Noah's Ark, a few reasons why it didn't happen.

Hello everyone. The past few days I have been seeing a lot of posts about this Ark that opened in Kentucky by the creationist Ken Ham. Let me define what a "creationist" believes.

This is a person that believes the literal words of the story of Genesis. They believe that God (Abrahamic usually) created everything. In the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) God created everything in six days and took the seventh for rest. Thy also believe he created the trees and animals and then Adam and Eve at the same time if you follow Genesis 1 however if you follow Genesis 2 then he created Adam first then the trees and animals and then Eve was created sometime later. Hmmm...which to believe? Neither. Then after the talking snake an apple and banishment Adam and Eve had two sons named Cain and Abel. Cain kills Abel and is banished from the Lord. He now settles in the town Nod, finds a wife and gets married. Where did she come from? Was she created as well? Was she his sister? Neither answer is good for this story.

Anyway after many years (remember somehow humans lived for hundreds and hundreds of years back then, 4-5k years ago). God has gotten irritated with humans. He then decided to kill literally every human in the world by drowning them. However he decided to keep one family alive. A family led by a man named Noah. Noah had three sons who had a wife each. God tells Noah to build a boat and take two of every animal on Earth onto the boat because he was gonna get rid of the wicked by drowning everyone. After this all the animals returned to where they came from and Noah and his family re-populated the Earth. Now that being said their are some that go a little deeper in the spectrum of ignorance. These people believe the Earth is 6-10k years old. They base this by adding the ages of people in the bible from Nebuchadnezzar back to Adam. Now out of the 48% of people that believe the literal interpretation of the bibles creation myth only 18% believe the Earth is that young.

There are numerous flood myths in human history. The Epic of Atrahasis is the oldest known myth.
Atrahasis was a Sumerian King of Shuruppak before the flood. The first tablet of the epic is a creation story, explaining the origin of human kind. The goddess Mami creates humanity out of clay to do the work that lesser gods refuse to do. Tablet two deals with overpopulation, as Enlil uses alternating periods of drought and famine to reduce the population and keep it under control. Enlil eventually decided to destroy humanity with a flood. Tablet three has the account of the flood which was likely adapted for The Epic of Gilgamesh. In it, Enki, the god of water, warns Atrahasis of the impending flood. Enki tells Atrahasis that he must tear down his home and build a boat. One that is of multiple decks and of a great size. When the boat is complete he boards the boat with his family and animals. The storm begins a floods for seven days. At the end Atrahasis sacrifices a goat to the gods. Now, this story is roughly about 1100 years older than the Genesis story. How many times does God need to flood the Earth to get rid of everyone? How come Noah didn't know about these other flood myths? I'll tell you why.

The author/authors of Genesis merely plagiarized from The Epic of Atrahasis or The Epic of Gilgamesh or a combination of the two. There are flood myths from every section of the world. They mostly all have deities and are a story of some kind of divine retribution. Now how do we know what really happened in these myths? Evidence of actual floods in these regions found by Archaeologists and Geologists. The geologic record shows them these floods that actually happened. However there is no evidence of a global flood.

So, let's get down to breaking down why scientifically and logically why this story didn't happen. First we start with Noah being 600 years old. We as biological creatures simply do not live that long. The average life expectancy 4,800 years ago was 26 years old. Not 750. Today with our modern medicine it has tripled to 78 years old. No where near the claimed 600 years that Noah was when he was tasked to build such a creation.

Secondly let's look at building a ship like this. The Ark was claimed to be 450 ft foot long, 75 ft wide and 45 ft high. That would require about 400 trees. The Genesis story was written in Israel. The picture below. How many trees do you see? I don't see any. Not one at all. Definitely not the 400+ Noah would have needed.

Now another issue with Noah building the Ark was that the only people he had for help was his three sons and their wives. None have any boat building experience, yet they are able to do what modern ship builders couldn't. Creationists have said that Noah had about 98 years to build this Ark. Seeing how he was already 500 years old what's another 98?

Next let's discuss the issue of the animals. The story tells us that two of each animal traveled to the Ark by foot. There are about 7.75 million different species of animal on Earth. This isn't counting the dinosaurs that Ken Hams creationist church (its called a museum, but it's not a museum) claims were also on the Ark. So, they are claiming that they fit 15.5 million animals in a 33,750 sq ft boat. That would mean the animals had 0.0021 ft of livable space or 459 animals per sq ft. I don't see how that's possible but hey what do I know? Now let's look at food consumption. Let's just say you needed an average of 1000 lbs of food for each animal that would be seven billion seven hundred and fifty million lbs of food alone. This isn't including water. 

