On Thu, 18 Mar 1999 16:33:20 -0800, Anthony Buckland
<buckland at direct.ca> wrote:
> Dave wrote:
> > On Mon, 15 Mar 1999 06:02:26 GMT, levin.32 at osu.edu (Mikhail Levin)
> > wrote:
> > >>Consider also that the Ancient Chinese have on their pottery symbols
> > >>depicting the Ark of Noah and eight people aboard the Ark. ...
> > Interesting.
> > Can anyone explain the racial divergence of humanity in such a short
> > time, let alone the tiny genetic pool of Noah and his family. I don't
> > even want to think about incest and the bibles texts relating to that.
>> That's four times the breeding population any other
> macroscopic land animal got left with. You can have
> a lot of fun with taking the Flood myth literally,
> such as accomodating two of each species of elephant,
> big cat, hippo, rhinoceros together with their feed
> (presumably the predators went vegetarian briefly)
> and the many less spectacular large animals, all
> those varieties of gazelles and cattle and horses
> and zebras and yaks and llamas and sheep and deer
> and ... on a boat of the specified dimensions.
Obviously, Noah was a Time Lord and the ark was really his TARDIS. A
Dimensional Stabilizer, a little time travel, some creative cloning,
and voila! ...It still doesn't work.
Oh well.
-- Tukla
atheist #1347
Director, EAC Animoid Shocktroop Division (a.k.a. the Rat Patrol)
