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# We all make mistakes
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:03, archived)
# Don't let those cunt pandas on!
(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:04, archived)
# they crave extinction
I bet Noah tricked them. He probably told them the ark was made of bamboo
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:05, archived)
# Told you they were cunts
They probably planned on eating the boat, making the other animals extinct too.

And what is up with those macaws eh?
(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:09, archived)
# he must have already boarded the pangolins and the civets
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:10, archived)
# Just one more question for you

What about the fish?
(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:15, archived)
# the freshwater fish evolved into saltwater fish then evolved back afterwards
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:17, archived)
# Nifty
(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:39, archived)
# yeah hang on a minute,
the animals are going onto the boat there, but the rainbow doesn't appear until they disembark.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:07, archived)
# Plus, wrong type of zebra
(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:08, archived)
# and clean beasts went in by sevens,
so there should be seven sheep there, not just two.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:09, archived)
# at least he has 2 unicorns
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:11, archived)
# they must have been pissing about at the front there
not paying attention.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:12, archived)
# I'm not sure if a sheep is a clean beast

At least not when I'm around
(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:15, archived)
# the other 5 sheep shit themselves
(I helped save b3ta! Rebel biscuit stercore sumus et nos esse novimus, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:52, archived)
# 7-2=4
ok
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:57, archived)
# pffft!
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:58, archived)
# I would have made a shit imaginary character
(I helped save b3ta! Rebel biscuit stercore sumus et nos esse novimus, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:04, archived)
# this is the embarkation rainbow
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:09, archived)
# Plus, the boat appears to be unable to disembark.
Those animals are fucked.
(I helped save b3ta! Bourbon Fox Bourbon is a moron, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:10, archived)
# what
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:11, archived)
# It's stuck on a hill!
Unless it's already beached, and animals walk backwards in the bible, I dunno.
(I helped save b3ta! Bourbon Fox Bourbon is a moron, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:13, archived)
# do you even know this story?
there's a massive flood about to happen.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:15, archived)
# Oh yeah. *belms*
It's still daft though. :P

/atheistblog
(I helped save b3ta! Bourbon Fox Bourbon is a moron, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:16, archived)
# it's not as daft as the Greek/Roman version,
they believed in spontaneous generation, see. Deucalion never had to take any animals on board, he just threw some pebbles on the ground afterwards and everything grew straight out of the swamp again, at least according to Ovid.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:21, archived)
#
not
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:23, archived)
# Huh...
I guess we have to thank them for inspiring those plastic animals you grow by putting them in water.
(I helped save b3ta! Bourbon Fox Bourbon is a moron, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:24, archived)
# yeah look up spontaneous generation,
it's well funny. I reckon the Hebrews were on the sensible side of the fence on this one.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:32, archived)
# At least if you were just taking, say, DNA samples and reconstructing the animals through accelerated growth later
You'd be in with more of a chance of storing everything on a single ship. Who's the sensible one now, huh?
(I helped save b3ta! joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:39, archived)
# I don't think the Greeks ever said anything about DNA.
Maybe it's a metaphor - two by two - double helix.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:41, archived)
# You'd still need male / female samples.
Though if you worked with a selection of gametes you might just be on to something...
(I helped save b3ta! joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:47, archived)
# A massive spunkship.
(I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:50, archived)
# This one?
(I helped save b3ta! Bourbon Fox Bourbon is a moron, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:51, archived)
# Hahaha!
(I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:52, archived)
# Explains the rainbows, anyway...
(I helped save b3ta! joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:53, archived)
# hahaha
(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:58, archived)
# explains the bumming,
but I won't go there.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:00, archived)
# GAY

