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- From: dgt@phy.duke.edu (Dinko Eduardo Gonzalez)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: Voyagers on the Ark of Noah
- Message-ID: <9143@news.duke.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 14:57:23 GMT
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- The story of Noah's Ark is just Hebrew mythology. There are several
- other semitic peoples that had similar stories about floods and
- people building boats to save mankind + animals. The myth probably
- originates from floods of the Euphrates and the Tigris. The rest of
- the story is all fabricated and distorted, there is no way that anybody
- could store all species of animals within a wooden ship, assuming that
- such ship was ever constructed in the first place. Think about this too:
- what about plants. There is no mention of them in the Noah story, and
- they surely must have died in a flood, deprived of sunlight and
- nutrients. What about birds? Did they stay in the air during all 40
- days and nights? Give me a break! If it were up to you people, we
- would still believe that Earth is the center of the Universe.
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- Dinko Gonzalez Trotter
- dgt@phy.duke.edu
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