My arguments are my own unless otherwise stated. Noah's Ark is another issue which we can take up if you wish.
My arguments are my own unless otherwise stated. Noah's Ark is another issue which we can take up if you wish.
B: Well your claim regarding Feduccia's view of Archeaopteryx was falsified. Your credibility has taken a huge nose dive.
B: After you apologize for misrepresnting Feduccia, present your claims regarding the Ark and the Noachian deluge, and we can then discuss those.
Presumably that means that you are Simmons, since your arguments are identical to his which I think we can take to be statistically unlikely unless you are one and the same person. No wonder you got upset when I dismissed the book that you wrote.
I would be delighted for you to explain how Noah's Ark could be a true story. I'm all agog. Perhaps you should put it in your next book, Simmons.
Doubtless (if you believe that the story is true) you will include an explanation of where the water came from and where it went to (as a good engineer, Jehu). IIRC the biblical account variously claims the source as "The fountains of the earth" (artesian water?) and 40 days of rain. It also states that the earth including mountains was completely covered to a depth of 15 cubits (I have just looked up in KJ).
Taking the 5 miles above sea level of mount Everest as a reference point that has to be submerged the requirement can be calculated as around 1 billion cubic miles of water appearing over a period of 40 days. To put it another way, that much water would be a sphere over 1000 miles in diameter. Hope that helps.
Presumably you will also account for the total lack of any genetic or geological evidence of this event. In fact the total lack of any evidence at all for this event, other than the fact that lots of ancient civilisations have flood stories... Gee I wonder why that would be? I don't suppose it has anything to do with ancient civilisations all growing up along rivers that occasionally flooded catastrophically. (perhaps people even occasionally saved themselves and a tiny portion of their livestock on a boat or raft)