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- From: sandvik@newton.apple.com (Kent Sandvik)
- Subject: Re: Voyagers on the Ark of Noah
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:48:57 GMT
- References: <C0MF7z.DDE@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> <1993Jan12.202852.12010@anasazi.com> <1993Jan25.122107.1@woods.ulowell.edu> <2B6440E8.29518@ics.uci.edu> <1993Jan26.114045.1@woods.ulowell.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan26.114045.1@woods.ulowell.edu>, cotera@woods.ulowell.edu
- wrote:
- > I'm not sure of the problem here. My house is over 100 years old and it hasn't
- > decayed. With regards to gathering the animals, as I recall the animals came
- > to him.
-
- Well, we have a cottage by the sea that is totally damaged after 20 years.
- And
- what does that show us really,
-
- > You're not going to like this answer. What was the point of having Noah build
- > the ark? Wasn't it to preserve man and the animals? So wouldn't it make sense
- > if God made sure the ark was sea-worthy?
-
- If God is that powerful, he would not use such archaic methods to preserve
- animals...
- If he was capable of creating Earth, I'm sure he would be able to preserve
- animals
- in a statis for 40 days easily.
-
- The more you read the Flood mythology, you will realize that it was written
- by
- people that lived many, many years ago, and that their ideas of saving
- animals
- were reflected by their culture, not by Godlike ideas.
-
- Kent
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