Free Pregnancy Tests!

There is no more need to run to the store to get a pregnancy test, you can use the one that God designed for us.

God designed the lunar cycle or synodic month to equal about 29.5 days. This is the period from new moon to new moon or full moon to full moon. This is quite close to the average woman's menstrual cycle of 28 days. If a woman started her period last month with a full moon, for example and the next full moon came without a period she was quite probably pregnant.

I think that I will have to defer to a quote that I found on The Straight Dope.

The smart money says it's coincidence.Science and the Paranormal (1983), astronomer George O. Abell writes, "The moon's cycle of phases is 29.53 days, while the human female menstrual cycle averages 28 days (although it varies among women and from time to time with individual women); this is hardly even a good coincidence! The corresponding estrus cycles of some other mammals are 28 days for opossums, 11 days for guinea pigs, 16 to 17 days for sheep, 20 to 22 days for sows, 21 days for cows and mares, 24 to 26 days for macaque monkeys, 37 days for chimpanzees, and only 5 days for rats and mice. One could argue, I suppose, that the human female, being more intelligent and perhaps aware of her environment, adapted to a cycle close to that of the moon, while lower animals did not. But then the 28-day period for the opossum must be a coincidence, and if it is a coincidence for opossums, why not for humans?"

With that said I am really glad that the human menstrual cycle and the rats are not the same!

Noah's Ark

Noah's Ark was one of the stories that even as a child I wasn't sure how exactly it could have happened, but as a child I was told that all of my questions could easily be explained by the fact that God can do anything. That answer wasn't very satisfying, but I excepted it because I was a child and figured that adults knew more than me.

Well, now I know better and I am here to shout it from the rooftops the story of Noah's Ark is BULLSHIT!

Here are some of the problems that noticed when I was a child. First, why did God kill everyone except Noah's family? I just couldn't believe that everyone was that bad. Second, how did they get so bad? As a child I had heard over and over that a child was a reflection of their parents. So, if all the people were so bad wasn't that a negative reflection on God? Third, I thought about the story logically and just couldn't believe that 8 people could take care of all those animals. Seriously, I have seen how much work a small farm is even with all of the modern technology that we have. It just isn't possible that 8 people could take care of all those animals.

As I have studied the works of many different skeptics and theists I have notice a bunch of other problems with that story. One of these is simply how did all of the animals migrate to Noah to get on the boat. The only way that this would have been possible would be if God had magically brought them to Noah and since Moses didn't add that detail into the story I don't think that happened. Moses doesn't seem to be the kind of guy to leave out interesting and unbelievable details. Second, how did the world get repopulated so quickly without all the problems that would have been caused my inbreeding?

This is just a brief list of the questions that I have encountered when thinking about this story. I really could list many more, but in a effort to keep my posts brief I will leave you with some links from websites that portray both perspectives of the story.

There are a multitude of delusional groups that have weak, but very funny answers to all these questions. Please check them out not only for a good laugh, but to also know what kind of arguments you need to be able to fight.

http://www.christiananswers.net/q-eden/edn-c013.html
http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v19/i2/animals.asp
http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/nab/really-a-flood-and-ark

Also here are some links to information put out there by some skeptics. I hope that you will find all this information as enjoyable as I did. Notice how much more science is used by the skeptics.

http://www.skepticreport.com/creationism/sillyflood.htm
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-noahs-ark.html
http://skepdic.com/noahsark.html

I hope that if you are a theists that you read through not only the theists arguments, but also the skeptics side too.