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[–]samisbond 13 points14 points ago

Sometimes people take the most tame of verses because the rest are too outlandish.

How about Genesis 6:2 when YHWH's divine entourage comes down and mates with the human women to produce semi-divine giants.

[–]mbrodge 3 points4 points ago

Did you know that the sky is blue because there's water above it? Or at least there was before the Great Flood (according to bible literalists.)

God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.” 1:7God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse, and it was so. 1:8God called the expanse sky. There was evening and there was morning, a second day.

[–]yarmulke 1 point2 points ago

Technically, isn't that true? With water vapor and whatnot in the air. Also, the density of the atmosphere causing the refraction of light making it blue. So in a way... It's a childish way of explaining the science behind the color of the sky.

[–]samisbond 3 points4 points ago

I don't know if technically is the right word. They believed the sky was literally liquid water that could pour out if—and eventually when—the windows of the great dome were opened.1


|1 H. W. Attridge, ed., The HarperCollins Study Bible, (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2006), p. 5. annotation to 1:6-8.

[–]megabiceps 0 points1 point ago

I don't think they had a word for water vapor, so it would just be water. If vapor was not a word then it would be described as water.

[–]samisbond 0 points1 point ago*

The Hebrew word translated as dome or expanse is רָקִיעַ (raqiya`) however, meaning solid or "hammered out."1


|1 H. W. Attridge, ed., The HarperCollins Study Bible, (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2006), p. 5, annotation to 1:6-8.

[–]shikitohno 8 points9 points ago

I feel upset that before laughing, my first reaction was to think, "There's no way he's that far in and still in Genesis. That's got to be Numbers at least."

[–]brnitschke 5 points6 points ago

Simple; Vin Diesel reads really fast.

[–]lubak 8 points9 points ago

Fast and furious

[–]adam_antichrist 0 points1 point ago

He read so much he eventually went insane, and is laughing because he is now pretty much as crazy as this guy

[–]The_Painted_Man 9 points10 points ago

DO NOT LAUGH AT GENESIS. PHIL COLLINS WAS AWESOME.

[–]ShredDurst 1 point2 points ago

Key word: WAS.

[–]fnljstce 1 point2 points ago

*is

[–]The_Painted_Man 2 points3 points ago*

thankyou.

[–]bananaraptor 2 points3 points ago

The other day I was talking to my mom on the phone about politics and somehow she managed to go into great detail about the story of Jonah and the whale as if it happened last week and she'd been there. A. I've heard it before. B. Facepalm.

[–]samisbond 3 points4 points ago

The Hebrew also only says big fish, not a whale (which also isn't a fish.)

[–]bananaraptor 4 points5 points ago

Assuming that the story is true, yes it would make more sense if it were a fish. However, it would be just as believable to me if it was told as the story of Jonah and the magical underwater giraffe.

[–]theShiftlessest 4 points5 points ago

I'm curious why it makes more sense as a fish.

[–]5lbCockSlap 1 point2 points ago

[–]squigs 1 point2 points ago

But the Bible isn't intended as an accurate taxonomy. I imagine most cultures until quite recently would have considered anything with fins that lives in the sea to be a fish.

[–]samisbond 2 points3 points ago*

Indeed. Although, considering Leviathan and the sea monsters mentioned in Genesis and throughout the Hebrew Bible I also would not be surprised if the Hebrews did indeed imagine a great fish-like monster of the sea (although the word for sea monster in Hebrew is different than fish.)I suppose a lot of it can be little more than speculation at this point. I would presume they were indeed speaking simply of a whale if they didn't imagine such creatures of the sea—which I also cannot tell if based off of real sea animals or active imaginations. The ancients were crazy.

[–]Ninjagirlinlove 2 points3 points ago

A discussion with my father led to him preposing that the 'fish' was actually a submarine. Apparently, because God was wise beyond our years, he could invent such technology way before it's time. Honestly, as crazy as it sounds, all religion sounds equally crazy to me. As far as a rebuttal to that: I got nothin'.

[–]WholeWideWorld 2 points3 points ago

There are an estimated 8.7million non-bacterial species on earth. Lets be very conservative and assume 6.5million are on land (as estimated by scientists!). Lets be even more conservative (stupidly so) and assume that each of these needs only 1cm2 of space (poor elephants) with no space in between and lets totally disregard the fact that Noah had two pairs of each animal. If my math checks out, the Ark would need to have had 65km2 (40.4m2 ) of floor space to house everyone. (based on my insanely conservative estimates)

[–]HenkieH 4 points5 points ago

But God works in mysterious ways!

[–]englabenny 1 point2 points ago

65 square kilometers equals 25 square miles because one square mile is 1.61*1.61 = 2.59 square kilometers.

So to convert km² to miles² just divide by (1.61 km/mile)²

[–]WholeWideWorld 0 points1 point ago

Oops. thanks.

