Does anyone actually believe the story of Noah's Ark?

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Does anyone actually believe the story of Noah's Ark?

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I know a bunch of Christians, and so many of them believe that Noah's Ark is a myth. Basically just a story to teach morals and lessons. I personally see a lot of things wrong with the story of the flood. So I was wondering, if anyone believes the story of Noah's Ark, and the world flood, to be the truth?

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Christain are hypocrites in that they have people evolving in a less then two thousand years and yet say human could not have evolved in billions of years. Do highly religious people lose all logic???

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Donray wrote: [Replying to post 169 by JehovahsWitness]

Christain are hypocrites in that they have people evolving in a less then two thousand years and yet say human could not have evolved in billions of years. Do highly religious people lose all logic???
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Re: Does anyone actually believe the story of Noah's Ark?

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brunumb wrote:The biblical flood wiped out all humans apart from Noah and Co. That means that all subsequent people across the globe are descended from that tiny group of individuals. Give the biblical timeline, it is hard to conceive of so many different civilisations developing in the span of only a couple of thousand years.
That problem affects other patriarchs as well.

In the Genesis 14 story of Abram and Lot, Abram's men chased Lot's kidnappers "as far as Dan," the supposed tribal and territorial eponym wasn't born yet.

In Genesis 37, Joseph was pulled out of a pit by Medanites, sold to a caravan of Ishmaelites, and sold to Egypt by Midianites. All three terms seem to mean tribal ethnicities, but Ishmael, Medan, and Midian were Joseph's great uncles.

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I have pointed out how DNA proves the Noah story is a myth. Thus far no one has proved me wrong.

Can anyone the believes the story to be true prove that ALL humans have Jewish DNA????

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Here's an interesting question. Did God get quoted as saying all life upon the Earth was killed by the flood except Noah's family?

Sea/water creatures are not mentioned. Those under the Earth are not noted.

We know a cataclysmic flood engulfed the Earth by archaeology and geology. Did God say All life was wiped out? Or did Noah's biographer assume this role? Seems so in a plain reading.

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brianbbs67 wrote: Here's an interesting question. Did God get quoted as saying all life upon the Earth was killed by the flood except Noah's family?
He is quoted as saying that all life was destroyed. That was the point of the rainbow in the story. It is to be a sign God will never again destroy the earth with a flood:
  • Genesis 9:11 I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.

    Genesis 9:15 I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. 16 Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.

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Donray wrote: I have pointed out how DNA proves the Noah story is a myth. Thus far no one has proved me wrong.

Can anyone the believes the story to be true prove that ALL humans have Jewish DNA????

It is courteous of you, Donray, to treat absurdities with science, as if they merited learned consideration.

A 600 year old man.
A ship that dwarfs our own today, built by this geriatric.
A zoo to beat all zoos that the planet has known.
Successful hunting of every species by an athletic 600 year old.
Adequate food for a big voyage, stored God knows where.
Miraculous regeneration from the improbable pairs. We have a hard enough job getting two pandas to mate here in Scotland. God assisted - but still insisted the old guy had to labour over building a boat. I suppose God sent a parcel of nails.

It is a crazy story that must have supplied lots of laughter. Why waste science on it when mockery will do?

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brianbbs67 wrote:

Here's an interesting question. Did God get quoted as saying all life upon the Earth was killed by the flood except Noah's family?

Here's another interesting question. One of the raven pairs was sent away, and never returned. From whence cometh the ravens in the Tower of London, then. Are we to understand that there were prolific couplings on the Ark itself?

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marco wrote: One of the raven pairs was sent away, and never returned....Are we to understand that there were prolific couplings on the Ark itself?
At least some of the adult animals would probably have reproduced on the ark. Doves* (which were likely considered clean animals so Noah would have initially had seven pairs) have quite short incubation periods and are able to raise up a maximum of six broods annually. So one not returning would have posed no threat to the survival of the "species".

* The account speaks a dove (not a pair of ravens) ultimately not returning to the ark ( see Gen 8:10-12)


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SOME INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT DOVES
  • Doves have very strong wing muscles and are some of the strongest fliers in the world.
  • Doves are excellent navigators. They use the Earth’s magnetic field and the position of the Sun to find their way.
  • An Oxford University study also showed that they can use landmarks as signposts and will travel along man made roads and motorways, even changing direction at junctions.
  • Domesticated pigeons are able to return to the home loft if they’re released at a location that they have never visited before.
  • Desert dove species get their water from plants. They also have the ability to drink saline water.
  • Male doves will bring materials needed to build a nest to the female doves, who will then build the nest.
  • Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets mention the domestication of pigeons more than 5,000 years ago.
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[Replying to post 179 by JehovahsWitness]

How about responding to my question about DNA instead of preaching????

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