In a faaaabulous way
(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:00, archived)
# KEEP IT GAY! KEEP IT GAY!
KEEP IT GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!
(I helped save b3ta! Mr. Oleary MAKE MONEY FAST $$$, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 18:35, archived)
# depends which greeks you talk to
in fact the Greeks were making good headway in discrediting religion and mysticism, when Christianity came along and set us back 2000 years
(I helped save b3ta! Rebel biscuit stercore sumus et nos esse novimus, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:54, archived)
# no they weren't,
they gave us Aristotle, who held science back for 2000 years.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:06, archived)
# They were closer to the truth than anything Jesus or the roman catholic church came up with
Epicurus, Euclidean Geometry, Archimedes?
(I helped save b3ta! Rebel biscuit stercore sumus et nos esse novimus, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:14, archived)
# Geometry is hardly a religious matter,
as for Epicurus, yeah I'll give him points for his philosophy of science, but it hardly "discredits religion and mysticism".
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:20, archived)
# I quite liked his recipe
for pickles
(I helped save b3ta! Skotzmun Blah blah secret passage blah blah diamonds., Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:28, archived)
# the point is that the culture fostered in ancient greece came up with these ideas
as opposed to the culture the catholic church presided over, under which people were burned at the stake for not believing that bread actually turned into christ in your stomach during the eucharist
(I helped save b3ta! Rebel biscuit stercore sumus et nos esse novimus, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:30, archived)
# I'm not going to stick up for the Catholic church,
but I will point out that the "shoulders of giants" that Newton spoke of may well have been the mediaeval Muslim scientists who made enormous advances in the field of optics, amongst others, apparently because of a Qur'anic imperative to "observe nature and learn". I'd also suggest you read up on "the Conflict Thesis".
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:35, archived)
# and whose shoulders did those muslim scientists stand on?
Aristotle/Plato, anyway if we're going to bring newton into it, i shall refer back to Euclidean Geometry
(I helped save b3ta! Rebel biscuit stercore sumus et nos esse novimus, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:40, archived)
# Not denying that,
not saying anything about Euclidean Geometry either, because it's irrelevant. But let's come back to Epicurus again and see how it relates to what we started with here in the first place. If you are going to go by his philosophy and get your theories by observation of the natural world, well, there was no evidence for the spontaneous generation theory of the Greeks, and really quite a lot for the common Hebrew knowledge that animals only ever come from other animals of the same species. This is why I give the Hebrews the points in this particular game.

There were people in the Enlightenment who liked to ascribe Greek primacy to everything, but it was often just Eurocentric prejudice. A lot of good maths and science originated in Babylon, because they needed it to do their astrology. They were also heavily influenced by the Egyptians and the Phoenicians.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:54, archived)
# so euclidean geometry is irrelevant, but the stuff originating from babylon is relevant?
obviously the Greeks got things wrong, but they got other things right and they did so by keeping an open mind, one which was shut by the ignorance of religion.
(I helped save b3ta! Rebel biscuit stercore sumus et nos esse novimus, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 18:20, archived)
# it's not really relevant to religion, no.
It's good to have an open mind, maybe if you had one you'd see that this doctrine of yours (or did you uncritically receive it from that Dawkins chap?) that religion is the same thing as ignorance was, well, ignorant.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 18:33, archived)
# well if you want to talk about my 'doctrine' i'll tell you
i actually went to sunday school untill the age of 10, basically because it was a free babysitter, my parents have no religious standing, but they never told me what to think. since the age of 10 i gradually discredited the bible and decided that instead of believing that god created the earth in seven days (etc) the earth was created over billions of years from leftover dust from a supernova. instead of beliving that humans come from some ribs and some dust we evolved from apes of millions of years. instead of believing that after death your spirit flies off (somewhere) and your reunited with dead relatives, your constituent atoms are re-distributed in the ground or in the air and continue a cycle of life that's been going for billions of years.
you want to talk about ignorance.
yes i do think preaching a book written by men 2000 years ago as scientific fact is ignorant, when all it is at best is a philosophical document on the human nature and society.
(I helped save b3ta! Rebel biscuit stercore sumus et nos esse novimus, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 19:22, archived)
# Oh Sunday School what damage you do
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 19:37, archived)
# yes hours wasted listening about super-jesus when i could of been testing my new rope swing
(I helped save b3ta! Rebel biscuit stercore sumus et nos esse novimus, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 19:42, archived)
# Actually let's let Euclid have a go afterall.
Then let's bring Einstein's General Theory of Relativity into it and throw Euclidean Geometry out the window.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 18:00, archived)
# you wouldn't have a window to throw euclid out of without euclidean geometry
i think a theory that explains the three dimensional world, without knowledge of gravitation, that still stands today is pretty good.
and the hebrews, christians or muslims contribution to this field in the intervening 2000 years is what?
(I helped save b3ta! Rebel biscuit stercore sumus et nos esse novimus, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 18:18, archived)
# I think they had windows long before Euclid.
I've already told you the Muslim contribution, they did loads of good science. As did a lot of Christians, Christianity founded a great deal of research. We also have to thank such people as William of Ockham, the 13th century Franciscan Friar who gave us that Ockham's Razor thing you atheists like to bang on about. The Muslims did so well partly because while they had read the works of Aristotle, they didn't take it as gospel truth. Then Galileo came along and proved it wrong on a few more points. I can hardly emphasize this point enough so I'll even capitalise it: ARISTOTLE'S PHYSICS COMPLETELY WRONG ABOUT EVERYTHING.

