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  • Well, presumably, if God created the entire universe, he also created space-time and therefore has the innate ability to manipulate it -- entirely within the known laws of physics today.

    He could have made the interior of Noah's Ark infinitely larger on the inside than out. It's simple physics -- he could have compressed space-time within the Ark, or perhaps projected the interior into another universe or dimension, or perhaps used another method we haven't imagined yet.

    Why not?

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  • TAKE A LOOK AND SEE THIS "all the knowledge"

  • @rossini55 All questions have been hypothetical. Human experience doesn't count...so..."its only you and me and we just disagree". I, personally, have a Creator...and I can live with that. Appreciate your comment.

  • FOOD & WATER!!! Not to mention the smell, lice, mites, ticks, fleas, mold & cleaning all the pens of shit, feeding & watering all these animals! Who maned the rudder so the ship took the waves head on, the rudder would need to be huge to steer the ship and no one would be able to move it. 1 big wave and over it goes. Extinction!!! It's funny how the ship landed a few hundred miles from where it left, being at sea for a 150 days it should have landed 2,000 miles away.

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  • this vid such a total fail, even if you get past that 10 million speciies could not possible fit on the ark, you still have where did all the water, how did the penquins and polars bears and marsupian animals get there(friggin long swim lol) and why is there no geological evidence of this giant flood? and so many other things wrong with this story.

  • and what about polar bears and penquins? hw did they get tobthe middle east to get on the ark? thats one heck of a long swim lol./gthis vid i a total joke

  • ahahaha , yeh right 10 million species (not including dinosaurs) fit on one ark evern at 3 x the size of a foot ball would it fit that many animals.it cracks all this vids does is quote script, make presumtion and get quotes from creationist lol.

  • This is true, I found one of the Dinosaurs just a few weeks ago, he told me he was in the ark. I have it as a pet now.

  • haha it hadn't occured to me the obvious language problem. Everyone was speaking the same language 4000 years ago??? HA!

    And the guy saying that countless billions of animals could fit in that space is surely either joking or high. 7 of each animal, bar the unclean, of which only 2 went in. There are 5 billion different species on the planet, so even if we only counted the unclean, there would be 10 billion animals to squeeze into that space. INCLUDING DINOSAURS!!!

    LMAO!!

    

  • @Marktheshtfgenius There being so many mammals if they were put on that ship of his would need occupy 6 square inches of space for each one so that they would all fit, and thats just the Mammals. It's the little things these morons over look.

  • best laugh i had in years.

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Dinosaurs???!!!

  • So Noah supposedly hired people to help him build the ark, but didnt even let them have a ticket on his trip? And Noah was supposed to be the 'good' guy in this tawdry little tale?

  • Wouldn't it just be easier if God killed everyone and everything He wanted in the first place and avoid all the nay sayers thousands of years later?

  • unbelievable

    

  • Total shit....

  • How long did it take noah to find a quala bear that didnt eat eucaliptus,and then find another one of the opposite sex?Mabey the non bamboo eating pandas showed him.

  • @msc8472 I have two questions...1. what Bible have you read? All the translations I have read say the animals came in of their own accord(Gen. 6:19, 20 and 7:14,15) and 2. Can't you come up with your OWN stupid questions? This was in the vid...so r u just like most non-creationists who can only come up with the SAME OLD questions?

  • @pilgram713 dont tell me you believe in the bible. or the ark!..??

  • @pilgram713 Did the dinosaur eggs travel to israel of their own free will to, or did noah have to go and get those himself.

    The reason why you get asked the 'same old' questions, is cos we are still waiting for an answer. Come on, you guys have had 2,000 years to prove god, and we havent had one iota of evidence.

  • What a bunch of crap.

  • it isn't feasible. THey could have summed up this 12 minute long video with that

  • I have 2 dogs and 2 lizards at home. Do you know how much time I spend each day just taking care of them....

  • The 'what could be done then vs what can be done now' issues multiply results, too.

