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[@enumaelish6751]

*The Enuma Elish would later be the inspiration for the Hebrew scribes who created the text now known as the biblical Book of Genesis.* Prior to the 19th century CE, the Bible was considered the oldest book in the world and its narratives were thought to be completely original. In the mid-19th century CE, however, European museums, as well as academic and religious institutions, sponsored excavations in Mesopotamia to find physical evidence for historical corroboration of the stories in the Bible. ***These excavations found quite the opposite, however, in that, once cuneiform was translated, it was understood that a number of biblical narratives were Mesopotamian in origin.*** *Famous stories such as the Fall of Man and the Great Flood were originally conceived and written down in Sumer,* translated and modified later in Babylon, and reworked by the Assyrians ***before they were used by the Hebrew scribes for the versions which appear in the Bible.*** ***In revising the Mesopotamian creation story for their own ends, the Hebrew scribes tightened the narrative and the focus but retained the concept of the all-powerful deity who brings order from chaos.*** Marduk, in the Enuma Elish, establishes the recognizable order of the world - *just as God does in the Genesis tale* - and human beings are expected to recognize this great gift and honor the deity through service. *"Enuma Elish - The Babylonian Epic of Creation - Full Text - World History Encyclopedia"* *"Sumerian Is the World's Oldest Written Language | ProLingo"* *"Sumerian Civilization: Inventing the Future - World History Encyclopedia"* ("The Sumerians were the people of southern Mesopotamia whose civilization flourished between c. 4100-1750 BCE." "Ancient Israelites and their origins date back to 1800-1200 BCE.") *"The Myth of Adapa - World History Encyclopedia"* Also discussed by Professor Christine Hayes at Yale University in her 1st lecture of the series on the Hebrew Bible from 8:50 to 14:30 minutes, lecture 3 from 28:30 to 41:35 minutes, lecture 4 from 0:00 up to 21:30 minutes and 24:00 up to 35:30 minutes and lecture 7 from 24:20 to 25:10 minutes. From a Biblical scholar: "Many stories in the ancient world have their origins in other stories and were borrowed and modified from other or earlier peoples. *For instance, many of the stories now preserved in the Bible are* ***modified*** *versions of stories that existed in the cultures and traditions of Israel’s* ***older*** *contemporaries.* Stories about the creation of the universe, a cataclysmic universal flood, digging wells as land markers, the naming of important cultic sites, gods giving laws to their people, and even stories about gods decreeing the possession of land to their people were all part of the cultural and literary matrix of the ancient Near East. *Biblical scribes freely* ***adopted and modified*** *these stories as a means to express their own identity, origins, and customs."* *"Stories from the Bible"* by Dr Steven DiMattei, from his website *"Biblical Contradictions"* ------------------------------------------------------------------ In addition, look up the below articles. *"Genesis 1:1-2 --- not a creation ex nihilo"* - Dr Steven DiMattei (Especially the first six paragraphs) *"Yahweh was just an ancient Canaanite god. We have been deceived! - Escaping Christian Fundamentalism"* *"Hammurabi - World History Encyclopedia"* (Hammurabi (r. 1792-1750 BCE) was the sixth king of the Amorite First Dynasty of Babylon best known for his famous law code which served as the model for others, *including the Mosaic Law of the Bible.)* *"Debunking the Devil - Michael A. Sherlock (Author)"* *"The Greatest Trick Religion Ever Pulled: Convincing Us That Satan Exists | Atheomedy"* *"Zoroastrianism And Persian Mythology: The Foundation Of Belief"* (Scroll to the last section: Zoroastrianism is the Foundation of Western Belief) *"10 Ways The Bible Was Influenced By Other Religions - Listverse"* *"January | 2014 | Atheomedy"* - Where the Hell Did the Idea of Hell Come From? *"Retired bishop explains the reason why the Church invented "Hell" - Ideapod"* Watch *"The Origins of Salvation, Judgement and Hell"* by Derreck Bennett at Atheologica (Sensitive theists should only watch from 7:00 to 17:30 minutes as evangelical Christians are lambasted. He's a former theist and has been studying the scholarship and comparative religions for over 15 years) *"Top Ten Reasons Noah’s Flood is Mythology - The Sensuous Curmudgeon"* *"Forget about Noah's Ark; There Was No Worldwide Flood | Bible Interp"* *"The Search for Noah’s Flood - Biblical Archaeology Society"* *"Eridu Genesis - World History Encyclopedia"* *"The Atrahasis Epic: The Great Flood & the Meaning of Suffering - World History Encyclopedia"* Watch *"How Aron Ra Debunks Noah's Flood"* (8 part series debunking Noah's flood using multiple branches of science) *"The Adam and Eve myth - News24"* *"Before Adam and Eve - Psychology Today"* *"Gilgamesh vs. Noah - Wordpress"* *"Old Testament Tales Were Stolen From Other Cultures - Griffin"* *"Parallelism between “The Hymn to Aten” and Psalm 104 - Project Augustine"* *"Studying the Bible"* - by Dr Steven DiMattei (This particular article from a critical Biblical scholar highlights how the authors of the Hebrew Bible used their *fictional* god as a mouthpiece for their own views and ideologies) *"How do we know that the biblical writers were* ***not*** *writing history?"* -- by Dr Steven DiMattei *"Contradictions in the Bible | Identified verse by verse and explained using the most up-to-date scholarly information about the Bible, its texts, and the men who wrote them"* -- by Dr. Steven DiMattei

[@DeconvertedMan]

Epic research! :O

[@jameswright...]

​​@@doanepoole6640 No! And so what anyway.

