All of us are familiar with the story. Logistically, we know gathering two of each animal would be a close to impossible undertaking (space and time frame). Great thinkers alike representing those from different religions, scientific views, etc. say that humans possessed vast amounts of technology...and then we lost it and it has taken us thousands of years to start regaining it. The bible is a book of metaphors and I am not reducing its religious significance. Considering what has been laid before you...bark your answers!!!
2007-02-20 19:30:40 · 11 answers · asked by Patrick the Carpathian, CaFO 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
enjoy the convoluted answer and you know who you are...hint, hint (long and tortuous) meant to spawn interesting conversation and doesn't reflect personal beliefs
2007-02-20 20:00:14 · update #1
Interesting thought. Highly unlikely but interesting nonetheless.
Personally, I think the story of Noah is somewhat truthful in that there was a great flood (as is defined in the story of GILGMESH as well) and that someone did try to save a bunch of animals and such but I think like every other story ever told it got bigger and bigger and so on and so on. Do a test say something in someone's ear and tell them to pass it on to 20 people and have that 20th person tell it back to you, you would be amazed what comes out.
2007-02-20 20:03:32 · answer #1 · answered by CelticFairy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People are just using their imagination when they are coming up with this, some of it might be base on real world events but people pass it down via oral tradition and the details get changed. The Noah flood story is base of the epic of Gilgamesh. Sometimes people just need to accept the story is just a story. People make up stories all the time, that's why we have fiction. It's called imagination, and Noah's ark being a DNA bank is just stretching it too much.
2016-05-24 01:19:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the bible is full of metephors, specifically revelations is a big one, however, the bible is full of truth and facts too, specifically the whole thing. i'm just crazy enough to believe that God could have arranged all the animals to go on the arc (not necessarily only 2 of everything like we heard in sunday school when we were 8). however, God could have and did organize all of the animals on the arc. i take the OT the same way as i do the NT that the things actually happened.
2007-02-20 19:37:07 · answer #3 · answered by Yee Haw 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I see no reason to think so. The tale is a re-hash of an earlier tale, also fictitious, and since nobody at the time had the slightest inkling about DNA, to suppose the idea to be a metaphor for such is more than a bit of a stretch.
2007-02-20 19:35:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I like the theory... I hadn't thought of that before...
I think much in the bible is metaphorical because of ancient man's lack of ability to understand science and technology.
But I am also a believer in intelligent design and this would certainly be a chip off that block...
2007-02-20 19:50:45 · answer #5 · answered by j_mang 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
What you are doing is called _postdiction_, claiming after the fact that "well, this means A, that means B, etc., so it must be true!"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postdiction
No theist has _ever_ made an accurate and proven prediction in history. There is more likelihood of _me_ making an accurate predicition than the buybull. For example:
"On Friday at 12:00EST, George Bush will go on a 30 minute cocaine binge and wind up launching nuclear weapons on Iran."
Let's compare my _prediction_ with your _postdiction_:
When is the claim made?
Me: Before it happens, anticipating future events.
You: After something happened, twisting words to fit facts.
What facts are contained in the statements:
Me: Bush is a known cokehead, the US has nukes and Chicken George has threatened to use them, plus proven US plans to invade Iran.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6376639.stm
You: None. No proof or evidence of any "god", "flood" or "ark" exists, and evolution better explains animal diversity.
What is the possibility of it coming true:
Me: Probable. Chicken George has already shown himself to be a sociopath, gleefully killing 150 people on death row, including his infamous, "Don't hurt me!" squeal and laugh just before signing Karla Faye Tucker's death warrant. And then top that off with another 600,000 Iraqi corpses, he's already one of the worst mass murderers in history. It's not much of an escalation for him to murder 10 million Iranians.
You: None. You're desperately reaching for anything to fit in, or twist to, your mythology.
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2007-02-20 19:46:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
An interesting notion, not sure I think it has anywhere to go, but interesting. I shall watch the answers on this one.
2007-02-20 19:38:40 · answer #7 · answered by Huggles-the-wise 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Uh...
Why don't write a book about that? You can call it "The Noah Code."
2007-02-20 19:34:45 · answer #8 · answered by NONAME 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
noahs ark is a childrens story, like santa
2007-02-20 19:35:24 · answer #9 · answered by Bad Church Lady 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
are you the bastard child of Erich von Daniken?
2007-02-20 19:52:22 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