Forget abortion, what about Noah? — Page 2

It only feels like Arthur's been around 900 years, Reg. It feels like Bush has been President for a lot longer.

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No to Noah, duh...

LOL to the Arthur Laurents zinger..

And Sherry, honey, you can't REALLY think that, can you?

Can you blame her? She has kids to feed!

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Does it seem probable that the answers to the riddles of creation would be supplied by people too ignorant to understand the mechanics of rainfall?

Had Almight God, in all His infinite wisdom, really been afraid that men six thousand years ago would succeed in building a tower to heaven?

paraphrased from Joseph Heller's CATCH-22, you get the idea...

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Phyllis, here is how the creationists explain the age thing, or at least as I recall it:

Pre-flood, or the antediluvian years if you will, the earth's atmosphere was surrounded by a layer of water called the firmament. This protected the inhabitants from solar radiation and such, so the aging process happened much slower and people lived longer. The great flood was not really rain -- there had been no such thing as rain, which is why the people were so incredulous of Noah's task -- but the falling of the firmament to the ground. Once the firmament was gone, people were then exposed to solar radiation, thus shortening the lifespan.

Given that there's no known planet out there in our vast universe surrounded by a big old layer of water, however, I'm going to have to cry bull hockey. So my vote is no.

Gilgamesh, though? Totally happened. Word for word.

Updated On: 10/1/08 at 12:24 PM

Bill Hicks used to do a great routine about the Bible vs. dinosaurs. Believers used to tell him that God put fossils here deliberately to test our faith. He would act out God digging, saying "Now I'll see who believes in me!"

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No on Noah.

I look at the Bible as a mixture of history, philosophy and fable.

This counts as fable.

So does declaring Jesus Christ your personal lord and savior, you heathen!

MYB, when you invert the scientific method and spend your research trying to prove rather than disprove a theory, you can make anything seem true.

Example: A mathematical book I read recently showed me how I can prove Winston Churchill was a carrot.