Plato did a little better, to be honest. He came up with the idea, foreign to previous generations of Greeks, of a God created the universe. He also inspired the various Gnostic sects. Unfortunately some people took his story of Atlantis a little seriously, although mostly not until the modern day I must add.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 18:28, archived)
# what i meant was the computation involved in modern architectural software
(I helped save b3ta! Rebel biscuit stercore sumus et nos esse novimus, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 18:35, archived)
# oh,
this house was built in the 1950s. I don't think they used a computer.

Euclidean Geometry - yes, great. Consequences for religion and mysticism: NIL.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 18:37, archived)
# hah, no they used pen and paper, but the same equations
so when a christian, a hebrew or a muslim makes a scientific discovery it's because of their religion and therefore of great importance, but when someone like euclid comes up with something of real significance it's irrelevant.
smacks of apologist sentiment to me.
(I helped save b3ta! Rebel biscuit stercore sumus et nos esse novimus, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 18:47, archived)
# It's irrelevant to your original assertion
that "the Greeks were making good headway in discrediting religion and mysticism". Quite a lot of the Greek philosophers were very mystical, in fact. Of course Galileo et al didn't discredit Aristotelian physics because he was a Christian, but you speak as if religious people never said anything clever at all, as if religion were opposed in principle to science, or even to thinking, and that the bounties of modernity are all ultimately creditable to the Greeks.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 18:58, archived)
# If a religious person did say something clever it would be in spite of religion not because of it
especially with an administration like the catholic church as the dominant authority
(I helped save b3ta! Rebel biscuit stercore sumus et nos esse novimus, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 19:05, archived)
# On the contrary.
Religious people have said clever things throughout the ages and not because they were any less religious than their contemporaries. Being clever and being religious are entirely orthogonal properties. And you haven't read up on the Conflict Thesis yet, have you?
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 19:09, archived)
# so you think setting out on a scientific endeavour with the viewpoint that god made everything
is in no way a hindrance?

I did the conflict thesis at university yes, shall I list a load of literature and you can tell me if you've read up on it?
(I helped save b3ta! Rebel biscuit stercore sumus et nos esse novimus, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 19:28, archived)
# no I don't think it is,
you pulled an ace out of your sleeve just there though, gaz me the bibliography and I'll look into it.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 19:37, archived)
# roger penrose - the road to reality
there's a start
(I helped save b3ta! Rebel biscuit stercore sumus et nos esse novimus, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 19:40, archived)
# wait
that doesn't appear to be about the Conflict Thesis at all.

(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 19:46, archived)
# That's quite a long career.
Early retirement not an option back then?
(I helped save b3ta! joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:15, archived)
#



...
(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:16, archived)
# And thus, Ham did sayeth unto Noah
Verily I am going to fuck this pig hard and fast, tis either that or I further tatter Japeth's ragged ringpiece.


