Noah's Ark used in law!
Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2023 4:42 pm
Was thinking, hmm, politics or religion, hmm, oh in the US they are same anyway so either place would be fine.
Ok here we go, brace yourself for stupid on an epic scale. To justify the placing of deadly razor embedded bouys in the Rio Grande designed to kill people the Texas Republican lawyers have quoted the Biblical Flood and Noah's Ark as precedent;
Ok here we go, brace yourself for stupid on an epic scale. To justify the placing of deadly razor embedded bouys in the Rio Grande designed to kill people the Texas Republican lawyers have quoted the Biblical Flood and Noah's Ark as precedent;
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/202 ... wsuit.htmlThe DOJ’s “theory” that a river is still “navigable” even when some parts become unnavigable, they declare, “would lead to absurd” outcomes because “most of Texas was once covered by seas.” But don’t just trust the geological record; also consider “the Book of Genesis,” which, taken “literally,” says “the entire world was once navigable by boats large enough to carry significant amounts of livestock.” For support, the brief cites Genesis 7:17–20, which tells the story of Noah’s Ark. Checkmate, libs.