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Originally Posted by BrotherLarry
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One point often overlooked is that rainbows were not mentioned before The Flood. Would God give Noah a sign that had always been there? Of course not. It's possible that Noah never looked "up" and married someone who never looked "up" either and they had children who never looked "up" all of whom married partners who never looked "up" but that's just getting ridiculous. If they never looked "up" how would they know what "rain" was? Rainfall would be indistinguishable from water that spontaneously generated for anyone who never looked "up" but I've spelled it out just to show how ridiculous it is to claim that rainbows had always existed.
Now perhaps I am remiss but the last time I bought a cake (quite recently, also for a birthday) I did not go out of my way to get a written description of the thing for reference later when someone twigged what I was up to. No cake I have ever purchased has ever come with a written description, even if it were necessary. Which it never has been. It's a cake. You eat it.
OK, OK, there was one time I got a cake and flour and custard powder and icing sugar and treacle and little cakes and those little silver ball things for a "flour fight" not actually intending to eat it. But no written descriptions "just in case there were consequences" which obviously there would be and we were all thrown out of the chalet venue. No bleating. We just went.
Well
I did. For some reason while we were having the (midnight) flour fight a saboteur had flattened all the cars' wheels very embarrassing for the owners who were trying to evict us but there was a commercial bakery delivering and I got a lift straight out when he left. We went to a river where I was able to wash off the flour and treacle and little silver balls and as you can see the consequences were
- predictable
- extreme, and
- predicted
but no-one considered getting a written description of anything. I think there's more to the story than we're being told.