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Atheists & Agnostics

laconicsax

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5. That's true, but I said when he built the ark.

Reply to Act_of_Reparation (Reply #4)

Mon May 28, 2012, 06:32 PM

May 2012

Genesis is completely silent on when he started the ark and animal rustling. I think it makes the story a bit more plausible if it took him a hundred years to build the giant boat and gather every animal.

At least, that's how I'd embellish the story if I were telling it.

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

Yeah. Shadowflash May 2012 #1

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

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

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