Atheist Comedy - The Great Flood

The logistics of Noah's Ark. People actually believe this story.
rottenseedsays...

>> ^imstellar28:
I'll agree. Its so dumb its not even worth arguing against. I'll give an upvote for some points I hadn't heard before though.
>> ^rottenseed:
Arguing this is like arguing that there wasn't an old woman who lived in a shoe


Oh I agree. There were some awesome points and it was entertaining, I was just saying it seems like such a stupid thing that somebody has to argue that this didn't happen.

thinker247says...

What size shoe are we talking about? Or what size woman? I'm sure you could fit a midget into Shaquille O'Neal's shoe.

There was an old midget
who lived in Shaq's shoe
She had so many joint problems
she didn't know what to do
So she killed herself.

>> ^rottenseed:
Arguing this is like arguing that there wasn't an old woman who lived in a shoe

rychansays...

Nice sift, but the reasoning about the air pressure and air temperature is wrong. The amount of atmosphere will stay the same regardless of how much sea level rises or falls. Ok, it will get stretched out over a very slightly larger area, but it's not like the flood water is replacing atmosphere, it's just forcing it higher.

If the flood weren't global, but somehow localized, then the reasoning would be correct -- the water would lift the boat above most of the atmosphere. But I'm pretty sure the legend is a global flood.

Nithernsays...

Some of you might not recall when the flood waters really flooded much of the American Midwest back in the 80's. As far as the eye could see, and then beyond, there was no ground to see. While the structures build in the 80's were of better material, built with modern know how, some did get destroyed. The point is, that you could still see some structures and such after the floor water receeded. Back in Noah's time, most buildings were built poorly with crappy materials. So when the flood water came, those things were simply demolished.

Unlike the fundie Christians believe, I doubt it was a global flood, but a large scale localized flood. Kinda of like the one from the 80's in Midwest America. But even at that time, the population of the Earth stood at 6 billion. So the flood wiped out a few thousand. That wasn't even a speed bump to the population growth at the time to be noticed.

Finally, this really is an attack on another religion. While poking fun at another religion can be fun, it also has its coneequences. Since, if your an atheist, and think this is funny, you can not, therefore, get mad or upset if a Christian makes jokes of Atheists. Otherwise, your just a hypocrit.

mentalitysays...

>> ^Nithern:
Finally, this really is an attack on another religion. While poking fun at another religion can be fun, it also has its coneequences. Since, if your an atheist, and think this is funny, you can not, therefore, get mad or upset if a Christian makes jokes of Atheists. Otherwise, your just a hypocrit.


I don't think most atheists get mad when Christians make jokes. It's when fundie Christians pervert and distort science and logic to support things like intelligent design, as in the case of the banana man, that it becomes infuriating.

jwraysays...

Yeah, the effect on sea level air pressure would be negligible if the sea level rose 30,000 feet, because air pressure is basically the weight of the air above you, and increasing the elevation of the surface equally everywhere on earth would displace the air so that you still have about the same amount of air above you when you're standing on the surface. The ratio of the pressures would be the inverse of the ratio of the surface areas (using a sphere at sea level as an approximation), so increasing the sea level by 30,000 feet would only increase the radius by 1/700th, so the pressure would drop by about 0.3%. A better question is where the fuck would all that water come from, and where would it go after the flood. If it's literal, the author didn't understand where rain comes from, where it goes when it evaporates, and that the earth is fairly isolated in space.

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