I am an atheist that used to be a Christian, so I have heard about the great flood many times, and it seemed so ridiculous, that it was one of the things that turned me toward agnosticism and eventually atheism.
I recently saw Bill Nye's debate with Ken Ham, and one of the topics was the great flood debate.
What do you guys think about it? I think it's quite ridiculous, and if you want to see why you can check out the debate below.
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Welcome to the secular world, like you I was (never actually baptized) brought up in the christian faith.
Yes, Noah’s flood is a ridiculous tale, good luck enticing believers into a debate. More often than not, they avoid the topic like the plague.
What's so bizarre is that Ken Ham doesn't get how badly thrashed he was. And it's so funny that he cheats on his own Arc with metal supports.
His best supported argument was "There's this book..." and it saddens me how many laughs and cheers that got.
I get so frustrated listening to Ken Ham. I don’t want to injure myself while face-palming. I suspect Ham prefers a comfortable living over the truth.
Cracks me up where it says in the comment section: “To see Bill Nye's arguments debunked visit http://debatelive.org .” an Answers in Genesis site. Just more face-palm moments….
“To see Bill Nye's arguments debunked visit http://debatelive.org .” an Answers in Genesis site. Just more face-palm moments….
Ahh WHAT??? Ham was not enough to debunk them?
ROFL
It seems even theists know that fact :P
The "story" of Noah's Arc seems reasonable to me. I know it is true because the bible tells me so. God works in mysterious ways. Any arguments you try to use to deny the miracle of the Flood story falls on deaf ears. God works in mysterious ways and the resurrection of Jesus proves God can do miracles. You claim that millions of animals could not "fit" on he arc does not take into consideration the hand of God and "he" can do anything he wants. Another argument Atheists argue is what about all the food needed to feed all the millions of animals. The hand of God does it again. What about the piss and shit. God can do what he wants and he knows how to disperse the waste of the animals. God through his loving hands even allows all the animals to get along. The world was full of sin. God does not like sin. Noah and his family were saved by God because he is a loving God. As for the dinosaurs---only the baby dinosaurs were on the arc to save room.
This explains it all: https://youtu.be/I225Vcs3X0g?t=3m35s
Here is Seth Andrew's version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CccaGaKOlSI
Even more evidence for the Flood!
only baby dinosaurs were on the Arc to save room for all the millions of other animals.
Actually God just put the first microscopic animals on it and restarted evolution, and the rest of the gigantic-ass ship was just used for sports.
There are lots of flood stories from the ancient world, probably because floods have often happened with devastating consequences. The biblical story just took that idea and put a different twist on it.
Like much of the bible it was meant to impress ignorant and superstitious people; I'm sure the authors never thought it would be subject to scrutiny by the likes of us. They wouldn't have cared in any case, since they achieved what they set out to do....
Well, if there was a great flood...when is it going to happen again? There are too many idiots in the world, and most of them worship a god of some sort. But I guess Yahweh rainbow-promised that he would never flood the world again, so that leaves...what? Fire? Tornadoes? Firenadoes?
Global warming?
"Dibs on the Dragon Meat"
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2015/09/03/dibs-on-the-drag...