    Now we can hold species in a vile at a genetic level.

    Doing it now, how many arks are needed?

    Doing it then, with technology and practicalities available then, how many arks would have been needed?

  • Different levels of scenario regarding how much magic is called on would give differing estimations.

    Plant life is unaffected vs plant life is.

    Those that swimmeth in the seas are unaffected vs those that swimmeth suffer with so much freshwater compared to their usual saltwater environment, etc. Many scenarios.

    There are many results based on how much assumption of magic happens.

    What could be the minimum number of arks required under each level of magic/assumption offerings?

  • I'd like to see a proper scientific feasibility study done to work out what the minimum number of arks needed could be (based on dimensions given in scripture) to have such a scenario done successfully.

    The only magic allowed is that all animals get collected and dispersed appropriately, and that that much water arrives over two months and disappears again. And all plant life is unaffected.

    If we had to do it today, what would/could be the minimum number of arks required?

  • Even if the egg-laying things only were only represented by their eggs to cut down on space, food, ablution concerns, etc. the dimensions given in the Bible can't even cope with that amount of eggs, let alone consider things that aren't egg-layers.

    'Let's just have their eggs' would be a big space saver call. There's no mention of that common sense option in the scriptures, despite the Ark still being way too small with this consideration if it only concerned itself with the egg-layers.

  • stupid

  • Excuses, excuses, excuses. I hear very little facts and more speculation than anything here. God could destroy the earth, yet he did not help Noah build the boat. Why did he not just kill those that pissed him off, why the flood? The more I hear the less I believe.

  • When factoring in both the Bible and science, it is obvious that the global flood view is illogical in so many ways. This young-earth-creationist video is a failure.

  • possible to build with the ship building technology and material available during those times. The ark was reported to have landed on the mount Ararat in turkey. If the flood is global, where did all that water came from and were did it all went after the flood?

  • continental shift, allowing the water to fill the empty spaces. if you shrink the earth roughly 22% you will find the continents fit perfectly together.

  • @gerillius2012 You do not make sense at all. Continental shift takes millions of years to happen. Shrink the earth 22%. How in hell do you do that? You are blatantly ignorant just like all those young earth creationist.

  • This is the classic fail of young earth creationists untenable defense of the bible particularly the story of Noah's flood and the Ark. They need to add loo many lies in the story to make it plausible, like the dinosaurs exist during those times, complete lie. The bible narrates the story that an ark be build and simply ignores shipbuilding and construction consideration. A vessel made of gopher wood and sealed with pitch of the dimensions (158.7 length by 26.45 breath by 15.57 Height is not

  • This representation of a rectangular, "boxy" shaped Ark is completely FALSE. Though, I do believe it was real. GO to the ArkEncounter website for more info.

    But mostly, I am grateful that the Bible doesn't need the approval of arrogant atheists to be true...

  • @ElenarMT No it needs solid tangible facts to be true. It needs to constantly reinforced by science rather than constantly undermined by it. But yeah, dinosaurs on the Ark.

  • ...'the koala will eat food sprayed with eucalyptus oil".

    Where did they get the eucalyptus oil from?

    Was it extracted from eucalyptus leaves or was it a synthetically formulated?

    This video is proof of how religion is a form of brainwashing, I'm afraid.

  • Look at, above silly picture, Challenge. Find any ship designed with a flat Bottom designed for ocean conditions....flat bottom boats are designed for inland barges and bay boats and skiffs for shallow calm water and low draft conditions , flat bottoms sit on top of the water which makes them prone to capsizing in storm conditions, in 30 foot sea's it would be like being in a washing machine at sea.....

  • The hell with all the stupidity of creationist , look at the above picture of the Ark now google marine engineering secondary stability.For those who are to lazy...Secondary stability is what keeps you from capsizing. A wide flat bottomed ship would have extreme primary stability. Almost no tip at all. But at some point, and especially in rough conditions, flat ships WILL capsize and will do so without warning. This is why most good ships avoid flat bottomed designs.