[@noone3216]

@@enumaelish6751 "Sensitive theists should only watch from 7:00 to 17:30". It's actually kinda cute that you think theists would even make it to the end of your first paragraph 🥲 I, however, will be screenshotting this comment and reading/watching all of that! 🤘😎🤘

[@mdug7224]

Slay❤

[@encarnacionvillazana3270]

I had no idea you could type such a long comment! Lol Good part about it is that it reveals Facts, unlike "tales", that makes people "believe " what is real and what's just exaggerated stories. Religion is man made, truth is logic and logic is life. 👍👍

[@daughterofyith5393]

"Noah's Ark is a ridiculous fable that is indefensible scientifically, logically, and even theologically." I would also add morally - there is no scenario in which an almighty deity that can literally do _anything_ has to resort to mass genocide in such an inhumane way.

[@paulmyers5600]

I missed seeing Aran Ra’s videos. I’m glad he hasn’t stopped making content, especially in these crazy times.

[@thedrunkshinobi]

"If you're still trying to make believe that there was a flood. Trying to convince yourself that it happened when we've already proved that it couldn't and didn't. Then you are trying to be stupid." - AronRa Exactly, couldn't have said it better.

[@NorthForkFisherman]

I'd also say that they are succeeding at being stupid. Just look at those wankers.

[@Sergiu.antifascist]

if you never had a water pipe broken, you cannot understand flood. flood is real

[@NorthForkFisherman]

@@Sergiu.antifascist "Real" but not global.

[@pete_lind]

Noah boat can be debunked by Aardvarks , termite eaters, needing 30 000 termites a day and Ant eaters , needing 30 000 ants a day , ants and termites dont like each other, and Noah needed hundreds of colonies each on a wooden ship, a ant or a termite dont eat much individually, 20 mil of those is another story.

[@Sergiu.antifascist]

@@pete_lind interesting that you bring it here, forgetting Dog put the termits in a room with best taste wood as fuel. Dog is wise

[@Dan_C604]

I still remember my times of believer….. we listened to those preachers or priests, we never checked, we never questioned…. Until we did.

[@John-771]

I remember at a young age saying, "Why do people think this way". I was young and didn't phrase my question correctly. I truly meant why do people believe this. My step father in front of a lot of people back handed me so hard I had to be carried to the van. Long story short he then made it clear at the dinner table.... "YOU NEVER QUESTION ANYONES BELIEF".. I swear I became a skeptic after that and couldn't trust anything I was told. After thought before posting this. My mother taught us that no one had a right to touch us or abuse us. She was a hypocrite and married him shortly after, the abuse continued... I just remember so many hypocrisy's growing up and they all stem from religion.

[@jvalfin3359]

I work on the largest cruise ship in the world (Icon of the Seas and it's subsequent iterations) and it can house about 10 000 people if you cram it hard enough. Even so, it can't sail for a year at a time, not even close. Now build a wooden boat half the size filled with a FEW people and a million carnivores and herbivores FOR A YEAR. Even if I explain this to creationists as a shipbuilding professional, they always move the goalposts like "what if it was a special kind of wood that can endure the strain? What if the carnivores ate plants at that time?" Listen guys, the fact you have to invent mystical materials to break the laws of physics is already indicating your loss. If they have to deny all reality to make this fantasy true, our options are running low.

[@jpstardom3375]

I aint even a professional boat builder but i can already say that putting live animals in a place without proper ventilation is bad. I mean we had a farm, We had chickens, pigs and ducks, that's 3 species... three... We have open air environment. And still it stunk if we dont clean their poop every few hours or so. And the creationist would have you believe that thousands of species in a boat with one window is somehow doable 🤦‍♂️

[@thedave1771]

Love it.

[@levelhumor2nd790]

Untapishtim’s story of the flood myth (Epic of Gilgamesh) is more believable, but he does become immortal at the end🤷

[@thedave1771]

@ I would become immortal by the end too, if I were whipping up a story for people to worship me.

[@kellydalstok8900]

Even life on a modern cruise ship has its problems. How many times has it been reported that passengers were suffering en masse from diarrhoea.

[@elainejohnson6955]

I spit out my drink laughing while I was watching a video of Aron Ra explaining that since Noah's Ark only had one window, the 8 people on it would have almost immediately died from methane gas poisoning from the animals farting and pooping!

[@xxreaper1998xx]

"Now that's a lot of shit." -Aron Ra.

[@invaderhorizongreen8168]

also all that pee elephants rhinos and hippos make GALLONS every time they go. Also most pee is acidic as well.

[@aahhhhhhhhhhhhh]

In reality Noah and his family died the first day at sea and the unguarded animals eventually escaped from their cages. One year later a massive wooden composter was spotted on land.

[@Llortnerof]

@@aahhhhhhhhhhhhh The animals aren't exactly immune to methane poisoning. They ain't goin' anywhere. Not that it matters since the flood would have immediately obliterated the Ark anyway. People imagine heavy rain. It would have been more like a high-pressure water beam hammering down on the entire surface of Earth to reach the levels claimed in the time available.

[@user1522p]

Don't forget that some dodos believe that dinosaurs were on the ark.

[@richardkatz8713]

Thanks Aron for valuing truth over wealth via grift

[@Sergiu.antifascist]

what truth?

[@richardkatz8713]

@Sergiu.antifascist Ancient ,holy books are not the place to find truth.

[@yanisrigaudy5469]

​@@Sergiu.antifascist the truth that religions are wrong about every significant claim they make about science, history and the universe.

[@Sergiu.antifascist]

@@yanisrigaudy5469 it is you who are wrong about religion

[@Dayna-cd3zj]

​@@Sergiu.antifascist I've read several of your comments in multiple threads.....not once have you provided evidence of jack squat....all that is forthcoming from you is fallacies, logical fallacies, claims and assertions.

[@robertcartier5088]

_"The time to give up on that myth was the same age as when you gave up on Santa Claus... and for some of the same reasons, too!"_ Love it!

[@aarons6935]

But Santa only comes to your home when you're sleeping, that's why no ones ever seen him!! Jeez...

