to build such a vessel in the first place!!!<BR/><BR/>Oh, silly me: <B>GODDIDIT</B>. That explains everything.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35315805.post-1164806623473896882006-11-29T08:23:00.000-05:002006-11-29T08:23:00.000-05:00To add to the list:protozoa * Flagellates * ...To add to the list:<BR/>protozoa<BR/> * Flagellates<BR/> * Amoeboids<BR/> * Sporozoans<BR/> o Apicomplexa<BR/> o Myxozoa<BR/> o Microsporidia<BR/> * Ciliates<BR/><BR/>Then what about all the necessary organisms these listed organisms need to feed on to survive? <BR/><BR/>What about the many, many species of freshwater fish and creatures that would not survive in a salt water environment? And vice versa, what about all the salt water creatures that would never survive in fresh water? Noah would have needed huge and controlled aquariums to support these life forms.<BR/><BR/>As for the animals Tommy has listed, and has he has already asked "Since the majority of these animals were surely unfamiliar to Noah, how would he have known what kind of food each animal ate?"...and even if he knew, WHERE would he store it and keep it from rotting? I can't keep a head of lettuce for more than two days in a modern refrigerator before it starts going bad.<BR/><BR/>And yes, the amount of excrement that would pile up would be in the tons. Noah and his family would have been buried in it, or died from the methane gas fumes given off from the waste.<BR/><BR/>Flood myths are common amongst most cultures because flooding is a natural thing that happens everywhere and causes great loss of life and destruction. Whenever people can't control something, they start to look for some kind of supernatural help in a desperate attempt to harness nature, which some of us know and accept as impossible. <BR/><BR/>Xians claim that god promised that he would never flood the earth again, however, the earth is indeed flooded in susceptible areas (and sometimes not so common areas) again and again, and to those living in the flooded areas, that area is the whole world to them. Look at the huge tsunamis, hurricanes, typhoons, monsoons, mudslides, etc. that have happened and that will continue to happen throughout time. That is the only world most of the victims of those natural disaster knows. Their "world" is/was and will be flooded and destroyed time and time again.Stardusthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10560872454564355114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35315805.post-1164766736110599942006-11-28T21:18:00.001-05:002006-11-28T21:18:00.001-05:00What the gh3y?What the gh3y?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35315805.post-1164766701150410592006-11-28T21:18:00.000-05:002006-11-28T21:18:00.000-05:00Oh, and with regard to the animals list, for the m...<B>Oh, and with regard to the animals list, for the most part, I did not include the animals that went extinct. I was trying to be conservative.</B><BR/><BR/>It seems you forgot water buffalo.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35315805.post-1164762065478933642006-11-28T20:01:00.000-05:002006-11-28T20:01:00.000-05:00Oh, and with regard to the animals list, for the m...Oh, and with regard to the animals list, for the most part, I did not include the animals that went extinct. I was trying to be conservative.<BR/><BR/>TP, I thought about using slave ships as an analogy, but I decided that even a less severe journey such as immigrants trying to cross the Atlantic to America in the early 19th century was filled with hardships that the Ark story seems to have missed.Tommykeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14751182125861177379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35315805.post-1164761916033374072006-11-28T19:58:00.000-05:002006-11-28T19:58:00.000-05:00Why is God's mode of punishment cool Sable? It wo...Why is God's mode of punishment cool Sable? It would be like an angry customer who stormed into a store where he felt he got poor service and proceeded to gun down almost everyone in the store and then proceeds to trash the place. Before leaving the store, he tells a couple of young girls quivering behind the cash register machine that he doesn't have any problem with them and graciously allows them to live.<BR/><BR/>That's sort of how the God of the Old Testament works. Instead of dealing directly with the individuals who offend him, he wipes out almost every living thing on the Earth or he causes every first born child in Egypt to die. Funny how no one thinks to ask why he just didn't kill the pharaoh. I'm supposed to believe in and worship a creature like that?Tommykeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14751182125861177379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35315805.post-1164692365216185242006-11-28T00:39:00.000-05:002006-11-28T00:39:00.000-05:00Well they say that Moses most likely wrote that pa...<B>Well they say that Moses most likely wrote that part of the Bible and why would it be necessary to add any more detail about how the ark was built or how to take care of that many animals, because God promised that He would never destroy the whole Earth by flood again.</B><BR/><BR/>There are two things God is good at: executing threats and reneging on promises.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35315805.post-1164687466608594092006-11-27T23:17:00.000-05:002006-11-27T23:17:00.000-05:00To get a sample of what it is like to be on an oce...<B>To get a sample of what it is like to be on an oceangoing vessel for an extended period of time, below is a description of what travel conditions were like for European immigrants making a Trans-Atlantic journey to the Americas.</B><BR/><BR/>The conditions of a slave ship would be a much better analogy. And let's not forget that up to half of the living cargo of such vessels died en route.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35315805.post-1164685973189830252006-11-27T22:52:00.000-05:002006-11-27T22:52:00.000-05:00How did the Ark sustain all that life when the ave...How did the Ark sustain all that life when the average space for each organism on board is the size of a paper cup?<BR/><BR/>(Not counting the infrastructure of the ship and life support, of course. All the food for such a voyage would fill up the boat anyway.)<BR/><BR/>Your brother in Parabramhan,<BR/>TheerasakAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com