re: Noah's ark (Till)
Aubrey Matthews (paubrey@CASTLES.COM)
Thu, 16 Jan 1997 11:40:33 -0800
Till wrote:
> In other words, I
>would have the advantage of standing on the shoulders of all shipbuilders
>who preceded me, but Noah had no shoulders to stand on. He was beginning
>from a scratch. In other words, to believe the ark story, one has to
>believe that the greatest wooden ship ever built was the first one that was
>built. This would be comparable to Henry Ford going into his workshop and
>making not a Model T but a 1997 Lincoln. How did Noah know how to construct
>a boat that would withstand the stresses of shearing, hogging, pitching, and
>yawing in turbulent waters? Aubrey, of course, would say, "Well, God could
>have taken care of all those problems." In other words, Aubrey has no
>explanation, and in his latest postings we are seeing him resort to the
>just-one-more-miracle quibble. Such evasions do nothing to explain the
>problems in the Bible.
Whose shoulders did the ancient Egytians have when they built that 420' long
boat? In fact, who shoulders did they stand on when they built the Pyramides?
Aubrey
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