I observed that an atheist had written:
"Stop, look up. See that commercial airliner? It's at a cruising altitude of 30,000 ft. Obviously the cabin is pressurised and heated in order to keep passengers and crew alive.
"Mt. Everest is 29,029 ft high. Add a few ft to that and up there you're almost at the height of that jet (the bible says God flooded the earth to a few ft above the highest mountain) and you're seriously telling me you believe the world was flooded to that height because a bronze age book told you to believe it!? So for an entire year Noah and the entire world's animal, bird and fish populations lived on an ark IN the death zone where no human has ever survived long because there isn't enough oxygen and heat to sustain human life."
End of the atheist's rant.
End of the atheist's rant.
Well, I too am an atheist so we had something in common but I still wrote in reply.
"Although I don't go along with the ridiculous story of Noah and the flood, you are completely wrong when you talk about the death zone Noah would have found himself in.
"You see, the rising sea level would push up the Earth's atmosphere along with the ark so the thickness and temperature of the surrounding air would be similar to that at normal sea level. It would still be hotter at the equator and colder at the poles, too.
"Just thought you'd like to know that I'm not entirely biased in my views."
