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Thread ID: 93943	2008-10-07 21:29:00	Noahs Ark. Where did all the water go?	Happy Harry (321)	PC World Chat

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710459	2008-10-08 07:09:00	I thought it was written by the Brothers Grimm, oh well wrong again. Catholic seems to be the way to go as you can be bad all your life and one good death bed confession and your in. I'm a confirmed atheist but do have an open mind, have read the book, quite enjoyed it as a work of fiction, have been christened (still haven't forgiven my olds for that one). Don't have kids so no choices to make there. Wife is a Christian but doesn't go to church, preach to me or anyone else just believes in her own way. We choose not to talk about it at all and it saves all the arguments and we didn't get married in church or by a priest. Don't know what that makes us guess I'm going to hell while she goes off somewhere else	gary67 (56)
710460	2008-10-08 07:13:00	I was just thinking, Do you think your uncle could highlight the passages written by god? Would make the entire "lets not go to hell" concept a whole lot easier. Just need the Pope to sign it off for us and we will be good to go. lol, sure thing. I think it will be incredibly light on that though... maybe the "in" from "in the beginning"? And then nothing after that. Although I suspect it might be a fair chunk less than that. I don't believe in god, nor do I believe that most of the stories in the bible are true. I also disagree with demonhunter more than I ever thought possible. But I don't think it's fair to fob the bible off as ridiculous just because it's not true. I don't think it was ever meant to be true, it was just meant to show ancient Jews how live better. And it did that fine. I had it explained to me that "an eye for an eye" isn't the antithesis of "turn the other cheek", but simply an earlier state of it. "An eye for an eye" simply means that instead of "a head for an eye", that justice is measured to fit the crime. Most other civilisations at the time were warlike and barbaric compared to the Jews who lived life through the bible. Also, tithing was simply an ancient system of tax. IMO, it's well redundant now that we pay the state. Most of the bible is kind of like enforced good will in that way. I realise you're taking the piss metla, I'm just saying that nobody is really in a position to be high and mighty about the other side. That goes double when it's just a flippant remark about floodwater. This thread freaking exploded.	Thebananamonkey (7741)
710461	2008-10-08 07:17:00	In that case all those Christians that took it all so seriously they went and killed all the non-believers they could find are going to look damn silly when they find out the real truth.	Metla (12)
710462	2008-10-08 07:22:00	In that case all those Christians that took it all so seriously they went and killed all the non-believers they could find are going to look damn silly when they find out the real truth. I hope so.	Thebananamonkey (7741)
710463	2008-10-08 09:02:00	I do believe that the stories in the Bible are true, but I also think that the stories were written by intelligent people who did not understand, in many cases, what was happening. They wrote about what they saw in the language that they understood. Because they did not understand, they used phrases such as, "It made the sound of thunder." Some even said it was thunder. They had no idea what they were witnessing so wrote the story using the words they knew. My father served in the RNZAF in Guadalcanal in WW2. He told me about the natives who built wooden fridges. They would open the door every so often to see if there was any food inside. The white man took food out of the fidge so why can't we? They could not understand why it did not work. They witnessed airmen talking on their radios and as a result, planes landed and disgorged all sorts of wonderful things. They built wooden radios but had no success enticing the gods. When the war ended there were no more planes and no more goodies so the natives built straw planes and placed them around the airfield in the hope that the gods flying above might think that there are some of their friends down and come down for a visit bringing goodies. These stories went into their folklore and are possibly told to the youngsters that possibly reply, "Yeah, right." While I am not suggesting that the stories in the Bible are about aliens or spacemen, I do believe that because the authors did not understand what they saw, they were unable to describe accurately what they saw. That does not mean the stories are fabricated but perhaps the descriptions of some events were written by primitive people who had no idea what they were witnessing. But so far as where all the water went - which is the original question - much of it ended up in the sea and much of it went up into the clouds. The water in a small cloud can weigh up to 550 tons - a lot of water and that is only one cloud. You may have noticed that there are a lot of clouds up there and so there must be many millions of tons of water suspended in the clouds. Have a look here: www.wsi.com	Roscoe (6288)
710464	2008-10-08 09:06:00	So there were no clouds before the great flood?, or do we just have 20 million trillion more of them now? Anyhow, My Granddad insisted the extra retreated to the poles and was frozen.....	Metla (12)
710465	2008-10-08 09:15:00	We are ALL people of faith and if you don't believe me, ask yourself this - what caused the Big Bang ? Christians believe God did it, atheists believe - aah - there was the biggest M-F'er of an explosion that created the Universe and it blew-up out of nothing? This thread is a waste of time by people who have totally unprovable views and that includes all of you. Peace, bro.:thumbs:	decibel (11645)
710466	2008-10-08 09:27:00	im on the fence about the whole thing and the only sense i can see for sure is that whether or not god or man wrote it doesnt matter. everyone can see the sense in it if they look past the complete stupidity of most of it. Ideally if everyone lived by the bible the world would function perfectly, so maybe christians are just tryin harder to do their part? athiests just ruin everyones fun, but seem to have alot of fun doin it lol	hueybot3000 (3646)
710467	2008-10-08 17:48:00	"Granted some is well intentioned, but a belief in star wars has more credibilty then some cosmic zombie and talking burning bushes and an ark with 2 of every animal aboard etc" Just a small point in case you end up on Millionaire. Genesis 7. Yahweh said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ark, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation. You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female. Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth. In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. Every living thing that I have made, I will destroy from the surface of the ground.	Neil McC (178)
710468	2008-10-08 17:57:00	"As seen on TV" as currently used to bolster otherwise un-noteworthy products is just an update on "It's in the book".	R2x1 (4628)
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