Noahs ark could have floated, say scientists
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2595943/Did-animals-really-float-two-two-Noahs-Ark-coped-animal-claim-physicists.html
Research by scientists suggests that a structure on the scale of Noah's ark as described in the ancient text could have been built. They calculated would have been strong enough to carry two of each species.
Checkmate atheists
April 4, 2014
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Well that's cool I guess.
@UAPaladin what you said isn't any more a fact than Noah's Ark.
Scientists say you should stop believing every damn piece of info. on the internet.
[quote=SoulBlade]He brought TWO
Genesis 6:11-22
11 Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight and was full of violence. 12 God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. 13 So God said to Noah, "I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. 14 So make yourself an ark of cypress[c] wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. 15 This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.[d] 16 Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit[e] high all around.[f] Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks. 17 I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish. 18 But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark--you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you. 19 You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. 20 Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive. 21 You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them."
22 Noah did everything just as God commanded him.[/quote]
Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis7:2-3;&version=NIV
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Number_of_each_%22kind%22_on_Noah%27s_Ark
[quote=Chema]But the bible states he brought SEVEN pairs of each animal
Also inbreeding
Critical research failure at its finest[/quote]
Inbreeding can cause genetic bottlenecks, but it isn't as devastating in the animal kingdom as it is in humans.
Ouch, that's a tight fit.
[quote=Singuy]Checkmate atheists[/quote]
Are you saying I should now suddenly believe in god 'cause someone might have made a boat in the past? Still doesn't prove that there is a god.
[quote=natty2]Besides, think about this:
If every bad person was wiped during the flood, and Noah and his family were the only ones the survived, who the hell wrote it in the bible?
If someone "TOLD THEM" it happened, maybe they exaggerated?
Also, why are Adam and Eve praised as the parents of us all, while actually it is Noah and his family who are closer to be our original ancestors.[/quote]
Genesis to Deuteronomy was written by Moses.
Even in the bible we find God telling people to write things (don't ask me for the verse). The bible justifies itself with respect to "exaggeration" in 2 Timothy 3:16 were it says the bible is God-breathed.
[quote=Singuy]
Checkmate atheists[/quote]
So because a guy knew how to build a boat according to a post on the Dailymail, Atheist now lost the game?
@natty2 explain the pyramids. Explain ancient scriptures written on top of mountains.
[quote=Chema]But the bible states he brought SEVEN pairs of each animal
Also inbreeding
Critical research failure at its finest[/quote]
He brought TWO
Genesis 6:11-22
11 Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight and was full of violence. 12 God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. 13 So God said to Noah, "I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. 14 So make yourself an ark of cypress[c] wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. 15 This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.[d] 16 Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit[e] high all around.[f] Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks. 17 I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish. 18 But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark--you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you. 19 You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. 20 Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive. 21 You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them."
22 Noah did everything just as God commanded him.
Isn't Daily Mail a tabloid?
So many people don't understand that everything in the bible up to Abraham is [i]not[/i] meant to be interpreted literally. It's really annoying
[url=http://i.imgur.com/lxItgG0.jpg]no it wouldn't...but hey,[/url]
But the bible states he brought SEVEN pairs of each animal
Also inbreeding
Critical research failure at its finest
Did animals talk back then?
Well, now I'm sure a family of 4 could build a ship, during an ancient period,
while a whole crew of specialists during the middle ages build something much more stable, yet it crushed, and break.
Makes sense.
Maybe the Camels, Lions, and bugs held the ships together.
I bet the wolves were just SO excited to go on a boat ride, and NOT EAT the sheeps, and the Deers.
Oh wait, also, all plants on earth were underwated for over a few weeks? I bet it's just a normal thursday for you, chrisitans.
Besides, think about this:
If every bad person was wiped during the flood, and Noah and his family were the only ones the survived, who the hell wrote it in the bible?
If someone "TOLD THEM" it happened, maybe they exaggerated?
Also, why are Adam and Eve praised as the parents of us all, while actually it is Noah and his family who are closer to be our original ancestors.
The key word in this context here is 'could have', also if you read the whole article, they only calculated whether or not the ark could float on water, not whether or not all the animals would fit in it. All this adds up to plausibility, not cold hard fact so I'd hardly call it a check-mate.