Noah's Ark - A Tippling Philosopher

From the Fall to the Flood: How not to fix a problem you created

The Fall is a thoroughly problematic theological mechanism at the best of times. But if you combine it with other terrible concepts and events, it looks even more incoherent. Most understandings of God entail an OmniGod conception: God is all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-loving. All-knowing or omniscience also includes divine foreknowledge—

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Noah's flood is a heinous story

There are a number of events that take place in the Bible that Christians don’t really evaluate carefully enough. The Ten Plagues of Egypt constitute one of these stories and another one is Noah’s flood. There are many problems with the story of Noah’s flood that render

Biblical Exegesis

Chiasms, Multiple Sources, Armstrong, and Chasms in Rationality

Welcome to another episode of "Brandolini's Law Exemplified", your friendly programming that has to put in all the effort where others don't. I wrote an article on the issues with the Genesis flood account that did three things: 1) it showed how it was

Biblical Exegesis

Debunking the Genesis Flood I

I can't believe I'm going to have to do this, but it will hopefully be useful to some people. I am going to run through the gamut of arguments in the hope that someone like Catholic apologist Dave Armstrong recognises the terminal problems associated with a

biblical contradictions

Ruddy Flood Thing Again. And Armstrong.

Dave Armstrong has supposedly refuted my refutation to his refutation of my claim that the Noah's flood myth is a good example of the multiple sources of the Pentateuch evidenced by both redundancies through repetition and contradictions. Just to let you know, my position is wholesale accepted by

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Armstrong, the Genesis Flood Contradictions and Multiple Sources

Oh, David Armstrong. David, David David. I will try to be as cordial as possible here but please excuse me if I let off some rhetorical steam at times. I recently posted a piece on the documentary hypothesis as exemplified by the Genesis account of the flood, although I should

Biblical Exegesis

The Flood Myth Contradictions Explained by the Documentary Hypothesis

I am knee-deep in a bunch of research, and some of it every technical, all surrounding dating of the Pentateuch and concerning the Documentary Hypothesis. For those uninitiated, the Pentateuch contains some irreconcilable issues that fall into four categories: repetition (redundancy), contradictions, discontinuity, terminology and style. There is only one

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God Is a Consequentialist. The Theist's Defence: God Is Not Moral (I)

I have written an essay that can be found variously on this site called "God Is a Consequentialist" in which I set out that God is a moral consequentialist. Some of which I will now set out or paraphrase before looking at the defence William Lane Craig and

Biblical Exegesis

Why Noah's Flood Is Utter Nonsense

I figure that, today, I will return to something a little more regular in terms of critically analysing religious claims. Let us look at Noah's Flood. I have long maintained that this is a ridiculous story at even the most superficial of analyses. The theology behind the flight

Biblical Exegesis

God Hates His Own Designed Creations: Animals

God appears to really hate non-human animals. Which is an odd thing considering he designed and created them. We know that he hated animals because he pretty much told us so and acted with utmost contempt for their existence. Let me remind you of the famous case of Noah'

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Noah's Ark

Noah's Ark Owners Sue Over Rain Damage

Oh, sweet irony. You couldn't make this up. However, this is not fake news... The owner of the life-size replica of Noah’s Ark in Northern Kentucky has sued its insurers for refusing to cover, of all things … rain damage. Ark Encounter, which unveiled the 510-foot-long model in

Creationism

Quote of the Day for Hilarity: Theodore Turner on the Flood

Theodore James Turner has been commenting at length on my pieces concerning the Exodus. One could mistake many of his comments for good counter-argumentation - they are long and exclusively quote from someone called Gerard Gertoux, whom he puts a lot of store in. Turner places an awful lot of

Biblical Exegesis

Noah's Ark and Its Problems

Yes, as mentioned before, the Noah's Flood story is a complete mess. Here, NonStampCollector shows just how problematic it is, as a coherent account. Enjoy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_BzWUuZN5w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLr5vl-n0Bo

archaeology

For the 945,276th Time, Noah's Ark Has Been Found!

Yes! It must be true! And it certainly must be true because it can be found in the Sun. And brilliantly, it quotes The Express, the world's most hateful newspaper. The Express explains: Ark investigators believe they have found traces of a wooden structure on Mount Ararat, also

Biblical Exegesis

Noah's Crane, Noah's Propane...

The whole project renders the historicity utterly ridiculous. This meme is all you need to see.

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A Review of The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the story of the flood (Guest Post by Peter)

It’s been known since the 19th century that there are striking parallels between the Ark story contained in the Bible and a narrative episode included in the Mesopotamian story of the Epic of King Gilgamesh. In Gilgamesh, a hero Utnapishti is tasked with saving both human and animal life from a dest

Biblical Exegesis

Maher trashes Noah('s Ark)

Genius http://youtu.be/ld_tg4W7Hf8

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The Water and the Flood

OK, so most people of neutral, skeptical or commonsensical persuasion understand that the global flood claims of Genesis are nonsense. Yet the meme still persists amongst literalists and fundamentalists. I love GearHeadEd's comment over on DC. It shows that that much water is truly a ridiculous conc

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The Ark before Noah

There has been a number of articles on this due, perhaps, to a Channel 4 Documentary on this due to be shown in August (that's a long way off!). It seems that instructions for the Ark in the Bible were lifted from an earlier source (which is no surprise since the flood account is lifted from the Gil