Posted on 09/05/2006 10:47:39 AM PDT by Central Scrutiniser
"the sample was just wood coated in soy sauce that was baked in an oven!
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Sounds tasty....
Yes, he is, unless his purpose is to deliberately stir the pot.
[Come on, we Christians can do better than that! What, you think there is an SAT test for getting into heaven, and you can fail for incorrectly guessing which parts of the Bible are literal and which ones are metaphor?]
LOL
K.I.S.S. applies when discussing the existence of God.
Consequently I do believe it is just that simple. Only, this SAT test takes most folks about 80 years to complete. Some pass and check out sooner, others fail and check out sooner. There are some that hang around and educate us and still others that get a time extension to figure out the right answers.
What do you think?
You don't understand, I don't have to disprove a myth, its the believers of the myth that have to prove it.
And judging from the very lame responses on this thread, this myth will never be proved.
So, jabber away at what "might" "may" "could" and "if" regarding the ark. I want some facts, some proof, and you don't have any.
Not stirring the pot, lots of people here probably don't know about the scam and frauds by people that claim to have discovered the ark, or that the CBS special which so many people believed was a hoax.
Oh boy, now you went and did it. "It's just a story"? Prepare for the oncoming assault.
funny thing about miracles.
The conclusion about the ark has to be that it never existed as there is zero proof or evidence about one. None has ever been put up for the last 5000 or so years, nothing. No fossil records, no geologic records, no records in the DNA of all living animals.
I could keep going, but complete and total lack of evidence, a plausible explanation of how it was feasible, or any sucessful attempt to recreate it can only lead to the conclusion that it never happened.
Unless you have proof and evidence, if so, please present it.
Thanks for the post.
Here is a link to several articles supporting the reality of Noah's Ark.
http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/noah.asp
From reading the usual inane remarks on this post....I would say at least 15 degrees of top dead center.
Okay. Believe, myth, and prove all in one sentence. For one thing, prove whatever to whom?
I do understand. I just don't cooperate.
I don't have to disprove a myth, its the believers of the myth that have to prove it.
Why? To please you?
With regard to myth, you argue from a presupposition that Noah's Ark is purely mythical, rather than remaining agnostic on the question as an open-minded scientist would. As someone who believes so firmly in science, I should think you would know that the absence of evidence does not constitute evidence of absence.
And your presupposition is a matter of faith...you fundamentally believe there never was an ark.
So, jabber away at what "might" "may" "could" and "if" regarding the ark.
No. You a far more interesting topic, my friend. It's not every day one runs across a humanist fundamentalist.
So you would state with equal 100% certainty that, for example, extra-terrestrial life does not exist?
The tenor of your entire thread is an ad homenin attack on people of faith, belittling those who believe in the literal intepretation of the Bible as rubes and morons. I thought I'd shoot back with some of your ammo. How does it feel?
Theoretically, I would say its possible and that it probably exists due to the data we have. We haven't seen it yet however. Compare and contrast to the ark, theoretically it is not possible and there is no proof that it could be possible nor is there any observable results that we would expect to see from it.
Apples/oranges
Like being shot with a nerf bullet.
So, being skeptical of a story that people have faith in is wrong?
Glad you weren't in Jonestown, Guyana in the late 70's.
BTW, not an attack on people of faith, just pointing out the fact that several people claiming to find the ark were con men and that the CBS story was pure hoax. Unless you have proof otherwise?
Maybe, but we're not talking about the existence of God, we're talking about literal interpretation versus metaphor. Some of us will believe in a worldwide flood, some will believe in a local calamity. Some will believe in young earth creation and some will believe God took billions of years. Some will believe in transubstantiation and some won't. Some believe in water baptism and some won't. No amount of time will resolve all of those in anyone's mind. Fortunatly, entry to Heaven doesn't depend on getting those answers right (or most of us are doomed, given the wide disagreement on all those issues).
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