Yeah well the bible also says if you see a man working on the Sabbath you should kill him. And a man lived in a fish for three days. And Jack climbed up the beanstalk.

@sandman2
Two things here. Calling God anything other than what He is is blasphemy. Secondly, if you really understood scripture you would know that under the old law you could not eat unclean animals. I’ll leave it up to you to find out which ones they were. The Bible reading may do you some good. Also, Noah and his family had to eat during the flood so that is why they took more clean beasts.

Seriously though, Egyptian history does not mention a flood even though uninterrupted records were kept all the way from Menes in 3400B.C.E to Darius Ochus in 340B.C.E
The “alleged” Flood occurred around 2348B.C.E

@joe DeBaun

Gen. 6:19-20 And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.
Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.

Gen. 7:2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female; and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
Gen. 7:8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, …

Clean beasts by Sevens? Did GOD change his mind about how many animals should be loaded on the ark in only a few paragraphs?
GOD must have been a woman; cause she can’t decide what to pack for the trip!

Gen.

I remember in days of yore some people pointed to the Native American legend of the Thunderbird and floods as further proof of the Noah flood. Turns out there really was a flood, but it was in the 1700s. Big earthquake, big tidal wave. But not world encompassing, just a huge local event. Then we have the Black Sea flood from a few thousand years ago. Upset and killed a bunch of people, perhaps they thought the world was ending, but again it was just a local event, not global.

The Bible is real. Noah’s ark is a true story.

The Bible is truth.

Aria, you’re repeating a common misconception. The text does NOT say “Mount Ararat” but rather, “the mountains of Ararat.” (Gen 8:4)

Ararat is believed to be a geographical region that corresponds with an ancient kingdom called Urartu (which covered most of the eastern part of modern-day Turkey as well as parts of modern Armenia and Iran). Urartu just happened to have been a major kingdom—even a major power in the region—at roughly the time period that the Tanakh (the Hebrew Bible, corresponding to the Christian Old Testament) was first being written down, instead of merely being passed down orally. At the time, it was at the “edges” of the known civilized world (from the Hebrews’ perspective) and the mountains were the highest known peaks, far higher than any the Hebrews were directly familiar with.

Of course, it’s all a moot point since the Genesis account is pretty identical to a much older Sumerian flood story (the story of Ziusudra) and, there are suggestions that much of the Genesis story also added in elements the Hebrews had become familiar with during their time in Egypt (a place very familiar with severe flooding on a yearly basis in which local unprotected flora and fauna are killed but, after which, massive amounts of fertile silt cover the land).

People in biblical times tended to be sorta… what’s the word? Gullible. All their leaders were half-gods who lived unnaturally long lives and did magic.

But even assuming Earth used to be Narnia, the fact remains that things like Noah’s Ark, Jesus’ cross, etc? They’re long gone. Even if they weren’t destroyed by war, natural disasters, or good ol’ human stupidity. A 500 year-old man built an ark to save the world from a flood? We don’t have the remains of the man to prove he was 500 years old, we don’t have the remains of the Ark, and the best they can do with the flood after we looked there is saying “well, what was the world then?!”

I mean, really- They don’t even put enough stock in science to get even that part? It’s like they’re begging to be debunked and mocked.

But Joseph Young, read the text.

“And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.” Gen 6:19 (KJV)

While verse 20 continues with “Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive,” there’s NOTHING that says the creatures of the seas and rivers were not to be gathered. “All flesh” pretty much covers EVERYTHING.

Further, cetaceans (whales, dolphins, etc) need to breathe oxygen from the air. If it’s raining non-stop for 40 days, how do they come back up for air without the risk of water getting in their blowholes? Bear in mind how much rain has to fall in order to cover the whole Earth within 40 days and how constantly that rain has to be coming down. (Test it for yourself by standing in the shower facing away from the shower head. Then, lean your head back and try taking a breath in the shower spray.) Also, don’t forget that FRESH-water fish canNOT survive in salt-water and vice versa*. (Test this out by putting fresh-water fish in a salt-water aquarium; then turn yourself in to the animal welfare people.) If the whole Earth had been flooded, that means that all the water gets mixed up so some fish are going to die if they’ve not been “protected.”

A few species of shark have been known to survive *temporarily between the two environments and, of course, salmon migrate from fresh-water rivers to the sea and back for spawning (of course, the salmon die after spawning, so not really great).

Bill Cosby proved 50 years ago that Noah and the ark were REAL.
So there!

Robert Urban, they must have had great health care system back then. I wonder if they had socialized medicine back then. Maybe it was because they didn’t smoke, we know they drank wine.

It’s no wonder Paul Ryan wants to do away with Social Security, he must think everyone lives as long as they did in the Bible.

Let’s not forget the Bible says that Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters engulfed the earth.

That alone should put an end to that bullsh!t story.

OK, I’m gonna be the one to say it: If Noah’s Ark turns out to be real, literally every record of the story says it’s on Mt. Ararat, which is in… say it with me- Turkey.

But inserting a little reality into this, the Ark was made out of gopher wood. I’m not sure how long it would have lasted on a volcano in that climate. No one was able to find it in biblical times… So, if it was real, it was already gone by the time they started looking.

Just sayin’.

oops, the embed didn’t work. Here’s the link. Irish Rovers, The Unicorn Song..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4bc9UwZsYs

But what of the unicorn?

There are a load of problems with the Noah’s Ark myth but I think Bill Maher provided the single biggest one in his “New Rules” segment on last week’s show. He made a point about how all the various animals just happened to live within a couple hundred miles of where Noah was building the ark. I mean, the tradition is that Noah lived in what’s now Southern Iraq, an area which has never been known to been home to elephants or moose or aardvarks or raccoons or koalas, yet somehow Noah had to have gathered those species, along with thousands of other animal types (many of which have numerous distinct species—Indian elephants are different from African elephants). And what about the aquatic creatures? How did Noah manage to round up a pair of blue whales and a pair of sperm whales and a pair of humpback whales—to say nothing of the dozens of other species, many of which are not native to the Indian Ocean, much less the Arabian Sea or Persian Gulf—AND keep the animals for the year or so (during the rains, the whole flood itself and the time to dry)? There’s NOTHING in the Genesis story that says God made a list of “Do Not Gather” animals.

Also, I’ve never really understood why Noah would gather the mosquitoes and the flies and the cockroaches and the lice and the rats and all the other vermin species.

I thought we were supposed to bash Fox News here, not the Bible.

Noah’s ark? Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight! ;-)

Fundies also believe that the Earth is 6000 years old. Which means that men and dinosaurs co-existed (think of the Flintstones).

Bill Hemmer Thinks Noah's Ark Is Real?!