first who said they were stone or bronze age technology.
i did. unless you want to claim that Noah had later technology, but that's not in the bible. ergo, it's most likley the technology matched the era in which the events are proprted to take place. the most advanced civilizations in the middle east (and everywhere) 6,000 years ago were at the broze age level of technology. sure, there's evidence that Minoans had astrolabes and Egyptians had gold electroplating, but absolutely no evidence of the feats of engineering corresponding to what we'd call industrial age technology.
second it wasn't just one person working on the ark it was 8.
third it wasn't that big slightly smaller than a super tanker.
ah, well, i stand corrected. i wonder how many people it takes to build an oil tanker, and how long (let alone how long it'd take wihtout modern technology and materials).
fourth dinosaurs didn't make the trip.
maybe you should tell that to Cobra; i already know that since i know the flood never happened.
fifth Noah could only save the animals from around where he lived not all over the world. of course this could change if they had any zoos in the area. I know zoos were invented by the Aztecs.
ah, that explains why there are animals in australia, the americas and antarctica today.
sixth the fast reproducers would have had a year to multiply. the slower producers would have had a year of eating preserved meats and what not.
ah, so you've got twelve days of food for a single lion, then. lions need 15 lbs. of food per day (though they usually gorge for several day's worth of food, sometimes more than 100lbs in a sitting). so two lions would have needed almost 11,000 lbs. of meat to last that first year.
as for the rabbits, yeah, Noah could have probably bred about 78,000 rabbits in the first year, and he could have continued breeding them on the Ark, and certainly they'd produce enough food for two adult lions per month. but what the heck would they be eat? how much planet material would Noah need to feed them?
of course, Noah wouldn't bring all 78,000 rabbits. if he had the benefit of revelation, he'd only bring enough to keep the lions fed. 8 adult rabbits per day is 240 a month, which could be produced by only 20 pairs of rabbits. however, Noah would face a difficult choice. the lions need 8 adult rabbits; they wouldn't survive on 240 baby rabits a month. he could give the rabbits 6 months to mature to adulthood, but that means he'd need to have over 1,400 of them on the Ark at once, and feed them all. on the other hand, a 1-month old rabbit probably has the equivalent caloric value for a lion that a tic tac has for a human, so he'd need a lot more adults making baby rabbits if he wanted to feed the babies to the lions.
and this is just the logistics of two animal species. there's a reason zoos are so big. while animals don't have that much volume, they need space around them to survive. most need a lot of food. and you'd need a lot of fairly heavy metals to keep the stronger animals contained. does the story of Noah mention god granting all the animals the ability to survive on seaweed and fish, and radically changing their behavioral dispositions?
seventh every land animal on the planet is closely related to every other land animal.
it only takes three generations to turn a wolf into a dog.
ah, so how many generations does it take to turn a wolf into a koala? a giraffe? what about a dung beatle? you can "turn a wolf into a dog" because dogs were domesticated very recently (10,000 years ago). in fact, you can breed a wolf and a dog and produce a fertile offspring, which means they aren't even separate species in the most common way of measuring it.
eighth for a book that was written by a bunch of stone age bronze age Shepard's the bible is pretty accurate with the way scientists say that the universe and solar system started.
really? i must have missed that part when God said, "let there condense a multi-ton cloud of primarily hydrogen gas into a compact, gravity-bound sphere engaged in a sustained fusion reaction." but i only read the thing twice, so it must be one of the more obscure passages.
Hindus claim the same thing about their holy texts, and some Jews still search for the exact decimal value of pi in the Torah. better a libertal interpretation than a literal one, i guess.
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Actually, there are several places that can determine eye color (OCA1 through OCA4 in the case of eye color). You are partially correct: Because of this, eye color is not simply binary. In fact, a single human can hold the genetic code for several eye colors.
indeed, i was trying to provide a simple example. i know that nearly all traits are coded by multiple genes, often into the 100s (that we've managed to identify). data compression does fun things to sequences.
i rasied the example to highlight the extreme bottleneck we'd expect to see in virtually all land animals if their populations had been as low as 2 (or 14) within the last 6,000 years (hell, the last 100,000). but we've measured the effects of a bottleneck when they've occurred.
how did marsupials end up in australia and north america, but there are none anywhere in the old world, let alone Turkey? predators? australia doesn't have any big cats or indigenous canines. maybe they were killed off by hunters in the old world? they why not in the new world, which has big felines and canines, and marsupials? i certainly can't explain that in terms of variance alone; i need to turn to geo-evolutionary history, which tells me the americas and australia were once joined with each other and anarctica and share a common historical biome; anscestral marsupials must have evolved there and diverged after the continents split.
or maybe Noah took a side-trek before landing in Turkey, and then spent his last years destroying all fossil evidence of marsupials in the world world from before the flood.
Ship construction has been known to man for a long time, and the dimensions of the Ark are similar to a barge. This was not some random person that didn't know what he was doing - the ark was apparently constructed by an expert in the field. In addition, he was not a "single guy" - he had a family, and there's nothing in the Bible saying he didn't hire more help. In addition, he had plenty of time: As long as 100 years (or more), perhaps.
early ship construction was canoes. the pacific islands were populated by way of outrigger. the most advanced ships in hellenic period were probably triremes, but they were built for sailing the calm waters of the mediterranean and the atlantic coast, and they still sank a-plenty. Chinese junks weren't developed until the second century BC.
In addition, nothing is mentioned about the maturity of the animals bought into the ark - there's nothing saying that they couldn't bring juveniles, or for that matter eggs.
evolutionary theorists like to fill in blanks too. it's said that god made the flood happen to punish man for his evil ways (gotta love that androcentric rhetoric). publicity of punishment is generally viewed a strong deterrant against further infractions of the law. so why would god, in all his infinite knowledge, leave details out of the flood story and make it less believable? any good sci fi writer will tell you that if you want people to buy something that fantastic, you can't miss the smallest detail. yes, of course, because it was written by a man who received god's revelation, not god himself. so why would god let such a man miss a few details? i mean, if god came to me tonight and said, "Thou shalt go to the store for 2% rBGH-free milk, extra large free-range eggs, and Knudsen's cottage cheese," and i wrote doesn, "milk, eggs, cheese," what do you think he'd do? brush his hands and say, "oh well, i tried hard enough for this convenant. maybe i'll make sure i'm more clearly understood next time." did he miss it completely? if they were indeed His words, i think He'd want them recorded exactly. lawmakers typically do. no, the story of the ark doesn't contain laws; it contains a punishment, which is an extension of law. but maybe god's different; as a mere mortal (who's happened to extensively study the internalization of laws and norms by human beings), i certainly wouldn't know.
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