  • Morons should be banned from posting on youtube. Noah and dinosaurs...idiots

  • oops typo... Man did not exist during the time "of" the dinosaur.

  • NO, NO DINOSAURS WHERE ON THE ARK! Man didn't exist during the time as the dinosaur.

  • You know what, I will grant for the sake of argument the world is only 6000 years old, and I will even grant you that flood and that the arch are real. DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HO INBRED EVERY SPECIES WOULD BE... there is no way that could work... although that may explain how it is possible people actually believe this bs...

  • there is no way this is fact, get your christians of today to reproduce this feat in every detail to proove it.

  • Differences from Judeo-Christian teachings

    The Quran does not say that the entire world was submerged in water unlike the Bible. According to Islam, only certain parts of the world were submerged under water, one of them being the region of Noah and his people. Islam differentiates from Christianity on the account of the animals loaded in the ark. According to Islam, only the animals in the care of Noah were taken in the ark.

  • @kairen5443 Was the world that the flood only partly submerged flat or round? 

  • Is this one of them videos where you need a minute to recognize if they are serious or not? I must admit you guys had me going! YOU FUNNY GUY!

  • eucalyptus oil!!!  lol

  • Dinosaurs in the ark? enough said.

  • Anyone can say that's stupid,or this is crazy without understanding,without research.I'd rather go with the those who've painstakingly put in the hours and hours of research.Noah's ark is an historical fact,that is good enough for me.

  • How could ANYTHING eat corn husks?

    Didn't that originate in the Americas?

  • "baby dinosaurs"??? Megafauna grow pretty fast.. Elephants and giraffes and so forth grow to adult size within a year.

  • Desperate attempts to prove the impossible.

  • THE ANIMALS PART IS FUCKING RIDICULOUS LOL!!!!

  • this is unreal man, crazy.

  • Way to piss off the Evo's who can't refute it ;) Keep fighting for truth. God bless you.

  • Beyond ridiculous, of course. Zero feasibility on every possible level.

  • @JeffersonDinedAlone You won't be saying that when you bow to The Lord Jesus Christ 1 day soon. And you will bow or be forced to bow you fool. You are just like those fools that laughed at Noah, until the flood wiped them all out.

  • It did NOT happen- grow up

  • This is lame and fail.

  • fucking mental pure idiot fodder.

  • These people are insane... Juvenile dinosaurs? The "right" Pandas that don't eat bamboo? So, did Noah relocate all these animals to where they came from after the flood, or are they trying to say that Polar bears and penguins were originally indigenous to the middle east? What made duck billed platypuses decide to move to Australia and nowhere else? Absolute insanity! People who make claims about the existence of the Loch Ness Monster and Big Foot are more believable!

  • @ArtemiaSalina The best thing is: the "right" panda was found, then after the flood how come it came back to a stricktly bamboo diet? I recomend the noah's ark video by Non Stamp Colector

  • @ArtemiaSalina And they all would have to have to go back to their own lands... The pandas would have to have a continuous forest of bamboo all the way back to China, and the koalas would have to have a continuous forest of eucalypts all the way back to Australia, for example.

  • Unbelivable ! People make up stuf - to make fairy tale actualy true.

  • LoL

  • I think i got stupider watching this video

  • IF there was an ark, IF noah and his family of drovers were able to convice all these animals to line up and get along, IF this vessel could hold enough food for all the passengers, ALL WOULD HAVE DIED from inhaling METHANE from all the CRAP produced shortly into the voyage as i am about to expire from the CRAP being presented in this post. IF this did not come to pass, it was because the raptors ate everything on the boat.

  • @cotton9386 ... not to mention the methane that these people are spouting.

  • Fail. II Corinthians 3:6 This is all BULLSHIT.