[@robertcartier5088]

@aarons6935 I'm Canadian... The North Pole is within our territory. Trust me, if a tubby sweatshop running elf was living there, rent free, we'd fucking _know_ about it! 😁

[@aarons6935]

@robertcartier5088 Nuh uh, he's magic remember! Flys around the world in one night

[@robertcartier5088]

@@aarons6935 Only a woo believer would confuse simple timetravel technology for "magic" ... 🤔🙄🤷‍♂️

[@aarons6935]

@robertcartier5088 No, he's magic. My faith in Santa is proof of it.

[@Desertphile]

There has never been an honest Creationist.

[@Kualinar]

#GottaLieForGod

[@NorthForkFisherman]

Maybe a few thousand years ago when they didn't have the amount of information we do today, but certainly none since the first time we looked back at the Earth and saw how small and lonely we were in the darkness.

[@TheReaverOfDarkness]

I was an honest creationist once. It lasted for the duration of my questioning phase until my questions got answered. That was a good couple years because it took a while to realize I just wasn't going to get answers from Christians, and to then find who does have the answers. My sophomore biology teacher had the answers.

[@Sergiu.antifascist]

since when?

[@NorthForkFisherman]

@@TheReaverOfDarkness Do you have any idea how goddamn rare you are? Once that becomes part of your identity it's very hard to break. I salute you.

[@aldebaran4154]

And this video on the same day I wake up, turn on my computer, and see "Scientists decipher 3000 year-old map to find 'location of Noah's Ark'" story from Metro UK. No skepticism involved,. just taken as bald fact with an actual quote from a bleeding creationist scientist whom, hilariously enough, disagrees because the mountain involved would have been created by the great flood. Comedy with a big slice of UGH! Thank you Aron, for bringing the brain into this obvious fable.

[@machinegod3000]

My argument against a ship of the Ark´s size is the ship Wyoming from the early 1900´s. It was the last wooden clipper, and it had alot of problems ...twisting, bending, leaking. And now imagine such a ship in bronze/stone age technology.

[@thedave1771]

But were you THeeeEEeRRrrrReee?

[@KeithRadzik-o9x]

I have a pretty good idea exactly 'what' they plugged all the seams with as these true believers seem to spout an endless supply of it, and not from the orifice you would typically expect it to emerge from, truly a 'miracle'!

[@aralornwolf3140]

@@KeithRadzik-o9x, Unicorn flatulence produces rainbows though..

[@Reece-u3f]

I’m a simple man , Aron Ra makes another ark video and I watch it. I appreciate such indepth takedowns of such an obviously impossible event. So glad I live across the sea from all this religious lunacy. On another note I hope they all spend their time praying instead of voting next week. Hope things improve for you guys soon. All the best from over the Atlantic 💙

[@danielirvin4420]

Ditto from Canada. Best of luck America.

[@user-pw6ei2mn7x]

👏👏👏🍀🍀🍀💙💙💙

[@ianfisk01]

Dutko lies about the “Could Noah’s Ark Float? In Theory, Yes” Smithsonian Magazine article! It was 4 physics students (not structural engineers) who published in a student-run journal. They only found that the ark could float which is not “seaworthy”. A seaworthy ship can sail on actual seas. That mythical keel-less, rudder-less, unpowered box would capsize in a real sea with real waves. The students did not include food or water for the animals (or humans) and seem to have ignored the need for access to their 2.15 million sheep mass.

[@Llortnerof]

Who cares about waves, the Ark would simply have been filled up with water and sunk in a matter of seconds. People seem to always forget to do the calculations on just how much water is coming down.

[@kevinshort3943]

It would also be considerably lager than the biggest "wooden" ship ever built. The biggest wooden ship ever built sunk, because it flexed too much, and it was reinforced with iron, unlike the ark (unless you count Ham's ark lol)

[@Axel_Andersen]

@@kevinshort3943 This!

[@rimmersbryggeri]

You should watch Irving Finkels presentation on the ark, it is truly inspired and brilliant. Also realistic unlike the bible.

[@KreemieNewgatt]

While I stopped the Patreon thing when I retired, I still appreciate the hard work you put in to your videos and refer ppl to them as needed (which is all too often, unfortunately 🙁)

[@AronRa]

Thank you sincerely.

[@Lady8D]

@KreemieNewgatt Thank you for contributing to the channel in all the ways you and others have & do! I'm physically disabled in the US (aka broke af) so I very much appreciate people like you doing what I can't afford to (as there's no tone via text: I'm being sincere here)

[@minihalkoja590]

I remember in first grade as we were getting dressed up for recess after a "religious education" class which had just covered Noah's Ark, a good number of us kids had a simple question in mind: "How did the kangaroos get to the ark from Australia?" We knew nothing of where the ark was supposed to be, nothing about ship designs, nothing about how much food animals need etc. A simple question from the mind of a first grader poked a huge hole into the story. I'm not sure if anyone had the guts to ask the teacher that, nor do I remember an answer, but I would guess that she maybe pulled the miracle card and that was that. She was a good teacher though. She never even attempted to push any religious beliefs on us. (It was a secular school, by the way)

[@MagnaOmerta]

They're so proud to say the people of the Bible had all this knowledge beyond their time, but god couldn't give them basic germ theory or antibiotics

[@kellydalstok8900]

Even Jebus didn’t know that washing your hands is a sensible thing to do.

[@fortitudevalance8424]

Any ship builder would say that the Ark, or wooden floating box, would not survive the punishment of such a brutal flooding event. I’ve asked a guy who is a woodwork engineer and worked on the USS Constitution, HMS Victory, Mary Rose, the Cutty Sark’s restoration (tea clipper in dry dock in London that caught fire recently) and Sweden’s Vasa. He says that it’s simply not possible to haul a wooden box around a rough ocean with planet Venus-like air pressure with thousands of animals on board. A total fantasy and impossibility.

[@vladdestroyer5177]

anecdotal evidence be anecdotal

[@PeteOtton]

@@vladdestroyer5177 And the bible isn't even that.

