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Showing Original Post only (View all)Creationists Try to Outsmart Neil deGrasse Tyson on the Great Flood and Climate Change [View all]
http://www.alternet.org/creationists-try-outsmart-neil-degrasse-tyson-great-flood-and-climate-changeThe great flood as told in the Bible is a myth; a story retold through the generations that predates Christianity itself. Meanwhile, the Epic of Gilgamesh is the same story, but thousands of years older, according to Neil deGrasse Tyson in the latest installment of the television series, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey.
Biblical literalist Christians, as you might expect, are not happy with this version of events.
Creationist Ken Hams group, Answers in Genesis (AiG), were at the forefront of complaints, stating, The Epic of Gilgamesh contains one of the hundreds of flood legends that abound in cultures all over the world. These legends are ubiquitous because all people in the world are descendants of Noahs family, the only people to survive the global Flood. They continue, The biblical historical account, recorded under the inspiration of God by Moses, is completely believable in all its details.
Yet, in reality, neither myth is believable for countless reasons. The first reason is literally the very large elephant in the room, which is how does one fit millions of species onto one boat?
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xchrom
May 2014
OP
I've always wanted to smack them in the forehead and say, "That was part of his plan, too!"
dawg
May 2014
#28
If you want to believe that you have no free will, then more power to you I guess.
dawg
May 2014
#36
The article you link to does not claim that anyone has proven free will to be an illusion.
Vattel
May 2014
#81
It's also true that through our own determination we can change those chemical reactions...
DesertDiamond
May 2014
#51
And when they get drunk, crash the car, beat their spouse, leave their kids go hungry
Ikonoklast
May 2014
#39
Watch: The Neil deGrasse Tyson climate denier takedown we’ve been waiting for is finally here
xchrom
May 2014
#2
I guess maybe you could put your dad to the test by asking him if he's "with god."
Mr. Evil
May 2014
#61
LIKE A 1000 TO A MILLION TIMES GREATER # OF SPECIES? IN A FEW THOUSAND YRS? REALLY?
drynberg
May 2014
#11
Maybe they only took babies! Not arguing just pointing out that this is what the literalists get for
jwirr
May 2014
#21
Well, the proliferation of flood stories has a simple explanation to me...
Wounded Bear
May 2014
#47
Ken Ham "These legends are ubiquitous because all people in the world are descendants of Noah"
yellowcanine
May 2014
#30
I learned about the Epic of Gilgamesh 30 years ago. Neil was just a kid then.
kelliekat44
May 2014
#40
ah, but anthropologists have found numerous ways of "stabilizing" oral tradition
MisterP
May 2014
#56
On the bright side, if Ken Ham is trolling NDGT, he has less time to troll DU.
Warren DeMontague
May 2014
#62
Creationists are living proof that some of the monkeys came out of the trees....
lastlib
Jun 2014
#92