  • Which flood are we talking about here. There have been, according to the geological record, at least 2 and possibility as many as 4 different "floods," tsunamis if you will, over the 4 billion years of earth history. I am a Christian, but my belief is anchored in the salvation which Jesus Christ offers not in some rewritten story about animals in a big boat. Focus Christians, focus. Don't get caught in the traps of the enemy. Focus on your unshakable belief that Jesus Christ is your Savior.

  • @1955thekeeper "There have been, according to the geological record, at least 2 and possibility as many as 4 different "floods," tsunamis if you will, over the 4 billion years of earth history."  I suggest maybe that you take some geology and get some of your facts in order. Earth history is a bit more complicated than that.

  • @jknengr796 Really it is? I was an earth geology minor at the really big school, you know the one you go to after high school, I think everyone there called it college or something like that. Prol.

  • Science is evil, that's why I've decided not to treat my diabetes. Blindness is no where near as bad as the media would have you believe, and besides, I like feeling stuff.

  • Do the poor divils talkin on this radio show not realise that none of this stuff was ever meant to be taken literally.....

    oh dear oh dear

  • Funny how atheists argue like crazy on Christian videos.......who are you trying to convince folks? I don't preach on your anti-religion videos!

  • @suckmycod Atheists ? Most christians here (switzerland) find it totally retarded to believe in the flood.

  • @ivanlagrossemoule maybe you read a different Holy Bible than I do my friend, I hope you believe upon Christ!

  • @suckmycod I never read the bible and I'm not interested. Just saying that there's a difference between being a christian, believing in a god and taking the bible litterally. I have nothing against people who believe in god, nor christians, but I don't like anti-science pricks.

    Anyway, I'm not on the youtube asylum to argue.

    I was just there to watch these comical videos.

  • @ivanlagrossemoule well, good luck to you friend. youtube arguments are pretty pointless....lol

  • btw... puffin51 is one of a thousand sockpuppets of the satanist pretending to be an atheist- NorthForkFisherman aka podoau,etc... sad but please pray for him and any others that resort to such trickery...

  • @AlienshateU That is a lie. I am not a sockpuppet of NorthForkFisherman, and I know nothing of him except that he's rational. I have only ever posted here or anywhere else on my own handle, which is the only one I use. Check the URLs, if you like.

    You lie. Didn't Jesus tell you not to lie, and tell you further who is the father of your lies?

  • @puffin51 DARTHVADER! *KSSSHHHHHHHK* puffin *KSSSHHHHHHHK* i am your father.

  • Amateurs built the ark... it was professionals that built the Titanic...

  • Has it ever occurred to these guys to wonder why they never actually built a ship this size in wood? Not even in the nineteenth century, when there was a clear need for larger ships, and they had far better tools and techniques and the timber of the New World to call on, they never built anything like this. Iron and steel frames had to come first, because nothing this size made of wood can float for a day, and any sea at all will break it up within hours.

  • There are so many reasons to disbelieve in this ridiculous fairy tale.

    When the animals were disembarking from the ark after making their impossible voyage....there would be no living plants for any of the herbivores to eat.

    When the carnivores ate any animals (which would obviously happen within a day or two) then it is instant extinction for that particular animal.

    For anyone who actually believes this myth, please read "The impossible voyage of Noah's Ark" by Robert A. Moore.

  • @CynicalSkeptic1 my favourite questions for the arkists are, how did the Australian marsupials make it to Australia after they disembarked? Since the obvious route is across Asia minor and through southeast Asia, how did they cross the Wallace Line? Why did 99% of all the marsupials on the ark go to Australia? and finally, why didn't any placental mammals go to Australia?

  • @uknowispeaksense amen! Same story with the kiwi. They all had to have been either transported by Captain Kirk or rode on the backs of magically trained whales to make it to the middle east.

  • What happened when the ark ran aground? A treeboat setteling on a mountain would crack long before the water resided under its lower deck, drowning all animals on that level.

  • If the flood was fresh water, what happened to the salt water fish? And the reverse as well. It's a silly story.

  • @jennyisdirty The worst thing is when they try to use the bible to prove itself. Sad.

  • If you find the "right" koala? The right kind of panda? What happened to the "two of every kind" or "seven pairs of every kind" (depending on which chapter you read)? So the story is moved up to selecting the right kinds of the kinds.... gimme a break... at what point do you just admit that the book of Genesis was written by illiterate non-scientific people who knew nothing of the real world?

  • @ElijahBailey2000 ,where in bible, it say seven pairs?  chapter please. you made that up?

  • @SPAGHETTIMONSTER1

    Genesis 7:2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.

    Genesis 7:3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

    You can read it as seven pairs (the male and his female) or seven animals but that doesnt fit the male and his female part. And I dont make things up, believers do.

  • @ElijahBailey2000 , thanks, never heard that before.

  • @SPAGHETTIMONSTER1 I understand that many peoples' understanding of the bible comes from what other people SAY is written there. They dont actually read it themselves. Admittedly, the KJV is a little more difficult to read, being in Elizabethan English (like Shakespeare) and the NIV changes so many words and phrases as to be an almost completely new story. Have had many debates based on nothiung more than the difference between the two versions.

  • This is it? These are the best arguments you have to explain away the details of this ludicrous story? This story is mind-bendingly ridiculous on so many levels.

  • Besides, just because the dimensions of a large wooden ark were conceived of thousands of years ago doesn't mean such a craft was ever actually built. Detailed diagrams for and explanations for the workings of the starship Enterprise exist now-FROM PEOPLES IMAGINATIONS. So should scholars thousands of years hence conclude that the stories of Star Trek and it's ships were all real? Be funny as hell if do.

  • The guy talking in this is making so many disjointed conceptual leaps it's stupifiying. Our largest tankers and cruise ships are vastly bigger than the ark and it would take dozens of them to literally hold two of every one of the millions of species of life on this planet. And by the time you got the last ones on board the first ones would have died of old age.

  • 80% of all animals are "sheep size or smaller"?? What about grizzly bears, buffalo, hippos, rhinos, giraffes, bulls, elephants, horses, cattle, and kangaroos (how'd he get them over from Austrailia, btw?). Also, what about shit disposal? What about the carnivores? How do keep fresh meat for them? Not only that, what about fresh greens for herbavores? You can't change their digestive systems to handle other foods, morons. They'd die. Finally, we're talking MILLIONS of species here!

  • problem with population 2 each is not enough?

    but everything came from a soup is modern science... oh c'mon... really?

  • @ikawpipa dinosaurs ???? they were wiped out before man hit the scene. if there was ark .it would not have needed space for dinosaurs...

  • @ikawpipa dinosaurs ???? they were wiped out before man hit the scene. if there was an ark .it would not have needed space for dinosaurs... so why aren't there fossils of kangaroos and sloths in europe???

  • @whoarethebrainpigs - are they finish digging all the land in europe?

  • @hugejohn

    Demonstrate the ark to be false.

  • @blackflame57 Thank you.

    For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16

    Find the love of God here.

    Audio, Gospel of John Chapter 1 AV h t t p://w w wDOTyoutubeDOTcom/watch?v=Ao4u­aIjd3xs

  • @blackflame57 ... Demonstrate the ark to be false ...

    Zero physical evidence. Not a single molecule. How pathetically sad is that?

  • good fuck...even as a kid I knew the flood was bullshit.

    it makes me sad to hear people try to pretend it was real, no wonder the world is so fucked up.

  • Even most Christians don't buy the ark story.

    There just is not enough water to inundate the highest mountains.

    Then there's the problem of maintaining a viable genetic population 2 each is not enough.

  • @Membrane556 Most "Christians" are not Christian. The water came from under the earth. You limit God based on your lack of faith. Read the book of Genesis.

    For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16

    Find the love of God here.