Now one of the largest wooden ships ever built was the Wyoming. Built in the early 1900s it had a load carrying capacity of about 6,000,000 lbs. Just six million lbs. How could the Ark built by eight people with zero ship building experience achieve a payload capacity 1300 times more than the Wyoming? Again this isn't counting the weight of the water needed and all the animals. Another issue is the bible says that all the mountains would be underwater by a depth of 22 ft. Mt. Everest is the tallest mountain on Earth with a height of 29,029 ft above elevation. Adding 22 ft to that gives us 29,051. At this height the oxygen is at 33% of what it is at sea level. Noah and all the animals would have either frozen or suffocated to death. It just isn't possible.

Let's address how the animals arrived to the genocide barge. They are said to have walked here. To believe that you must believe that animals that are indigenous to their own countries and continents traveled across oceans (with none dying) to reach the Ark. Kangaroos had to cross the Indian Ocean to reach the Ark. Capybaras would have had to cross the Atlantic from South America to reach the Ark. This would have had to happen millions of other times. Also would have had to happen again for these animals to return to the ecosystems they came from. Ken Ham gives us an explanation for this a rather ludicrous one but an explanation all the same. He explains that the trees that were knocked down from the flood the animals used these to float back home. I am not fucking with you. Please look at the picture below. This is from his creationist museum.

The final part of this that I want you to realize is how this explains how we got here. If God killed everyone on Earth besides four men and four women then they believe that we are all descended from them. I hope you know how reproduction works. This means that Ken Ham and other creationists want us to believe that we are all products of incest. How do they explain all the different races of people if we are the descendants of eight Israelis? We would all be the same skin color. The genetic variation would be too small. Evolution by natural selection answers all these questions. We have the answer already! The religious just refuse to understand this fact because it goes against what their single book says. 

To understand evolution you must also humble yourself. The bible says that we have dominion over the other animals on Earth. Evolution teaches us the exact opposite, it teaches us that we are merely another life form on a planet with millions of others. We are no more important to this planet than a tiny floating plankton. To me this is way more gratifying than being some kind of ruler over animals. The chemicals that make me up are the same that make up the entire universe. I am not just a part of the universe it's also a part of me. This is way more grand than having a tyrannical supernatural dictator that controls every move I make. The problem with teaching our youth that this bullshit is real is that they become ignorant to the way the universe works. They are not taught truth. The reason I am able to type this on a computer online is thanks to scientists.


Jim Jeffries said it best (paraphrased)  "The Earth is like a train track and humans are the train. In the front engine room running the show are the scientists. The scientists are primarily atheists, in the second cart you have the wishy washy agnostics and then in the last cart are everyone else, the men with beards because they think they have to and hats on for no reason, women that are covered up and cowering and everyone is shouting man on a cloud, man on a cloud. This cart has so many cunts in it that we are hardly fucking moving! In the front cart the atheists and scientists are looking at this and saying, if we just pull this one peg, could you imagine how fucking fast we'd be moving!"

Please feel free to listen to the very video that made me question my religion. It is posted below.

Thanks again for reading and please feel free to post comments or questions below.

P.S. Ken Ham needed 100 million dollars, cranes, tyvex, steel, and numerous trucks and employees and guess what, it doesn't even fucking float!!!

Explanation of Luke 19:27

I am writing this today for a friend of mine. We had been discussing Luke 19:27 and he read all of Luke and wanted a little more clarification on why this verse shows that Jesus wasn't the hero Christians make him out to be, but rather just a maniacal tyrant and wannabe dictator that the god of the old testament was.

Luke 19:27 reads "But those, mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me. KJV

Now, reading that alone completely justifies that Jesus surely was a close minded, unforgiving adjudicator on matters of ruling.

But one may be confused if you read the entire chapter of Luke 19. It seems that Jesus is talking about an unnamed king. This is when you have to remember Matthew 13:36-43. After numerous requests from his followers to tell them his messages in parables he begins to by telling the the parable of The Weeds.

Matthew 13:36-43
³⁶ Then he left the crowd and went into the house. His disciples came to him and said, “Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field.”

³⁷ He answered, “The one who sowed the good seed is the Son of Man. ³⁸ The field is the world, and the good seed stands for the people of the kingdom. The weeds are the people of the evil one, ³⁹ and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels.

