Ever lived through or hear one of those stories of bosses or clients trying to sound like they're in charge and giving you instructions, but actually it just focuses on details ranging from irrelevant to bleeding obvious? Like drop by to tell you to use a database for your database project if you're in IT? Or to tell you to not forget to include a door if you're in construction? Or to not forget to check the oil level if you're a mechanic and that's what they brought the car in for in the first place? You know, the kind that has to feel like he has something to contribute, when it's clear they've got nothing?
That's how God comes across to me.
Before I start, I'll be using Genesis 6 as an example, but this is not a rehash of the threads about whether the ark could float. It's orthogonal. I'll even grant that it floated, if someone wants that, and still make the same point about God being the worst kind of incompetent boss.
So let's review the specs he gives Noah:
That's it.
Now what's wrong with that?
Did you notice it fails to actually specify THE most important thing: the tonnage?
Now it may seem like the dimensions determine it, but they don't. Depending on the actual shape of the hull, anywhere from, say, trireme shape to basically tanker shape, the actual tonnage can vary by a factor of at least 3, while still being within those parameters.
Instead comes a slew of blindingly obvious details, like "make lower, middle and top decks" or "include a door." Yeah, I'm sure without that, Noah would have been left looking from the outside at a completely sealed ship, slapping his forehead, and going, "duh, I shoulda included a door!" ;)
Now God could have included some actual technical advice , like, "make a zig-zag of beams like this, it's called a truss structure", but he doesn't. Instead he just states blindingly obvious details that any moron on the street could have known.
Either way it seems to me like either:
A) Noah by now is such an expert shipwright that he can design a boat to that spec, without needing any extra technical details. In which case, God could have just told him a tonnage and let him do his job. Or
B) he isn't, in which case he would have needed those technical details instead of idiocies like "include a door".
As I was saying, for the purpose of that exercise, I'm even willing to grant the fundies the assumption that the flood did happen, and the boat did float. Why? Because it just makes it worse. Then Noah is firmly in the domain of A, i.e., he's a master nautical engineer. And what does God do? Fail to give him the actual important data, but instead tries to micro-manage him with idiotic details he didn't need spelled out.
Sounds to me like exactly a boss that's too incompetent to actually give any useful advice, but insecure enough to try to sound like he does.
That's how God comes across to me.
Before I start, I'll be using Genesis 6 as an example, but this is not a rehash of the threads about whether the ark could float. It's orthogonal. I'll even grant that it floated, if someone wants that, and still make the same point about God being the worst kind of incompetent boss.
So let's review the specs he gives Noah:
14. So make yourself an ark of cypressc wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out.
15. This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.
16. Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit high all around. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks.
That's it.
Now what's wrong with that?
Did you notice it fails to actually specify THE most important thing: the tonnage?
Now it may seem like the dimensions determine it, but they don't. Depending on the actual shape of the hull, anywhere from, say, trireme shape to basically tanker shape, the actual tonnage can vary by a factor of at least 3, while still being within those parameters.
Instead comes a slew of blindingly obvious details, like "make lower, middle and top decks" or "include a door." Yeah, I'm sure without that, Noah would have been left looking from the outside at a completely sealed ship, slapping his forehead, and going, "duh, I shoulda included a door!" ;)
Now God could have included some actual technical advice , like, "make a zig-zag of beams like this, it's called a truss structure", but he doesn't. Instead he just states blindingly obvious details that any moron on the street could have known.
Either way it seems to me like either:
A) Noah by now is such an expert shipwright that he can design a boat to that spec, without needing any extra technical details. In which case, God could have just told him a tonnage and let him do his job. Or
B) he isn't, in which case he would have needed those technical details instead of idiocies like "include a door".
As I was saying, for the purpose of that exercise, I'm even willing to grant the fundies the assumption that the flood did happen, and the boat did float. Why? Because it just makes it worse. Then Noah is firmly in the domain of A, i.e., he's a master nautical engineer. And what does God do? Fail to give him the actual important data, but instead tries to micro-manage him with idiotic details he didn't need spelled out.
Sounds to me like exactly a boss that's too incompetent to actually give any useful advice, but insecure enough to try to sound like he does.
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