Quote from Free Thinker:
wallet a thinking man might come to that conclusion based on the scientific evidence. what evidence you say?
1. the dimensions of the ark make it an impossibility to construct. the science of engineering falsifies the story.
2. through the science of geology we have searched the earth and have never found evidence of a flood. on the contrary all evidence falsifies the flood.
3.the science of archeoloy has never found a pattern in the fossil record that indicates a flood migration of animals. on the contrary all fossils are found where they should be.
4. the science of meteorology has concluded that it is impossible to rain long enough to flood the earth.
5. the science of math has concluded that the ark could never hold all the species on the earth.
6. the science of hydrology shows that there is not enough water on earth to cover the earth to the highest mountian.
7.the science of dendrochronology shows us that there are trees on earth older than the proposed flood that show no signs of a flood.
with knowledge after studying all of these things and many more why should i even consider an ark story written by stone age men a possibility?
1. Guess that big boat in Holland is a figment of my imagination (and to millions of others too then.)
http://www.rnrk.com/story17.html
2. People have found fossils of marine life high on mountains. I PERSONALLY once found a fossil of coral that was 2800 feet above see level.
3. Every time you find fossils they are generally always very close to each other in in a pit like area. When they found our supposed ancestor "Ida" they found a crushed monkey hand and a smashed turtle shell in the same pit.
4. Unless of course a large comet (which is made of ice) melted as it entered our atmosphere, exploded and rain from the comet poured down for 40 days.
5. Ernst Walter Mayr the 20th century LEADING evolutionary biologist(thats right...he's YOUR boy) said there are about 1 million species on the earth. (uh-oh....I might be in trouble here) Oh but then again, most of those species already live in the water. Heres a nice little site for you. (dont worry, you can trust it because the site believes in evolution *snicker*)
http://www.earthlife.net/mammals/welcome.html As you will see taxonomists estimate there are 4260 mammals on earth as of this moment (since some of those mammals are water dwelling and some mammals have gone extinct in the last 5000 years and taxonomists think their may be more species of animals, lets just say there was 5000 land animals on the ark. Double it (because 2 of everyone and you have 10k animals. Plenty of room on the ark for up to 50k animals like i said in another post, but lets move on to your next issue.
6. People like you believe Mars that has almost no water was once covered in it, but you cant believe that the Earth that is 70% water was once 100% covered? Also did it ever occur to you that maybe with the weight of all that water on the earth that canyons in the oceans may have collapsed (like sinkholes) which is why the water receded.
7. Ah...I have to give you some credit for the dendrochronology I really had a tough time finding a way to dispute the tree rings. Everytime I found something, i studied it, but found myself to be in error.(like multiple rings per year solution, periods of solar quiescence) but they all proved to be false. Fortunately the answer was in the bible. Something happened after the flood that changed everything. Men used to live 900 years and it wasnt until after the flood that God said man would live no longer than 120 years. This leads us to believe something happened with the atmosphere which of course would affect the interpretation of carbon dating and dendrochronology for any time past 4500 years ago.
As for you last comment. How hard are you going to crap your pants if they do excavate (with your atheist breathren of course) and find a huge giant ship up on that mountain. Im VERY curious as what you will say, although you will probably deny it.
You can lead an atheist to evidence,but you cant make him think.
