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Titanic vs. Noah’s Ark (i.imgur.com)

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[–]inmatarian 11 points12 points ago

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17400 birds
12000 reptiles
9000 mammals
5000 amphibians
2000000 insects
8 People
enough food and water for a year

Hrm, if I run the numbers...

8 people, 3 meals a day, 365 days a year.
1.9 birds per person per meal
1.3 reptiles
1.02 mammals
0.5 amphibians
228 insects

Checks out. Noah's family were eating good.

[–]dbell 6 points7 points ago

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Oh my God. Noah's Ark was a TARDIS. :O

[–]acusticthoughts 25 points26 points ago

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Reality vs. Mythology - Who the fuck cares anyway...

[–]Stumply 27 points28 points ago

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Yep, don't really care. This should be in r/atheism, and I unsubscribed from that subreddit for a reason.

[–]ShadyBiz 0 points1 point ago

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This. Take the circle jerky crap back to /r/atheism.

As an atheist, i find the self righteous attitude of that place more embarrasing than the most zealous religious nut.

[–]Honztastic 10 points11 points ago

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Ugh.

You know a "cubit" is not equal to a modern standard foot right?

Fucking idiot.

[–]TheJBW 1 point2 points ago

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Do you really think it matters? The myth could say "three hundred aircraft carriers in size" and it still wouldn't have enough space not to be a retardedly crazy story.

[–]Honztastic 0 points1 point ago

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But if you're going to poke out inaccuracies to make it look stupid, you shouldn't return the favor.

The guy just comes off stupid by doing it. And he can't even just be like, "Whatever, no matter what measurement it wouldn't work" because now his credibility his shot.

[–]robbytheautomaton 6 points7 points ago

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yes, wow, you've proved that a ship that actually sank is more feasible than a metaphor. Score 1 for atheism. Now all you have to do is climb to the top of Mt. Olympus and see if anyone is up there.

[–]jsmayne 2 points3 points ago

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this guy is

he must be Zeus

[–]robert_d 0 points1 point ago

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To be fair, the birds ate very little.

[–]adammcbomb[!] 2 points3 points ago

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sorry you got downvotes. i liked it.

[–]boxsteam 0 points1 point ago

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The bible says 7 of every (clean) animal. There would be far more than this.

[–]pfftYeahRight 0 points1 point ago

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Oh hi r/atheism... I didn't see you walk in. Oh what's that? A stupid argument that no one actually cares about? cool. Yeah. um, maybe the boat measurements were wrong and it was actually bigger? Ok ok ok ok calm down, jeez. Ok. Door is over there, you can go now.

[–]nathanftw123 0 points1 point ago

the titanic - four massively hench fuck off engines and shite loads of coal. the ark - no engines and no coal

[–]Ruckusnusts 0 points1 point ago

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MOM, R/ATHEISM IS LEAKING AGAIN!

[–]ColonicIrritation 0 points1 point ago

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Are you really poking holes in the logic of an ancient myth? you might as well 'debunk' the beliefs of the ancient egyptians or old norse.

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[–]pgmr185 4 points5 points ago

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If you seriously want to know, try asking over in /r/DebateAChristian. Pretty active subreddit, and they seem eager to answer questions.

[–]adaminc 1 point2 points ago

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I don't believe it happened the way it did in the book, but I have no doubts that something like it happened.

Taken in a literal context from the day, there are only so many difference species of animals in the middle east, and it doesn't include every animal in the world. There is also evidence of massing flooding in the middle east multiple times throughout the last 10,000 years.

It is easy to see how a story of a farmer who built a boat to carry his family and some of his live stock, and how a story like that can be skewed over the decades, centuries and millennium, like the game Broken Telephone (aka Chinese Whispers).

Also, I'm not religious, or spiritual.

[–]robbytheautomaton -1 points0 points ago

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Wow, are you this fucking dumb? I'm not Christian but Jesus Christ - it's not fucking literal. I went to 12 years of Catholic school, so I know exactly what at least one Christian religion teaches. It's a metaphor. It's also worth mentioning that nearly every world religion has a flood story. Maybe we have moved past the need to explain our world metaphorically, especially when there are people that are a) unlike you, and dense enough to believe that the flood literally happened and b) people like you, who can't understand that someone can have a more sophisticated set of beliefs than the caricature of Christianity the retards in /r/atheism propagate. And this coming from someone who doesn't believe in religion of god.

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