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In reply to the discussion: Creation Science at its best [View all]muriel_volestrangler
(101,146 posts)What level of detail do you want to go into?
"The evidence that it sounds wrong?...How rational is that? "
Very rational. why do you ask?
".the art of storytelling has never been where people just make shit up"
No, sometimes people make shit up. Like continents that don't exist, or time travel, or miracles.
"it is mostly based on real events. "
"Real events" meaning "mostly featuring humans", perhaps. But if you want that 'mostly' to mean something significant, then clarify the number of stories you've examined, and the level of detail you went into to determine if they were 'real events' or not.
"And you are wrong...the story is in every culture...on every continent. "
No. What, for instance, is 'the same story' in Celtic or Norse myth?
The myth does not just have Noah thinking his family is the only one left. It has God specifically telling him he will kill all the other humans and land animals, before it happens, because God doesn't like them (well, he doesn't like the people, but is happy to kill the animals with them).
"But where the watter came from is an interesting one indeed"
No, it's not. Because it's obvious to anyone who paid attention in school that it requires the miraculous creation of far greater amounts of water than the Earth has ever had, or the instantaneous moving of continents downwards by miles. I suggest you learn some basic mathematics before you ever pretend again that methane hydrates could cause anything that can be seen as a worldwide flood, as opposed to a tsunami that affects one coast (and which coast are you claiming could have been affected in that way, that then gave rise to a flood myth in the Jordan valley where the Genesis stories appeared?)
The thing is, you can point out how actual floods happen, and say "maybe the story relates to that", but the story is explicitly about wiping out everything not on the ark, and about all land being covered with water in all directions for scores of days. It bears no more relation to reality than me saying "I once knew a man a hundred feet tall!" and then excusing this as 'based on reality' by saying "some people are taller than others".
"how does it make you feel if some one ridicules you?"
It makes me feel like I need to learn something. How does it make you feel?
"presented your case with no ridicule of theirs" That has, of course, been done over hundreds of years, and the idiots still have not learnt. Instead, they indoctrinate children to ignore reality, and believe what is written in one book. So we laugh at them too.
"could you learn from them?"
No. They are idiots who refuse to look at reality, because they have been brought up to be ignorant, and proud of it. They think it's a virtue to believe a book when it flies in the face of reality.