Thread:AtheistDragon/@comment-1777104-20151206205509/@comment-27358658-20151207224138

SouthWriter wrote: First, the seeds. Seeds are well protected by their husks and shells. Besides, floating mats of vegetation carry live plants all over the world. Second, the seeds would probably not be submerged for a long time. The typhoons and accompanying tornadoes could keep vegetation in the air for quite some time. After forty days, the storms would be over, and in 110 days the waters would begin to recede, depositing floating seeds, sprouts and cuttings on mountain tops all around the world. The winds that assisted in drying the waters and the land would spread seeds and spores as well.

Carcuses would far outlast the carnivors until the herbivores began to multiply (which most do at impressive rate).

You didn't get my point. As the water rises, so does the atmosphere. Heat is held in the water; this is the way weather works.

Why didn't God just use some other method? Well, simply put, because he used the most effecient method. God usually uses means to perform tasks upon the earth, even when doing miracles.

Again, you are dwelling on what God "could have" done. That gets you nowhere. The truth is that God does it the way He sees fit. The "select few" is not necessarily such a small number, in the long run. But in the case of the Flood this was the case. However, just because they didn't get to the ark, does not mean many had not known God, and died at peace with that fact.

You bring up the idea of children and infants dying as being a problem. And it is a sad fact of living in this world that natural disasters kill the defenseless. But if this life is not all there is, then these consequences are not the final word. I believe God has saved untold numbers of his own people before they grew to know that they were His. Many of the young ones lost in the Great Flood would have been "written in the book of life." Nothing in the Bible indicates that God takes pleasure in the death of anyone (that is, He is NOT sadistic).

Why are there black people? Several answers come to mind, all have to do with genetics. Skin color is a matter of the amount of pigment (malanin) one has in the skin. Melanin is a dark brown or red pigment found in everyone except true albinos (and they may even have some). A good idea of the different range in one extended family. This is a South-African family of "colored" people (mixed="race").

Some possibilities with Noah and his family:

(1) Noah and his wife were both "brown," having the capacity to produce anything from "white" to darkest black. This way, their three sons could have taken on different pigment traits.

(2) Noah was dark skinned and his wife was light skinned, or vice versa. In this case, the sons would all be "brown" with the genetics to pass along many different shades, based on their wives.

(3)Noah and his wife might have both been "white" (I doubt it), but their sons each had wives of different skin tone. In this case the "black" color might be a few generations out.

(4)Noah had multiple wives, of different skin tones, to have the three sons (only Shem's age is given) of differing skin tones as well. In this case, as well, the sons could have taken similarly mixed wives - or even solid "black" or "white".

Forgiveness is not just saying words. It is a transaction, whether financial or legal, when a debt or crime is treated as if it never existed. Forgiveness with no expectations is rare indeed. And if the behavior that caused the pain continues, it is doubtful that forgivenss will be extended the next time.

If you are faced with the decision to forgive someone, it will be dependent on how much it matters to you. If you "don't care," or if you are very good friends and it "doesn't matter" what a friend does, then you can just let it go with a "that's okay." That is not "forgiveness" in a technical sense.

If someone owes you a huge amount, and it would be to your advantage to be paid back, it is doubtful that you will "forgive" the debt. The same thing goes for someone who is a danger to you and your family. If they hurt one of you, "forgiveness" would not be as easy -- and you would expect that person to change his ways if you DID forgive them.

In short, read the Bible. And not just for the "problems." You have yet to show me one reason why "the concept of God is illogical." All you have done is present examples of what you think this God who you don't believe in has done "wrong" in your sight. What have you done wrong in HIS sight (on the chance that He exists, of course)? ALL arguments for God are silly.