Thye bible gives specific dimensions for the ark; it is 151,140 ft sq. split into three levels (gen 6:14-15) (do the math and remember that a cubit is the length from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger, defined today as 18-22". I used 22 just to be extra fair.) On the boat were 8 people(6:18), two of every animal (6:19) plus "seven pairs of all clean animals...and a pair of the animals that are not clean...and seven pairs of the birds of the air also" (7:2-3), and "every kind of food that is eaten" (6:21). On this ark they spent one year, one month and ten days (7:11/8:13-14). It took Noah less than one hundred years to build the massive ship (5:32/7:6), and he was 601 when they exited the ark (8:13). He died at the age of 950 (9:29), or 951 (8:13/9:28) if you ignore the shoddy math of 9:29. Doesn't this strike anyone else as impossible?
Aren't there any Jews/Christians out there who have actually read this book? There are more contradictions, but I'm almost out of ch
2007-03-25
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