[@aralornwolf3140]

@@vladdestroyer5177, Since the largest wooden ship ever constructed (still smaller than the ark) required water pumps going 24/7 to prevent the ship from sinking, in _calm_ water, sank in a storm... while _anchored_ in a bay. I think we can assume your ark will sink even faster as it lacks the water pumps...

[@vladdestroyer5177]

@@aralornwolf3140 :(

[@vladdestroyer5177]

@@aralornwolf3140 :(

[@scottthomas3792]

Some of the largest wooden ships were ice haulers on the Great Lakes, and they had iron reenforced structures, and a large crew, no doubt. I suppose they were wood because it's a fair insulator. Two jobs ago, I was part of a crew that took a 60 hp electric motor to a small poultry farm. It had three huge air handlers that kept the place ventilated. The loss of one was bad enough, the loss of two would have been catastrophic...so, an unventilated boat full of animals? With no real lighting inside? No propulsion, steering, or way to navigate?..a crew of six? Not gonna happen.

[@PeteOtton]

The SS Wyoming the largest wooden ship was lost in a storm when she foundered and she leaked like a sieve.

[@Syrnian]

The 450 foot long metal reinforced wooden schooner Wyoming flexed and leaked so much pumps had to constantly run to keep it "dry". It sank with a loss of all hands. That was an actual boat that was powered(sails) and steerable. Wood BENDS! The Ark, as described in the Bible, was a wooden box, not a boat.

[@bloodyhatter2692]

Thank you. I say this all the time.

[@agimasoschandir]

Metal bends... One can float like a boat in a wooden box. Problem is, the Ark was too big

[@prestonbacchus4204]

Consider that maybe the story is not intended literally, and that is the reason it fails on so many levels when taken literally. It has to mean something else. Consider that this is a religious tale that tells the coded story of a religious splinter group that broke off from the main group. In the story, Noah observed that the main group was being swallowed up by the "sinful" ways of the prevailing culture which, like a rising tide, Noah predicted would wash them away losing their identity as a religious group. Noah broke off with a group of young members, couples, from different backgrounds (like Reverend Moon or something), making a new church said to be more holy or something. Perhaps the ark is really a house of worship. It has nothing to do with a real flood.

[@resourcedragon]

The thing is, they actually knew how to build boats back then. That possibly tells us a bit about who _wrote_ that version of the story, it was someone who lived in the desert and had never seen so much as a rubber raft or a barbed wire canoe (paddles not supplied) to make his way up Shit Creek.

[@davidjohnson3913]

Yeah, but the Wyoming had to travel from point A to point B, had to turn, dock, load, unload. All the Ark would have to do is 'float' and not sink for 7 1/2 months. Totally different from carrying coal from New England to France, for example. Granted, eventually the Ark would start leaking anyway. Just.... would it leak so much that it sank in under 7 1/2 months?

[@andyf4292]

the fun part is what the seas's would be doing. the only unobstructed area of sea now is the southern circumpolar one. and that can get , a bit 'exciteable' .like 100 foot waves. during a Flood. All of the oceans would be like that. that magic zoo boat would be thrown around like a child's bath-toy. the hogging and sagging would disassemble it very quickly

[@chrisose]

Thank you AronRa for continually voicing the frustrations of those of us who have not surrendered our critical thinking skills.

[@michaelpudney]

Religion is the traditional stuffing placed in the unacceptable void of not knowing.

[@tammyburton8289]

❤hey Aaron thank you for continuing to educate the world, people really need it ❤❤❤

[@Gordy-io8sb]

His name is Aron.

[@tammyburton8289]

@Gordy-io8sb lol thank you for pointing that out as you are the second or third to tell me yet i still made the same mistake lol 🤗 idk why i thought he spelt his name starting with Aa 😅my apologies Aron 🥰 and ty to the reply from people correcting me ❤️❤️❤️

[@silentotto5099]

Pearl divers in the Arabian Sea and Persian Gulf had known about undersea springs since ancient times. They even used them as a source of fresh water when they were out fishing. They'd take an empty goat skin, swim down to a spring and hold the skin over the spring until if filled up.

[@Trainfan1055Janathan]

I used to believe in Noah's flood until I read an article explaining how scientists are constantly discovering new animals. I remember thinking, "But he would have to fit animals we haven't even discovered yet in the ark. For every new animal that gets discovered, that's two more animals that would have to fit in the ark."

[@BaronVonQuiply]

This is the kind of ship I subscribed for

[@AlbertaGeek]

Take my upvote and choke on it.

[@aerlumronWASTELANDPRIVATEER]

"But wait, there's more!" ha ha ha . . . there always is.

[@Legions_666]

Keep these videos coming Aron! You literally make my morning everyday. Greetings from Midland Texas! 😎🤘

[@Monika77ful]

For the one and only true god: hail to the almighty algorithm.

[@johnboettcher1962]

I’m not a Christian anymore. Why? Because - when I finally let myself accept that the Noah tale was a proper lie (I knew it wasn’t true), I realized that it all was. You helped. 🍻

[@ApostateMike-41]

"Faith is believing in something that no man in his right mind would believe in" - Archie Bunker

[@Sergiu.antifascist]

yes, it is more than any atheist intelligence

[@ApostateMike-41]

@@Sergiu.antifascist You obviously didn't get the quote. 😂😂😂😂😂

[@Sergiu.antifascist]

@@ApostateMike-41 it is you who missassociate. faith is more than atheist intelligence

[@starfishsystems]

​@@Sergiu.antifascist Repeated Bare Assertion fallacy. Bzzt. That's two shots into your own net. Well done!

[@Sergiu.antifascist]

@@starfishsystems you stupid or something?

[@resourcedragon]

"Lightning, snow and hail in warehouses" sounds like something Kat Kerr would come up with!

[@kellydalstok8900]

It’s Frau Holle from the Grimm brothers’ fairytale collection who makes it snow.