    Audio, Gospel of John Chapter 1 AV h t t p://w w wDOTyoutubeDOTcom/watch?v=Ao4u­aIjd3xs

  • @BereanBeacon1 "The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it because it was put together by crude, uncultured human mammals."

    — Christopher Hitchens

  • @mercyflush101 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction. 2Peter 3:16

  • @BereanBeacon1 Gullibility and credulity are considered undesirable qualities in every department of human life -- except religion.

  • @BereanBeacon1 get off the bongs!

  • @Membrane556 ... Then there's the problem of maintaining a viable genetic population 2 each is not enough ...

    And besides - there's a terrible moral issue in the Noah story. Do you really want the human race to be started twice via incest? Not cool for Bible school, eh?

  • He will need 30 years and 50 animals a second to fill the ark with ALL animals, it will be needed a armada of ark's.

  • people dont want to believe in god or the bible because if they did they would have to follow gods laws and mankind is too selfish and self centered to do that. Just discredit it and live the way you want. Kind of like little children.

  • @zestydude87

    no people dont believe because there are far to many people tellling them that the bible isnt metaphor, it is obviously, so they figure that only stupid people are religious.

    The arc could NOT have housed breeding pairs of every animal, there are billions, plus u cant start a species with pairs, even 7 pairs.

  • Wow, that's a lot of bugs Noah had to take on the Ark. Where'd he get the animals from all across the planet? How did they survive the destruction of the Earth when they were let loose? Everything should be dead. The logical problems alone with this story makes it completely absurd. 

  • Noah's ark is the bible tale of the flood of Gilgamesh from Zoroastrianism.

    The Idea that the world was covered with water is true.If you consider Pangaea and continental drift,what was once water is now dry land & what was once dry land is now water.If you Know that the Black Sea Caspian Sea and most of the Mediterranean Sea was dry land,and that there was a series of earthquakes which first flooded the Med,then the Black and Caspian Sea,to these people it seemed like a world wide flood.

  • This is absolutely ridiculous. There are so many fallacies in this "scientific" explanation. Firstly, how is it possible for any number of people fit double the millions of various species that existed on this planet at that time, not even mentioning the tons of food that must have been used to feed them? There are so many assumptions with no basing that must be made to explain this conundrum of impossibility. The worst explanation was having carnivores eating dead humans and animals after they

  • @Ither1

    I laughed at the corpse explanation it's a well known fact lions will only eat fresh carrion.

    They won't touch anything rancid if there is something else.

    Even if they did eat rotten stuff all the corpses would have all rotted a way in just a month or two.

    Then there are reptiles like snakes which will only eat fresh rodents.

  • OH.. friggin humanity..

    Did he really say dinosaurs?

    Un friggin real. All I can say is at least they had the balls to post this in a forum that allows folks to post comment. It's a common theme with religions nonsense that they do not. So points for style there... but dinosaurs?

    Few.. man.. that's out there.

  • Kool-Aid any one?

  • no thanks...

  • as soon as this guy said dino's on the ark i cut him off. i believe but this guy...

  • @DownHavenFilms

    Thank you.

    Find the love of God here.

    Audio, Gospel of John Chapter 1 AV h t t p://w w wDOTyoutubeDOTcom/watch?v=Ao4u­aIjd3xs

  • @BereanBeacon1

    Lying for God is not "love".

    Fail.

  • WTF????

    No facts.... just guesses made by idiots with out one shred of proof.

    Fact: you couldn't fit all animals on the ark.

    Fact: Dinosaurs died off 65 millions years before the ark story was first told.

    Where dinosaurs fossils are found is so simplistic misrepresented that it is a big fat lie.

  • Hey, science heads, Let me ask you this: Have you ever personally examined ANY fossils at all from any type of animal?

    Have you ever taken a speedometer up to light and measured for a fact by yourself that it really was the same exact speed at all time, since the beginning of time?

    Have you ever asked yourselves those 2 questions?

    Have you ever took minute to realise that perhaps all the facts that you state at ANYTIME in life, you were lied to about?

