Awake! Watching the World: Noah's gonna need a bigger boat...

by unshackled 15 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  unshackled

  This is from the August Awake! - Watching the World:

  Biodiversity in AmazoniaThe Amazon River basin is one of the
  areas in the world with the greatest known
  biodiversity. Over the past decade, more than1,200 species of plants and animals—fish, amphibians,
  reptiles, birds, and mammals—were
  discovered and classified there, says a World
  Wildlife Fund (WWF) report. This means
  that, on average, a new species is discoveredin Amazonia every three days. “The number
  of discoveries of new species is just amazing,”
  says Sarah Hutchison, WWF coordinator in
  Brazil, “and this does not include the many
  groups of insects that are discovered.”

  Oh the irony. The GB touting the wonders of Jehovah's creations, the incredible diversity of life and massive amount of species there are. But yet say Noah got all those species on the his big ass boat? If modern scientists are still discovering species every day....how did Noah find them all so easily? What about all the insects? The 250,000 species of beetles?

  Of course the rank & file never see this. That would require the ability to rationalize, or even think for yourself. And the Dubs consider themselves the most educated people on the planet.
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  keyser soze

  This doesn't even include all the species that have since become extinct. I always wondered why God would allow that to happen after Noah went to so much work to preserve them.
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  TD

  The Writing Department has been slipping stuff like that in for years and years. I suspect that some of them get a certain enjoyment out of it.
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  sir82

  Standard JW response: Noah didn't load "every species" onto the ark, just "every kind". There was a beetle "kind" that was on the ark, and so Noah didn't need 250,000 pairs.

  At that point they hope you shut up and go away, because they have no response to these salient points:

  -- Well, if 250,000 beetle species arose from one beetle "kind", isn't that exactly the defintion of evolution?

  -- And, given the WTS timetable for the flood, those 250,000 species have developed in a period of 4400 years, a rate astronomically faster than any scientist proposes (and of course physically impossible).

  Did I say they have no response? That's not entirely true. Their response would be either "Well, clearly you're not honest-hearted", or maybe even "Clearly you are an apostate".
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  TD

  Another good example lies in the fact that conservative elements within JW's still believe that the entire antidiluvian ecology was vegetarian and they believe that one day the entire ecology will be again. The restoration prophecies of Isaiah are construed to be a description of animal diets in the "New Order."

  However more liberal elements within JW's know this is utter hogwash and routinely slip in examples of the "Creator's wisdom" that completely violate the idea of an all vegetarian ecology. The sea anemone and the anemone shrimp; The shark and cleaner fish; The water buffalo and the ox-pecker bird; The natural "Sanitation squad" made up of scanvengers who dispose of dead bodies are four examples that have appeared in JW literature.

  Either the animals were created that way from the beginning or they were not. If they were created that way from the beginning, then the antidiluvian world could not possibly have been completely vegetarian. But if they were not created that way from the beginning, then these are not legitimate examples of the "Creator's wisdom."
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  baltar447

  Now if it was REALLY a DNA "Ark" Then that would be more interesting...
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  unshackled

  This doesn't even include all the species that have since become extinct.

  Good point, keyser. I believe it is something like 95% of all species that have been on earth are now extinct.

  -- Well, if 250,000 beetle species arose from one beetle "kind", isn't that exactly the defintion of evolution?

  sir82...Exactly...the whole "kind" argument doesn't hold water as well as Noah's wooden Ark would take on water. To admit that only kinds were taken aboard means that there had to be incredibly rapid evolution for the diverfication we have today.
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  Black Sheep

  No wonder it took Adam over 35 years to name them all.
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  Mad Sweeney

  To admit that only kinds were taken aboard means that there had to be incredibly rapid evolution for the diverfication we have today.

  Yup. And that's why the JW stand on evolution is so incredibly hypocritical. Their belief in Noah's ark demands evolution. Yet they deny evolution in the very next breath. It would almost be sad if it weren't so annoyingly stupid.
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  ziddina

  TP: "The Writing Department has been slipping stuff like that in for years and years. I suspect that some of them get a certain enjoyment out of it. ..."

  It makes their literature sound "scientific" and slightly less crazy rational to the potential convert...

  Zid