[@AlexisThePangolin]

Arons Mic and Camera quality has very much gone up over the years god last time i actively watched your channel your mic was like 1/2 this quality this is great more than good enough imo

[@jmcg9329]

Reading the story of Noah in the Bible is a mentally frustrating task because it contradicts itself so much that you can’t even keep the basics of the story straight.

[@rickmartin7596]

Make a list of the events that happen twice. It is two stories from two tribes woven together by a later editor.

[@kellydalstok8900]

The bible has several of these merged together stories. Probably because they couldn’t tell which ones were written by god and they didn’t want to accidentally throw out the sacred ones.

[@doctorwebman]

I wish Aron Ra was the pastor of my church back when I was growing up. Worship would have been a hoot. Nothing like headbanging to Leper Messiah just before sitting down to learn about cladistics. I definitively would have put a twenty in the collection plate, which I always thought would have been better if it had chips and dip in it.

[@Diceman82]

The typical max size a Wooden ship is around 300 feet or so, usually not even that long as Spanish/English Galleon class ships typically were 100-150 ft and were friggin massive for their day.Once you get past 300ft you get a lot of issues with warping of the wood and eventually breaking. The Wyoming Schooner leaked a lot, had to be damn near repaired daily and was held together with hard metals not remotely available in the bronze/prebronze age. We don't even have to touch theology to know the ship was bullshit; professional ship builders at the time knew this.

[@aarons6935]

The fact they knew a Wooden ships limitations 500 years ago and we're still having this conversation with people is mind blowing.

[@maledikt]

@@aarons6935 Let's face it, 500 years ago, conversations poking holes in these myths would prove hazardous to one's health. Pissing off the church could get you excommunicated, and the rest of the peasantry would not deal with you out of fear of the church (at least in Europe).

[@aarons6935]

@maledikt Thats facts.

[@kayhynds1869]

I'm so disgusted and tired of these liars.

[@Sergiu.antifascist]

then you are weak

[@kayhynds1869]

@ and you are a miserable little man. 😀

[@philipjessop6559]

Having crewed one of those floating death traps. I can tell you the arc story is a load of crap The animals would have been dead before they had finished loading.

[@barrybelcher6678]

But you forget God miracled the mother fucker😅😅😅

[@littlefurrow2437]

Australia can barely get a load of live sheep to Indonesia.

[@zacharylehocki]

Noah`s ark was actually the first thing that made me start deconstructing my faith and AronRa reminds me why! Thank you for being such a voice for reason my Man!

[@michaelmccoy1794]

Might I add, Aron, that this series, like all of your priceless content, is available for the low, LOW price of FREE! 😊

[@Richard-b5r9v]

Noah's Ark is just that : A STORY

[@thedave1771]

And not an especially good one.

[@user-pw6ei2mn7x]

A “shocking “ story 🍀🍀🍀

[@CatsMeowPaw]

I've never understood the whole concept that if something is written down and is old, then it must be true. Especially if the writer declares themselves to be correct. This applies to any text, religious or otherwise. I've met people who worship ancient people because they allegedly were so much smarter than we are today. No, just no. As a thought experiment, if I write down some claims now, no matter how absurd or fictional they are, do they automatically become true in a thousand years?

[@Letmedoubt]

Been enjoying this one quite a bit. I don’t know why the analysis of lies of this particular preacher is so fun.

[@freddan6fly]

10:00 Correction, AronRa, also engineering wise it would be impossible (with a Noah's Ark). I made a rough calculation on the building time of Noah's ark. If the eight people would not sleep or take a break, or harvest wood for building the boat, and the size of the boat would be limited to the size of Wyoming, giving it the 1:100 of the needed size, it would take 1.250.000 years to build with the tools available for Noah and family.

[@Sableagle]

A boat the size of Wyoming?!? Oh, wait, the _Wyoming,_ the clipper. Okay. Carry on.

[@antondovydaitis2261]

The first time I was ever physically attacked by believers was when I debunked Noah's Ark for my third grade science presentation.

[@julians9763]

Iam very pleased withe responses of Aron Ra.

[@DavidSmith-xs3or]

Aron, you're right about how rich you could be if you lost your sense of ethics, morals and your knowledge of science and the natural world and became like Dutko. But it would help if you spent the rest of your life shouting in that bombastic, dramatic preacher's voice you often use to ridicule these grifters.

[@thomasdattilo3591]

If you act now, Bob will throw in a rubber ark with sponge shaped animals for bath time fun. Just add 19.99 for shipping and handling

[@Evolution.1859]

I’m interested in your rubber ark and would like more ordering information. However, I am concerned that all the animals are sponge shaped. Could you please list the scientific kinds that are included besides the sponge kind? Thank you for reading this stupid joke.😂

[@adambomb30]

Do you take C.O.D?

[@alexhajnal107]

@@adambomb30 That sounds fishy.

[@blw4089]

Lmao

[@paulvalenti5763]

Thank Odin for a new Dumb-ko episode!

[@paulvalenti5763]

One time on his own show, one of Dutko's guests laughed at him for seriously saying there were dinosaurs on the ark

[@markborder906]

The one good thing about this preacher’s video is the number of empty seats visible.

[@RexfelisLXIX]

Well met. Don't forget to leave a like.

[@ScorpioNick]

In about a thousand years, assuming humans are somehow still around, it's amusing to think that there could be a story about a magical spaceship made of wood.

[@missk1697]

There already is one - God's vehicle in the book of Ezekiel.

[@aralornwolf3140]

Well... Space Battleship Yamato exists. Then there are the old Star Wars comics which had Space _Galleons_ complete with sail plans...

[@Dianasaurthemelonlord7777]

This video just goes to show everything Dutko says is Bull-ship

[@ianfisk01]

At 7:04 Dutko lies again about the Smithsonian magazine article! It says the physics students used the biblical dimensions. There is no mention of his exploring all possible box dimensions and finding that the biblical ones were best. The recording does not mention this.