    Please WAKE- UP ... NWO is coming

  • @DarwinsFriend

    You're agreeing with me about light speed, how is that fail?

    about the fossils - awesome that you saw fossils. How to know their exact age?

    And yes, I agree that the Christian religion is filled with lies. But does that mean that God does not exist? I dont think so. I just think MAN have twisted the holy book for their convenience. plain and simple.

  • @BlueSta1n ... You're agreeing with me about light speed, how is that fail? ...

    No - it's a FAIL. In fact - it's an Epic FAIL. My reasoning was opposite what you were saying. Wake up please.

    Carbon dating of the soil layers that encase the fossils via volcanic dust is how we date them, within +/- 50k years for dinosaurs, which is incredibly accurate within the range of 250M years.

    Like dating the polar ice cap at the South Pole - 750,000 years of dust layers, just like tree rings.

  • @DarwinsFriend alright, thanks. im just wondering what do you mean light can only go faster in our imaginations? not trying to argue anything, im genuinely asking. but im going to sleep

  • @BlueSta1n Fair enough. Can you imagine putting yourself on the surface of our moon while looking at it from your backyard - in less than 1.3 second?

    Of course you can.

    But it takes the light reflected off the moon longer than that to reach your eye.

  • @DarwinsFriend "But it takes the light reflected off the moon longer than that to reach your eye."

    Actually.. no... 1.3sec IS exactly how much time it takes.

  • @Yefatbastard LMAO! Full marks! But answer me this - is that distance at perigee, or that distance at apogee? LOL!

  • @DarwinsFriend Geocentric or Topocentric?

    If I have done my math correct the difference between Perigee and Apogee

    is 50345 km. If we assume the 1.3 is the orbital mean. then -.4 to +.2 seconds

    (ish) would be the variation.. Making it 1.7 to 1.1 seconds..

    But only people as anal as us would even worry about it.

    Or people that hunger for "real" knowledge.

  • @Yefatbastard ... Or people that hunger for "real" knowledge ...

    Indeed. LOL!.

    Funny object the moon. It's been said by various native tribes, that if their women sleep outside for eight straight weeks (two lunar cycles) instead of being under a roof, their monthly body rhythms match it. I believe that we have much to learn (still) from that object and I doubt evolution would be where it is presently (in the Earth's time column) without it.

    Just speculating.

  • @BlueSta1n "Hey, science heads"

    People under educated in science often don't realize that when a scientist says "Speed of light"

    What he is really saying is "speed of light in a vacuum"

    They also misunderstand the phrase "the speed of light is constant.

    Light moves at 299,792,458 m/s even if the object giving off the light is moving at you at 1,000,000 m/s

    you don't add the objects speed to the speed of light.

    We don't use speedometers to measure the speed of light we use laser interferometers

  • @Yefatbastard Ok? thats still just as I said... you were given that information and accept as fact. Doesnt matter. its pointless arguing.

  • @BlueSta1n If you really care..

    Go to collage become a scientist and do all the research and testing for yourself.

    Because sitting in your moms basement declaring that the people that actually

    do things are making things up just because you have been to lazy to do the

    research for yourself. Is idiotic at best. It also shows that you have no idea how the

    scientific community works.. Ever heard of Peer Review..

  • (Here's the real history)

    Darwin's family all denied the story and campaigned against it. Darwin's son Francis wrote in a letter on 28 May 1918:

    "Lady Hope's account of my father's views on religion is quite untrue. I have publicly accused her of falsehood, but have not seen any reply.

    My father's agnostic point of view is given in my Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Vol. I., pp. 304–317. You are at liberty to publish the above statement. Indeed, I shall be glad if you will do so."

    FAIL

  • @prime1307 One that actually has the intellectual capacity to question things for himself and fairy tales?

  • One old saying is true: "The devil is in the details". We don't need to get wrapped up in the technical aspects--we just need to know that it HAPPENED. It's more frightening that way, and maybe that's a good thing.