You may remember this theory regarding the extinction of the dinosaurs:
Now, there's this ...
Hat tip: Glen
Greg Laden's Blog
Evolution, Life Sciences, Science Education, Human Evolution, and Stuff
Learn more about Charles Darwin and his work.
Looking for stuff about birds?
Lean more about lions
An archaeological expedition to the Congo
The Skeptical Search Engine
The contents of Greg Laden's Blog are copyrighted by Greg Laden.
Recent Comments
- J.Doug Swallow on HeartlandGate: Anti-Science Institute's Insider Reveals Secrets
- Lotharsson on HeartlandGate: Anti-Science Institute's Insider Reveals Secrets
- Jonathan Eisen on HeartlandGate: Anti-Science Institute's Insider Reveals Secrets
- daedalus2u on HeartlandGate: Anti-Science Institute's Insider Reveals Secrets
- daedalus2u on HeartlandGate: Anti-Science Institute's Insider Reveals Secrets
- Greg Laden on Charles Darwin, Geologist
- Andrew C. Holmes on Charles Darwin, Geologist
- Calli Arcale on Environmentally Friendly Hard Drive Case
- Calli Arcale on The grey squirrel from a birder's point of view
- Don Parnell on The grey squirrel from a birder's point of view
Search
Profile
Click on "About" for the big picture, and "Archives" for the details.
Recent Posts
- 2011 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award Winners
- HeartlandGate: Anti-Science Institute's Insider Reveals Secrets
- Charles Darwin, Geologist
- Looking for stuff about birds?
- Environmentally Friendly Hard Drive Case
- Charles Darwin February 12, 1809 - April 19, 1882
- Whitney Houston has died
- Lions!
- Changing the rep of Fungi one mushroom-based robot thingie-builder at a time
- More Mississippi Meanderings
Blogroll
If you don't see yourself on my blogroll, just drop me a line and let me know. I'll add you.*- 10,000 Birds
- Alpha Meme
- a Nadder!
- Angry by Choice
- Armchair Dissident
- (((Billy))) The Atheist
- blogfish
- blogSci
- Blond Nonbeliever
- Blue Lion Blog
- Bug Girl's Blog
- Camels with Hammers
- Catalogue of Oganisms
- Cassandra's Tears
- Class M Planet
- Climate Bites
- Cocktail Party Physics
- Counter Minds
- Cranky Linguist, The
- Crowded Head, Cozy Bed
- Dead Racist Society
- Deep Sea News
- Dispersal of Darwin
- Divine Afflatus
- Dread Tomato Addiction
- Evil is Underrated
- Evolved and Rational
- Evolving in Kansas
- Evolving Thoughts
- Fellman Studio Blog
- Flying Trilobite
- Further Thoughts
- Hoxful Monsters
- ICBS Everywhere
- Illusory Tenant
- It's Alive!!
- Jafcisa
- Letters from a Broad
- Life Before Death
- Looking For Detachment
- Matharu's Rants and Raves
- Mors dei
- Natural Reckonings
- Nature Blog Network
- Providentia
- Qeyḥ bāḥrī
- Quiche Moraine
- Religion, Sets, and Politics
- Sandwalk
- Sarah Zielinski
- Science Notes
- The Seething Primate
- Skepchick
- Spanish Inquisitor
- Splendid Elles
- Survival Machine
- Synapostasy
- TalkOrigins
- Tangled Up in Blue Guy
- Tetrapod Zoology
- The Flying Trilobite
- The Inoculated Mind
- The Intersection
- The Loom (new)
- The Scientific Activist
- The Unexamined Life..
- The Zone
- Thinking for Free
- Think Progress
- Three Toed Sloth
- Toomanytribbles
- Traumatized by Truth
- Truth Is a Woman
- udreamofjanie
- Uncommon Liberty
- View from the Pond
- Vickie Henderson Art
- When Pigs Fly Returns
- Writer's Daily Grind
Archives
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- September 2010
- August 2010
- July 2010
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
« Terror and Politics | Main | "Why Civilization Is on the Verge of Collapse" »
New Theories of Noah's Ark
Posted on: January 6, 2010 1:51 PM, by Greg Laden
TrackBacks
TrackBack URL for this entry: http://scienceblogs.com/mt/pings/128660
Comments
I liked this video. Of course he's in error about the air being cold and thin; the extra water would push the atmosphere up. But overall, great job! (You should check out his video revealing why Yahweh is a homophobe. It starts out slow, but really gets good.)
Posted by: The Science Pundit | January 6, 2010 2:16 PM
There is not a stitch of biblical authority to back up such an interpretation.
Posted by: History Punk | January 6, 2010 2:48 PM
"There is not a stitch of biblical authority to back up such
an interpretation."
Since when has that ever stopped anyone anywhere from using the bible to justify what ever it is they want?
Posted by: NoAstronomer | January 6, 2010 3:42 PM
Why not just use magic to kill all the bad people?
There is a similar stupidity in Exodus, but an order of magnitude stupider.
Pharoah is mean to the Jews, so God sets a plague on Egypt, punishing the Egyptians and Jews alike, but not Pharoah, who is filthy rich. But Pharoah cannot learn the lesson because God hardens his heart and won't let him change his mind. So then God sends a second plague, same result. Obviously God is his own worst enemy. This goes on for eight more plagues and nobody has learned a thing. Finally, God softens Pharoah's heart, allowing him to change his mind and quit being such a meanie.
Ahem. Why not kick Pharoah's ass, soften his heart, and let him learn?
No, God doesn't work that way. God engineers into his plan the perfect thing to defeat his plan. That's how God rolls.
Posted by: WTFWJD | January 6, 2010 4:43 PM
@WTFWJD, I have often wondered that myself. This god character is the most incompetent, unimaginative, and bubmling character ever to get that name. It's like he's the retarded version of what a god could be. It's almost as if he were a primitive, iliterate Bronze Age goat herder...
Posted by: Larian LeQuella | January 6, 2010 5:00 PM
There are a few points about the exodus story that I find interesting. Yahweh tells the hebrews to tell the Pharoah that they just want to go into the desert to offer sacrifice but they'll be right back (pinky swear!). Then he tells them that they should "borrow" valuable jewelry from the Egyptians, promising to return it the next day (I don't remember if this was a pinky swear).
So this yahweh guy, after his whimsical plagues, tells the hebrews to lie and steal. What a god!
Posted by: wrpd | January 6, 2010 5:24 PM
OK History Punk. How exactly did Yahweh make this go down? Last time I checked my Bible and read the biblical mythologists such as "Dr." Kent Hovind, DarkMatter2525 has got to be pretty close to how it would have happened, if it wasn't just a freaking Bronze Age myth.
"Now go **** your sister" LOL!
P.S. Subscribe to DarkMatter2525's channel
http://www.youtube.com/user/DarkMatter2525
Posted by: The Wanderer | January 7, 2010 12:06 AM