>> ^ghark:

>> ^Samaelsmith:
One inconsistency he should have pointed out was if there were only two of each animal, wouldn't that mean the extinction of whatever it was he decided to sacrifice?

He took several family members on board didn't he? Maybe it was a human sacrifice. Either that or he sacrificed a hermaphroditic species such as a flatworm. Also in the picture of the sacrifice it looks like he has a good fire going, I'm wondering how in the hell he managed to light a fire after everything had been underwater for several months. Also, where did the water drain off to? A magical plug-hole in the sky?


You are SOOO ignorant. Obviously the water fell out the sides of the planet into space, since earth is flat! The only thing keeping the water so high for so long was the magic powers of god.

>> ^Samaelsmith:

One inconsistency he should have pointed out was if there were only two of each animal, wouldn't that mean the extinction of whatever it was he decided to sacrifice?


He took several family members on board didn't he? Maybe it was a human sacrifice. Either that or he sacrificed a hermaphroditic species such as a flatworm. Also in the picture of the sacrifice it looks like he has a good fire going, I'm wondering how in the hell he managed to light a fire after everything had been underwater for several months. Also, where did the water drain off to? A magical plug-hole in the sky?

In reference to what i am getting from this thread is there is no God and this is all just one big cosmic coincidence? Now how much belief does that take?

2 points here, firstly, How much belief it takes? well, to me, its not really a matter of belief or "faith", its a matter of evidence. Scientists have studied the universe for a long time and concluded, based on EVIDENCE, that the universe is expanding at an exponential rate. By comparing stars at various distances, we can look back in time, literally, and see how the early universe looked and behaved. Which brings me to point number 2: "cosmic accident" is a gross oversimplification of our current understanding of the universe.

We have deduced, based on evidence that the early universe was much denser and hotter and simpler than it is now. Brian Cox used a snowflake as a metaphor, this old, "frozen" universe is complex and interesting, where as the early universe, like a melted snowflake, would just be a dense , hot gass of sorts, ultimately with only hydrogen in it. As Carl Sagan said: This (meaning us humans, earth and every living creature on it) is what you get when you give Hydrogen atoms 14 billion years to evolve.

Right now, our Sun with its immense gravitational pressure fuses 700 million tons of hydrogen into 695 million tons of helium, EVERY SECOND. 5 Million tons of pure energy is released, equaling something like 200 million Hiroshima bombs EVERY SECOND. Yet these extreme numbers are peanuts compared to the events that shaped our universe. Our sun simply isnt powerful enough to fuse helium and create heavier elements. For that, we need bigger "Weapons of Cosmic Destruction Creation" Supernovae, red giants, galactic collisions and supermassive black holes, nebulae and gas clouds beyond all imaginations. From cosmic events like this, all the ingredients we take for granted here on earth, (like carbon etc) were originally created. Again when talking about grand stuff like this that I know little about, it is best to qoute Carl Sagan again:

We are the Stuff Of Stars.

I love that quote because it is literally true.

So thats the "accident" before life arose. The exact chemical reactions that gave rise to the first self-replicating molecule is not fully understood, but once that first barrier was crossed (achieving high-fidelity replication) Evolution by natural selection is INEVITABLE.It still took a good 2 billion years before cells start grouping into multi-cellular organisms, but when that revolution happened, we went from flatworm to primates in a measly 700 million years.

That account of the Cosmic accident is a far to brief, incomplete and rough draft of what happened, of course, I only mean to point out that this isnt some mad scientists guesswork. The processes and events above have been predicted, discovered, tested and examined and calculated and peer-reviewed and-- you get the point. They are our current best shot at understanding the universe, based on the available evidence. Naturally, much is left to discover, and thats what makes science interesting.

That reminds me. I have to start a playlist .. "Bizarre Glowing Penis Battles".


edit .. I had to change it to just "Penis Battles" after finding this.

^You're not too far off, syncron. Someone else posted a video of a parasitic worm discovered during a colonoscopy:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Colonoscopy-Intestinal-Worm-Rodeo

But this is a different parasite, and hopefully a different colon.
I am so tired of them pulling flatworms out of my ass.