2007-01-09 04:49:20 · 21 answers · asked by Edward 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
wize woman:although bacteria and viruses can survive in water they can't survive very long without a host.
2007-01-09 05:06:21 · update #1
Good point. Like an innumerable amount of other implausible aspects that have been highlighted about Noah’s story, this is just another one that shows how much Genesis should be read as an allegory and not literal history or an explanation of the natural world. Unfortunately, Creationists are so hell bent on proliferating their literal belief in an inerrant word for word translation of the Bible, that they will make up excuses that would not fly in a third grade science class. For example, they will state something like God changed the laws of biology and chemistry to allow bacteria and viruses to stay on the Arc in a suspended state to where they did not require the host. Both you and I know this is an ad hoc explanation that merely begs the question, and that there is no sufficient evidence to support it. Yet in the Creationists mind, this “explanation” is quite edifying. A delusional mind that is intent on justifying a belief that will give them comfort has no regard for evidence, rationality, or intellectual honesty.
2007-01-10 11:15:43 · answer #1 · answered by Lawrence Louis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Who says they did? Usually a disease or virus will mutate from something else. Like a cancer cell is a regular cell gone bad. They didn't have to carry all the diseases on the ark. Also, any viruses that existed before the flood would still be there on the ground or in the air in a dormant form.
2007-01-17 00:03:27 · answer #2 · answered by emmiehawk 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have a valid point; however, bacteria, viruses, most microorganisms, and so on survive in the water, thus they were not endangered by the flood and did not need the protection of the Noah's arc. Thank you for asking such an interesting question.
2007-01-09 04:58:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I find it funny after reading these answers, how many creeationists believe that a virus or disease can evolve over time, but how I guess there is a difference somehow when your talking about mammals and humans. I guess only the FSM will know for sure in the end PBUH.
2007-01-09 08:15:49 · answer #4 · answered by Dylan m 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
monkeys gave us a few dieseases, bacteria can form from rotten food or rotting flesh ect.. As long as things decompose I figure there will be pestilence. It's inconceivable to think that all the different diseases we have delt with over the milleniums all have its orign from the beginning of time.
So they didn't.
2007-01-10 01:26:49 · answer #5 · answered by chris4him 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Shalom,
The story of Noah and anything in the scriptures are allegoric and not historical. If they were historical then they would be absolutely useless. Anything in the scriptures are portraying aspects of your own mind, its about the inner man and not outer man.
Peace
Aza
2007-01-09 04:53:34 · answer #6 · answered by Aza 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why is AIDS here. It wasn't here 100 of 1000 of years ago. The biochemical world we live in is in constant change and therefore new illnesses are being brought throughout the ages.
2007-01-09 10:04:16 · answer #7 · answered by James C 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
new diseases are found every day. noah did not carry any diseases that we know of. all diseases we have have been formed over time.
2007-01-09 04:53:36 · answer #8 · answered by dean 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Noah lived over 500 years, I think he had the power to do a lot of things.
2007-01-09 04:53:04 · answer #9 · answered by aSchway 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Didn't Pandora open the box and let out all of that? Besides alot of our diseases are made by agencies to make more money for drug companies. Least that's what I have always heard.
2007-01-09 04:54:29 · answer #10 · answered by Pam 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