Noah's Ark

Do I think that fairy tales are true? No.

Talking snakes and magic tricks? Yeah, sounds like fairy tales to me. You mean, fossils? I've seen plenty of fossils. Never seen a snake that could talk, though. Also fairy tales. I've been to Loch Ness. Didn't see anything but a rocky beach and a bunch of ducks. Froze my ass off. (Actually, like almost all of Scotland, it was breathtaking. But, no monsters I could see.)

Except for, of course, the Bible authors' documented histories of plagarisim and borrowing, sometimes even from each other.Other than a consistent history of plagarism, no, there's nothing to indicate that they may have plagarised a legend. Of course not. Aside from the obvious physical impossibility of the story, which would be a dead giveaway for most persons, and has been, throughout history. Right. Because Noah was simultaneously black, white, native american, asian, polynesian, middle eastern, and all the other races of man. He would have had to check more checkboxes on the Census than Tiger Woods!Ah, right. And every person in every civilization is decended from Noah's family; including those civilizations that existed concurrent to the "Flood" time and, mysteriously, recorded no distruption in their cultural development or record of artifacts. Weird, that.

The perfect unassailable ignorance of the fundamentalist. Absolutely unbreachable by reason because reason was not employed to arrive there.Truly, Lys, you are a magnificent specimen.

You've used statements in the Bible that assert the truth of the Bible to try to substantiate the truth of the Bible.That might work in an MC Escher drawing but it doesn't work in reality. What would lead you to believe that the reliability of a source could be substantiated by the source's own assertions of truthfulness? If that were the case we could tell liars from honest people simply by asking them. Have you noticed that that doesn't really ever work?