[What makes you think that Dino's weren't in the ark?]
if we look at the other ark, the ark of the covenant, we see there were some things in there. like Aaron's rod. Yet the ark was little, just what was it, three feet long or something? How could a grown man's staff be in there? I guess we could say it was a shrimpy little thing, maybe. On the other hand this was a spiritual little box with amazing powers, and maybe betond space and time itsef inside. This means that basically anything may have been able to fit in there?! All we do is apply that to the other ark, and bring on the dinos!!!
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Nah. The TARDIS was the work of Satan. I'm fairly sure the Doctor does not praise God even once. Q.E.D.
Presumably the dinosaurs, being in a different dimension, didn't contribute their weight to the ark, which, not actually displacing any more volume, would have sunk under the additional weight of all those dinos!!!!
On the other hand this was a spiritual little box with amazing powers, and maybe betond space and time itsef inside.
So...the Ark of the Covenant was some sort of audio-vibratory physio-molecular transport device?
The worst part of the film is not getting the T. rex on the boat, but when the boat crashes in California and the rex gets loose.
Or, wait. What was I talking about?
So rather than deal directly with the irrationality inherent in trying to get two (or seven) of every creature in the world onto a wooden boat of a stated size, this apologist first paints himself into a corner by accepting the existence of dinosaurs (because fossil evidence shows dinosaurs existed) but denies the timescale of their existence (which is primarily based on, er, the same fossil evidence). Then, instead of leaving it there, he suggests that a completely different type of container which happens to share the same synonymic label (in a language which wouldn't exist for at least another three thousand years, derived from a language which itself wouldn't exist for almost two thousand years) must have been bigger than we thought it was (based on a story told in the same book that described the animals and their container), concluding that there was room in the boat for all the animals after all! So magic is used to explain magic, but through such a tangle of denial, supposition and irrationality that no-one except another True Believer could ever accept it.
Surely the danger with this (and arguably most) apologetics is that it risks alienating the regular believers who might otherwise hold some degree of sympathy for the True Believer's viewpoint? The apologetic must have so much of his life invested in maintaining this fiction that he lives in utter fear of the walls of cognitive dissonance crashing down, and will do *anything* to avoid that.
As for myself, I still want to know how long it took the penguins to swim from Antarctica to Suez. Or did Noah himself sail down to Antarctica, capture a number of each kind and take them back home. And did he pick up lemurs and leopards on the way, or did that require a separate trip because his first boat wasn't dimensionally transcendental enough?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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