[–]IkeDeez 4 points5 points ago

MEME THAT HEATHEN http://imgur.com/7cd0s

[–]HenkieH 2 points3 points ago

The best part: 6:16 A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above;

God tells Noah to make one small window (18 inches square) for ventilation.

[–]Rfk55 2 points3 points ago

To be fair, if the ark was a flying saucer and the animals were dematerialized and stored on a hard drive, they wouldn't need much ventilation.

[–]W00ster 2 points3 points ago

More magic in the bible than in the Harry Potter series!

[–]WanderingSpaceHopper 2 points3 points ago

It's possible because magic.

[–]wwusirius 0 points1 point ago

"It's bigger on the inside!"

Obviously Noah was a Time Lord.

Edit: Just scrolled down, Late to the party as usual.

[–]Dr_Dippy 2 points3 points ago

But he couldn't fit the dinosaurs so thats why they all died

[–]LogicalLarynx 1 point2 points ago

Maybe the book of genesis actually depicts the terraforming of earth (the creation story) coupled with the moving of all animals from a seperate planet that was over-flowed with water (noah's ark)?

[–]sagarp 1 point2 points ago

this would make a great book/movie

[–]LogicalLarynx 0 points1 point ago

You, sir, get an upvote.

[–]Rfk55 1 point2 points ago

Wouldn't paleontologists notice it if a whole bunch of highly evolved species showed up out of thin air with no earlier fossil remains bearing any resemblance to them at all?

Granted, the creatures might be modified to resemble existing species, and they might have planted fossils to trick future scientists, and it's not impossible that every scientist on earth is part of a massive conspiracy to cover up mankinds extraterrestrial origins, but still...

[–]LogicalLarynx 2 points3 points ago

Can't a guy make a stupid, unfounded remark anywhere now-a-days? #r/atheismlurkerproblems.

[–]m1zaru 0 points1 point ago

[–]Bamont 1 point2 points ago

I liked the part where God created plants before sunlight.

[–]Vibster 1 point2 points ago

Despite the amalgam fillings, this man has excellent teeth.

[–]Merk2 1 point2 points ago

It wasn't Noah. It was the Doctor. Just think about it: the TARDIS is bigger on the inside, after all... Just sayin

[–]Wikmeister 1 point2 points ago

I find the story of Noah's ark the most unbelievable of all. I mean I only recently realised that Christians think that earths population started at two, then rose to a few million, then dropped back to just noahs family before rising again to the few billion we have now. And all without evidence of incest (except in Norfolk)

[–]sandmanMike 0 points1 point ago

It's bigger on the inside :)

[–]adam_antichrist 1 point2 points ago

noah built a tardis

[–]sandmanMike 1 point2 points ago

My thoughts exactly... and the instructions for it are in the bible, time to get building!

[–]madelinerose7 0 points1 point ago

All I can think about is if this picture had "HAHA!/RELIGION!" as text.

[–]watermoccasin 0 points1 point ago

Well no, it makes perfect sense, there were only like a dozen back then that had to fit in that boat and since then they've evolved into the millions of varieties we have today.

[–]genzahg 0 points1 point ago

I was hoping for a 69 joke, but was left with only disappointment.

[–]adam_antichrist 0 points1 point ago

the old blokes that wrote the bible thought there was only about 12 species of animal. That's what happens when you decide that you know everything before you know anything.

[–]mimus09 0 points1 point ago

Nobody seems to care about the fact a man lived to the age of 600? When in history did life switch up and only go to 65-100? Is it because we revolutionized human actions? Is it our own fault? If we would have forgotten science and just lived as the bible says would we have lived for hundreds of years? Or is is all just bullshit?

[–]giant_enemy_spycrab 0 points1 point ago

Obviously, Noah was a time lord.

[–]nthensome 0 points1 point ago

Does it actually say he was 600?

[–]frankristin 1 point2 points ago

yeah...it does...moses was said to live to about 900 years old too. it's....ridiculous.

[–]lejugg 0 points1 point ago

love his face

[–]redbeardo 0 points1 point ago

No you don't understand! Creation science says that he put on a few animals and they naturally adapted to their environment! EVOLUTION IS A LIE.

/this is actually written on a display in the Creation Science museum in Kentucky. I was trying to convince some friends to not go there. I told them it actually taught evolution. The fundie replied, "oh, if it teaches anything like that, we will just ignore it" Hope that works out for you.

[–]thaencyder 0 points1 point ago

You have to give credit to the original sc-fi writers, the guys who wrote the Bible. Highly creative I must say.

[–]culdraug -1 points0 points ago

Old Testament... more like LOL'd Testament! amirite?

[–]popwarrior -2 points-1 points ago

Taking the bible literally.

You guys are just as bad as the 1,000s of other religious sects that take an interpretation of the bible.

[–]xXArisenXx 3 points4 points ago

Haha, yeah, because the Noah's ark story wasn't meant to be taken literally! It was intended as a metaphor for ummmmmmmmmmmm.........

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