[@alexhajnal107]

03:24 _"non-believing atheist engineers"_ In my experience engineers tend towards theism whilst scientists tend towards atheism/agnosticism.

[@danielrooney431]

I appreciate your videos so much I've learned a lot watching all the great content you've made and look forward to seeing more fascinating history.. Thanks.

[@DHa-b1w]

5:43 100% he would be rich. He is super smart and has the voice.

[@ClementGreen]

Sheep shape & Bristol fashion

[@Paladwyn]

Noah's ark reminds me of the question "How many people can you fit in a phone booth?" Alive? Maybe 2 or 3. Dead? Well, you could pour a lot more in. 2 million sheep in a box? Oh boy, we're not using living sheep, are we?

[@Sergiu.antifascist]

You base your rationalizations on wrong assumptions. FACT: the Noah's Ark needed two rooms only, one door only, bot sized after the biggest animal to be put in there. The Ark needed to have length no more than 20 meters, width no more than 7 meters, if height not big. Unfortunately, it needed to acomodate giraffe, and for that reason only, the Ark needed to be somewhat bigger, width some 10 to 12 meters, length some 30 meters. Do the calcullus! that size, only one room, only one door, can acomodate all animals on Earth, all necessary food, with one room for every individual animal or human, with many rooms for food. The other room is the Access Room. If you did not get how it was done, you have low IQ. It was not only Noah, it was also Dog. Dog told Noah to build that room, with that door, then Dog did the rest. The door of the Access Room opens to any of the Storage Rooms, at will. Dog does that.

[@Paladwyn]

@@Sergiu.antifascist Are you seriously trying to justify something that can't possibly have existed? Did you not actually take the time to understand this and read the arguments? It seems you didn't. I'm not wrong here, this is how things work. As somebody that spent time and worked on ventilation systems for livestock barns, I can assert with confidence that this fairytale ark is nothing but utter BS and don't need to hear lies about it.

[@alexhajnal107]

@@Paladwyn Poe's law in action. (Though with the canine references I suspect it's satire.)

[@Paladwyn]

@@alexhajnal107 Possibly, I thought of that too, but sometimes these nutters are so terrible at typing that they don't even bother to check when autocorrect messes up.

[@deadlined1833]

The amount of rain that would have had to come down would have ripped apart the wood.

[@Mockturtlesoup1]

A couple million sheep?! That just blew my mind. I of course understand that that's _only_ if they used all of the volume for sheep(or maybe even space above the ship where more sheep could theoretically go without the ark sinking,) but still. That would not have been my guess.

[@alexhajnal107]

Normally I'd suggest using spherical sheep but for optimal packing I reckon cubical sheep would be a better option.

[@adamguitar1498]

Imagine an all powerful God not being able to come up with a better solution for causing rain and lightning. Who also for some reason needed to make a storehouse for those things when he could just spontaneously create them instantly whenever needed.

[@Kualinar]

Apologists and preachers #GottaLieForGod after all... This one in particular. The ideal shape for the ark, that was just supposed to drift during the flood and have no rigging and zero hope at steering, would have been square or circular. Square would have been easier to build and reduce the amount of wood required to build it, and circular to use the strict minimum amount of wood for the maximum capacity. Both would also be the most stable and probably comfortable.

[@kellydalstok8900]

Older versions of the fairytale depict the ark as a Middle Eastern coracle, made of bundles of reeds or rushes that were bound together like a kind of basket and then covered in bitumen. Watch British Museum curator Irving Finkel’s lectures and documentary about the ark before Noah. Informative and very funny too. (Edit: typo)

[@Desertphile]

Year 2025 Crocoduck Award is currently taking nominations.

[@littlefurrow2437]

I think there's a winner that wasn't James Tour for some reason.

[@littlefurrow2437]

Oh... 2025... sorry!

[@Kelley_X]

@@littlefurrow2437it’s worth a watch. I think the prize was given for the apologist quote-mining studies that said the opposite of what he claimed via quote-mine - sometimes the defeater was also visible (but blurred) on screen at the same time as the highlighted quote-mine.

[@littlefurrow2437]

@@Kelley_X yeah I've seen it. I still think Tour was liar of the year though! Cheers

[@thhseeking]

@@Kelley_X Side-show Bob :P

[@BlizzardofOze]

Every atheist could be a wealthy preacher and every wealthy preacher is an atheist.

[@longcastle4863]

👍 _!!_ Also _vote B L U E !!_ 💙

[@aarons6935]

No thanks. I'm an atheist but would never vote blue.

[@louseveryann2181]

​@@aarons6935 So, you are an example of a dumb Atheist. 👍

[@johntiggleman4686]

@longcastle4863 Oh hell no. We don't need More of the same Marxist-Communist Democrats in the White House. We have already suffered though 3 Obama terms; we sure as hell don't need another one.

[@Sableagle]

Note: do not vote blue in the UK. The parties with the blue rosettes in the UK are two factions of one party that's been bad for half a century. The darker blue is as right-wing as tronald dump but not quite as authoritarian and the paler blue is as authoritarian as tronald dump but not quite as right-wing. Either way, they're all scum, and none of them should ever be elected to any position with any authority or salary at all.

[@fiddlewheelx]

Okay, the longboi ark is the funniest design... I'd love to see someone animate that one while trying to be serious! 😂

[@thehellyousay]

wait ... Santa Claus isn't ..., isn't ...r-r-real? 🥺

[@HisZotness]

Hail, Santa!

[@aarons6935]

Yes, but he only comes when your sleeping, that's why no ones ever seen him!

[@kellydalstok8900]

He was once, in the fourth century CE.

[@Logan_Baron]

I've often noted the same "if I didn't have morals" thought. I'm a pretty smart person. I realized long ago that I could make a fortune off of conning people, and that the easiest (and least legally dangerous) way to do so would be religion. My morals are the only thing that keep me from doing so.

