Along these lines...
This past weekend we (the family) watched the first day of the convention, which includes an interesting dramatic Bible reading on Noah...
While listening to this, and viewing pictures of the animals perfectly lined up and marching into the ark...all I could think is, there's no flippin way that a man and a few members of his family could coral all of these wild animals like this. Last weekend we visited a nature reserve that had cheetahs...they were kept behind barbed wire fences and common sense tells you that if you got too close to these creatures it would eat your face off...You mean to tell me that Noah just said "Hey come on you guys, queue on up" to LIONS, GIRAFFES, HIPPOS, EAGLES, ALLIGATORS?? maybe with some bait...MAYBE!!
So, as I'm thinking these thoughts in my head. I'm sitting next to my husband, who says out loud "Isn't it amazing that these animals just KNEW what to do. Their instinct kicked in and, I bet Noah didn't have to do anything"...Like the animals suddenly had some divine inspiration to get on the ark??? This blew my mind because...from what I know at least, JW doctrine teaches sort of the opposite right? Only man was made with the desire to know and worship Jehovah...not animals? right? anyway...that was bizarre...
Another thing my husband tries to teach myself and the kids as absolute truth is that animals eat each other and are only violent and vicious because humans started eating them...As in when man asked Jehovah if they can eat meat, and he set forth the way to do it and whats clean and unclean etc. So before that no human ever ate meat, and that only then did animals start imitating humans and become vicious...So that's why in paradise when we stop eating them it will tame them...and its our fault in the first place...
Third, and I think my last thing that he believes and teaches us all is that Carbon Dating is flawed because of the flood. Since the "mist" surrounding the earth was blocking or filtering the Sun, the way that it aged things is off, and after the flood when the mist rained down and was gone, the SUN and it's UV rays or whatever, like roasted all the fossils so everything seems much older than it actually is.....
Have fun with that!
