Noah and human fallibility.

[colubridae]

checked their bollocks and vages, put them on the ark and ticked them off the list.

Sorry to correct but the short form of vaginas is vags.

as in:-
"Do nuns have vags?"

I was wondering whether to write vagges, as that would be closer to how I's say it. How do you pronounce vags?

Twats

[Coito ergo sum]

We all know that God is perfect and infallible, that is obviously without question. Also, it is generally accepted by everybody that human beings are prone to making mistakes. Nobody is perfect and we all cock up from time to time - basic human error. God entrusted Noah with a very important job of ensuring every species was represented by a breeding pair (or was it seven pairs) on the ark... to ensure future survival. Noah had quite a long list, one which scientists would find quite handy nowadays if only archaeologists could find it. Imagine an exact and complete list of all species in existence. That would be cool, and very handy. Anyway, I digress. God entrusted Noah the responsibility of getting all the animals on the ark. Noah found them all, checked their bollocks and vages, put them on the ark and ticked them off the list. He did this several million times.

I'm assuming that he made quite a lot of mistakes, even with an error rate of 0.1% he must have made thousands of cock-ups. Presumably he forgot some species completely, ticked the wrong box or forgot to tick it and added the same one twice. Maybe he mis-sexed some. Maybe he misidentified some, after all he wasn't a professional biologist. God, being omniscient, obviously knew Noah had an error rate and presumably he was OK with that.... unless maybe he did thousands of mini-miracles to correct Noah's mistakes. Though if he did that, why bother using Noah's skillz at all? He might as well have just magicked them on the ark himself. Besides, the Bible doesn't say God used magic, it says he used Noah.

Does God care so little about biodiversity that he's willing for thousands of species to go extinct just because Noah forgot some? And surely he must know that such a genetic bottleneck is a dicey situation for any species to be put in?

I wonder if Noah fucked up all the dinosaurs for some reason?

Well, obviously, since 98% of all species that ever lived on Earth are now extinct, god has no problem with extinction. He seems to like it.

[colubridae]

We all know that God is perfect and infallible, that is obviously without question. Also, it is generally accepted by everybody that human beings are prone to making mistakes. Nobody is perfect and we all cock up from time to time - basic human error. God entrusted Noah with a very important job of ensuring every species was represented by a breeding pair (or was it seven pairs) on the ark... to ensure future survival. Noah had quite a long list, one which scientists would find quite handy nowadays if only archaeologists could find it. Imagine an exact and complete list of all species in existence. That would be cool, and very handy. Anyway, I digress. God entrusted Noah the responsibility of getting all the animals on the ark. Noah found them all, checked their bollocks and vages, put them on the ark and ticked them off the list. He did this several million times.

I'm assuming that he made quite a lot of mistakes, even with an error rate of 0.1% he must have made thousands of cock-ups. Presumably he forgot some species completely, ticked the wrong box or forgot to tick it and added the same one twice. Maybe he mis-sexed some. Maybe he misidentified some, after all he wasn't a professional biologist. God, being omniscient, obviously knew Noah had an error rate and presumably he was OK with that.... unless maybe he did thousands of mini-miracles to correct Noah's mistakes. Though if he did that, why bother using Noah's skillz at all? He might as well have just magicked them on the ark himself. Besides, the Bible doesn't say God used magic, it says he used Noah.

Does God care so little about biodiversity that he's willing for thousands of species to go extinct just because Noah forgot some? And surely he must know that such a genetic bottleneck is a dicey situation for any species to be put in?

I wonder if Noah fucked up all the dinosaurs for some reason?

Well, obviously, since 98% of all species that ever lived on Earth are now extinct, god has no problem with extinction. He seems to like it.

Wish he'd make himself extinct.

[Faithfree]

We're all going to have some answers real soon. They're just found the ark in Turkey! Again. Ok, so it looks like its the real one this time - pity they spend all that money building the museum next to the other one.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010 ... 884687.htm

[Deep Sea Isopod]

We're all going to have some answers real soon. They're just found the ark in Turkey! Again. Ok, so it looks like its the real one this time - pity they spend all that money building the museum next to the other one.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010 ... 884687.htm

http://www.rationalia.com/forum/viewtop ... 22&t=11629

BTW, I love the straw effect in that picture.