[@rickmartin7596]

L. Ron Hubbard didn't have your moral restraint. He died with an estimated net worth of 11 million dollars.

[@kellydalstok8900]

@@rickmartin7596 He still died, and he couldn’t take his riches with him.

[@rickmartin7596]

@@kellydalstok8900 And he got his riches by duping people with religious talk.

[@davidschneide5422]

Christian adults may not believe in Santa Claus, but they still embrace the Christmas spirit… “it is better to give hate than to receive”

[@ExtremeMadnessX]

They said that Santa Claus is ridiculous while simultaneously believing in Invisible Sky Wizard.

[@kellydalstok8900]

@@ExtremeMadnessX At least saint Nicholas was someone who really existed, and his grave can still be visited in Bari, Italy.

[@BrentKrohn]

I'm still upset about Santa Claus..

[@Rikika333]

I love Godless Granny's takedown the most, just pointing out that other cultures seemed to continue unabated through the supposed world wide flood without some sort of break in their history. I haven't heard someone even try to make an excuse for this inconsistency yet.

[@Rikika333]

@ipqu hello person with a profile picture the same as Aron

[@TheEyez187]

5:30 - Oh God Yes, you'd easily be Copeland rich and without all the previous stated traits; probably a highly successful supervillain; trust me, it's always a step up when you go from genius to evil genius! ;) I did some [rough] math regarding the Ark's potential tonnage using an admittedly low estimate of numbers or animals times an averaged weight and the weight of all the food and water you would need for all of them; and I only did it for the 40 days, not the year; and that figure once adjusted iirc came to about 900,000 tonnes;* or as I more readily remember it - Noah's Ark having the same tonnage as 10 Nimitz aircraft carrier. 10 of their mass, some 87,000 tonnes each, on a footprint far smaller than a 1/4 of one of them. Noah's an excellent carpenter normally under such stresses would not just snap but splinter; then again if we were 500yrs old I'm sure we/I hope we would have learnt some amazing things or two... hundred!? :D * In "reality"with exponentially more animals and life and the subsequent exponential, exponential (yes twice) amount of water and food needed that figure probably short an order of magnitude or two. What caused the global flood; Noah's ship crashing and all the water he needed for the journey streaming out; cutting out, that much water in that confined a space, given a hole - Noah's ark would have gone sub-sonic; a water rocket (do that Elon); sadly everyone inside is already paste due to a number of factors, which each alone could managed! :D Apologies for ^^ evil genius can some times come with insanity[fine line between the two] and some insomnia; it's 8:40am; ha to top it off I've been 420 for 4hr's20 since 4:20 and now I want some Blackbird pie!? >XD

[@dj_tika]

Ecclesiastes 1:5 says, "The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises". He just kinda skipped right over that didn't he?

[@kellydalstok8900]

Yes, the sun goes underneath the elephants that hold up the disc. One of them has to lift its leg to let the sun pass. Oh wait … that was the Discworld.

[@aralornwolf3140]

@@kellydalstok8900, Hey. At least Discworld is believable. :)

[@empurress77]

Truth!

[@davidkeller6156]

So he really thinks that Jonah was swallowed by a big fish? That’s okay. I used to raise unicorns and fly to work on Pegasus.

[@aarons6935]

Did the job pay well?

[@johntiggleman4686]

@davidkeller6156 Actually, the unicorn is the single-horned rhinoceros. The Indian rhinoceros, or The Greater one horned rhinoceros (Latin 'rhinoceros unicornis'). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_rhinoceros So we can assume that you raised Indian Rhinoceroses. Fascinating, Captain. I wonder where the idea of a unicorn being a kind of horse with a (usually) spiral horn in the middle of it's forehead came from. One idea was the Narwahl. And now, you know the rest of the story.

[@aarons6935]

@@johntiggleman4686 Everyone knows this, it was a joke kiddo.

[@davidkeller6156]

@@aarons6935 Well, it was okay until I got a job with the Illuminati.

[@johntiggleman4686]

@aarons6935 I know that. I was just 'splainin' that there are "unicorns." And I guess my comment about raising rhinos flopped as a joke. I'll let myself out. 😔

[@369anti6]

No Santa! Whaaat. My beliefs have been shattered, well i guess I wont need to try to be a good boy anymore 😂

[@ronaldsmith4153]

Noah's Ark had no sails, rudder, propellor, mast, keel, or a prayer of staying afloat. It was too long for a totally wooden structure to float in a small lake without rotting over 80 years while he built it. Noah would had to have organized an industry to haul and work timber. A lumber yard. A shipyard and a launch ramp or support for his boat. Hundreds of draft animals. A transportation hub. His own road network. Purchased 100s of tons of supplies and would need tons of money to acquire all of the things he needed. His supplies would have rotted in storage while he labored to build his boat. His labor force was 8 people.

[@kloot-2084xl]

0:39 Similar information is given in the Book Of Enoch. Enoch says that treasuries in Heaven store thunder, lightning, hail, frost, snow, rain, and dew. Enoch says angels led by Uriel showed him the portals (or gates) through which the contents of the treasuries are dropped down from Heaven to Earth. There are 12 portals; 3 each in the north, east, south, and west. This is Enoch's description of the north: ""I went towards the north to the ends of the Earth ... I saw three portals of Heaven open in the Heaven: through each of them proceed north winds: when they blow there is cold, hail, frost, snow, dew, and rain".

[@bobbybrown.4257]

You smart Aron Ra. Ill give you that .

[@missk1697]

Good to see ya are holding up well over there in these days. I know someone so anxious over the election that they lose sleep hours.

[@jackwhitbread4583]

Aron is a Satanist, he's not losing sleep over any elections. If he can deal with insane Christian protesters he'll be fine no matter who wins.

[@Syrnian]

Trump being president again would not be good, but to lose sleep over it, yikes.

