Comments on: Noah’s Lament (update)

By: Steve Lowther

Steve Lowther — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:14:29 +0000

You are absolutely right! One word makes a great deal of difference!

Again, congratulations on a very good piece.

By: SteveP

SteveP — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:14:00 +0000

Thanks Steve,

The new world is the only place where monkeys have prehensile tails (which is what I refer to), those are tails that can grasp the branch with enough grip to hang from.

By: Steve Lowther

Steve Lowther — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:06:08 +0000

Great idea, but still not ready for prime time. You do have some errors that need to be addressed.

One error is the belief that only monkeys in the new world have tails. This simply is not true. For example, doing an image search on “baboon” will show tails, and we all know them to be African. In fact, the definition of a monkey is a primate with a long tail, excluding the prosimians. They live in tropical regions in all hemispheres of the world.

Primates with short or no tails are apes.

There are a few other minor touch ups that need to be made, such as “Common Dad” for “Come on, Dad”, etc.

When those flaws are addressed, you will have an excellent piece that provokes a great deal of thought regarding that the Biblical literalists can only logically explain evolution as a “faith trap” instituted by a deceptive god. Excellent job!

By: Johnny Putt

Johnny Putt — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:54:58 +0000

God built 77.4 octillion worlds. Half of which would
put this place to shame. Do you really believe he’s
into doing goofy fairy tale stuff like the holy-hustlers
want us greedy-ass pukes to believe? 77.4 octillion is:
77,400,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

By: Latter-day Guy

Latter-day Guy — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:49:59 +0000

53, But does that really do justice to something so frightfully silly? The mocking should fit the mocked, no?

By: Adam Greenwood

Adam Greenwood — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:58:47 +0000

I usually find that I can sneer at creationists in only a sentence or two. Saves time.

By: Tracy M

Tracy M — Sat, 30 May 2009 20:02:04 +0000

I read it out loud to mine, too, Julie! We had a good laugh.

By: Julie M. Smith

Julie M. Smith — Sat, 30 May 2009 18:43:49 +0000

I read this out loud to my husband. He said he understands for the first time why Noah became a drunk. (Gen 9:21).

By: [nr]

[nr] — Sat, 30 May 2009 17:14:49 +0000

“the whole delivery story is hyperbole”. Nope, but it is a story and a doggone cute one at that. Why does it have to be more?

By: Margaret Young

Margaret Young — Sat, 30 May 2009 14:26:19 +0000

It always makes me so sad with anyone uses the scriptures as a whip rather than a light. Accusing someone else of being less faithful that oneself because they interpret scriptures differently is a dangerous thing. Remember that the original “accuser” was Lucifer.