Jonathan: Gen 1:6-7 says there is water above the firmament. Gen 1:17 says he put the sun, moon, and stars in the firmament. So where is that water again?
Me: Well that would mean space was filled with water, which is even more ludicrous
Jonathan: Why is that ludicrous?
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Possibly because it'd go against any and all observations about space? Maybe? Just going out on a limb to say that space isn't filled with water but rather, oh, a near vacuum? Nah, that's too simple and factually supported, they're right, it must be filled with water!
That would explain why our atmosphere was displaced by the jillions of gallons of water above us.
And why newer spaceships use propellers instead of rockets.
And why all the sun's light is blocked by the atmosphere [which is water now]
Actually there is a fair bit of water in space. It's pretty much all bound up in comets, but it's there and in fairly large quantities by terrestrial standards.
But certainly not enough to fill it by any stretch of the imagination. There might be a lot of water but there's metric giga-buttload more space.
The idea of a 'firmament' existed before men invented telescopes and realized that:
1. The universe is not geocentric.
2. Stars are really, really far away.
The only way you can believe in any sort of 'firmament' these days is to deny both points, thus making you a moron.
You're kidding, right? Right? Please? This absolutely has to be a Poe, there is no fucking way that anyone is that stupid and ignorant. No way. Great, now my eyes are bleeding.
Is he saying space is STILL full of water?
The traditional claim is that the "waters above the firmament" formed a water canopy in earth's ATMOSPHERE (not space) around the earth which fell and made the flood. But this seems even dumber.
Oh stupid NASA, how could you have forgotten to fit flippers on your space-suits!
The Russians, Chinese, British and a few other nationalities keep making the same mistake.
Perhaps we should send a few fundies up there just in wet-suits and SCUBA gear and see what they have to say.
Well, gee, you can't breathe in space, and you can't breathe underwater, so OBVIOUSLY...
/sarcasm
"Why is that ludicrous?"
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Didn't some American guys reach the moon the same year I was born (1969)? Didn't some Russian guy go into space a few years before that? Wouldn't they have reported that space was full of water, if that were the case?
As I am rushing (way too fast) into middle age, they're hardly New Discoveries, are they?
Confused?
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