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Originally Posted by Pangloss62
This reminds me of this awful talk show I heard on a road trip last week where the "archeologist" was being interviewed by Dobson or Robertson or whoever the fuck about the remains of Noahs Ark in Turkey. Two of every animal? Uh...what about fish, marine mammals, insects, on and on. The whole idea is so preposterous yet here they trot out the science of archeology to prove some myth. I got sooooooo mad I almost dropped my Slushie!  |
Actually, this I disagree with, because you have to keep in mind... The Bible is not to be taken literally.
It has been found that that
area (which to them
was the whole world) flooded massively around that era... and remains of a damn big ship
was found down there... but when the bible says
every animal, it probably means, you know, some deer, some cats, some dogs, a goat or two... etc.
Just like the story about the star over Jesus's birthplace... Some astrologers think they have found evidence of a star that went nova and would have made a bright light appear in the sky here a couple thousand years ago... And a really rad dude named Jesus DID live back then... The bright light probably wasnt right over his head when seen from wherever the hell the 'wise men' were from, but it makes for a good story.
Not every single word of the Bible is a lie... But that doesn't mean the truth isn't streched or exaggerated or objective... and some are just simple mistakes. The world was 'created by god' because they had no way of figuring out differently, the same way that thunderbolts were hurled by zeus because there was no other explaination the ancient greeks could have figured out. The Bible is roughly equal parts moral homilies, 'scientific' theories, and not-too-literal history.