Religious stories are such nonsense. It's good we make fun of them.
this post was submitted on 21 Oct 2026
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They didn't know that when they were writing the scary bible story.
There's an estimated 0.9 to 2 million beetle species out there. Even if we're just going off of the 400,000 that we know about that's a lot. The young earth creationist might say that they just brought 2 of beetle kind with them. You would need an absurd amount of speciation events to get to where we are today in like a couple thousand years.
Not to mention bacteria.
Plants?
I mean yeah? Why the question? Both can be true.
Is the bacteria also limited to two for boat accesa? Did they have to rip out the bacteria living inside other living things before anybody could get on the boat?
Fish? Underwater mammals?
I don't see how a flood would kill them
Yes, exactly. That was my point.
(Though in reality, a flood as large as is claimed would definitely have wiped out many underwater animal habitats. Would completely fucked up all of the underwater ecology).
A global flood would change salinity to be intolerable for many (most?) species of fish and mammal.
I dont think it was sub species, probably more-so conforms to the (of the likeness of their own seed) precept in genesis. Also atheist saying Christians don't believe in evolution, well, clearly we were right about evolution and phylogenetics in the first place.
Also pretty sure it says animals not generae
If you squint hard enough, the beginning of Genesis describes solar system evolution followed by biological evolution. Some animals are out of order, but it's kinda close.
The Garden of Eden's curse is humans growing big brains from the Tree of Knowledge. We could no longer swing through the trees eating fruit and the occasional howler monkey. We had to toil for our food (agriculture). Then our big brains made childbirth painful and difficult. Women are relegated to a patriarchal society where some apes have a matriarchal or co-leadership society.
Cherry on top is that now we must wear clothes because we now know we're naked and find that shameful, an alien concept to animals who didn't eat the fruit. All of our curses are a direct result of evolving high intelligence. :)
Of all the origin myths, which are about as likely as Discworld, the beginning of Genesis is perfectly sensible.
SPOILER: It quickly goes bugfuck. A man God calls righteous offers his daughters to the mob as rape bait, then later those same daughters raping dad.
One son becoming, living and active word of god, you shall not worship a graven image. Jesus calls the jews liars and frauds, large rebuke of moses and his law....yeah that take is pretty accurate
Um, you're getting quite far away from Genisys there. I wasn't talking about Christianity as a whole.
I dont think it was sub species
So you're saying it was dom species? π€
An Entomologist's wet dream
Probably nightmare considering there's only two of each species. Many hive based species would go extinct and the Entomologist wouldn't be able to stop it.
The ark that launched a thousand comics.
Noah must have had a defect sense of humor. And apparently the psychopathy genes too.