re: Ark Encounter in Kentucky (mostly not travel-related)

I am willing to believe that Noah did his best to save breeding pairs of the animals he knew about- like livestock and shite. The text we read has been through multiple translations, and it is more than possible that whatever words God used in his instructions were understood not to include things like insects and microbes... maybe even reptiles. This straw man atheists erect, where Noah is out there chasing down and sexing examples of, IDK, drosophila melanogaster, is a figment of their own imaginations IMO.

Modern man can't agree about something that happened 50 years ago with the moon landing or 22 years ago with 9/11 attacks. What makes anybody believe we are going to agree about something that is that ancient ?

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A high school classmate believed the earth was only 10k yrs old and Dinosaurs weren't real. It was part of his church teachings. Is that a real thing?

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The southern baptist church I grew up in 100% and very seriously preached that the Earth was only around 6k yrs old, and no more than 10k years at the most.

They also taught that dinosaurs were never real and that all fossils were placed in the Earth by God to create the illusion of time, in order to help us build stronger faith or something like that

They also campaigned for the youth in the church that when we had to answer questions about things like evolution on our science tests to write out to the side how we didn't actually believe in evolution but were only answering the questions how the class taught so that it wouldn't hurt our grade.

This was in the early 2000s

To busy getting plowed at the local distillers.

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This straw man atheists erect, where Noah is out there chasing down and sexing examples of, IDK, drosophila melanogaster, is a figment of their own imaginations IMO.

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I’m pretty sure it’s fundamentalists that are building that strawman.

Although I do love the idea of atheists building the ark encounter as some next level trolling satire.

I went to the Ark Encounter a while back and found it pretty interesting. The key point you are missing is they arent claiming this is exactly how the ark/animals/dinosaurs worked, but they set out to prove that it was possible to do everything that was described in the Bible. And to demonstrate some possible scenarios. They also show evidence found all over the world of tropical vegetation and a world wide flood that would support the flood story. And possibly even the remains of a ship the exact specifications of the ark in the exact location the Bible describes.

I believe it and you can make fun of it if you want, but you cannot disprove it. I will also tell you some of my other even crazier beliefs about a virgin having a son who walks on water, performs miracles, and even rose from the dead on the 3rd day.

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but you cannot disprove it.

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I believe that a transdimensional org named Brian carried all the animals of the world in a large basket while the earth was completely engulfed in Vaseline. Sounds crazy, but you cannot disprove it.

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Or, you can pretend that you can keep them away from everything you disagree with. And when they grow up they'll be easily influenced this way and that because they have zero ability to think for themselves since you did it for them their whole lives.

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Absolutely..teach your child how to think...not what to think.

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I agree. But some take it very literally. And those people vote.

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And of late have rallied around a man who is the antithesis of everything the Book stands for…

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Well if you're gonna make fun of it at least get the facts straight. Noah was 600 when the flood occurred making him around 500 when he started building the ark.

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I missed the part where these are “facts”.