Thursday, April 24, 2008

Two fish ... and 41.6 hours

My "problem(s)" with churches: I often asked the "wrong" questions

For example (the miracle of 2 fish for 5000 people)

1. I asked if there were only two fish (as in "feeding 5 thousand").
The pastor said, "yes, it is written in the Bible".

2. I then asked "how long did it take to feed the 5000?"
"Not long", said the Paster.

Accepting that there were two fish, and the crowd size was five thousand, and assuming that each person took an average of one minute to eat and be full, then it would have taken 2500 minutes for the 2 fish to go through the crowd of 5000.

That was 2500 / 1440 = 1.7 day (41.6 hours).
And... there was the matter of the bread too ... each loaf probably took up a little time ...

The pastor was not too happy with my question.

No comments: