Questions for creationists.?

First, you are mixing a lot here. Noah came a good bit after creation. Genesis is the beginning, but not all of it is creation. That would be the first seven days. I take those to be "god days".

We all want to know where we came from. We have a better understanding today but we still don't understand the root. Big Bang, where did the singularity come from that banged. If it was parallel planes bumping what created them. Multiverse has the same problem.

We have a much more advanced story and yet at its fundamental core, just as empty. Either everything always was and always will be or nothing became everything. We really don't know.

Now as far as creationists are concerned, it's pretty clear that the world is older than 6000 years.

As far as Noah is concerned, I find it improbable that he had ad pranced warning of an ensuing flood. There have been many huge floods in mans history and prehistory. This story is a regurgitation of Gilgamesh. We are probably looking at an allegorical tale of the flood when the Bosporus was breached or when the Great Lakes drained into the Atlantic.

Anyway, at best, he would have been a guy that had a big boat for some reason and was able to gather up his family and some of his flock. The story grew over time. It doesn't mean that it's without merit.

Personally, I find just reading words and thought from thousands of years ago amazing. If I write something that interesting that it is remembered thousands of years later, I will consider myself actualized.

You can bust your head most all of your life on that one. There are a few things that just don't make any sense. And that is one that only makes sense if you consider it to be a myth or fable and or both. Then of course we can rock back and forth all day over that one. In fact we have been rocking back and forth for more than just a few days. Ever since we got an education and were taught to think that myth has been rocking our boat and still it does no more than just that. Maybe whoever wrote it wanted us to be confused and sort of dazed by what appears to be more of a psychological sideswipe where the reaction to such nonsense was the object of the whole story. My reaction to it? Confusion. Just the strokes my little heart needed to go out and come up with a bit more of an understanding of it. Enough to still know that it makes no sense any part of it but it does make us think about it. Why? What sense is there in having humans try to understand that and work it out? What good would that do. Back a thousand years ago I guess it created a solidarity between people where the confusion was their own way of bonding with each other. It worked and bonded a whole civilization in holy bondage and perhaps that was why it was written that way.

Lecturing an adult creationist is inviting a dialogue with the deaf.

Not a single sensible statement that you care to make is going to penetrate into the consciousness of someone with that mindset.

It would be good thing, oif more people understood the workings of *cognitive dissonance*. It is found in the thinking of every one of us. When an individual forms a firm opinion about some matter, is is C.D. that makes him ***blind and deaf*** to alternative viewpoints.

If a Republican is completely convinced that Geo. W. Bush was a wise and thoughtful president, who rates among the finest men to have ever occupied the White House, there is absolutely no sense in pointing out to him the many failures of his two-term presidency, since his brain will shut off anything that contradicts his established beliefs.

Creationists are absolutely and completely in error, and there are a myriad of objections to their dim-witted convictions, but their brains will not allow any of these to penetrate.

To put it more crudely, trying to get a creationist to listen to reason is like pissing into the wind.

There is plenty of evidence for a global flood however many choose to ignore or deny it because it does not fit in with their evolutionary ideas.To stretch a day into something else then 24 hours or even to a very long age is absurd.I believe that before the great flood the world was basically one large continent and may have had a billion or more in total population.I believe that at that time travel,communication and transportation as well as technology may have been at a very advanced level.

Noah's Ark: A mythological story not based on reality. The reality of the FACTS as to what Noah would have to do is shown at: http://ncse.com/cej/4/1/impossible-voyage-noahs-ar... After you read this analysis, you will see why the story is not to be believed, not just on one fact, but on thousands of logistical and factual inconsistencies with reality. Any person who accepts the story of Noah and a worldwide flood as truth, and considers themselves a critical thinker, will change their mind after looking at the details of what it would take to produce such a situation today.

In addition, Creationists will tell you the 8 people on the Ark had enough time in only a few thousands of years to repopulate the earth and contribute to its diversity. Actually, that's also a myth as careful reliance on molecular biology and population genetics shows how absurd that hypothesis actually is. http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/postmonth/2009_...

God was not clever enough to use the big bang, evolution and science as his tools then?

The Pope, Catholic Church, Church of England and mainstream churches all accept the big bang and evolution!

Lord Carey the former Archbishop of Canterbury put it rather well – “Creationism is the fruit of a fundamentalist approach to scripture, ignoring scholarship and critical learning, and confusing different understandings of truth”!

Nice that Christians and atheists can agree and laugh together even if it is at fundie expense!

But behind the laughter is the despair at the fundamentalists striving so hard to destroy Christianity by turning it from a religion to an ideology!

First of all, I'm not a creationist, not even of an Abrahamic religion. ow that I have that across, you should check out this web site... http://mystery-babylon.org/index.html They really open up to the possible meanings of the old writings. In it are stories of Cain, stories of Noah, information about the "giants" and even how scripture could be telling us there have been other worlds previously destroyed where un-earthly beings existed.

What?!

Common sense and rational thinking offered to a creationist!

Also to wonder, how did the dove get an olive branch? All vegetation will have perished in the flood waters. All the flowering plants, trees, grasses would be extinct.

And why did sea creatures also supposedly perish in the flood? What got the ammonites and trilobites which once populated the oceans in their trillions?

The flood story is simply preposterous.

A common mis-interpretation of Noah's flood is that it covered the entire earth. It didn't. It covered Noah's "world", but that doesn't mean the entire planet. If I remember my paleontology correctly, btw, dinosaur fossils are found in only certain strata, and are not scattered through many layers. For me, the study of evolution is an exercise in reverse engineering, finding out the processes by which God created life on this world.

Even humans developed different races from the son of Noah.the survived animals did the same process of evolution.during the time of noah after the great flood, lands and continents are intact and that situaation allowed the remaining animals to travel in any direction.plants survived the great floods so there is no problem why they are still existing today.