Richard Dawkins DEBUNKS Noahs Ark - Sydney Opera House - LOGIC vs FAITH

Noah's Ark (Hebrew: תיבת נח‎; Biblical Hebrew: Teyvat Noaḥ) is the vessel in the Genesis flood narrative (Genesis chapters 6--9) by which the Patriarch Noah saves himself, his family, and a remnant of all the world's animals when God decides to destroy the world because of mankind's evil deeds. God gives Noah detailed instructions for building the ark: it is to be of gopher wood, smeared inside and out with pitch, with three decks and internal compartments; it will be 300 cubits long, 50 wide, and 30 high; it will have a roof "finished to a cubit upward", and an entrance on the side

The Hebrew word for the ark is teba. It occurs only twice in the entire bible, here and in the Book of Exodus, where it is used for the basket in which the infant Moses is placed by his mother. (The word for the ark of the covenant is quite different in Hebrew). In both cases, therefore, teba has a connection with salvation from waters. The etymology of the term is unclear, but most scholars connect it with an Egyptian word meaning a chest, box or coffin. It is made of "gopher" wood, a word appears only here in the entire bible, and is divided into qinnim, a word which always refers to birds' nests elsewhere, leading some scholars to amend this to qanim, reeds, the material used for the boat of Atrahasis, the Babylonian flood-hero. Noah is instructed to kapar (smear) the ark with koper (pitch): in Hebrew the first of these words is a verb formed from the second, and this is the only place in the bible where "koper" means "pitch". God spells out to Noah the dimensions of the ark, 300 cubits by 50 by 30, approximately 137 by 23 by 14 meters (440 feet long, 73 feet wide, and 43 feet high), with three internal divisions (which are not actually called "decks", although presumably this is what is intended), a door in the side, and a sohar, which may be either a roof or a skylight.

The story of the flood is closely connected with the story of the creation, a cycle of creation, un-creation, and re-creation, in which the ark plays a pivotal role. The universe as conceived by the ancient Hebrews was made up of a flat disk-shaped habitable earth with the heavens above and Sheol, the underworld of the dead, below. These three were surrounded by a watery "ocean" of chaos, protected by the firmament, a transparent but solid dome resting on the mountains which ringed the earth. Noah's three-deck ark represents this three-level Hebrew cosmos in miniature: the heavens, the earth, and the waters beneath. In Genesis 1, God created the three-level world as a space in the midst of the waters for mankind; in Genesis 6-8 (the flood story) he fills that space with waters again, saving only Noah, his family and the animals with him in the ark.

The parallels - both similarities and differences - between Noah's ship and that of the Babylonian flood hero Atrahasis have often been noted. Noah's is a rectangle, while Atrahasis was instructed to build his in the form of a cube; Atrahasis has seven decks with nine compartments on each level, Noah has three decks, but is not given any instructions on the number of compartments. The word used for "pitch" is not the normal Hebrew word but is closely related to the word used in the Babylonian story

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[kaxitaksi]

Global warming is real, noahs ark is not. There's a shit load of scientific evidence for the first one..

[SeaTacAtheist]

And why did he sacrifice himself to himself? So he could save his own creation from.....well....himself.

[JebusChristForever]

Every criticisms of Noah's Ark can be easily explained:

GOD DID IT GOD DID IT GOD DID IT GOD DID IT GOD DID IT GOD DID IT GOD DID IT GOD DID IT GOD DID IT GOD DID IT GOD DID IT GOD DID IT GOD DID IT GOD DID IT GOD DID IT GOD DID IT GOD DID IT GOD DID IT GOD DID IT GOD DID IT GOD DID IT GOD DID IT

[SandMAdolf]

Obvious troll is obvious

[podoau]

"he earth goes through NATURAL heating and cooling cycles."

Correct !!

And those natural cycles take thousands of years to occur, allowing the flora and fauna to adapt

This is an stark contrast to the rapid change that is evidend over the last 100 years, which does not allow flaor a fauna to adapt and thus die..

This is the part that deniers allways seem to gloss over

[yarpen800]

And he failed. Not so allmighty or godly, is he.

[Ronny Søberg]

What you guys have to realize is that the heating and cooling cycles don't happen this quickly if they were purely a construct of our planet, no input from us. We can measure the amount of greenhouse gases we let out into the atmosphere, we know for a fact that it's gone up considerably because of us. Why would this have no impact? Even if there was no effect on the climate, at the very least there's clear indication that cities have huge issues with smog. No matter what, renewable energy is key

[pon33villin]

No, I'm your God. I can heal you and you shall only live through me. Live forever in me or die by Jesus the false prophet! Look, 10 years ago I cured a blind man, a leper, performed numerous exorcisms, etc...

Oh no, it must be so hard for you to decide now - you have just as good a reason to follow Jesus as you do to follow me!