(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:23, archived)
# The pigs are both drunk,
and everyone's watching them back down the ramp.
(I helped save b3ta! joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:26, archived)
# :)
subtle
(I helped save b3ta! Spunky McPunk not dead yet, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:15, archived)
# I've only just seen it, too
(I helped save b3ta! drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:17, archived)
# phew!
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:18, archived)
# There's not many types of animals represented there
There should be a good million or so species to have two of everything
(I helped save b3ta! drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:16, archived)
# he's just doing children's animals in this stage
the boring animals come later
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:19, archived)
# That took me too long
... far, far too long. Nice!
(Deadly Octopus no deaths since, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:18, archived)
# Me too.
(I helped save b3ta! P-MONKE We're all fucked, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:14, archived)
# Pfffft
with the millions of different species of beetles in the world, Noah must have spent a lot of his time on his knees, scrabbling around underneath logs and rocks...

...I also would question the wisdom of saving, say, black widow spiders or scorpions...
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:21, archived)
# it was a mistake taking the woodworm
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:22, archived)
# And he had to put the anteaters on a strict diet
(I helped save b3ta! drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:23, archived)
# hehe
(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:41, archived)
# There's more dangerous stuff in the Midrash,
apparently he had to take on board Sirens as well, and various sorts of demons. Which sounds like fun.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:26, archived)
# Wot about the dinosaurs?
Oh no, they were killed by the flood and instantly fossilised by the sedimentation on its retreat. Sorry.
(I helped save b3ta! joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:43, archived)
# I don't know if the Midrash mentions dinosaurs,
in theory they should have been taken on board as well though if they were still around. Which they weren't, obviously.

There's an interesting mention of the reason why apes resemble humans so much, apparently Adam and Eve were far more spectacular creatures to begin with, and were some 200m tall as well—it's only because of the Fall that they came to resemble the beasts.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:47, archived)
# Does it take into account the Nephillim?
You know, the "giants" who were the product of angels fucking human women, which were supposedly wiped out in the flood...then turn up again a few books later anyway...
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:49, archived)
# I believe this is something to do with Og of Bashan,
I don't remember off the top of my head.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:51, archived)
# According to the Baptists
these and all the other bad guys were utterly destroyed by God during the flood, rather than just drowned, hence the lack of humanoid remains in strata contemporary with all the fossils of extinct beasts.
(I helped save b3ta! joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:00, archived)
# Yet they make a comeback in Numbers 13:33
which is set after the flood...
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:24, archived)
# I like your use of the word "set"
(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:27, archived)
# it appears to mean "Fallen Ones,"
there are various early writings about what they actually were, "offspring of angels and humans" being one theory, the other that they were entirely human and that "sons of God" oughtn't be taken literally. The Roman Catholic Church maintains the latter view, I think.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:31, archived)
# Well if "son of God" is a generic, non-literal term
what's all the fuss about this Jesus fella?
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:34, archived)
# exactly!
well it does mean something special, in Judaism, it means "a righteous person".
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:37, archived)
#
あらゆるまっすぐ大学トウモロコシであるそれによって吸収される
(I helped save b3ta! drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:22, archived)
# did you forget to switch to your comedy account?
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:24, archived)
# It's not mine
I like to delude myself that I'm funnier than that
(I helped save b3ta! drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:26, archived)
# hahaha
just checking
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:26, archived)
# I happy translate this scripts
(I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:54, archived)
# There are no mistakes.
(I helped save b3ta! atomic A-bomb-a-nation, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:22, archived)
# no fatcat
(I helped save b3ta! Elvis impersonator, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:53, archived)
# Very snekeh
Although those unicorns look like they were drawn by Escher...which one's in front?
(I helped save b3ta! Extinct Jesus Dossier "...I think it counteracts Hitler's magic...", Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:24, archived)
# they are spooning
Noah wasn't to know
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:25, archived)
# Looks like a rainbow flavoured sausagefest
(cenaris Is dividing 3 by waffle, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:26, archived)
# It's funny because Noah is saving a bull African Elephant
and a cow Indian Elephant.
And the two bears are of different species leading to infertile offspring.
(I helped save b3ta! joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:31, archived)
# maybe speciation happened later.
presumably it happened at some point.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:40, archived)
# clearly this is every species on the planet.
;D
(I helped save b3ta! theoriginalsteve <this space intentionally left blank>, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:32, archived)
# Yes, roughly 18 MILLION different animals are on this shitty little boat. XD
(I helped save b3ta! Bourbon Fox Bourbon is a moron, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:39, archived)
# And WHERE are the dinosaurs??
(I helped save b3ta! drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:41, archived)
# Fashionably late, I'll wager

and fashionably dead
(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:43, archived)
# And the Pokemon?!
You know the hardcore bible bashers reckon dinosaur fossils were put there by God to test our faith.

