Humans, being more intelligent and better swimmers would be the last to die, and less likely to be buried, which explains why we don't tend to find humans below inos and few human fossils.
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You know, the whole "flood" thing begs the question:
If it rained for 40 days and nights, people back then must've been pretty fucking stupid to not get in a boat when the water started to rise. I mean, I was in a flood once, and we used a canoe to get the fuck out of Dodge.
And what swims better, humans or whales? Amazingly enough, if you go by your definition of the fossil record, it would seem that humans can outswim whales and dolphins and sealions...
Better swimmers then what? Fish, whales, dolphines, marine reptiles, amonites, ceolocanths, placoderms, sea scorpions? Why didn't they get on boats instead of swimming. It rained for fourty days, that's plenty of time. Or was everyone back then retarted? And how come we have all these angiosperm plants higher up on the strata then mosses and ferns? Where they also smarter and could out swim their less advanced bretheren?
Humans are not better swimmers than many other animals. Otters, frogs, many birds, snakes and lizards spring to mind. How proficiently one's species swims has nothing to do with the level in which one's fossil remains might be found.
Whether or not a species is more or less intelligent, also, has nothing to do with what level of the geologic column one's remains might be found.
You're an idiot.
That's why there are so little deaths whenever violant flooding occurs in populated areas, right? Especially of young and elderly people. After all, grandma is an excellent swimmer once she pushes that walker to side and so is Billy boy the 4 year old and his huge population of child friends that would've been living throughout the world at that time.
Anyway, you assume that the first reaction to death is to float instead of sinking first.
But humans aren't equipped to survived for long in the water, and even the best swimmer would get tired and drown long before the forty days was up. (I'm assuming we're talking about the Biblical flood here, right?) And even if they could stay afloat, there's the little question of finding something to eat, and fresh water to drink. Or finding a place to sleep.
People, the flood supposedly lasted a year, not 40 dyas and 40 nights. That's how long water fell from the sky/rose up from wells.
And tactics: I could beata dolphins ass in the 400 meters butterfly stroke. But free style? I'd not even get closer to the time of Flipper.
Wait! Wait! I just thought of another one. How about while the humans were swimming for their lives, they were eaten by sharks, bones and all, but the dinos were too big.
No, wait! OK, I've got another one. The humans were smart enough to build boats, too - in fact, many already had boats before the rain started. God, dumbass that the fundies always think He is, realized belatedly that His plan to save Noah and kill everyone else with a flood wasn't going to work. So He said "Shitte! Soþlich leev þat us ne scroo rounde with þis flood crappe", (in King James' 17th century English, of course) and He zapped them directly with lightning bolts so their bodies were disintegrated. The dinos were dead and sunk to the bottom by then, so the few humans who survived the zapping ended up on top.
Tell that to this guy:
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His name is Rodney Fox, he was bitten by a Great White Shark while fish diving off the coast of Australia or California...can't remember. If he was such an intelligent and wonderful swimmer then 1. Why the hell was he FISH diving in SHARK infested waters? and 2. Why didn't he swim away from the bastard? :D
humans are pretty good swimmers compared to SOME races, but quite horrid compared to many, many more.
And I'm not even including fish here.
Well, if we're including all animals, humans probably are among the better swimmers - most (known) species are terrestrial insects, that swim poorly or not at all.
In any case, he gives fish and amphibians as examples of critters that swim worse than humans.
He was actually making some good points up until this piece of gold. He does seem to have done his research, but this comment just showed he was willing to belive anything that suited him. He later tried to justify it by saying the water would have got toxic New Orleans-style, but people had stopped taking him seriously long before then.
Confused?
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