Christ, I hate to comming to threads like these late. I didn\'t even read most of it. My idea is that Noah\'s Ark was real.. but it didn\'t take place like how the bible tells it. Simply, Noah did save many of the Animals in the "Known" world at that time. Really Bossie, you\'re theory doesn\'t even take into account the years upon YEARS of work it would take to gather up all those animals from all over the world... in which time the animals he would have rounded up first would have probably died of old age, disease, or preditors.
At the time the story was written the known world was rather small. Most people were still nomads or confined to their own little towns. Now, a massive flood in that area has been theorised to happen durring Noah\'s time because of silt layers they\'ve found when doing soil analysis. It was slightly larger in scale than some of the more recent floods we\'ve had in the US in the south. Noah could very well have contructed a huge ship and gathered up a few hundred species of animals at most.. not including insects, birds, fish, and most plants. It was most certainly not a world encomasing event.. hell we can prove that by looking at the ecology and societyies of other human civilizations in Austrailia, China, Russia, Europe, and the Americas from around the time Noah was thought to have lived.
I wish I had a link.. I\'m jus recalling this all from a Discovery channel special I\'d seen. Maybe it was History channel.. not sure. I\'ll look it up if anyone want to discuss it further but it\'s not worth it right now.
As for "God" and weither he exists. I believe he does. I believe in science also. People have been searching for "God" since mankind began pretty much.. and yet we still don\'t have any definitive proof of him or even a clear image of who/what he is and what his/it\'s plan for us all is. I think he\'s out there far beyond the recognision of our sciences.. waiting.. pulling the strings that makes the universe work. Maybe "he" is a property of the universe? Another force like gravity? There\'s so many unanswered questions, that you jus have to take it on faith for now. Yet science is making real progress in our lives, despite it\'s shortcommings. Neanderthal Man lived for 250,000 years and the most he ever made was simple spears and rock tools. Our history spans roughly 80,000 years and we\'ve walked on the moon, seen to the edge of existance, dissected our own genetic code, and created machines capable of doing more calculations in a fraction of a second than a man could do in his lifetime. While me may jus be manipulating the same tools God used to create and maintain the universe, we\'re still doing some increadible things for a species so young.
I think there\'s plenty of room for both God and Science in our world. You jus have to admit that Science isn\'t foolproof.. and God isn\'t something tangable or measurable. He\'s not the "wise old man" we see depicted.. he\'s something so far beyond our science and imagination that right now.. trying to put a face and purpose to him is futile.