Fucking LOL.
(I helped save b3ta! Bourbon Fox Bourbon is a moron, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:44, archived)
# I've heard comedians say that,
I've never heard an actual Christian say that.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:48, archived)
# There's a difference?

;)™
(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:01, archived)
# yeah comedians are funny on purpose.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:02, archived)
# Creationist have used this argument
and also that it was the devil who buried them. I think more current creationist hokum is that dinosaurs existed, just much more recently than scientists say as they were clearly created on the same day as all the other land animals.

I'm not entirely sure what they think happened to them.

(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:11, archived)
# They also talk a lot of bollocks about Behemoth and Leviathan.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:21, archived)
# The polar bears had quite a walk to get there,
the penguins must have started out very early.
(I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:47, archived)
# No such thing. Scientists put fossils in the ground to trick us, apparently.
(I helped save b3ta! theoriginalsteve <this space intentionally left blank>, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:50, archived)
# It's described as rather bigger than is depicted there,
it's supposed to be about 450 feet long.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:43, archived)
# That's still really not big enough.
You would need a boat the size of Wales (maybe even bigger) to house that many animals, and with durable enclosures, food supplies, etc.

(I helped save b3ta! Bourbon Fox Bourbon is a moron, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:48, archived)
# I don't know I heard the entire world human population could fit on the Isle of Wight.
Standing room only, mind you.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:49, archived)
# What about freshwater fish?
the fucker would have to be more than half aquarium...
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:50, archived)
#
www.b3ta.com/board/10583494
(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:58, archived)
# Picking holes in old testament stories
is akin to criticising plot flaws in the tale of the Brothers Grimme
(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:50, archived)
# This is how bored I am.
I should get back to making this Daft Punk helmet soon.
(I helped save b3ta! Bourbon Fox Bourbon is a moron, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:52, archived)
# picking holes in new testament stories
is significantly more fun
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:54, archived)
# It's like shooting fish in a tupperware box.
(I helped save b3ta! Bourbon Fox Bourbon is a moron, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:56, archived)
# it's like not understanding any of it on purpose
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:01, archived)
# What is there to understand?
Other than a group of people got together, wrote a few stories to explain what science couldn't at that time, and everyone got wet over it?

And yes I am a bit cranky today. XD
(I helped save b3ta! Bourbon Fox Bourbon is a moron, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:12, archived)
# it's not really anything to do with science,
especially not the New Testament. Most of it isn't even stories.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:23, archived)
# Not understanding it on purpose is the Christians' job
(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:16, archived)
# Hahahaha, very true
along with dismissing large parts of it as "metaphorical" because, for example, it would be inconvenient to sell all your possessions and give the money away to the poor
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:19, archived)
# There's not much in it for me
The new testament is more Hans Christian Andersson

see what I did there?
(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:17, archived)
# eh, I just like pointing out to Christians that most of the time they're disregarding Jesus's specific instructions
though apparently he often spoke, and acted, metaphorically - presumably with a nod and a wink to Matthew, Mark, Luke or whoever had the notepad on that particular day...
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:23, archived)
# Stop taking everything so literally!
It's a METAPHORICAL boat to house metaphorical animals
Everything's code for flying saucers and aliens etc
(I helped save b3ta! drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:53, archived)
# Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
Sorry, I sneezed just now.
(I helped save b3ta! Bourbon Fox Bourbon is a moron, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:55, archived)
#
sneezed was gargling jelly
(I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:10, archived)
# Good call. :)
(I helped save b3ta! Bourbon Fox Bourbon is a moron, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:17, archived)
# ! SRLY?
It might need to be 450km long.
(I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:49, archived)
# This building
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Bartholomew%27s_Church,_Brighton

is supposedly exactly the same dimensions as the Ark as given in the Bible. It's certainly impressive, if nothing else.
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:53, archived)
# Beautiful design in brickwork, a sort of early pixellation.
(I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:57, archived)
# Looks like a prison...
(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:14, archived)
# This is just a head-on view of the bridge of the vessel resting on the ground.
It's actually a long, narrow hover-ship extending several miles into the distance over the water.