[@KingofPepsi]

Damn, what happened to the church Aron uses as a backdrop? Looks like a storm hit it. Anyhow...that would be hilarious to walk in Sunday morning and see AronRa sitting there saying, "Tickets. Tickets, please. Tickets to the show."- LOL

[@4dojo]

The fact that I ever believed this stuff in my adulthood is surprising looking back.

[@4dojo]

@ Yeah. I’m sure you would hiqgo7 with no followers whatsoever. Nice profile pic though.

[@DylanStone-w4s]

So it was probably a farmer trying to save his livestock and I doubt he saved them all he was probably also a shipbuilder or knew someone who was... Anyway I only like Nicole... And you can build a radio with a code for your app for your phone or iPad that controls the stations for the radio and whatever song you want to listen to on the CD I just gives you a list of what's on the CD and it just gives you a list of stations and you can also do the same thing for the iPod in the iPad with the iPod speaker....

[@Ephraim-e4o]

How did naoh gather 800 species of crickets alone

[@MrMarcusIndia]

He only had two crickets. The other 799 species evolved from them. Because even though Creationists don't believe in evolution, that's how they think evolution works when it suits them.

[@cougar02000]

AronRa said the time to give up on that myth is the same age as you gave up on Santa Claus, shouldn't the same be applied to religion, after all religion is just as believable as Santa Claus.

[@JebusHypocristosX]

Yes, absolutely...

[@BrianDrake-u2h]

You are right Aron! You could be a preacher,no offense.

[@JamesRichardWiley]

Belief in the Noah's Ark fable requires the believer to construct a separate reality where all these Bible stories can be stored and nurtured through faith.

[@davelaneve2446]

Also there is the fact that in order for the flood to cover the highest mountains,it would require a continuous rainfall of 9 meters per hour for 40 days and nights. That amount of kinetic energy would literally boil the oceans and vaporize the atmosphere from the earth. The ark and everything in it would be destroyed. The earth would be left as a baren wasteland without any atmosphere. Oh, wait, never mind, I forgot about the sky wizard magic...my bad...

[@bulwinkle]

Comment for the algorithm.

[@Emiliapocalypse]

Please film a parody of those 90’s compilation cd ads but featuring these dvds.

[@oliverthompson9922]

Noahs ark is such a childish story. I love Ricky Gervaises stand up routine about it. Thats hilarious.

[@kevinramsey417]

It was physically impossible to build Noah's Ark. Nails weren't invented until ancient Egypt and the shipbuilding techniques required to construct such a vessel without the use of nails would not come about until much later after the flood supposedly occurred.

[@Sergiu.antifascist]

You base your rationalizations on wrong assumptions. FACT: the Noah's Ark needed two rooms only, one door only, bot sized after the biggest animal to be put in there. The Ark needed to have length no more than 20 meters, width no more than 7 meters, if height not big. Unfortunately, it needed to acomodate giraffe, and for that reason only, the Ark needed to be somewhat bigger, width some 10 to 12 meters, length some 30 meters. Do the calcullus! that size, only one room, only one door, can acomodate all animals on Earth, all necessary food, with one room for every individual animal or human, with many rooms for food. The other room is the Access Room. If you did not get how it was done, you have low IQ. It was not only Noah, it was also Dog. Dog told Noah to build that room, with that door, then Dog did the rest. The door of the Access Room opens to any of the Storage Rooms, at will. Dog does that.

[@fordprefect5304]

@@Sergiu.antifascist Are you really that gullible?

[@Sergiu.antifascist]

@@fordprefect5304 i cannot be gullible. am the Great Debunker

[@fordprefect5304]

@@Sergiu.antifascist Wowee I am so impressed with your greatness. I am not worthy, I am in aw, you personify intelligence at least that of a brain eating amoeba.

[@Sergiu.antifascist]

@@fordprefect5304 just imagine how frustrated you can be, to write that to me! it must be torture!

[@berain-vo9ur]

9:24, not true, the wooden paddle steamer Solano was the same length and beam as the supposed size of the Ark..the engineer Arthur Brown used some interesting wooden trusses to support the hull along with masts with guidewires. However she was only designed to travel a distance of a mile on a river..the stresses of the open ocean would have torn her hull apart.

[@agimasoschandir]

Solano: 425 x 116 ft (130 x 35 m) Noah's Ark: 440 x 72 ft (134 x 22 m) -- Wikipedia Actually, Noah's Ark would have been torn apart on the open ocean as well

[@JebusHypocristosX]

Such hyperbolic nonsense is how religion makes people stupid.

[@danielessex2162]

Noah's ark was also only held together by tar.....

[@Sergiu.antifascist]

You base your rationalizations on wrong assumptions. FACT: the Noah's Ark needed two rooms only, one door only, bot sized after the biggest animal to be put in there. The Ark needed to have length no more than 20 meters, width no more than 7 meters, if height not big. Unfortunately, it needed to acomodate giraffe, and for that reason only, the Ark needed to be somewhat bigger, width some 10 to 12 meters, length some 30 meters. Do the calcullus! that size, only one room, only one door, can acomodate all animals on Earth, all necessary food, with one room for every individual animal or human, with many rooms for food. The other room is the Access Room. If you did not get how it was done, you have low IQ. It was not only Noah, it was also Dog. Dog told Noah to build that room, with that door, then Dog did the rest. The door of the Access Room opens to any of the Storage Rooms, at will. Dog does that.

[@danielessex2162]

@@Sergiu.antifascist wtf are you trying to say?

[@BodyByBenSLC]

I read the arch article. It says that the dimensions and material are unclear in Bible but in theory the boat could float buy adding 2 of every animal and food and water would most likely sink it.

[@samlima1977]

if there were insects inside the boat one pair of termites would end it all.

[@GFY127]

Cool blue beard man. Rock N Roll 🤘

[@seanrobsob8883]

These people are making millions from gullible people, it's disgusting and sad to hear.