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Posted: 11 March 2026 at 7:36pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply

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In fact, lots of folk have debunked the story of the Flood—but most of them make the same mistake: they try to approach the story from a rational, natural perspective. They point to the scientific impossibility of the tale.

But they overlook one thing: this is a story of miracles. Of the direct involvement and intervention of God Almighty. God who can make ANYTHING happen. Literally ANYTHING. Just by thinking it.

Don’t worry. I haven’t gone over to the dark side. (Or light side, if you prefer—tho this as a seriously DARK story. All those drowned children and puppies.)

As an atheist, I am quick to point out that one cannot argue science against religion. Religion trumps (ahem) science at every turn. Because it has no rules. Kangaroos on the Ark? No problem, if God wants them there. (And it’s both funny and sad to see the believers invoke science to explain themselves. Land bridges? Pshaw!!)

But if we want to debunk the story of the Flood—a waste of time, imho—we don’t need science. We need only the story itself. Start with the fact that no mention is made of “Mount Arrarat” and go from there.

Fairy tales always unravel when we LOOK at them.

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My favorite Noah's Ark art.  Not sure if the artist missed a step, or was deliberately chain-yanking.


Physicist Sean Carroll has pointed out the Universe making sense is actually an argument against the existence of God.  If He's omnipotent, why would He bother?  You get rewarded with infinity in the afterlife if you follow the rules . That would only be possible with omnipotence. 

Minor aside:
As an atheist, the "they reward you when you're dead" part has always bugged me. The religious elite get to live in luxury and do stuff that they will need God to forgive them for, while everyone is neatly controlled.

Feeling free to extend Gibbon's quote on Romans in Rise and Fall to every religion:

"The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful"
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Important to remember the Ark story doesn’t specify TWO of each animal.
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I think all us cynics need to take a group vacation to Ark Encounter.   

Marvel at the three-story ark! We could take a side trip to the Creation Museum, we could learn about ice age animals, we can apparently swing on a rope swing...

Screw Disney!  
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My favorite Noah's Ark art.  Not sure if the artist missed a step, or was deliberately chain-yanking.

It took me a minute.  LOL.  I feel so vindicated in my "alternative lifestyle."*

*Sitting on the couch and watching movies. 
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Is it the two male lions?
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That’s what I figured.
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“That’s what I call a PRIDE!”
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Early in my teaching career, I had a student “identified gifted” who believed, as his parents taught him, that the Bible was to be taken literally and the age of the world was approximately 6,000 years. I often wonder how that changed for him after he got to high school, but it always saddens me when parents teach their children to ignore evidence.
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