Why I don't believe the story of the Great Flood...

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LittleNipper wrote:What does a weaned baby elephant eat in a day?


A baby elephant eats 16 times a day...where as we humans eat 1-2 times a day......so you get how much do they eat?
Normally an elephant will eat 500-600 pounds a day...while  a baby elephant will eat 200-300 pounds a day


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LittleNipper wrote:What does a weaned baby elephant eat in a day?


What about the dinosaurs? How many dinosaurs were on the ark? How much poop does a baby Argentinosaurus produce?


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Mittens, LittleNipper, have either of you addressed the fact that the Great Flood represents an act of mass murder so heinous, so despicable that even God had to repent because of it?

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Some animals were simply unlucky to choose the other ark

Others didn't fit to Noah's taste
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LittleNipper wrote:What does a weaned baby elephant eat in a day?


There were no baby elephants on the Ark. There was a male and female so that they could produce a new generation of elephants. Unless you intend to argue that a female elephant and its male offspring were on the Ark and when they got off engaged in incest.
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The Erotic Apologist wrote:
LittleNipper wrote:What does a weaned baby elephant eat in a day?


What about the dinosaurs? How many dinosaurs were on the ark? How much poop does a baby Argentinosaurus produce?


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Well, and interesting thing about the dinosaurs is that that no one knows how long it take for one to grow big. Now, if a dinosaur is a terrible lizard and lizards continue to grow for their entire lives, then it is very possible that the very large dinosaurs found were centuries old. So that dinosaur babies were rather small. It is also possible that some remains that are considered different species of dinosaurs are actually the same species at different stages of age/development. How much poop does a dung beetle eat? Could God have slowed the metabolism of the various animals on the ark? The insects could eat poop and the animals could eat the insects.
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Bond James Bond wrote:
LittleNipper wrote:What does a weaned baby elephant eat in a day?


There were no baby elephants on the Ark. There was a male and female so that they could produce a new generation of elephants. Unless you intend to argue that a female elephant and its male offspring were on the Ark and when they got off engaged in incest.

Okay, so you have at least two young elephants. Are they considered clean or unclean? If unclean, then there were seven young elephants.

Also see: http://www.answersingenesis.org/article ... he-animals
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