Noah's Ark unseaworthy

Penfold101 said:

I’ll just leave this here.
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Which illustrates why it much more honest to go with the “it’s all magic” approach, rather than try and come up with some kind of pseudoscientific explanation that is going to fail to stand up to the most rudimentary scrutiny.

Bit like Lost really.

Religion and science/logic are impossible to reconcile, particularly as science demands to be tested/disproved, whereas belief stubbornly resists. I accept people want/need religion, but pseudoscientific attempts to explain religious texts just makes them look ridiculous. Keep reason and religion apart, and we can agree to disagree.
 
robcat101 said:
Which illustrates why it much more honest to go with the “it’s all magic” approach, rather than try and come up with some kind of pseudoscientific explanation that is going to fail to stand up to the most rudimentary scrutiny.
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Problem is whichever path you take runs into serious discrepancies sooner or later either with respect to reality or other parts of the Bible which depend on it being one of the other explanations - whether you try to explain it as magic/miracle, allegorical/parable or actually happening or do an Apocrypha with it and remove Noah entirely.

For instance if it was allegorical then Noah wouldn't have had those experiences which would change his behaviour.
 
Rroff said:
Problem is whichever path you take runs into serious discrepancies sooner or later either with respect to reality or other parts of the Bible which depend on it being one of the other explanations - whether you try to explain it as magic/miracle, allegorical/parable or actually happening or do an Apocrypha with it and remove Noah entirely.

For instance if it was allegorical then Noah wouldn't have had those experiences which would change his behaviour.
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Yes, it doesn’t really make any sense whichever way you cut it.

I think that for a good proportion of the population, there’s a fundamental psychological need to believe in “greater powers” and religion taps into this. If we didn’t have the traditional religions, we’d make up something else like 5G paranoia, Bill Gates anti-vax, Illuminati, lizard aliens or other superstitions/conspiracies. I don’t think we’ll ever be free of belief in the face of almost certain disproof.
 
It’s not even just ‘believing in greater powers’, I’ve read studies that attribute the attractiveness of conspiracy theories to the feeling of thinking you know or have access to knowledge that others don’t, giving that feeling of being ‘special’…
 
It also allows you to tell people to put up with thier lot as they will get rewarded later. Great way to ensure the have nots don't question why you have stuff they don't
 
I wouldn't trust that, hell now.

It's looks long and heavy, the spine of the ship can't be strong. A gentle breeze would snap it in half without a modern structure inside which is just clad in wood.
 
Looks cool as some kind of floating bar or restaurant but I wouldn't pin all hopes of mankinds survival on it.


Btw if you're silly enough to believe in God then whatever... The ark will work. It's powered and protected by divine intervention.

The ark, also a great Swedish glamrock style band, I recommend a listen on Spotify.
 
Bickaxe said:
As someone that works for the MCA, I can assure you that it is entirely justified as I had a little look into it this morning. I'm surprised it was even allowed into the country.
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I'd love to see that. The report on the Ross was eye-opening.
 
There should just be a box which says anything goes. If you get in to trouble, it gets filmed (for youtube) but no one has to risk themselves to help.
 
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