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jnik23260 said, 3 months ago
Why would Noah have lost ALL the dinosaurs? Seems he might have saved a pterodactyl or two.
Richard S. Russell said, 3 months ago
@jnik23260
At the time the story of Noah was invented, they weren’t aware that there had ever been dinosaurs, so they left them out of the story.
old1953 said, 3 months ago
The original Noah was a Babylonian who supposedly managed to live about 30,000 years, named Utnapishtim or something like that. He was acquainted with Gilgamesh. The Babylonian story predates the Hebrew story by quite a bit. End of the world stories seem to have always been popular.
Morgil Ravenswing said, 3 months ago
Yes… Yes… This is a fertile land and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land and we will call it… This Land.
nomadicus said, 3 months ago
@Morgil Ravenswing
Shiny
pbarnrob said, 3 months ago
If you need an (almost) clear slate, postulate a singularity; from there, you can go (almost) anywhere!
masterskrain said, 3 months ago
But what about the Unicorns??
GrimmaTheNome said, 3 months ago
The Greeks had flood myths too.
The Unicorns were fine – ‘unicorn horns’ produced by travellers to amaze the gullible of former times were narwhal tusks.
>Why would Noah have lost ALL the dinosaurs? Seems he might have saved a pterodactyl or two.
Pterodactyls aren’t strictly speaking dinosaurs…but the flood myth doesn’t explain the demise of ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs. Noah wouldn’t have had to save them. And no, sadly there are none lurking in Loch Ness.
wcorvi said, 3 months ago
This thread is sounding amazingly like a Republican debate.
From William Falkner, “The Reivers”
A Republican is a man who made his money, a Liberal is a man who inherited his; a Democrat is a barefooted Liberal in a cross-country race, a Conservative is a Republican who has leared to read and write.
SUSAN NEWMAN
said, 3 months ago
@wcorvi
And what do you call someone who hasn’t learned to spell???
ne7minder55 said, 3 months ago
@old1953
Much of the old testament contains stories that are direct copies of Babylonian myth. The only change was the name of the Hairy Thunderer that was supposed to be the cause of it all
Doughfoot said, 3 months ago
The direct descendants of dinosaurs are all around us, and there were quite a few on the legendary Ark. They are called “birds”.
pksampso said, 3 months ago
Birds? Ah, yes, but you have to believe in evolution to get from dinosaurs to birds!
ghostkeeper said, 3 months ago
What perfect timing= Kerry speaks of Americans having a right to be stupid, and then this strip shows up!
TheSkulker
said, 3 months ago
As with most myths, there is usually a grain of truth in the story.
About 5 millions years ago, (a bit before Noah’s or the Babylonian’s time), the Mediterranean “Sea” was a desiccated basin cut off from the Atlantic by a land bridge across the Gibraltar strait. Then the Zanclean mega flood occurred which filled the basin in a very short time: estimates run from two months to two years. It was caused by a breach in the land bridge which rapidly eroded the dam and resulted in flow rates of up to 100 million cubic meters per second and sea level rises of up to 30 meters per day.
10^8 m^3 is a mind boggling quantity. It is about one third of a cubic kilometer or a volume equal to eleven football fields on a side by one tall. Per second!
IIRC, I think I calculated that the flow rates reached 150 km/hr (90 mph). That would be one hunkin’ rafting trip!
Hmmm. Although this is an interesting and fun bit of info, and might seem a basis for the flood myth, there is one minor little problem: humans (or pre-humans, ~Neanderthals), didn’t exist until about 300,000 years ago. Oh well, it was a good exercise in refreshing my memory. Enjoy it anyway.
Zanclean flood references: BBC Newsand Wikipedia