 laceym says: If continual and arbitrary violations of physical law are invoked at every turn, any chain of events, no matter how ridiculous or impossible, can be allowed. But the sheer number of miracles that would be needed gives some idea of just how implausible the flood story is. Nevertheless, there are a significant number of theists who believe this silly story really happened and want to see it adopted into the scientific canon and taught in public schools as fact. Yet most of these people, I'd wager, want this only because they have been told by their trusted religious authorities that this story is true and have never thought through its implications for themselves. To theists who fit this description, I suggest you take a closer look at the story of Noah's flood and all it entails, and then ask yourselves: Do you really believe that? You know, I've always been the most confused by the water. (An issue touched on in the linked lecture). I was raised to believe that the flood refers to an actual catastrophic event linked to the rupturing of the Bosporus and the creation of the Black Sea which dispersed ancient Mesopotamian populations. (My mother was an archaeologist.) I didn't realize how literally a lot of Christians took the story until I got to High School. So imagine how confusing this all was for me, having taken for granted the conservation of water on Earth. I mean, where did it all the extra water come from? And where did it go? I presume at the time of writing everyone assumed it just drained off of the flat... Isn't really easier to view "God" as a metaphor for, say, that which man cannot understand prove or disprove, rather than as a literal being of divine and explicit force who it seems demands wars in his name, one way or another? Myth requires no internal logic or consistency, only an appeal to powerful emotional signpost/reactions. |
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