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Atheists & Agnostics

laconicsax

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3. It's been said...

Reply to mzteris (Reply #2)

Mon May 28, 2012, 04:24 PM

May 2012

"Religion allows people to believe by the millions what only a madman would believe in private." (Don't remember who said it, but it sounds like Hitchens.)

There are few better examples of that than a 500-year-old man building a giant boat and loading 2 or 7 of every animal on Earth on board to survive a global flood.

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Biological Diversity issues on Noah's Ark [View all] Gore1FL May 2012 OP

Yeah. Shadowflash May 2012 #1

When my son was FIVE years old mzteris May 2012 #2

It's been said... laconicsax May 2012 #3

Noah was six hundred years old at the time of flood... Act_of_Reparation May 2012 #4

That's true, but I said when he built the ark. laconicsax May 2012 #5

An interesting point, but... Act_of_Reparation May 2012 #6

It's even worse when you think about when the definition of "clean" and "unclean" came along. laconicsax May 2012 #7

I LOVE his videos sakabatou May 2012 #8

Here's a more scientific approach to Noah, another Youtube video edcantor May 2012 #9