⁴⁰ “As the weeds are pulled up and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of the age. ⁴¹ The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil. ⁴² They will throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.⁴³ Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Whoever has ears let them hear.

This parable isn't actually talking about seeds, weeds, and harvesters. It's an allegory. He is using this story to describe what happens to evil people and what happens to the good or righteous people. The same thing happens in Luke.

Luke 19:11-27 

11 While they were listening to this, he went on to tell them a parable, because he was near Jerusalem and the people thought that the kingdom of God was going to appear at once. 

12 He said: “A man of noble birth went to a distant country to have himself appointed king and then to return. 

13 So he called ten of his servants and gave them ten minas. ‘Put this money to work,’ he said, ‘until I come back. 

14 “But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, We don’t want this man to be our king. 

15 “He was made king, however, and returned home. Then he sent for the servants to whom he had given the money, in order to find out what they had gained with it. 

16 “The first one came and said, ‘Sir, your mina has earned ten more. 

17 “‘Well done, my good servant!’ his master replied. ‘Because you have been trustworthy in a very small matter, take charge of ten cities. 

18 “The second came and said, ‘Sir, your mina has earned five more. 

19 “His master answered, ‘You take charge of five cities. 

20 “Then another servant came and said, ‘Sir, here is your mina; I have kept it laid away in a piece of cloth. 

21 I was afraid of you, because you are a hard man. You take out what you did not put in and reap what you did not sow. 

22 “His master replied, ‘I will judge you by your own words, you wicked servant! You knew, did you, that I am a hard man, taking out what I did not put in, and reaping what I did not sow? 

23 Why then didn’t you put my money on deposit, so that when I came back, I could have collected it with interest? 

24 “Then he said to those standing by, ‘Take his mina away from him and give it to the one who has ten minas. 

25 “‘Sir, they said, ‘he already has ten! 

26 “He replied, "I tell you that to everyone who has, more will be given, but as for the one who has nothing, even what they have will be taken away. 

27 But those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them—bring them here and kill them in front of me.” 

So, what does that parable mean?

First he is talking about an unnamed man of noble birth who went to a distant country to be appointed king. Noble birth (Jesus) Went to a distant country (Nazareth to Capernaum) to become king (king of all men, son of god). He then says he calls on ten servants (followers of Jesus) to take money from him. In this parable the money is considered the gospel of the lord. So, he tells them to take the money (gospel) to work (spreading the word) until he returns (end of days). He says that his subjects hated him (Jews, non believers) but he was made king anyway (crucified and rose from the dead to heaven). Then he speaks of when he returns (end of days) that he calls upon his servants to see what they had done with their money (gospel). Some of them had done very well while others did not trust him and did not invest (spread) his word. This is where that very terrible verse of slaying anyone who would not have the unnamed king (Jesus) reign over them comes into play. 

Now, let me show you what he was actually saying.

"I had a noble birth and had to travel to a distant country to gain my birthright as king. I then called upon ten of my followers to spread the word of the lord. I wanted them to spread the word to as many as they could until I returned to claim them at the end of time. At first there were many among them that did not believe I was their king and should not rule over them. I then returned to find out how many people my followers spread the word to. I was very pleased with most of them. There was still the non believers. I will not tolerate this and demand them to be brought before me and killed at my feet. 

That is roughly what is actually being said. The character of Jesus is made out to be this ultimate liberal loving person. Yet, there are man verses in the new testament that contradict this very sentiment. 

Matthew 5:17-19, 8:12, 8:21-22, 8:32,

5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. 18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. 19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. So, all the terrible commandments of the lord from the Old Testament are to be fulfilled not cast aside? Slavery, child torture and murder, rape, incest, homophobia, misogyny, banning of shellfish and pork, genocide and many other terrible things are apparently to be fulfilled by Jesus not abolished. 

8:12 But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. So, the Jewish kids should be cast out into the darkness, where they will cry and grind their teeth? How is that moral? All because these children are taught a different fairy tale?

8:21 And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. 22 But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead. The guy couldn't even go bury his father? How cruel is that? How caring is that?

8:32 And he said unto them, Go. And when they were come out, they went into the herd of swine: and, behold, the whole herd of swine ran violently down a steep place into the sea, and perished in the waters. Casting devils into a herd of pigs, making them run into a sea to their death from fear is moral and just?

These were just a few from Matthew alone. There are numerous more. I may elaborate more on this topic (maybe in a book). I just wanted to show why Luke 19:27 was such a bad verse and how it is Jesus referring to himself and not some unnamed king. Thanks for reading and post any questions below.