Either that or that black gloom inside disguises the fact that it's just a process of cell extraction for cloning and the bodies are being dumped in the sea behind.
(I helped save b3ta! joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:52, archived)
# Ok, so the animals would have to stand shoulder to shoulder. I'm sure I remember he was at sea for over 100 days - where the hell would he keep all the food for the animals?
And that is aside from all the other logistical flaws in the plot line.

Someone really should have proof-read the bible before they published it.
(I helped save b3ta! theoriginalsteve <this space intentionally left blank>, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:54, archived)
# Why bother to check that it makes sense
when the credulous will just lap it up anyway?
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:56, archived)
# Why check and point out the flaws? Because the credulous either try to push that crap onto others, use it to influence public opinion leading to terrible consequences, or use it as an excuse to go blow themselves up taking innocents with them...
:P
(I helped save b3ta! theoriginalsteve <this space intentionally left blank>, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:59, archived)
# whatever,
I just wouldn't want to go and watch a zombie movie with you people.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:05, archived)
# But the producers don't usually insist that Zombie movies are infallible documentaries of real events, so I take them as a bit of fun
*shrugs*
(I helped save b3ta! theoriginalsteve <this space intentionally left blank>, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:11, archived)
# One can only imagine what the producers of the bible would say to all this.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:26, archived)
# If you knew the story of the Manna it might explain it.

(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:56, archived)
# Oh yeah, and there was this miraculous food from heaven, but we just didn't bother to mention it this time
not like that other time, when it was a miracle and a really big deal and all that
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:00, archived)
# conveniently,
you don't have to poo when you eat Manna. Which would certainly have been a boon in this case.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:03, archived)
# That's got to be painful
when you do go back onto solids.
(I helped save b3ta! joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:13, archived)
# I gather there were complaints.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:15, archived)
# a magic fungus given to the people by God from the sky?
Uh-huh. 9 out of 10 tigers can't tell the difference between Manna™ and the leading brand of real meat
It's GREEEEAAAAAT!
(I helped save b3ta! theoriginalsteve <this space intentionally left blank>, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:02, archived)
# Manna is actually a holy form of Frosties.
(I helped save b3ta! joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:19, archived)
# I remember someone telling me how he had to shovel tons and tons of shit over the side on a daily basis
but never realised he was going round and round in circles until this massive mound of crap broke the surface in the middle of the vast ocean.

Then three and a half thousand years later, along comes Columbus and sticks a flag in it...
(I helped save b3ta! joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:04, archived)
# Hahhaha! There may be no picture, but I'm *clicking* this!
(I helped save b3ta! theoriginalsteve <this space intentionally left blank>, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:06, archived)
# Several replicas have been built
This one was made 1/2 scale
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UddT1RXpqtQ&feature=related

also a full size replica in hong kong
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSXd1CiH6cE
(I helped save b3ta! CanonCaliber A big bore, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:07, archived)
# Hahaha
Also Noah was a cunt, otherwise why have we got wasps?
(I helped save b3ta! edjogs Collared doves are shit., Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:05, archived)
# wasps can fly
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:26, archived)
# Yes but only so far and
they can't swim.
(I helped save b3ta! edjogs Collared doves are shit., Wed 26 Oct 2011, 18:00, archived)
# his wife was allergic to wasp stings
he was trying to get rid of her on the sly
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:46, archived)
# b-b-b-b-b-but....
where are all the pokemon?
(I helped save b3ta! Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:25, archived)
# is this the new batman game, Ark 'Em Animal Asylum?
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:39, archived)