Timeline for Where did Noah find polar bears and penguins in Palestine, according to those who accept a global flood?
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| Aug 12, 2018 at 2:50 | comment | added | Tricky Sam | The volume of the ark would have been a little over 1.5 million cubic feet. By contrast, an elephant (full grown) as about 200 cubic feet. A squirrel is about .02 cubic feet. I'm not sure the ark has to magically expand. | |
| Jan 28, 2014 at 20:47 | comment | added | Chelonian | @Jeff I don't think so; look at the front page--the most recent questions--and tell me if most of those are answered sensibly by, "Because God says so.". For example: "What do Christians mean by a 'personal relationship' with Jesus?". Etc. But yes, for quite a few of the questions, I understand how my answer could be seen as incurious. | |
| Jan 28, 2014 at 16:17 | comment | added | Jeff | If the people on this site were to accept the answer that "God can do anything at any time. Why bother questioning it?", this whole site would be irrelevant. Every answer for every question, "Because God says so." | |
| Feb 22, 2012 at 1:49 | comment | added | Affable Geek | Oh, and my daughter and I both heartily approve of the Doctor reference ;) | |
| Feb 22, 2012 at 1:48 | comment | added | Affable Geek | Fair enough, but I guess I would still stress that while omnipotence is the ultimate answer, to rely on a base definition of it will appear to many as a cop out. I do want to make clear, I think you're right, but I'm not sure the answer adds much. God doesn't do magic, he does miracles. | |
| Feb 22, 2012 at 1:14 | comment | added | Chelonian | @AffableGeek My answer was a direct response to the OP saying the account of Noah's Ark seemed "implausible", and so my discussion of omnipotence was intended to obviate the concern of implausibility. Maybe, instead, what remains in your mind is not a doubt that it is plausible but a wonder at by what intermediary means God brought about the ark events, just out of curiosity about the "style" of the creator. Something like that? | |
| Feb 21, 2012 at 21:47 | comment | added | Affable Geek | Isaac Newton felt called by God to understand how God worked the miracles of Creation. Fundamentally, scientists - Christians amongst many of the founders - are not satisfied with the "miracle" explanation, not because they don't believe it, but because it shuts of inquiry. Jesus himself asked a lot of questions, so it isn't like God doesn't want the questions asked or investigated. So, to answer your query, Christians ask how miracles, etc... occur because we want to understand how God works more fully. That's how we all learn. | |
| Feb 21, 2012 at 20:24 | history | edited | Chelonian | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
changed "omnscient" to "omnipotent" of course.
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| Feb 21, 2012 at 19:18 | history | answered | Chelonian | CC BY-SA 3.0 |